The Nuclear Law Bulletin is a unique international publication for both professionals and academics in the field of nuclear law.
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20 August 2024
The Joint Protocol acts as a bridge between the Paris and Vienna Conventions, effectively extending the benefits provided by one convention to victims in countries that have joined the other conven...
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12 August 2024
The 1997 Vienna Protocol improves the original regime by requiring that more money be made available to compensate more victims for a broad range of damages.
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12 August 2024
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9 July 2024
The Joint Convention is an incentive convention that aims to, inter alia, achieve and a high level of safety worldwide in spent fuel and radioactive waste management, through the enhancement of nat...
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9 July 2024
The CTBT bans all nuclear explosions anywhere on Earth whether for military or peaceful purposes.
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9 July 2024
The Vienna Convention establishes a nuclear liability and compensation regime similar to that provided for under the Paris Convention. The Vienna Convention is open to any state.
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9 July 2024
National legislation: Japan
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18 June 2024
Nuclear legislation: Switzerland
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21 May 2024
Nuclear legislation: Slovenia
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17 May 2024
The Convention on Assistance sets up a framework for states parties to co-operate amongst themselves and with the International Atomic Energy Agency to facilitate prompt assistance in the event of ...
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26 April 2024
The Early Notification Convention establishes a notification system for nuclear accidents that have the potential for an international transboundary release of radioactive material that could be of...
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26 April 2024
The CPPNM establishes measures related to the physical protection of nuclear material used for peaceful purposes during transport, criminalisation of offenses relating to nuclear material and inter...
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26 April 2024
The objective of the Amendment to the CPPNM is to achieve and maintain worldwide effective physical protection of nuclear material and of nuclear facilities used for peaceful purposes; to prevent a...
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26 April 2024
The Nuclear Terrorism Convention's main objective relates to the criminalisation of a number of nuclear and radioactive material related offences, the establishment of jurisdiction over these offen...
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26 April 2024
The Paris Convention establishes a nuclear liability and compensation regime to compensate victims of a nuclear accident. The PC is open to OECD member countries as of right and non-member countrie...
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26 April 2024
The Brussels Supplementary Convention establishes a scheme to provide compensation supplementary to that required by the Paris Convention. The BSC is open only to contracting parties to the Paris C...
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26 April 2024
The CSC provides for a global liability and compensation scheme that may supplement that called for under the Paris Convention, the Vienna Convention or Annex state legislation as defined by the CS...
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26 April 2024
The International Nuclear Law Essentials (INLE) is a one-week programme run by the NEA covering practical issues in international nuclear law.
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10 April 2024
The International School of Nuclear Law (ISNL) is a two-week programme run annually by the NEA and the University of Montpellier and supported by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Coveri...
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9 April 2024
The legislation country reports provide comprehensive information on the regulatory and institutional framework governing nuclear activities in OECD and NEA member countries.
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2 April 2024
The Working Party on Nuclear Liability and Transport (WPNLT) agreed to prepare and publish specific country sheets presenting provisions related to nuclear transport and transit under the relevant na...
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27 March 2024
Le Bulletin de droit nucléaire est une publication internationale unique en son genre destinée aux juristes et aux universitaires en droit nucléaire.
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27 March 2024
The Nuclear Law Committee (NLC) established the Working Party on Nuclear Liability and Transport (WPNLT) in 2016 to address the practical challenges related to the nuclear liability regime(s) applica...
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5 March 2024
The Nuclear Law Committee (NLC) established the Working Party on the Legal Aspects of Nuclear Safety (WPLANS) in 2016 to support the NEA’s efforts to strengthen its work in the nuclear safety area.
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5 March 2024
The Nuclear Law Committee (NLC) is a highly focused group of specialists designated by the NEA member countries, comprising lawyers, policy makers, academics and from time to time, technical experts....
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5 March 2024
Aims to prohibit all nuclear weapon activities, including the development, testing, production, acquisition, possession, stockpiling, use, or threats to use nuclear weapons.
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24 January 2024
The Kiev Protocol requires states to evaluate the consequences of their official draft plans and programmes, and, to the extent appropriate, policies and legislation that are likely to have signifi...
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24 January 2024
Convention/treaty status of each member country of the OECD or the NEA.
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24 January 2024
The Terrorist Financing Convention's objective is to enhance international co-operation among states in devising and adopting effective measures for the prevention of the financing of terrorism, as...
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21 November 2023
Status of accession of the Framework Agreement and Protocol on a Multilateral Nuclear Environmental Programme in the Russian Federation (MNEPR).
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17 November 2023
The Frameworks Agreement provides a legal framework designed to promote co-operation in the field of the safety of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste management in the Russian Federation dealin...
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17 November 2023
National legislation: Czechia
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27 October 2023
Analytical studies on nuclear legislation in OECD member countries and in Central and Eastern Europe and the NIS issued between 1995 and 2003.
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27 October 2023
The NPT aims to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology (non-proliferation), to promote co-operation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy (peaceful uses) and to further the g...
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27 October 2023
The Terrorist Bombings Convention's objective is to enhance international co-operation among states in devising and adopting effective and practical measures for the prevention of acts of terrorism...
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27 October 2023
The Espoo Convention sets out the obligations of parties to assess the environmental impact of certain activities at an early stage of planning and lays down general obligations of states to notify...
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27 October 2023
The Aarhus Convention obliges states and grants the public rights in three areas of the convention: access to information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environme...
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27 October 2023
Nuclear legislation: Argentina
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19 September 2023
Nuclear legislation: Australia
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19 September 2023
Nuclear legislation: Belgium
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19 September 2023
National legislation: Denmark
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19 September 2023
National legislation: Finland
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19 September 2023
Nuclear legislation: France
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19 September 2023
Nuclear legislation: Germany
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19 September 2023
Nuclear legislation: Hungary
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19 September 2023
Nuclear legislation: Korea
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19 September 2023
Nuclear legislation: Mexico
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19 September 2023
Nuclear legislation: Netherlands
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19 September 2023
Nuclear legislation: Poland
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19 September 2023