Activities of Vladimir URUTCHEV related to 2008/0231(CNS)
Plenary speeches (1)
Community framework for nuclear safety (debate)
Amendments (19)
Amendment 66 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) In order to ensure the effective implementation of safety requirements forsafety regulation of nuclear installations, Member States should establish regulatory bodies as independent authorities. Regulatory bodies should be provided with adequate competence and resources in order to be able to discharge their duties.
Amendment 68 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) The regulatory bodies charged with the safety regulation of nuclear installations in the Member States should mainly cooperate through the European High Level Group on Nuclear Safety and Waste Management which has developed ten principles for the regulation of nuclear safety. These principles are important for the proper application of this Directive. The European High Level Group on Nuclear Safety and Waste Management should contribute to the Community nuclear safety framework with the aim of continuously improving it.
Amendment 76 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1
1. This Directive aims at achieving, maintaining and continuously improving nuclear safety in the Communitysets up a Community framework for nuclear safety aimed at maintaining and continuously improving the safety of nuclear installations in Member States and to enhance the role of the national regulatory bodies.
Amendment 94 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 8
Article 2 – point 8
(8) ”regulatory body" means any body or bodies authorised by the Member State to grant in that Member State licences and to supervise thesystem of bodies having in a Member State legal capacity to regulate safety through conducting licensing processes covering siting, design, construction, commissioning, operation or decommissioning of nuclear installations, including carrying out inspections and exercising enforcement powers;
Amendment 98 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 10
Article 2 – point 10
(10) “new power reactornuclear power plants” mean nuclear power reactorplants licensed to operatefor construction after the entry into force of this Directive.
Amendment 102 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
1. TMember States shall ensure that the use of nuclear energy complies with internationally accepted safety principles, including that the prime responsibility for the safety of nuclear installations shall rest with the holder of the licence under the control of the regulatory body. The safety measures and controls to be implemented in a nuclear installation shall be decided only by the regulatory body and applied by the licence holderproposed by the licence holder and submitted to the regulatory body for approval. These measures shall subsequently be applied by the licence holder, under the control of the regulatory body, in compliance with the provisions set out in Articles 4 and 5 of this Directive.
Amendment 104 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall establish and maintain a legislative and regulatory framework to govern the safety of nuclear installations. This shall include national safety requirements, a system of licensing and control of nuclear installations and the prohibition of their operation without a licence and a system of regulatory supervisinspection including the necessary enforcement. The regulatory body shall have the power to modify, suspend, withdraw or revoke the licence to operate a nuclear installation in cases of serious breaches of licence conditions.
Amendment 109 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that the regulatory body is effectively independent of all organisations whose task is to promote, operate nuclear installations or justify societal benefits and free from any influence that may wrongly affect the regulatory control of nuclear safety. For this purpose, Member States shall ensure that the regulatory body is legally and functionally detached and its management and staff act independently when carrying out their duties and tasks on regulation of nuclear safety.
Amendment 114 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 2
Article 4 – paragraph 2
2. The regulatory body shall be provided with adequate authority, competence and financial and human resources to fulfil its responsibilities and discharge its duties. ItThe regulatory body shall supervise and regulate the safety of nuclear installations and ensure the implementation of safety requirements, condition and safety regulationsgulations and that the applicable safety requirements are met by the holder of a licence.
Amendment 117 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 3
Article 4 – paragraph 3
3. The regulatory body shall grant licensesconduct all necessary assessments on the fulfilment of the safety requirements for granting a licence, as set out in national legislation in accordance with Article 6 and monitor their application of granted licences on siting, design, construction, commissioning, operation or decommissioning of nuclear installations.
Amendment 121 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 4
Article 4 – paragraph 4
Amendment 124 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. The sufficiency and qualifications of the licence holder staff that carry out all activities of importance for nuclear safety shall be regularly assessed by the regulatory body as a prerequisite for ensuring nuclear safety.
Amendment 126 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 5
Article 4 – paragraph 5
5. At least every ten years the regulatory body shall submit itself and the national regulatory system to an international peer review aimed at continuously improving the regulatory infrastructurIn order to continuously improve the regulatory infrastructure, at least every ten years an international peer review shall be carried out on the nuclear regulatory control system in each Member State. The features and the scope of the review shall be decided by the recipient body and by the peers, case by case, according to rules specially developed under this Directive.
Amendment 132 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall respectapply the safety principles specified in the Annex to this Directive that comply with the IAEA safety fundamentals (IAEA Safety Fundamentals: Fundamental safety principles, IAEA Safety Standard Series No. SF-1 (2006)). They shall observe the obligations and requirements incorporated in the Conven in terms of the siting, design, construction, on Nuclear safety (IAEA INFCIRC 449 of 5 July 1994). They shall in particular ensure that the applicable principles laid down in the IAEA safety fundamentals are implemented to ensure a high level of safety in nuclear installations, including inter alia effective arrangements against potential radiological hazards, accident prevenperation and decommissioning of nuclear facilities. They shall observe the obligations and response, ageing management, long term management of all produced radioactive materials and information of the population and the authorities of neighbouring Statesquirements incorporated in the Convention on Nuclear Safety.
Amendment 141 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 2
Article 6 – paragraph 2
2. As regards the safety of new nuclear power reactorplants Member States shall aim to develop additional safety requirements, in line withenabling the continuous improvement of safety on tand in close collaboration with the European High Level Group on Nuclear Safety and Waste Management. The basis ofor those safety levels developed by the Western Europeimprovement requirements shall be derived from the Industry and Nuclear Regulators' Association (WENRA) and in close collaboration with the European High Level Group on Nuclear Safety and Waste Management’ rules for new plants, operating experience, good practices and safety assessments of operating nuclear power plants, modern techniques and methods for reactor safety analyses, advancement of nuclear technology and safety research.
Amendment 162 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Licence holders shall comply with all other obligations laid down by national legislation.
Amendment 164 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 1
1. Nuclear safety assessments, investigations, controlregular inspections and, where necessary, enforcement actions shall be carried out by the regulatory body in nuclear installations throughout their lifetime, including during decommissioning.
Amendment 172 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 9
Article 9
Appropriate education and training opportunities for continuous theoretical and practical training in nuclear safety and preservation of nuclear knowledge shall be made available by Member States separately and through trans-national cooperation.
Amendment 174 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 11
Article 11
Member States shall submit a report to the Commission on the implementation of this Directive by [three years after the entry into force] at the latest, and evat the same time as the submission of national reports undery three years thereaftere Convention of Nuclear Safety. On the basis of the firstse reports, the Commission shall regularly present a report to the European Parliament and the Council on progress made with the implementation of this Directive, accompanied, if appropriate, by legislative proposals.