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RISK FACTORS 4.3 Legal risks

NUCLEAR FACILITIES FOR WHICH ENTITIES OF THE GROUP HOLD THE OPERATING PERMIT OR LICENSE The main nuclear facilities to date, whether classified as regulated nuclear facilities in France (INB) or their corollaries in other countries, are listed below.

Legal entity holding the license

Location

Business Unit

Description

Malvési, France Tricastin, France Tricastin, France Tricastin, France Tricastin, France Tricastin, France Tricastin, France Romans, France Romans, France Dessel, Belgium Lingen, Germany

Chemistry Chemistry Chemistry Chemistry Enrichment Enrichment Enrichment

AREVA NC AREVA NC AREVA NC AREVA NC

Packaging and storage of radioactive substances

Preparation of UF 6

Conversion of enriched uranium-bearing materials (U 3 O 8 )

Analytical laboratory

Eurodif Production

Georges Besse gaseous diffusion enrichment plant Georges Besse II centrifuge enrichment plant

SET

Socatri

Plant for uranium recovery and cleanup Fuel fabrication for research reactors Fuel fabrication for power reactors

Fuel Fuel Fuel Fuel Fuel

AREVA NP AREVA NP

FBFC International SA

Fabrication of uranium and MOX fuel (undergoing dismantling)

ANF

Fuel fabrication Fuel fabrication

Richland, United States

AREVA Inc.

Maubeuge, France Veurey, France (1)

Equipment Valuation

Somanu

Nuclear maintenance workshop

SICN

Fuel fabrication plant (undergoing decommissioning)

Recycling / Decommissioning & Dismantling

La Hague, France (2) Marcoule, France

AREVA NC Used fuel treatment plants and liquid effluent/ solid waste treatment facilities

Recycling

AREVA NC

MELOX MOX fuel fabrication plant

(1) Two INBs at this site are in final shutdown/dismantling status, pending decommissioning. (2) Seven INBs at this site, including four in final shutdown/dismantling status.

Internationally, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the European Commission have each established a system of nuclear materials safeguards. Other international agreements adopted under the umbrella of the IAEA govern nuclear safety in the facilities, including the Convention on Nuclear Safety (CNS) and the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management. With respect to the European Union, the provisions of the Euratom Treaty and its implementing provisions reinforce aspects related to nuclear materials safeguards and established a common set of rules, in particular concerning public health protection, radiation protection of workers and radioactive waste transportation. In France, regulated nuclear facilities (INB, installations nucléaires de base ) operated by the group fall within a strict legal framework. Because of the risks or drawbacks which these facilities may present for occupational health and safety and for public health, or for the protection of nature and the environment, special authorizations are delivered for the creation, startup, modification, safety review, dismantling and decommissioning of the facilities, and govern in particular rules for nuclear safety, protection of public health and of the environment, and themonitoring of radioactive and non-radioactive releases. The license decrees required for certain operations are granted following a public inquiry and an administrative process requiring the opinion of several organizations. Procedures related to the creation, modification, final shutdown and dismantling of regulated nuclear facilities are set by decree no. 2007-1557 of November 2, 2007 pertaining to regulated nuclear facilities and, in matters of nuclear safety, to the regulation of the transportation of radioactive materials, as amended by decree no. 2016-846 of June 28, 2016. Pursuant to this amended order, the general technical rules applicable to regulated nuclear

facilities were strengthened by the order of February 7, 2012 setting the general rules pertaining to regulated nuclear facilities, of which most of the provisions became effective on July 1, 2013. Moreover, the codified provisions of the TSN Law, of law no. 2015-992 of August 17, 2015 on the Energy Transition for Green Energy (“TECV Law”) and of order no. 2016-128 of February 10, 2016 containing various nuclear- related provisions, stipulate administrative and penal sanctions (articles L. 596-14 et seq. and articles L. 596-27 et seq. of the Environmental Code). In addition, each INB operator much submit an annual information report focusing in particular on the measures taken as concerns nuclear safety and radiation protection, which is made public (article L. 125-15 of the Environmental Code). Regulated nuclear facilities are monitored closely by the French nuclear safety authority ASN, an independent administrative authority. Operations abroad are subject to the same type of rigorous control, the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) being one example. In France, some facilities operated by the group are subject to regulations pertaining to environmentally regulated facilities (ICPE), depending on the operations performed or the substances involved. These facilities of the group, which may represent hazards or drawbacks for occupational health and safety, for public health, or for the protection of nature and the environment, are subject to prior reporting to the Prefecture, to a registration process, or to a licensing process. In the last case, the operating license or permit granted upon completion of a public inquiry, after consultation with various organizations, takes the form of a prefectural order accompanied by specific operating requirements.

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