EU to propose radioactive waste law
March 22, 2010
According to the European Commission’s President, José Manuel Barroso, the Commission is set to table a legislative proposal on the treatment of radioactive waste by the end of the year.
The new law would set standards for waste management that all Member States would have to follow.
Moreover, the Commission President said he would start pressing for European safety standards for nuclear plants to become binding worldwide.
Mr Barroso stressed that in June 2009 the EU became the first major regional actor to give legal force to the main international nuclear safety standards set by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
The IAEA's standards, called Fundamental Safety Principles, include the safe construction, operation and decommissioning of nuclear reactors, management of nuclear waste and level of preparedness for radiation incidents.
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