When the AREVA group was created, it adopted the legal status of a business corporation (Société Anonyme) with a Supervisory Board and an Executive Board.

Mission

Full authority is vested in the Executive Board to act on behalf of the company with regard to third parties in all circumstances, except when authority is expressly attributed by law to the Supervisory Board or to the Meeting of Shareholders. The Executive Board meets whenever AREVA’s interest so requires.

Members

The members are appointed by the Supervisory Board and serve a 5-year term.

Anne Lauvergeon Chief Executive Officer of AREVA

Gérald Arbola Member of the Executive Board, Chief Operating Officer of AREVA

Didier Benedetti Member of the Executive Board, Chief Operating Officer of AREVA NC, in charge of the group's research policy

Luc Oursel Member of the Executive Board, President and CEO of AREVA NP

Bernard de Gouttes, Head of Legal Affairs for the Group, is the secretary of the Executive Board.

Main activities

  2006
• Review of the GBII project
• Acquisition of SFARSTEEL
• Review of the strategic action plan
• Review of the Research and Innovation policy
• Progress update on the OL3 project execution
• Creation of a subsidiary in Canada

  2005
• Approval of the plan to dispose of FCI.
• Authorization for AREVA NC to subscribe to a Suez capital increase and acquisition by AREVA of all Suez securities held by AREVA NC.
• Authorization to dispose of AREVA NC’s participating interest in the Australian company ERA.
• Decision to use the AREVA trade mark in the trade name of first-tier subsidiaries.

  2004
• Definition of a nuclear safety charter.
• Designation of Key Account Managers.
• AREVA Way deployment throughout the group.
• Decision on execution schedule for Georges Besse II project.
• Negotiation of the Ling Ao plant extension in China.
• Launch of construction of the Cigar Lake mine in Canada.
• Launch of the HTR project in South Africa.
• Establishment of an agreement authorizing AREVA to manage the COGEMA decommissioning fund.
• Opening of a regional AREVA office in China and creation of a company in Beijing.
• Recapitalization of AREVA T&D Holding and of the subsidiaries AREVA T&D USA and AREVA T&D UK.

For further information about the Executive Board: consult the Reference document 2006, chapter 6, page 405.