Preambule - Moderating principles - Moderating rules - Legal terms and conditions - Web rules of ethics - netiquette

Preambule


General Guidelines
To create an exchange of ideas between the group and its various stakeholders, the AREVA internet Site offers a discussion forum where interested parties such as group employees, shareholders, clients, suppliers, non-governmental organizations, government authorities, associations and local communities may express their respective points of view.

The data included may not be processed for any purpose other than those stipulated in the article data collected at the site in the privacy statement. Each contributor may, at any time, request to the service in charge of access rights to have his or her contributions erased. For technical reasons, cybernauts must submit any deletion request no more than one (1) month after the message was first posted on AREVA website.

This project is indicative of AREVA's desire to address all issues fairly and openly.

The main moderating principles governing the Site discussion forum reflect the AREVA group's objectives:
- To come to light all points of view
- To respect all opinions, including dissenting opinions
- To foster constructive dialogue among all stakeholders
- To encourage the largest number of interested parties to take part in the discussion
- To give cybernauts access to information needed to form a opinion
- To listen to the stakeholders in order to improve group practices as part of our continuous improvement process.


Glossary

Member(s) / Cybernaut(s): Any person registered in the AREVA Site Member Area will be designated as a Member. To register, a Member must fill in a registration form and validate his or her registration with a confirmation email.
Dialogue section: The AREVA Site dialogue section includes a discussion forum and a voting section.

Service(s): Service(s) mean the AREVA Site interactive functionalities accessible to Members, particularly those in the Site's dialogue section.

Dialogue section themes: themes cover a variety of subjects. To initiate the discussion, AREVA representatives and experts express an opinion ("Position" and "Questions for..."), while association or NGO representatives may contribute by delivering their own point of view ("Face to Face").
New themes will be added while existing themes will remain active as long as warranted.

Discussion topics: They encompass points of view offered by stakeholders on a specific theme addressed in the discussion forum. The initial subjects, chosen when a new theme is launched, are selected from the Points of View records (Tribune, Opinion, Face to Face). These topics serve as a starting point for discussion in the discussion forum.

Feedback: Feedback is new contribution by a stakeholder on a preexisting topic or preexisting feedback (or even feedback on previous feedback).

Stakeholders: Stakeholders include all parties that may be affected by the group's operations. They include group co-participants, such as employees, clients, suppliers, shareholders, directors, as well as non-group parties such as government, trade unions, non-governmental organizations, media, or interested local parties such as local communities or associations. Each participant in the Site discussion forum is identified by a pseudo-name and his affiliation to one of the AREVA stakeholders' groups as disclosed in the profile submitted by the Member in his or her registration form.

Why is registration required to be able to contribute to the dialogue?

Registration is required to sort the Members' contributions by stakeholder category. Disclosure of the participants' affiliations helps maximize the benefits of dialogue. Registration is also required to enforce rules of moderation and encourage a meaningful, organized discussion.

Moderating principles


The moderator shall review all observations offered by the Members and shall have eligible entries to be posted on the Site. The moderator will ensure that the principles outlined in this document are implemented fully and fairly. The moderator will refer to these principles in all instances.

AREVA and/or its designated contractor(s) will act as moderator(s), as defined in the present document.

Message sorting

The topics offered by the Members will be sorted and posted in reverse chronological order, starting with the last Member observation validated by the moderator. The more recent topics will therefore take precedence over older subjects having already elicited a large number of reactions. This methodology will foster the development of fresh topics.

Members' reactions will be sorted by topic and, under such topic, by posting date in order to make the latest ones emerge. Thus, a specific feedback will always be posted below the original observation that triggered it, but above any previous feedback to the original observation.

The votes: a complement to the forum

A polling system has been set up to complement the observations, qualitative in nature, posted in the discussion forum.

The moderator will select ideas or observations submitted by the Members and edit them as needed for polling purposes. The members will have an opportunity to "Agree" or "Disagree" with the ideas or suggestions submitted to a vote. The polling process will minimize duplication among Member observations by allowing Members to express their opinion on a particular subject based on a preexisting comment. Results from the polls will be published in the Site's "Opinions barometer" section.

Comments or ideas will be selected for polling based on the following criteria:
- The comment or idea makes sense by itself, irrespective of the observation or suggestion that may have prompted it.
- The posting message must be original and/or complement pre-existing ideas on a given theme.



Moderating rules


• Cybernaut messages must:
- Contribute a new viewpoint to the dialogue .
- Be pertinent with respect to the theme, discussions and opinions being debated.
- Be written clearly and appropriately.
- Respect the views of other cybernauts as well as of AREVA.

• Cybernauts may:
- Contribute new feedback to preexisting discussions.
- Initiate new discussions.
- Disagree with the opinions expressed by other cybernauts or posted by AREVA to initiate a discussion.

The moderator will:
- Validate all messages and qualify them for posting consistent with the rules outlined above.
- Inform any cybernaut that his/her message has been qualified and will therefore be posted on the Site.
- Inform any cybernaut whose message has been disqualified. The disqualification shall be in reference to the present rules.
- To the maximum extent possible, respect the concept and wording of any idea edited for polling purposes.

The moderator may:
- Suppress a message that does not meet the criteria outlined in this document.
- Correct spelling and/or grammatical errors prior to posting any message.
- Edit as a concept all comments or ideas posted for Member polling.
- Bar any Member who has violated the rules or principles outlined in this document, thereby prohibiting any further posting by such Member.

The cybernauts and the moderator will:
- Respect the spirit of discussion in the discussion forum.
- Respect the legal terms and conditions governing the discussion forum.
- Respect the rules of ethics in cyberspace.

Legal terms and conditions


Areva's liability
AREVA reserves the right to control any and all information sent via or received at the Site. AREVA may, at any time and of its own volition, edit, re-write, remove or block any posted message.
Any published message shall represent the opinion of the Member who contributed it. No message posted to the Site's discussion forum shall be deemed to represent AREVA's opinion or to emanate from AREVA. AREVA shall not be liable for the positions, ideas or other content of any message contributed by any Member even if posted on its Site.
AREVA may collect all information or data communicated or posted in connection with the Site's operations. Such information or data shall be used in accordance with the Privacy Statement applicable to data collected on the www.areva.com site. Please note that AREVA shall not be held liable with respect to any personal information provided or disseminated voluntarily by any Member or third party.

Member obligations and liability
Each Member shall be responsible for the management of his or her account, including unauthorized use by a third party. Each Member agrees to notify AREVA immediately in the event of unauthorized use of his or her account, or in the event of any other confidentiality and/or security violation known to the Member.

Under no circumstances shall a member transfer or give access to, his or her account to a third party.

Transmission of any message, regardless of form or manner, that may be considered to be advertising is prohibited.

Each Member agrees that he or she will not transmit or contribute any form of message, content or material that is:
- disrespectful to morality and Public Order;
- injurious, defamatory, racist, xenophobic, homophobic, revisionist history, or an attack on the character or the reputation of any third party;
- an encouragement to discrimination or hatred against a person or a group of persons based on their ancestry, their ethnicity, their national origin, their racial characteristics, or their religion;
- a threat to any person or group of persons;
- pedophiliac in nature;
- an encouragement to commit a felony, a misdemeanor, a terrorist act or any other crime, or that condones or approves of a war crime or a crime against humanity;
- encourages suicide; or
- violates mail privacy.


Each Member agrees to respect the rights and privileges of others including:
- privacy rights;
- trademarks;
- copyrights; and
- more generally, all personal and property rights.

Each member agrees to abide by the applicable laws and regulations of France, his or her country of residence, and any country where the data, messages and/or material he or she contributes are likely to be disseminated.

Violations
AREVA may, without notice, terminate the Site access privileges of any Member who, in AREVA's sole opinion, has breached the rules and provisions outlined in the present document. AREVA reserves the rights to seek damages, including interest, as AREVA shall deem appropriate.

Each Member shall indemnify AREVA in any suit, and each Member shall hold AREVA harmless from any demand by, or damage to, any person, including Member, in connection with AREVA Site operations, or the Services provided on or by the Site, or in connection with the termination or interruption of the Member's Site access.

Each Member undertakes to respond promptly to any complaint and/or request for explanation. Each Member shall indemnify AREVA upon AREVA's first request for costs, damages, or awards of any kind resulting from any suit, proceeding, complaint, or demand, including attorney's fees, expert opinions, tax expenses, interest, or provisional payments, irrespective of their cause or origin, direct or indirect, resulting from the violation by said Member of one or more of the rules and obligations outlined in the present document and/or the use of the Services.

AREVA shall inform Member, by any means AREVA shall deem appropriate, of any complaint received by AREVA. Each Member agrees to resolve such complaint diligently and expeditiously. AREVA reserve the right to lay the complaint before the government authorities.

Member's personal information, including Site usage, may be disclosed or stored by AREVA in connection with any complaint or court proceeding.

AREVA reserves the right to modify the present rules and provisions at any time and without notice. In order to abide by current rules and provisions, each Member must therefore review up-to-date rules each time he or she visits the Site or uses the Services.

Web rules of ethics – netiquette


Internet usage is subject to certain rules of ethics that contribute to a productive experience for the benefit all cybernauts.
Most of these rules follow common sense and simple logic. However, excessive passion and insufficient netiquette knowledge may result in disruption or outright misbehavior.
The rules we refer to are RFC 1855, Netiquette Guidelines, available at http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html

Hereunder are some rules of ethics applicable to a discussion forum.
• Be ethical in your messages and tolerant of other cybernauts' mistakes. Do not send hate messages even when provoked.
• Remember that the recipient of your message may be a person with a different culture, language, or humor reference than yourself. Remember that your date formats, measurement units, and idiomatic expressions may easily be misunderstood. Be very careful with sarcasm.
• Type in small letters. LARGE CAPS GIVE THE IMPRESSION THAT YOU ARE YELLING!!!
• Do not misquote or impersonate others.
• Do not blame AREVA or the moderator for Members' misbehavior.
• Advertising, as well as any repetitive message, is not welcome.
• Do not send illegal, defamatory, menacing, or sexually offensive material or messages.
• Avoid gratuitous comments in response to other Members' postings.
• Your message will be posted unless it violates the moderating rules published in this document. If you do not find your message on the Site, do not waste your time reposting it. It will be rejected again.

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