Nuclear Law Bulletin

Issue: 62, 2

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Articles

• A Short History of Nuclear Non-Proliferation  7 - 26
  Sanders, Ben
• The New Austrian Act on Third Party Liability for Nuclear Damage  27 - 33
  Hinteregger, Monika

Studies

• Regulatory and Institutional Framework for Nuclear Activities in the Slovak Republic  34 - 50
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Case Law

• France: Council of State Judgement on the transfer of the capacity of nuclear operator from La Manche radioactive waste storage facility to the National Radioactive Waste Management Agency (ANDRA) (1998)  51 - 51
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• France: Council of State Decision concerning the procedure governing the underground storage of radioactive waste (1998)  51 - 52
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• Sweden: Supreme Administrative Court Decision on the Closure of Barseback No. 1 Reactor (1998)  52 - 53
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• United Kingdom: Court of Appeal Decision concerning the definition of damage to property for the purposes of Section 7(1)(a) of the Nuclear Installations Act 1965 (1998)  53 - 54
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• United States: Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) (1998)  54 - 58
  Angelini, Sophia

Administrative Decisions

• Finland: Council of State Decisions concerning the licences of IVO and TVO (1998)  58 - 58
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National Legislative and Regulatory Activities

• Argentina: Decree on the National Atomic Energy Commission (1998)  59 - 59
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• Australia: The Radiation Safety (General) Amendment Regulations (Western Australia) (1997)  59 - 60
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• Austria: Law on Third Party Liability for Nuclear Damage (1998)  60 - 60
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• Belarus: Plan for the Implementation of the Law on Radiation Protection of the Public (1998)  60 - 60
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• Belarus: Sanitary Rules for the Management of Decontamination Waste of Chernobyl Origin (1998)  60 - 61
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• Belarus: Law on Export Control (1997)  61 - 62
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• Belarus: Decree on the Improvement of State Control over the Movement of Specific Goods Across the Customs Border of the Republic of Belarus (1998)  62 - 62
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• France: Order setting out work for which employees on fixed-term contracts or personnel from interim employment agencies may not be appointed (1998)  62 - 63
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• France: Circular on the procedure for applications for licences under the Decree of 1995 on releases of liquid and gaseous waste and on samples of water from nuclear installations (1998)  63 - 63
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• France: Order on the creation of cards equipped with microprocessors for the personnel of "outside" undertakings carrying out work in major nuclear installations  63 - 63
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• France: Order on the testing and consuption of water, and on releases of all types from installations classified for purposes of environmental protection which are subject to licensing (1998)  63 - 64
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• France: Circular on the application of Article 19 of the Law on Air and Rational Use of Energy, completing the content of the impact assessments for development projects (1998)  64 - 65
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• Georgia: Law on Export Control of Armaments, Military Equipment and Dual-Use Products (1998)  65 - 65
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• Ireland: EC (Radiological and Nuclear Medicine Installations) Regulations (1998)  65 - 66
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• Italy: Amendment of the Decrees of 1997 on the criteria for acceptance of radiological equipment used for medical purposes, on quality control measures and on the training of medical staff in the sue of ionising radiation in medicine (1997, 1998)  66 - 66
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• Japan: Law introducing Amendments to the Atomic Energy Law and the Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation Law (1998)  66 - 68
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• Latvia: Regulations on the Control of Radioactive Contaminiation in Food Products (1998)  68 - 68
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• Latvia: Regulations on the Safe Transport of Radioactive Materials (1998)  68 - 68
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• Madagascar: Act on Radiation Protection and Radioactive Waste Management (1998)  68 - 69
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• Romania: Restructuring of the Romanian Electricity Authority(1998)  69 - 70
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• Spain: Decree on the Operational Protection of Outside Workers (1997)  70 - 70
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• Switzerland: Ordinance on Radiological Installations for Medical Use (Ordinance on X-Rays) (1998)  70 - 71
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• United States: NRC Statement of Policy on the Conduct of Adjudicatory Proceedings (1998)  71 - 74
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International Regulatory Activities

• Nuclear Energy Agency: 40th Anniversary of the Nuclear Energy Agency (1998)  75 - 75
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• European Union: Amendment to Directive 93/75/EEC concerning minimum requirements for vessels bound for or leaving Community ports and carrying dangerous or polluting goods (1998)  75 - 76
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• IAEA: Resolutions Adopted by the IAEA General Conference (1998)  76 - 77
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Bilateral Agreements

• Argentina - Republic of Korea: Agreement for Co-operation in the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear energy (1996)  79 - 80
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• Brazil-Canada: Agreement for Co-operation concerning the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy (1996)  80 - 81
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• Bulgaria-Ukraine: Agreement for Co-operation in the Field of the State Regulation and Safety Control in the Use of Atomic Energy for Peaceful Purposes (1998)  81 - 81
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• People's Republic of China - France: Co-operation Agreement on the Development of Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy (1997)  81 - 82
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• People's Republic of China - USA: Agreement on Co-operation Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Technologies (1998)  82 - 83
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• Germany - Russian Federation: Agreement on Nuclear Liability in respect of Supplies Delivered from Germany to Nuclear Installations in the Russian Federation (1998)  83 - 84
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• Republic of Korea - Vietnam: Agreement for Co-operation in Research into the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy (1996)  84 - 85
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• Norway - Russian Federation: Agreement on Environmental Co-operation in connection with the Dismantling of Russian Nuclear Powered Submarines (1998)  85 - 85
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• Russian Federation - Sweden: Agreement concerning Co-operation in the Regulation of Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection (1997)  85 - 86
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• Russian Federation - USA: Agreement on the Nuclear Cities Initiative (1998)  86 - 87
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• South Africa - Sweden: Arrangement for the Excahnge of Technical Information and Co-operation in the Regulation of Nuclear Safety (1997)  87 - 87
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• Ukraine - USA: Agreement Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy (1998)  87 - 88
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• Ukraine - USA: Agreement Concerning the International Radioecology Laboratory of the International Chernobyl Centre on Nuclear Safety, Radioactive Waste and Radioecology (1998)  88 - 88
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Multilateral Agreements

• Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic: First OSPAR Commission Meeting (1998)  89 - 89
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• Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (1998)  89 - 91
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• Status of Nuclear Conventions (1998)  91 - 92
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Bibliography and News Briefs

• NEA, INLA, Finland, Japan, Turkey  93 - 96
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List of Correspondents

• List of Correspondents  97 - 99
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Supplement

• Slovak Republic: Law on the Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy (1998)   - 
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