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Proposal for a directive
Recital 24

(24) The requirements of this Directive on transparency are complementary to those of the existing Euratom legislation. Council Decision 87/600/Euratom of 14 December 1987 on Community arrangements for the early exchange of information in the event of a radiological emergency42 imposes obligations on Member States to notify and provide information to the Commission and to other Member States in case of a radiological emergency on its territory, whilst Council Directive 89/618 Euratom of 27 November 198943 includes requirements on Member States to inform the public about health protection measures to be applied and steps to be taken in the event of a radiological emergency, and to provide advance and continuing information to the population likely to be affected in the event of a such an emergency. However, in addition to the information to be provided in such an event, Member States should under this Directive arrange for appropriate transparency provisions, with prompt and regularly updated release of information to ensure that workers and the general public are kept informed about all nuclear safety related events, including abnormal events or accident conditions. Moreover, the public should be given opportunities to participate effectively in the licencing process of nuclear installations and the competent regulatory authority should provide any safety-related information independently, without need for prior consent from any other public or private entity. __________________ 42 43__________________ 42 OJ L 371, 30.12.1987, p. 76. OJ L 371, 30.12.1987, p. 76. 43 OJ L 357, 7.12.1989, p.31. OJ L 357, 7.12.1989, p.31.

2014/02/19
Committee: ITRE

Evžen TOŠENOVSKÝ, Jan BŘEZINA, Giles CHICHESTER

Proposal for a directive
Recital 33

(33) This Directive introduces new provisions on self-assessments and peer- reviews of nuclear installations based on selected nuclear safety topics covering their entire lifecycle. At an international level, there is already confirmed experience with conducting such peer- reviews on nuclear power plants. At the EU level, the experience from the stress tests process shows the value of a coordinated exercise to assess and review the safety of EU nuclear power plants. ~~A similar mechanism, based on cooperation between the Member States' regulatory authorities and the Commission, should be applied here.~~ Therefore, competent regulatory authorities coordinating in the context of expert groups such as ENSREG, could contribute with their expertise to identifying the relevant safety topics and in carrying out these peer reviews. If Member States fail to jointly select at least one topic the Commission should select one or more topics to be subject to the peer reviews. Participation of other stakeholders, such as Technical Support Organisations, international observers or non-governmental Organisations could bring added value to the peer reviewsmake use of the existing tools such as the missions undertaken by IAEA.

2014/02/19
Committee: ITRE

Evžen TOŠENOVSKÝ, Giles CHICHESTER

Proposal for a directive
Recital 36

(36) In case the Commission identifies substantial deviations or delays in the implementation of the technical recommendations from the peer review process, the Commission should invite the competent regulatory authorities of Member States not concerned to organise and carry out a verification mission with the aim of getting a full picture of the situation and informing the Member State concerned about possible measures to remedy any identified shortcomings.deleted

2014/02/19
Committee: ITRE

Evžen TOŠENOVSKÝ, Giles CHICHESTER

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9

Directive 2009/71/Euratom
Article 8 – paragraph 3

3. Member States shall ensure that the public shall be given early and effective opportunities to participate in the ~~licensing process~~environmental impact assessment of nuclear installations, in accordance with relevant Union and national legislation and international obligations.

2014/02/19
Committee: ITRE

Evžen TOŠENOVSKÝ, Jan BŘEZINA, Giles CHICHESTER