EU DEREGULATION – NUCLEAR INDUSTRY PROPOSALS
September 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released details of proposed nuclear industry measures it will abandon to simplify the European Union's (EU) political workload. Brussels is dropping a 2003 proposal to conclude an 'agreement on a multilateral nuclear environmental programme in Russia' and a related 'protocol on claims, legal proceedings and indemnification'. Also going is a 2001 proposal to support an IAEA 'international joint convention on the safety of spent fuel management and the safety of radioactive waste management'.
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released details of proposed nuclear industry measures it will abandon to simplify the European Union's (EU) political workload. Brussels is dropping a 2003 proposal to conclude an 'agreement on a multilateral nuclear environmental programme in Russia' and a related 'protocol on claims, legal proceedings and indemnification'. Also going is a 2001 proposal to support an IAEA 'international joint convention on the safety of spent fuel management and the safety of radioactive waste management'.
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