The MDEP focuses on co-operation and convergence of regulatory practices that will lead to convergence of regulatory requirements. Co-operation allows a better understanding of each other’s processes to encourage and facilitate convergence. One of the products of these convergence results is the establishment of Common Positions through the activities of the different Design and Issue Specific Working Groups (DSWG and ISWG).
The GCPs are produced by ISWGs. They should:
GCPs can emphasise or extend recommendations from existing guides or standards (IAEA documents, national regulatory guides, industrial standards, state-of-the-art documents....) or can correspond to a new recommendation. GCPs can be directed to regulators, to applicants or to both. Generic common positions related to:
The DSCPs are produced by DSWGs. They should:
DSCPs correspond to the position shared by the working group members at a given time in the licensing review process on a specific topic. They can be directed to regulators, to applicants or to both Design Specific Common Positions related to:
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Last reviewed: 3 March 2012