The Auditor said, “No matters judged to be illegal or procedurally defective have not been confirmed” regarding the process of establishing the’post-nuclear’ energy policy by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy.
The Board of Audit and Inspection said today (5th) that it was the result of a intensive inspection of six items in three areas, including the’Energy Conversion Roadmap Field’, through the’Energy Conversion Roadmap and Various Plans Establishment Status’ audit result data.
The auditor said, “The review was conducted based on the relevant laws, court precedents, and legal advice results,” and said, “The legal advice was referred to four places including law firms and the results were reflected.”
First of all, the Board of Audit and Controversy was concerned about whether the public debate committee can recommend a reduction in the share of nuclear power generation. “It seems to be inappropriate to judge the request.”
In addition, regarding whether the government can establish a roadmap different from the second basic energy plan, “the energy conversion roadmap is a basic plan or important policy of the state administration”. It was judged that it was difficult to say that there was a defect.
This audit is due to the fact that 547 people including former lawmaker Jeong Gap-yoon, the power of the people, filed for a public interest audit in June 2019.
Congressman Jeong and others have argued that it is illegal to promote the post-nuclear power plant policy in that they first revised the sub-policy, the basic power supply and demand plan, before revising the energy-related basic energy policy.
In response, the auditor concluded with the effect that it could not confirm the violations.
The Board of Audit and Inspection also said, “The committee’s deliberation is the authority, but the accountability issue may arise as to whether the nuclear policy should be deliberated and resolved by the Atomic Energy Promotion Committee. Therefore, it is necessary to interpret the subject of deliberation in accordance with the underlying laws and regulations to prevent legal controversy. There is,” he explained.
He stated, “It is difficult to see it as a matter of deliberation resolution,” and “It is difficult to see that there is an illegal, unfair or procedural defect just because the deliberation decision has not been passed.”
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