Proposal for a Council Decision concerning the approval, on behalf of the Community, of OSPAR Decision 98/2 on the dumping of radioactive waste at sea
Date: 1999-04-23
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Atlantic Ocean, environmental protection, international convention, marine environment, waste management

C 158/8

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Official Journal of the European Communities

4.6.1999

Proposal for a Council Decision concerning the approval, on behalf of the Community, of
OSPAR Decision 98/2 on the dumping of radioactive waste at sea

(1999/C 158/02)

(Text with EEA relevance)

COM(1999) 190 final — 99/0096 (CNS)

(Submitted by the Commission on 26 April 1999)

at

sea of

radioactive

substances,
dumping
including waste, and no longer wished to
preserve the possibility of an exemption from the
permanent and complete prohibition on the
dumping
substances,
including waste;

radioactive

sea of

at

(4) Whereas

the executive body of

the OSPAR
Convention (the OSPAR Commission) may
adopt measures in the fields covered by the
it has adopted OSPAR
Convention; whereas
Decision 98/2 on the dumping at
sea of
radioactive waste, which revokes the exception
provided for in Article 3(3)(b) of Annex II to the
OSPAR Convention;

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Sole article

1. OSPAR 98/2 on the dumping
sea of
radioactive waste is hereby approved on behalf of the
Community.

at

The text of
Decision.

the said Decision is attached to this

The Commission is authorised to notify this

2.
approval to the OSPAR Commission.

Done at …

For the Council

…

The President

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community, and in particular Article 130r(4), the first
sentence of Article 228(2) and the first subparagraph
of Article 228(3) thereof,

Having regard to the Commission proposal,

Having regard to the opinion of
Parliament,

the European

(1) Whereas the Community is a Contracting Party
the
to the Convention for the protection of
marine environment of the north-east Atlantic
(OSPAR Convention)
to Council
Decision 98/249/EC of 7 October 1997 (1);
that Convention, which
whereas the aim of
entered into force on 25 March 1998,
is to
prevent and eliminate pollution and to protect
the maritime area against the harmful effects of
human activities;

pursuant

level

radioactive

(2) Whereas Article 3 of Annex II to the OSPAR
Convention prohibits the dumping at sea of
waste and other substances, including low and
substances;
intermediate
whereas Article
an
as
3(3)(b)
exception, the possibility of an exemption for
France and the United Kingdom from the
permanent and complete prohibition from the
dumping at sea of this type of substance or
waste; whereas Article 3(3)(c)
lays down the
arrangements for extending this possibility;

provides,

(3) Whereas the Government of the French Republic
and the Government of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland have
respectively
1997 OSPAR
at
Commission meeting, that they have decided to
renounce for good the possibility of resuming the

stated,

the

(1) OJ L 104, 3.4.1998, p. 1.

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Official Journal of the European Communities

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OSPAR DECISION 98/2

on dumping of radioactive waste (1)

THE CONTRACTING PARTIES TO THE CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE
MARINE ENVIRONMENT OF THE NORTH-EAST ATLANTIC

WELCOMING the statement by the Government of the French Republic at the 1997 meeting of the
Oslo and Paris Commissions that it had agreed to renounce for good the possibility of resuming
dumping at sea of radioactive substances, including waste,

WELCOMING equally the statement by the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland at the same meeting that it no longer wished to preserve the possibility of an
exemption for the United Kingdom from the permanent and complete prohibition on the dumping at
sea of radioactive substances, including waste, contained in the Convention for the Protection of the
Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic,

RECALLING the provisions of Article 3(3)(c) of Annex II to that Convention,

DECIDE THAT:

The exception, provided for in Article 3(3)(b) of Annex II to the OSPAR Convention, to the
prohibition, in Article 3(3)(a), on the dumping of low and intermediate level radioactive substances,
including wastes, shall not be continued.

(1) Secretariat note:

In accordance with Article 13 of the 1992 OSPAR Convention, this Decision will enter into force and become
binding on 9 February 1999.