Regulatory Practices
To cope with its tasks and achieve its goals ANRA fulfills the following functions:
✓ Development and submission of drafts of safety norms and rules, legal acts related to the atomic energy utilization field to the RA Prime Minister
✓ Ատոմային էներգիայի oգտագործման բնագավառում գործունեության, անվտանգության ապահովման տեսակետից կարևոր աշխատանքներ կատարող և պաշտոններ զբաղեցնող ֆիզիկական անձանց լիցենզավորումը
✓ Suspension or termination of license in accordance with the requirements of the international treaties and the RA legislation
✓ Safety assessment, organization and conduct of expertise of practices, installations and equipment in the nuclear energy field
✓ Organization and conduct of researches in the nuclear energy field for safety improvement purposes
✓ Control over compliance with requirements of RA laws related to the nuclear energy field as well as terms and conditions of issued licenses by legal entities and physical persons, verification of quality assurance programs of contractors providing services and performing activities important in terms of safety for licensees
✓ Checking the quality assurance programs of commercial companies providing significant security services for licensed persons in the nuclear energy field
✓ Control on preparedness of licensed people to possible emergency situations
✓ In case of emergencies, assessment of situation and on the basis of prognosis on its possible changes submission of proposals on implementation of necessary protective actions to the state authority of the RA empowered with the responsibility for emergency situation related issues
✓ Jointly with the authority empowered with responsibilities for foreign affairs within its jurisdictions control over fulfillment of the obligations undertaken under the international treaties ratified by the RA in the nuclear energy field
✓ Control over safeguards implementation under NTP
✓ State registration and maintaining state register of nuclear materials, ionizing radiation sources and radioactive waste
✓ Cooperation with international organizations and regulatory authorities of other countries on exchange of nuclear safety related information and concluding international agreements
✓ Coordinating the regional and national projects of the Republic of Armenia within the framework of technical cooperation program of the International Atomic Energy Agency
✓ Making early international notification on an emergency in accordance with to the provisions of the Convention on Early Notification about Nuclear Accident at nuclear installation or in activities implemented there
✓ Environmental radiation monitoring and control
✓ Adopting ministerial normative legal acts and
✓ Implementing other functions as defined in the RA legislation.