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NUCLEAR LAW BULLETIN No. 60 Contents NUCLEAR LAW BULLETIN 60/DECEMBER 1997 NUCLEAR ENERGY AGENCY NUCLEAR LAW BULLETIN No. 60 Contents Detailed Table of Contents Artzcles Case Law and Admudstrabve Decisions Nataonal Legrslatzve and Regulatory Actktzes Znternational Regulatory Achvities Agreements Texts Btiliography and News Briefs List of Correspondents Supplement December 1997 Nudear EnergyAgency Orgamsa~onfor lkonom~cCo-operatiou and Development ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT Porsuant to AI-II& I of the Convenuon signed m Pans on 14th December 1960 and which came mto torte on 30th September I%1 the Orgamsauon for Econonuc Coaperabon and Development (OECD) shall promote pohaes destgned - to achwe the highest sustamable economic gnwth and employment and a nsmg standard of hxmg m Member ~ountnes whale mamtammg tinancxd stabdtty and thus to contnbute to the development ot the world economy - to contnbute to sound econoouc expansion m Member as well as non-member counme~ an the prow55 ot economtc development and - to contnbute to the expansion of world uade on a multdateral nondwnmnatory bars rn accordance wth mternat~onal obhgations The ongmal Member countnes of the OECD are Ausma, Belgwm Canada Denmark France German\ Greece Iceland Ireland Italy Luxembourg the Netherlands Norway Portugal Span Sweden Swluerland Turkey the Umted Kmgdom and the Unrkd States The followmg coontnes became Members subsequentI\ through access,on at the dates mdrcated bereafler Japan (28th Aprd 1%4), Fmland (28th Januan 1969) Austmha (7th June 1971) New Zealand (29th May 1973) Mexico (18th May 1994) the Czech Repubhc (21s~ December 1995) Hungary (7th May 19%). Poland (22nd November 1996) and the Repubhc of Korea (12th December 19%) The Commwon of the JZuopan Communmes rakes part m the work of the OECD (An& I3 of the OECD Conventron) 0 OECD 1997 Permswm to rqmdure a ponm of this we& for naunmmeraal purposesor classroomuse should be obtamed through ths Centre fran$als d eaplo,tar,on du drolt de cop~c (CFC) 20 toe des Grands-Augustms 75006 Parlr Francs Tel (13-114407 47 70 Fax (33-I,46 34 67 19 for evew couno-veraot the Umted States In the UnxredSmres wzrm~\\~on should k olxa,ned through ‘the eopynght Clearaxe &nter &lo& Sawce (508)750-&ux) 221 Roscuicd Dn\c Oarwets MA 01923 LISA or CCC Onhne http th’ww copyright co& All other apphcaoons for pe”mss,on to reprnjucs or translate all or part of thlr hook should he made to OECD Pubbcauons 2 rue Andr&Pascal 75775 Pans Cede\ 16 Franks Foreword This 60th edItton of the Nuclear Lnw BuNerrn marks the 30th year of pubbcatmn of thn legal pcnod~cal which mmally appeared m Febmary 1968 That pamcular date marked m mm another amuversary the creatton m February 1958 of what was then called the European Nuclear Energy Agency We would bke to take this opportomty to thank readers for thew support Jo 1997, sqndicant steps were taken m the field of mtemattonal nuclear energy law This ~ssoe of the Bullemz prowdes detads of the F’rotocol to Amend the Vienna ConventIon on Ctvtl L~abrbty for Nuclear Damage as well as the Conventloo on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage, both of which were adopted m September 1997 Another hlghbght of this ISSIX 1s an amcle on the Jomt ConventIon on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radloactwe Waste Management, also adopted m September The Supplement to this Bullettn reproduces the texts of three recently enacted p~eccs of leglslauon, which, respectwely, govern nuclear actwtles to Canada, Hungary and Llthuama Fmally, It should be noted that this Bulletrn provtdes mfomntlon on several Central and Eastern European countnes For a more comprehenswe review of nuclear law m such countries, readers arc referred to this year’s rewed and expanded edmon of the Overvrew of Nuclear Legrslatron m Eastern Europe, whtch wdl soon be avadable through the OECD F’obbcatlons Serwce 3 DETAILED TABLE OF CONTENTS Page ARTICLES The Jomt ConventIon on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of RadIoactIve Waste Management, by W Tonhauser and 0 Jankowrtsch 9 Umted States Nuclear Waste Pobcy Act, by S Angehm 23 Strengthenmg the Effectweness and Improvmg the Efflctency of the IAEA Safeguards System, by L Rockwood 41 Recent Developments m German Nuclear Energy Law, by B Kunth and H Passer 55 CASE LAW UNITED STATES Cleanup of Ennchment Facdmes (I 997). by S Angehm 63 EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS Balmer-Schafroth and Others v Swtzerland (1997). by W Buhlmann 65 ADMINISTRATIVE DEClSIONS JAPAN Report on Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corpomtlon (1997) 70 SWI7zERLAND Lelbstadt Nuclear Power Plant No Increase m Power for the Moment (1997) 71 NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE AND REGULATORY ACTIVITIES ALBANIA Law on Iomsmg RadIanon ProtectIon (1995) and Draft Implementmg Decrees 73 ARMENIA Draft Law on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy (1997) 74 AUSTRIA Ordmance on Shipments of RadIoactIve Waste (1997) 75 BELARUS Draft Law on Uses of Nuclear Energy and Radlatlon Safety (I 997) 75 Draft Law on RadIanon Protection of the Pobhc (1997) 76 BELGIUM Royal Order on the ProtectIon of Workers Agamst Radlatlon (1997) 77 BRAZIL Protectton System for the Nuclear Power Programme - SIPRON (1997) 78 Order Relatmg to the General Regulation of Radratlon Emergencies (1997) 78 CANADA Nuclear Safety and Control Act (1997) 79 PEOPLE’S REPUBLJC OF CHINA Regulatron for the Control of Nuclear Exports ( 1997) 80 CHINESE TAIPEI Revwon of the Law on Compensation for Nuclear Damage (I 997) 80 CZECH REPUBLIC Decrees Implemcntmg the Atouuc Act (1997) 81 EflONA Radlatron Act (1997) 82 FRANCE Decree on the Powers of the Mmlster for Econormc Affairs, Fmance and Industry (1997) 83 MedIcal Supervwon of Outstde Workers (1997) 81 Admmlstratwe Procedure for Sites Polluted by RadIoactIve Mater& (1997) 84 GERMANY Amendment of the Radratmn Protectson Ordnance (1997) 81 Pmtectlon of Women dunng Pregnancy and Matemtty (1997) 85 Amendment of the Dangerous Goods Excepbon Ordmance ( 1997) 85 Ordmmce on the Transport of Dangerous Goods by Road and m Enterpnscs (1997) 85 Amendments of the Foreign Trade Ordmance (1996 and 1997) 85 HUNGARY Implementmg Regulations under the 1996 Atormc Energy Act (1997) 86 lTALY Decrees Relatrng to Medtcal Apphcatlons of Ionrsmg Radrabon (1997) 87 JAPAN TXe Enwmnmental Impact Law (1997) 87 LITHUANIA Law on Nuclear Energy (1996) 88 LUXEMBOURG Regulations on Protectnon of the Pubhc Agamst Radlatlon (1996) 88 MEXICO Decree Amendmg the General Health Law ( 1997) 88 POLAND Amendments to the 1986 Atormc Energy Act ( l994- 1996) 89 Reorgamsatlon of the Radlatlon and Nuclear Safety Inspectorate Function (1996) 90 RUSSIAN FEDERATION New Regulations on Nuclear and Radration Safety (1997) 90 SLOVAKIA Draft Law on the Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy (1997) 91 SWITZERLAND Moddkatron of the Ordrnance on Defimtlons and Llcensrng m the Atomic Fuzld ( 1997) 92 TUNISIA Law on the Transport of Dangcmus Substances by Road (1997) 93 UKRAINE Chernobyl Centre for Nuclear Safety, Rad Waste & Radmecologtcal Research (1996) 93 6 INTERNATIONAL REGULATORY ACTIVITIES INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY Resolutions Adopted by the IAEA General Conference (1997) 95 EUROPEAN UNION The 97/43/Euratom Duectwe on Health Protectton of Indwlduals Agamst the Dangers of Iomsmg RadIanon (1997) by J-M Courades and D Teunen 96 Assessment of the Effects of Pubhc and Pnvate ProJects on the Env (1997) 101 COUNCIL OF EUROPE Safety of Nuclear Installations m the Countnes of Central and Eastern Europe (1997) 102 BILATERAL AGREEMENTS BULGARIA -ROMANIA Early Notdicatton of a Nuclear Accident and Exchange of InformatIon (1997) 105 BULGARIA - TURKEY Early Notdicatton of a Nuclear Acctdent and Exchange of Informanon (1997) 105 CZECH REPUBLIC - UKRAINE Cc-operatton m the Field of Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Industry (1997) 105 GERMANY - RUSSIAN FEDERATION Mutual Assistance m the Event of Catastrophes and Severe Accidents (1992) 106 UNITED KINGDOM - UKRAINE Exchange of InformatIon on Nuclear lnstallauon Safety Regulation (1997) 107 MULTILATERAL AGREEMENTS Dlplomatlc Conference Convened to Adopt a Protocol to Amend the Vienna ConventIon and a ConventIon on Supplementaty Compensation for Nuclear Damage (1997). Status of the Vienna Convention and the 1988 Jomt Protocol 107 Jomt Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel and RadIoactIve Waste Management (1997) 112 Pamclpatlon by the EU m KEDO (1997). by R Lennartz II2 TEXTS ALBANIA Law on Iomsmg RadIanon ProtectIon (1995) 115 BIBLIOGRAPHY AND NEWS BRIEFS IAEA. NEA INLA 121 LIST OF CORRESPONDENTS 125 SUPPLEMENT Callada Nuclear Safety and Control Act (1997) Hungary Act on Atomic Energy (I 9%) Lnthuanla Law on Nuclear Energy (I 996) 7 ARTICLES The Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management by Wolfram Tonhauser and Odette Jankow&ch* I. Inhwducbon The Jomt ConventIon on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radloactwe Waste Management (Jomt Conventton) was adopted on 5 September 1997 - after two years of “travaux pr6parato1res” - by 84 States at a I>lplomats Conference convened at Vienna by the Intemauonal Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)’ The Jomt ConventIon was opened for slgnatum on 29 September 1997 m con~unctlon wth the forty- first session of the General Conference of the IAEA As of one week followmg opemng for signature, 23 States had stgned the Conventton The ConventIon wdl enter mto force on the nmetleth day after the hventy-fifth mstmment of ratdicatlon IS deposIted wth the IAEA, rncludmg the m~t~mcnts of I5 States that each have an operatIona nuclear power plant II. The Jomt Convention (A Summary Descnpbon) The Convention combmes two dwrete subJect matters, namely the safety of spent fuel management and the safety of radmactwe waste management m a “‘Jomt” st~cture which constltutcs tts essential ongmahty There IS a common Preamble and common Chapter I on “ObJectwes, Defimtlons and Scope of Apphcatlon’ , which sets out the hvo dlstmct SubJects.
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