Vendor Inspection Co-operation Working Group (VICWG)

The MDEP Vendor Inspection Co-operation Working Group (VICWG) was approved by the MDEP Policy Group in March 2008. All MDEP countries and the IAEA were invited to participate in this working group's activities.

The VICWG's main objectives were:

to maximise results obtained from regulators' efforts in inspecting vendors;
to explore opportunities for international harmonisation in the area of quality assurance and quality management codes and standards.

Thus, the VICWG interacted with several Standards Development Organisations (ISO, AFCEN, etc.) and the World Nuclear Association's (WNA) working group on Cooperation in Reactor Design Evaluation and Licensing (CORDEL).

The VICWG reported its status to the MDEP Steering Technical Committee (STC) at the latter's thrice annual meetings.

Accomplishments

For more information, see the MDEP Annual Report: 2018-2019.

Programme plan

2021-2022 Programme Plan

Products

Technical Reports

TR-VICWG-07: Technical Report on Safety Culture in the Nuclear Supply Chain, January 2021
TR-VICWG-06: Technical Report on Assessment of Multinational Vendor Inspection of ENSA (Spain), September 2020
TR-VICWG-05: Technical Report on Assessment of Multinational Vendor Inspection of AREVA NP Creusot Forge (ACF), October 2018
TR-VICWG-04: Technical Report on Assessment of Multinational Vendor Inspection of Valinox Nuclear, September 2015
TR-VICWG-03: Technical Report on Common QA/QM Criteria for Multinational Vendor Inspection, January 2014
TR-VICWG-02: Technical Report on Survey on Quality Assurance Program Requirements, December 2011
TR-VICWG-01: Technical Report on Witnessed and Joint Vendor Inspection Protocol, February 2014 (CP-VICWG-02 replaces this technical report)