Link to the study - European Parliament - Europa

Policy Department D: Budgetary Affairs
____________________________________________________________________________________________
Do you see any areas of responsibilities that are currently not appropriately defined, but should
be clearly defined in future so that unallocated responsibilities with adverse consequences can
be avoided?
Interface to the involved Countries
Does the EBRD feel that the usual order- and instruction-manual based organisation form, as
usually applied during the operational phase of an NPP, is an appropriate form to manage
decommissioning projects? Have structural changes been initiated by EBRD?
Does EBRD negotiate upon the necessary organisational structures and set requirements for the
responsible decommissioning organisations?
How is assured that the management level of decommissioning organisations is appropriately
qualified to manage decommissioning projects?
Has EBRD defined and implemented quality control measures to evaluate its own and the
responsible organisation’s performance?
Which national shares are required, on the general and on the project level, to qualify for a
shared undertaking? Which factual shares have been reached in the decommissioning projects
so far and which shares are planned for the future? How is gua ranteed that only factual
contributions to decommissioning projects are counted as shares? Is the effectiveness, the
factual contribution to the decommissioning projects, evaluated and included in the calculation
of those shares?
Decommissioning plan
Have all key decisions been adequately analyzed and resolved, so that the overall path of
decommission is clear?
Is a decommissioning plan available for each of the facilities? Does this plan identify all necessary
technical steps, does it qualify and evaluate all the risks involved, does it identify sub-projects
and critical pathways, missing technical means and development necessities, time span
estimates, mass/volume-related balances, inventory-related information and if-then-relations for
key decisive issues (break points, etc.)? In which interval are these plans re-evaluated and
updated?
If not: on which basis have decisions (under #15) been established and estimates on costs,
shares, disposal volumes, etc., been made? Which requirements will EBRD set to establish such
decommissioning plans as a basis of its decisions?
Financial control measures
Is the project contribution and the project progress mirrored on the complete overall
decommissioning plan (see #16) or which evaluation criteria are applied by EBRD?
How does reporting towards EBRD work? How detailed are those reports (can we have an
example to gain an own sight?)?
190