Each State shall establish a competent regulatory authority.\u00a0 This is to be functionally separate from any body or organisation concerned with the production or promotion of nuclear energy, radioactive material, electricity using isotopes or the management of spent fuel and radioactive waste.\u00a0 The authority must have legal powers and human and financial resources to fulfil its obligations.<\/p>\n
License holders have prime responsibility for the safety of spent fuel and radioactive waste management through the control of the competent authority.\u00a0 License holders are responsible for assessing and verifying the safety of their facility and activity.\u00a0 They are obliged to continuously improve the nuclear safety of their facility and activity of spent fuel and radioactive waste management.\u00a0 They must also provide for and maintain adequate financial and human resources to fulfil their obligations.<\/p>\n
A safety demonstration is required as part of the licence application.\u00a0 It is to cover the full lifetime of an activity and post-closure including the post-closure phase.<\/p>\n
Information on the management of spent fuel and radioactive waste must be made available to workers and the public.\u00a0 The public must be able to participate in the process of decision-making.<\/p>\n
States must establish and implement programs for the management of spent fuel and radioactive waste from all phases from generation to disposal.\u00a0 They must be regularly updated.\u00a0 At least every 10 years, States must arrange for self- assessment and invite international peer review of their national framework, competent regulatory authority and\/or national program in order to ensure that high safety standards are achieved.<\/p>\n
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Basel Convention The Basel Convention lays down rules to control, at an international level, transboundary movements of wastes hazardous to human health and the environment, and their disposal. Council Decision 93\/98\/EEC of 1 February 1993 on the conclusion, on behalf of the Community, of the Convention on the control of transboundary movements of hazardous wastes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[215],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18525,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17185\/revisions\/18525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}