Representatives of the European Commission (EC) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development held a working meeting with representatives of State Enterprise Radioactive Waste (SERAW) and Kozloduy NPP on 15 November 2012 in Kozloduy.
The main objective of the visit was for European donors to receive information about the progress of decommissioning activities and the status of project transfer from Kozloduy NPP to SERAW ahead of the Assembly of Donors of KIDSF. The meeting was attended by Mr. Dilyan Petrov, Executive Director, and experts from the relevant sections of SERAW.
The priority topics of the meeting were related to the current status of the staff and project transferral process from Kozloduy NPP to SERAW, with the selection of a new consultant from the PMU and the work transfer; present information for all ongoing projects emphasizing the more problematic areas.
“We’ve met a lot of managers and consultants, we’ve received their reports and we will study them in detail when we return home”, stated Mr Simon Murphy, Project Manager to the EC. He defined the meeting as very constructive and underlined that it should not be considered as an inspection. He added: “Our objective was to check on site how the money of the European community was being spent. And also we wanted to form an opinion about how useful the help provided by the Bank was.” Mr. Mark Vangampelare, Project Manager to the EC, added that the aim was to hold such meetings at regular intervals of at least twice a year, in order to follow up what was done, to maintain direct contact, and to make sure there was understanding between the parties.
The EC representatives expressed their satisfaction with the information materials related to the progress of the dismantling activities, presented by SERAW. They will summarize the results of their work in Kozloduy and their impressions in official reports.
