Decision n. 2010-DC-0175 made on the 4. of February 2010 by the Nuclear Safety Authority and defining technical modalities and periodicities of controls as prescribed in the R. 4452-12 and R. 4452-13 articles of the Labour Code as well as in the R. 1333-7 et R. 1333-95 articles of the Public Health Code

This document defines the modalities of technical controls of sources and equipment emitting ionizing radiation, the modalities of technical controls of the surroundings, the modalities of the control of the efficiency of radioprotection organization and technical equipment (management of sealed and non-sealed radioactive sources, elimination of effluents and wastes associated with these sources), and the modalities of control of measurement instruments and of protection devices, altogether in application of the Labour code and of the Public Health code. Requirements defined by these both codes are recalled in appendix. They may depend on the radioactive source type or on the equipment (electric equipment generating X rays, particle accelerator, sealed sources or equipment containing such sources, not-sealed sources)