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Legal Affairs 2013 N uclear Law Bulletin Nuclear Law Bulletin No. 92 – Volume 2013/2 Bulletin No. 92 – Volume Nuclear Law No. 92 Volume 2013/2 NEA Legal Affairs ISSN 0304-341X Nuclear Law Bulletin No. 92 © OECD 2013 NEA No. 7154 NUCLEAR ENERGY AGENCY ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT The OECD is a unique forum where the governments of 34 democracies work together to address the economic, social and environmental challenges of globalisation. The OECD is also at the forefront of efforts to understand and to help governments respond to new developments and concerns, such as corporate governance, the information economy and the challenges of an ageing population. The Organisation provides a setting where governments can compare policy experiences, seek answers to common problems, identify good practice and work to co-ordinate domestic and international policies. 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NUCLEAR ENERGY AGENCY The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) was established on 1 February 1958. Current NEA membership consists of 31 countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. The European Commission also takes part in the work of the Agency. The mission of the NEA is: – to assist its member countries in maintaining and further developing, through international co-operation, the scientific, technological and legal bases required for a safe, environmentally friendly and economical use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, as well as – to provide authoritative assessments and to forge common understandings on key issues, as input to government decisions on nuclear energy policy and to broader OECD policy analyses in areas such as energy and sustainable development. Specific areas of competence of the NEA include the safety and regulation of nuclear activities, radioactive waste management, radiological protection, nuclear science, economic and technical analyses of the nuclear fuel cycle, nuclear law and liability, and public information. The NEA Data Bank provides nuclear data and computer program services for participating countries. In these and related tasks, the NEA works in close collaboration with the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, with which it has a Co-operation Agreement, as well as with other international organisations in the nuclear field. Also available in French under the title: Bulletin de droit nucléaire n° 92 LEGAL NOTICE The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development assumes no liability concerning information published in this bulletin. This document and any map included herein are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty over any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area. 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Cover photos: Mining machine at Jachymov Czech uranium mine (Pavel Kosek, Czech Republic); An initial design image of Turkey’s first nuclear power plant in the coastal town of Akkuyu (Turkish Atomic Energy Authority, Turkey). ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Acknowledgements In addition to the authors of the articles, the NEA would like to thank the following individuals for their contributions to this edition of the Nuclear Law Bulletin: Mr. F. Chennoufi (Algeria), Mr. A. Martirosyan (Armenia), Ms. H. Cook (Australia), Ms. D. Fischer (Brazil), Ms. F. Touïtou-Durand, Mr. O. Guézou and Mr. S. Manson (France), Prof. N. Pelzer (Germany), Ms. V. Tafili (Greece), Ms. I. Bolger (Ireland), Mr. P. Majerus (Luxembourg), Mr. K. Sieczak (Poland), Mr. M. Sousa-Ferro (Portugal), Mr. M. Pospíšil (Slovak Republic), Mr. A. Škraban (Slovenia), Mr. V. Shvytai (Ukraine), Ms. F. Portmann-Bochsler (Switzerland), Mr. S. Clark and Mr. T. Rothschild (United States), Prof. D. Puig, (Uruguay), Ms. A. Durand (EC), Ms. S. Rivera (IAEA), Mr. P. Reyners (INLA), the Nuclear Transparency Watch (NTW) Secretariat and Ms. V. Ryan-Taix (WNU). The information submitted to the NEA by these individuals represents the opinions of the authors alone and does not purport to represent the official views or the policies of their governments or any other entity. NUCLEAR LAW BULLETIN No. 92/VOL. 2013/2, ISSN 0304-341X, © OECD 2013 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of contents ARTICLES Uranium mining and production: A legal perspective on regulating an important resource by Lisa Thiele ......................................................... 9 Turkish nuclear legislation: Developments for a nuclear newcomer by Erinç Ercan and Horst Schneider ....................................................................................... 29 Nuclear law and environmental law in the licensing of nuclear installations by Christian Raetzke ............................................................................................................... 55 CASE LAW France .................................................................................................................................... 89 Conseil d’État decision, 28 June 2013, refusing to suspend operation of the Fessenheim nuclear power plant ..................................................................................... 89 Slovak Republic ................................................................................................................... 89 New developments including the Supreme Court’s judgment in a matter involving Greenpeace Slovakia’s claims regarding the Mochovce nuclear power plant ............................................................................................................ 89 New developments in the matter involving Greenpeace’s demands for information under the Freedom of Information Act ................................................ 91 Switzerland .......................................................................................................................... 91 Judgment of the Federal Supreme Court in the matter of the Département fédéral de l’environnement, des transports, de l’énergie et de la communication (DETEC) against Ursula Balmer-Schafroth and others on consideration of admissibility of a request to withdraw the operating licence for the Mühleberg nuclear power plant ............................................................................................................ 91 United States ........................................................................................................................ 92 Judgment of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit granting petition for writ of mandamus ordering US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to resume Yucca Mountain licensing ............................................................................... 92 Judgment of the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit invalidating two Vermont statutes as pre-empted by the Atomic Energy Act ................................. 93 Judgment of the NRC on transferring Shieldalloy site to New Jersey’s jurisdiction .. 94 NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE AND REGULATORY ACTIVITIES Algeria ................................................................................................................................... 97 Nuclear security ................................................................................................................... 97 Armenia ................................................................................................................................ 97 Nuclear safety and radiological protection ...................................................................... 97 Brazil .....................................................................................................................................