Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management (Joint Convention)
Ongoing

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 national measures and international co-operation, including where appropriate, safety-related technical co-operation.

 

Adopted: 5 September 1997

Opened for signature: 29 September 1997

Entered into force: 18 June 2001

Parties: 88 parties (including EURATOM) (see table below)

 

More information on the Joint Convention, including the text and current status, is available here.

The following articles related to the Joint Convention were published in the Nuclear Law Bulletin and Principles and Practice of International Nuclear Law:

  • The Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management, by W. Tonhauser and O. Jankowitsch (NLB 60, p. 9).
  • The IAEA Nuclear Safety Conventions: An example of Successful "Treaty Management", by G. Handl (NLB 72, p. 7).
  • The Safety Regime Concerning Transboundary Movement of Radioactive Waste and its Compatibility with the Trade Regime of the WTO, by L. Strack (NLB 73, p. 25).
  • Observations on the first Review Meeting of the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management, by G. Linsley (NLB 74, p. 81). 
  • Inside nuclear baseball: Reflections on the development of the safety conventions, by C. Stoiber (NLB 100, p. 61).
  • The impact of the major nuclear power plant accidents on the international legal framework for nuclear power, by S.G. Burns (NLB 101, p. 7), updated in Principles and Practice of International Nuclear Law, p. 83.
  • International legal framework on nuclear safety: Developments, challenges and opportunities, by W. Tonhauser, A. Wetherall and L. Thiele (Principles and Practice of International Nuclear Law, p. 121).

 

Parties to the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management

Albania Eritrea Luxembourg Rwanda
Argentina* Estonia Madagascar Saudi Arabia
Armenia* Finland* Malawi Senegal
Australia France* Malta Serbia
Austria Gabon Mauritania Slovak Republic*
Belarus* Georgia Mauritius Slovenia*
Belgium* Germany* Mexico South Africa*
Benin Ghana Moldova Spain*
Bolivia Greece Montenegro Sweden*
Bosnia and Herzegovina Hungary* Morocco Switzerland*
Botswana Iceland Netherlands* Syrian Arab Republic
Brazil* Indonesia Niger Tajikistan
Bulgaria* Ireland Nigeria Thailand
Canada* Italy North Macedonia Ukraine*
Chile Japan* Norway United Arab Emirates*
China* Jordan Oman United Kingdom*
Congo Kazakhstan Paraguay United States*
Croatia Korea* Peru Uruguay
Cuba Kyrgyzstan Poland Uzbekistan
Cyprus Latvia Portugal Viet Nam
Czech Republic* Lesotho Romania* Zimbabwe
Denmark Lithuania Russia* EURATOM

* Country with at least one nuclear power plant in operation.