OREANDA-NEWS. February 16, 2009. Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation is starting the procedure for registering the three self-regulating organizations established Feb 12 2009.

Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation is starting the procedure for registering the three self-regulating organizations established Feb 12 2009, the advisor to Director General of Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation Viktor Opekunov said after the Feb 11 meeting of the Energy Committee of the State Duma. He said that they were setting up three non-commercial partnerships: Atomgeo Union (exploration), Atomproekt Union (design) and Atomstroy Union (construction). The foundation documents will be shortly submitted to the Ministry of Justice and the Federal Registration Service for registration.

“We hope to register them within a month,” Opekuno said. “We already have a list of organizations to be incorporated into one of the entities. By mid 2009 we are planning to complete the formation of all the three pools and in July to ask Rostekhnadzor to grant them the status of self-regulating organizations. The key mission of these entities is to develop a highly effective mechanism of self-regulation and to consolidate construction and installation assets for solving big strategic tasks. They are supposed to ensure proportional development of the construction and installation complex and to restore our lost competencies,” Opekunov said.

He believes that there is no need to wait for the adoption of technical regulations as the industry already has necessary regulatory framework in the form of construction codes and regulations and a whole system of federal standards. “This framework needs certain updating, which can well be done by self-regulating organizations,” Opekunov said. He believes that transition to self-regulation is obligatory for the industry for the moment. “Today, the market is crammed with unviable companies. In case of self-regulation they will be screened out. This system has long been applied in different countries and has proved its efficiency,” Opekunov said.