The CNS is an incentive convention that aims to, inter alia, achieve and maintain a high level of nuclear safety worldwide through the enhancement of national measures and international co-operation including, where appropriate, safety-related technical co-operation.
Adopted: 17 June 1994
Opened for signature: 20 September 1994
Entered into force: 24 October 1996
Parties: 91 parties (including EURATOM) (see table below)
More information on the CNS, including the text and current status, is available here.
The text of the CNS is also reproduced in Nuclear Law Bulletin No. 53.
The following articles related to the CNS were published in the Nuclear Law Bulletin and Principles and Practice of International Nuclear Law:
Parties to the Convention on Nuclear Safety |
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Albania | Czech Republic* | Luxembourg | Saudi Arabia |
Angola | Denmark | Madagascar | Senegal |
Argentina* | Estonia | Mali | Serbia |
Armenia* | Finland* | Malta | Singapore |
Australia | France* | Mexico* | Slovak Republic* |
Austria | Germany* | Moldova | Slovenia* |
Bahrain | Ghana | Montenegro | South Africa* |
Bangladesh | Greece | Morocco | Spain* |
Belarus* | Hungary* | Myanmar | Sri Lanka |
Belgium* | Iceland | Netherlands* | Sweden* |
Benin | India* | Niger | Switzerland* |
Bolivia | Indonesia | Nigeria | Syrian Arab Republic |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Ireland | North Macedonia | Thailand |
Brazil* | Italy | Norway | Tunisia |
Bulgaria* | Japan* | Oman | Türkiye |
Cambodia | Jordan | Pakistan* | Ukraine* |
Canada* | Kazakhstan | Paraguay | United Arab Emirates* |
Chile | Korea* | Peru | United Kingdom* |
China* | Kuwait | Poland | United States* |
Congo | Latvia | Portugal | Uruguay |
Croatia | Lebanon | Qatar | Viet Nam |
Cuba | Libya | Romania* | EURATOM |
Cyprus | Lithuania | Russia* |
* Country with at least one nuclear power plant in operation.