11 Amendments of Vladko Todorov PANAYOTOV related to 2008/0231(CNS)
Amendment 10 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 2
Article 1 – paragraph 2
2. It shall apply to the design, siting, construction, maintenance, operation and decommissioning of nuclear installations, for which consideration of safety is required under the legislative and regulatory framework of the Member State concerned, EU law and the Convention on nuclear safety.
Amendment 11 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
1. The prime responsibility for the safety of nuclear installations shall rest with the holder of the license under the control of the regulatory body. The safety measures and controls to be implemented in a nuclear installation shall be decided onl the basis of EU and international standards and the best available technology by the regulatory body and applied by the licence holder.
Amendment 12 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall establish and maintain a legislative and regulatory framework, based on EU and international best available practices, 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 supervision including the necessary enforcement.
Amendment 13 #
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, design, construct, operate nuclear installations or deal with fuel enrichment, spent fuel storage or reprocessing; or justify societal benefits and free from any influence that may affect the safety.
Amendment 14 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 5
Article 4 – paragraph 5
5. At least every tenfive years the regulatory body shall submit itself and the national regulatory system to an international peer review aimed at continuously improving the regulatory infrastructure.
Amendment 15 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
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 prevention and response, ageing management, long term management of all produced radioactive materials and information of the population and the authorities of neighbouring and other potentially endangered States.
Amendment 16 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 2
Article 6 – paragraph 2
2. As regards the safety of working, life- extended and new nuclear power reactors Member States shall aim to develop additional safety requirements, in line with the continuous improvement of safety on the basis of the safety levels developed by the Western European Nuclear Regulators' Association (WENRA) and in close collaboration with the European High Level Group on Nuclear Safety and Waste Management.
Amendment 17 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 3
Article 7 – paragraph 3
3. Licence holders shall allocate adequate financial, technical and human resources to fulfil their obligations.
Amendment 18 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 2
Article 8 – paragraph 2
2. The regulatory body shall have the power to withdraw the operating licence in case of serious or(as defined by IAEA’s regulations) or not more than three repeated safety rules breaches in the nuclear installation.
Amendment 19 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 9
Article 9
Appropriate education and training opportunities for continuous theoretical and practical training in the best available nuclear safety practices shall be made available by Member States separately and through trans-national cooperation and made obligatory for licence holders.
Amendment 20 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 1
Article 12 – paragraph 1
Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by [two year18 months after the date referred to in Article 13] at the latest. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions and a correlation table between those provisions and this Directive.