prop · GL03145D2 · 1998-01-01 00:00:00 — Punkt 8 ter (d) (ii) i artikel 5 i protokollet skall bli punkt 8 ter (d) (iv). ÄNDRING AV MONTREALPROTOLLET ANTAGEN VID PARTERNAS NIONDE MÖTE ARTIKEL 1: ÄNDRING Artikel 4.1 qua. Följande punkt skall införas efter artikel 4.1 ter i protokollet: efter det att denna punkt har trätt i kraft skall varje part förbjuda import av det kontrollerade ämnet i bilaga E från stat som inte är part i detta protokoll. Artikel 4.2 qua. Följande punkt skall införas efter artikel 4.2 ter i protokollet: Från och med efter det att denna punkt har trätt i kraft skall varje part förbjuda export av det kontrollerade ämnet i bilaga E till stat som inte är part i detta protokoll. Artikel 4.5, 6 och 7 I artikel 4.5, 6 och 7 i protokollet skall orden: samt under grupp II i bilaga C ersättas med följande: , grupp II i bilaga C samt bilaga E I artikel 4.8 i protokollet skall orden: ersättas med följande: Artikel 4A: Kontroll av handeln med parterna Följande artikel skall införas i protokollet som artikel 4A: När en part efter det datum för avveckling som gäller för parten i fråga avseende ett kontrollerat ämne, trots att den har vidtagit alla praktiskt möjliga åtgärder för att uppfylla sitt åtagande enligt detta protokoll, är oförmögen att upphöra med produktionen av ämnet för inhemsk konsumtion för andra användningsområden än de som parterna enats om vara oumbärliga, skall den förbjuda export av använda, återanvända och regenererade mängder av ämnet i fråga för andra ändamål än förstöring. Punkt 1 i denna artikel skall tillämpas utan intrång på artikel 11 i konventionen och de rutiner vid bristande uppfyllande av åtaganden som avses i artikel 8 i protokollet. F. Artikel 4B: Licensiering Följande artikel skall införas i protokollet som artikel 4B: Varje part skall eller från den dag då denna artikel träder i kraft för parten i fråga, beroende på vilkendera av dessa händelser som inträffar senare, inrätta och tillämpa ett licenssystem för import och export av nyproducerade, använda, återanvända och regenererade kontrollerade ämnen enligt bilagorna A, B, C och E. Utan hinder av punkt 1 i denna artikel får part som avses i artikel 5.1 som avgör att den inte är i stånd att upprätta och tillämpa ett licenssystem för import och export av de kontrollerade ämnen som upptas i bilagorna C och E uppskjuta vidtagandet av dessa åtgärder till respektive . Varje part skall efter det att den har infört sitt licenssystem rapportera till sekretariatet om hur detta inrättats och fungerar. Sekretariatet skall från tid till annan för alla parter sammanställa en förteckning över de parter som har rapporterat om sina licenssystem och överlämna dessa uppgifter till tillämpningskommittén för behandling och utfärdande av vederbörliga rekommendationer till parterna. ARTIKEL 2: FÖRHÅLLANDET TILL 1992 ÅRS ÄNDRINGAR Ingen stat eller organisation för regional ekonomisk integration får deponera ett ratifikations-, godtagande-, godkännande eller anslutningsinstrument avseende dessa ändringar, såvida den inte har deponerat eller deponerar ett sådant instrument avseende de ändringar som antogs vid fjärde partskonferensen i . ARTIKEL 3: IKRAFTTRÄDANDE Dessa ändringar träder i kraft om minst 20 ratifikations-, godtagande- eller godkännandeinstrument avseende ändringarna har deponerats av stater eller organisationer för regional ekonomisk integration som är parter i Monterealprotokollet om ämnen som bryter ned ozonskiktet. Om detta villkor inte är uppfyllt nämnda dag, träder ändringarna i kraft den nittionde dagen efter den dag då villkoret uppfylldes. Vid tillämpningen av punkt 1 ovan skall ett instrument som deponerats av en organisation för regional ekonomisk integration inte medräknas utöver de instrument som deponerats av denna organisations medlemmar. Sedan detta ändringsdokument har trätt i kraft i enlighet med punkt 1 i denna artikel skall det träda i kraft för varje annan part i protokollet den nittionde dagen efter den dag dess ratifikations-, godtagande- eller godkännandeinstrument deponerades. Bilaga till kap.13 Godkännande av konvention om säkerheten vid hantering av använt kärnbränsle och om säkerheten vid hantering av radioaktivt avfall Joint Convention on the Safety of and on the Safety of (i) Recognizing that the operation of nuclear reactors generates spent fuel and radioactive waste and that other applications of nuclear technologies also generate radioactive waste; (ii) Recognizing that the same safety objectives apply both to spent fuel and radioactive waste management; (iii) Reaffirming the importance to the international community of ensuring that sound practices are planned and implemented for the safety of spent fuel and radioactive waste management; (iv) Recognizing the importance of informing the public on issues regarding the safety of spent fuel and radioactive waste management; (v) Desiring to promote an effective nuclear safety culture worldwide; (vi) Reaffirming that the ultimate responsibility for ensuring the safety of spent fuel and radioactive waste management rests with the State; (vii) Recognizing that the definition of a fuel cycle policy rests with the State, some States considering spent fuel as a valuable resource that may be reprocessed, others electing to dispose of it; (viii) Recognizing that spent fuel and radioactive waste excluded from the present Convention because they are within military or defence programmes should be managed in accordance with the objectives stated in this Convention; (ix) Affirming the importance of international co-operation in enhancing the safety of spent fuel and radioactive waste management through bilateral and multilateral mechanisms, and through this incentive Convention; (x) Mindful of the needs of developing countries, and in particular the least developed countries, and of States with economies in transition and of the need to facilitate existing mechanisms to assist in the fulfillment of their rights and obligations set out in this incentive Convention; (xi) Convinced that radioactive waste should, as far as is compatible with the safety of the management of such material, be disposed of in the State in which it was generated, whilst recognizing that, in certain circumstances, safe and efficient management of spent fuel and radioactive waste might be fostered through agreements among Contracting Parties to use facilities in one of them for the benefit of the other Parties, particularly where waste originates from joint projects; (xii) Recognizing that any State has the right to ban import into its territory of foreign spent fuel and radioactive waste; (xiii) in mind the Convention on Nuclear Safety (1994), the Convention on of a Nuclear Accident (1986), the Convention on Assistance in the Case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency (1986), the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (1980), the Convention on the Prevention of by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter as amended (1994) and other relevant international instruments; (xiv) in mind the principles contained in the interagency , in the Safety Fundamentals entitled , and in the existing international standards relating to the safety of the transport of radioactive materials; (xv) Recalling Chapter 22 of by the on Environment and Development in adopted in 1992, which reaffirms the importance of the safe and environmentally sound management of radioactive waste; (xvi) Recognizing the desirability of strengthening the international control system applying specifically to radioactive materials as referred to in Article 1(3) of the Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal (1989); agreed as follows: OBJECTIVES, DEFINITIONS AND SCOPE OF APPLICATION The objectives of this Convention are: (i) to achieve and maintain 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; (ii) to ensure that during all stages of spent fuel and radioactive waste management there are effective defenses against potential hazards so that individuals, society and the environment are protected from harmful effects of ionizing radiation, now and in the future, in such a way that the needs and aspirations of the present generation are met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs and aspirations; (iii) to prevent accidents with radiological consequences and to mitigate their consequences should they occur during any stage of spent fuel or radioactive waste management. For the purposes of this Convention: (a) "closure" means the completion of all operations at some time after the emplacement of spent fuel or radioactive waste in a disposal facility. This includes the final or other work required to bring the facility to a condition that will be safe in the long term; (b) "decommissioning" means all steps leading to the release of a nuclear facility, other than a disposal facility, from regulatory control. These steps include the processes of decontamination and dismantling; (c) "discharges" means planned and controlled releases into the environment, as a legitimate practice, within limits authorized by the regulatory body, of liquid or gaseous radioactive materials that originate from regulated nuclear facilities during normal operation; (d) "disposal" means the emplacement of spent fuel or radioactive waste in an appropriate facility without the intention of retrieval; (e) "licence" means any authorization, permission or certification granted by a regulatory body to carry out any activity related to management of spent fuel or of radioactive waste; (f) "nuclear facility" means a civilian facility and its associated land, and equipment in which radioactive materials are produced, processed, used, handled, stored or disposed of on such a scale that consideration of safety is required; (g) "operating lifetime" means the period during which a spent fuel or a radioactive waste management facility is used for its intended purpose. In the case of a disposal facility, the period begins when spent fuel or radioactive waste is first emplaced in the facility and ends upon closure of the facility; (h) "radioactive waste" means radioactive material in gaseous, liquid or solid form for which no further use is foreseen by the Contracting Party or by a natural or legal person whose decision is accepted by the Contracting Party, and which is controlled as radioactive waste by a regulatory body under the legislative and regulatory framework of the Contracting Party; (i) "radioactive waste management" means all activities, including decommissioning activities, that relate to the handling, pretreatment, treatment, conditioning, storage, or disposal of radioactive waste, excluding off-site transportation. It may also involve discharges; (j) "radioactive waste management facility" means any facility or installation the primary purpose of which is radioactive waste management, including a nuclear facility in the process of being decommissioned only if it is designated by the Contracting Party as a radioactive waste management facility; (k) "regulatory body" means any body or bodies given the legal authority by the Contracting Party to regulate any aspect of the safety of spent fuel or radioactive waste management including the granting of licences; (l) "reprocessing" means a process or operation, the purpose of which is to extract radioactive isotopes from spent fuel for further use; (m) "sealed source" means radioactive material that is permanently sealed in a capsule or closely bonded and in a solid form, excluding reactor fuel elements; (n) "spent fuel" means nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in and permanently removed from a reactor core; (o) "spent fuel management" means all activities that relate to the handling or storage of spent fuel, excluding off-site transportation. It may also involve discharges; (p) "spent fuel management facility" means any facility or installation the primary purpose of which is spent fuel management; (q) "State of destination" means a State to which a transboundary movement is planned or takes place; (r) "State of origin" means a State from which a transboundary movement is planned to be initiated or is initiated; (s) "State of transit" means any State, other than a State of origin or a State of destination, through whose territory a transboundary movement is planned or takes place; (t) "storage" means the holding of spent fuel or of radioactive waste in a facility that provides for its containment, with the intention of retrieval; (u) "transboundary movement" means any shipment of spent fuel or of radioactive waste from a State of origin to a State of destination. Article 3 Scope of Application This Convention shall apply to the safety of spent fuel management when the spent fuel results from the operation of civilian nuclear reactors. Spent fuel held at reprocessing facilities as part of a reprocessing activity is not covered in the scope of this Convention unless the Contracting Party declares reprocessing to be part of spent fuel management. This Convention shall also apply to the safety of radioactive waste management when the radioactive waste results from civilian applications. However, this Convention shall not apply to waste that contains only naturally occurring radioactive materials and that does not originate from the nuclear fuel cycle, unless it constitutes a disused sealed source or it is declared as radioactive waste for the purposes of this Convention by the Contracting Party. This Convention shall not apply to the safety of management of spent fuel or radioactive waste within military or defence programmes, unless declared as spent fuel or radioactive waste for the purposes of this Convention by the Contracting Party. However, this Convention shall apply to the safety of management of spent fuel and radioactive waste from military or defence programmes if and when such materials are transferred permanently to and managed within exclusively civilian programmes. This Convention shall also apply to discharges as provided for in Articles 4, 7, 11, 14, 24 and 26. SAFETY OF SPENT FUEL MANAGEMENT Each Contracting Party shall take the appropriate steps to ensure that at all stages of spent fuel management, individuals, society and the environment are adequately protected against radiological hazards. In so doing, each Contracting Party shall take the appropriate steps to: (i) ensure that criticality and removal of residual heat generated during spent fuel management are adequately addressed; (ii) ensure that the generation of radioactive waste associated with spent fuel management is kept to the minimum practicable, consistent with the type of fuel cycle policy adopted; (iii) take into account interdependencies among the different steps in spent fuel management; (iv) provide for effective protection of individuals, society and the environment, by applying at the national level suitable protective methods as approved by the regulatory body, in the framework of its national legislation which has due regard to internationally endorsed criteria and standards; (v) take into account the biological, chemical and other hazards that may be associated with spent fuel management; (vi) strive to avoid actions that impose reasonably predictable impacts on future generations greater than those permitted for the current generation; (vii) aim to avoid imposing undue burdens on future generations. Article 5 Existing Facilities Each Contracting Party shall take the appropriate steps to review the safety of any spent fuel management facility existing at the time the Convention enters into force for that Contracting Party and to ensure that, if necessary, all reasonably practicable improvements are made to upgrade the safety of such a facility. Article 6 Siting of Proposed Facilities Each Contracting Party shall take the appropriate steps to ensure that procedures are established and implemented for a proposed spent fuel management facility: (i) to evaluate all relevant site-related factors likely to affect the safety of such a facility during its operating lifetime; (ii) to evaluate the likely safety impact of such a facility on individuals, society and the environment; (iii) to make information on the safety of such a facility available to members of the public; (iv) to consult in the vicinity of such a facility, insofar as they are likely to be affected by that facility, and provide them, upon their request, with general data relating to the facility to enable them to evaluate the likely safety impact of the facility upon their territory. In so doing, each Contracting Party shall take the appropriate steps to ensure that such facilities shall not have unacceptable effects on other Contracting Parties by being sited in accordance with the general safety requirements of Article 4. Article 7 Design and Construction of Facilities Each Contracting Party shall take the appropriate steps to ensure that: (i) the design and construction of a spent fuel management facility provide for suitable measures to limit possible radiological impacts on individuals, society and the environment, including those from discharges or uncontrolled releases; (ii) at the design stage, conceptual plans and, as necessary, technical provisions for the decommissioning of a spent fuel management facility are taken into account; (iii) the technologies incorporated in the design and construction of a spent fuel management facility are supported by experience, testing or analysis. Article 8 Assessment of Safety of Facilities Each Contracting Party shall take the appropriate steps to ensure that: (i) before construction of a spent fuel management facility, a systematic safety assessment and an environmental assessment appropriate to the hazard presented by the facility and covering its operating lifetime shall be carried out; (ii) before the operation of a spent fuel management facility, updated and detailed versions of the safety assessment and of the environmental assessment shall be prepared when deemed necessary to complement the assessments referred to in paragraph (i). Article 9 Operation of Facilities Each Contracting Party shall take the appropriate steps to ensure that: (i) the licence to operate a spent fuel management facility is based upon appropriate assessments as specified in Article 8 and is conditional on the completion of a commissioning programme demonstrating that the facility, as constructed, is consistent with design and safety requirements; (ii) operational limits and conditions derived from tests, operational experience and the assessments, as specified in Article 8, are defined and revised as necessary; (iii) operation, maintenance, monitoring, inspection and testing of a spent fuel management facility are conducted in accordance with established procedures; (iv) and technical support in all safety-related fields are available throughout the operating lifetime of a spent fuel management facility; (v) incidents significant to safety are reported in a timely by the holder of the licence to the regulatory body; (vi) programmes to collect and analyse relevant operating experience are established and that the results are acted upon, where appropriate; (vii) decommissioning plans for a spent fuel management facility are prepared and updated, as necessary, using information obtained during the operating lifetime of that facility, and are reviewed by the regulatory body. Disposal of Spent Fuel If, pursuant to its own legislative and regulatory framework, a Contracting Party has designated spent fuel for disposal, the disposal of such spent fuel shall be in accordance with the obligations of Chapter 3 relating to the disposal of radioactive waste. Each Contracting Party shall take the appropriate steps to ensure that at all stages of radioactive waste management individuals, society and the environment are adequately protected against radiological and other hazards. In so doing, each Contracting Party shall take the appropriate steps to: (i) ensure that criticality and removal of residual heat generated during radioactive waste management are adequately addressed; (ii) ensure that the generation of radioactive waste is kept to the minimum practicable; (iii) take into account interdependencies among the different steps in radioactive waste management; (iv) provide for effective protection of individuals, society and the environment, by applying at the national level suitable protective methods as approved by the regulatory body, in the framework of its national legislation which has due regard to internationally endorsed criteria and standards; (v) take into account the biological, chemical and other hazards that may be associated with radioactive waste management; (vi) strive to avoid actions that impose reasonably predictable impacts on future generations greater than those permitted for the current generation; (vii) aim to avoid imposing undue burdens on future generations. Article 12 Existing Facilities and Past Practices Each Contracting Party shall in due course take the appropriate steps to review: (i) the safety of any radioactive waste management facility existing at the time the Convention enters into force for that Contracting Party and to ensure that, if necessary, all reasonably practicable improvements are made to upgrade the safety of such a facility; (ii) the results of past practices in order to determine whether any intervention is needed for reasons of radiation protection bearing in mind that the reduction in detriment resulting from the reduction in dose should be sufficient to justify the harm and the costs, including the social costs, of the intervention. Article 13 Siting of Proposed Facilities Each Contracting Party shall take the appropriate steps to ensure that procedures are established and implemented for a proposed radioactive waste management facility: (i) to evaluate all relevant site-related factors likely to affect the safety of such a facility during its operating lifetime as well as that of a disposal facility after closure; (ii) to evaluate the likely safety impact of such a facility on individuals, society and the environment, taking into account possible evolution of the site conditions of disposal facilities after closure; (iii) to make information on the safety of such a facility available to members of the public; (iv) to consult in the vicinity of such a facility, insofar as they are likely to be affected by that facility, and provide them, upon their request, with general data relating to the facility to enable them to evaluate the likely safety impact of the facility upon their territory. In so doing, each Contracting Party shall take the appropriate steps to ensure that such facilities shall not have unacceptable effects on other Contracting Parties by being sited in accordance with the general safety requirements of Article 11. Article 14 Design and Construction of Facilities Each Contracting Party shall take the appropriate steps to ensure that: (i) the design and construction of a radioactive waste management facility provide for suitable measures to limit possible radiological impacts on individuals, society and the environment, including those from discharges or uncontrolled releases; (ii) at the design stage, conceptual plans and, as necessary, technical provisions for the decommissioning of a radioactive waste management facility other than a disposal facility are taken into account; (iii) at the design stage, technical provisions for the closure of a disposal facility are prepared; (iv) the technologies incorporated in the design and construction of a radioactive waste management facility are supported by experience, testing or analysis.