Chair(s): |
Ossi LANG, Finland |
Secretary: |
Taehee KIM (taehee.kim@oecd-nea.org) |
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Vice-Chair(s): |
Rhonda WALKER-SISTTIE, Canada Agnieszka MAKOSA, Poland Andreas VON SCHMALENSEE, Sweden Jane LOUGHRAN, United Kingdom Diane SCRENCI, United States | ||
Member(s): | All NEA member countries* | ||
Russia (Suspended*) | |||
*Russian Federation suspended pursuant to a decision of the OECD Council. | |||
EU participation: |
The European Union (EU) takes part in the work of the NEA, in accordance with the NEA Statute and the Supplementary Protocol to the Convention on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. | ||
Participant(s): |
India | ||
Observer(s)(International Organisation): |
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) By agreement | ||
Date of creation: | 30 June 2001 | ||
End of mandate: | 31 December 2024 |
Mandate (Document reference):
Mandate (Document extract):
Extract from document NEA/SEN/NRA(2023)4
Background
Public communication and stakeholder engagement are essential to every aspect of effective regulatory activities. In addition, the relationships and interactions of the regulators with the public and other stakeholders have a mutual impact on the communication of the regulatory organisation and others, as they are all part of a wider interconnected system.
The Committee of Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) first established a Working Group on Public Communication of Nuclear Regulatory Organisations (WGPC) in 2001 to provide a forum for nuclear regulatory organisation (NRO) communicators and outreach officers to exchange information, experience and best practices. Due to the importance of public communication to the effectiveness of a regulatory organisation, this group was subsequently restructured as the Expert Group on Public Communication of Nuclear Regulatory Organisations (EGPC) to provide a forum for member countries to collaboratively address complex issues regarding public communication and stakeholder engagement to improve regulatory effectiveness and public understanding.
Scope and Mandate
Guided by the CNRA, the aim of the EGPC is to exchange information and experiences at the regulatory level and to provide practical, innovative tools that support public communication and stakeholder engagement by the regulatory organisation within the wider interconnected systems for information sharing.
The EGPC fosters discussion and the exchange of information, and considers various practical and innovative approaches to developing, sustaining, and enhancing effective public communication within the wider interconnected system to ensure safety, transparency and trust building. The EGPC is focused on public communication and stakeholder engagement related to regulatory activities, whilst appreciating the mutual impact of the operator and other stakeholders within the wider interconnected system.
Objectives
The EGPC will:
Working methods
To achieve its objectives, the EGPC will:
Membership
Members of the EGPC are preferably experts on public communication from the regulatory organisations (e.g. spokespersons, communicators, outreach officers).
Interactions
The EGPC will establish a framework for engagement with other NEA bodies to closely co-ordinate and discuss issues of cross-cutting interests identified by the group.
It will work closely with other NEA bodies, such as the High-Level Group on Stakeholder engagement, Trust, Transparency and Social Sciences (HLG-SET), Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC), and the Working Group on Human and Organisational Factors (WGHOF) to collaborate on areas of mutual interest, and to prevent overlap and duplication as appropriate. The EGPC will also work closely with other CNRA working groups to address crosscutting challenges and to provide insight on public communication and stakeholder engagement that support regulatory organisations` oversight practices, as appropriate.
The EGPC will also co-ordinate, as appropriate, with other international organisations (e.g. the IAEA and the European Commission) and international non-governmental organisations (e.g. WANO).
Deliverables
The EGPC will produce collaboratively created consensus documents (e.g., green booklets, technical notes, guidelines or aide-memoires) to improve the communication of regulatory organisations. The EGPC will also organise workshops on public information, communication, risk communication and stakeholder relations.