Commission Recommendation of 23 October 2006 adapting Recommendation 2000/473/Euratom on the application of Article 36 of the Euratom Treaty concerning the monitoring of the levels of radioactivity in the environment for the purpose of assessing the exposure of the population as a whole, by reason of the accession of Bulgaria and Romania (notified under document number C(2006) 4931)
Date: 2006-10-23
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Bulgaria, EAEC Treaty, Romania, accession to the European Union, environmental protection, nuclear safety, public health, radioactive pollution

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COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION

of 23 October 2006

adapting Recommendation 2000/473/Euratom on the application of Article 36 of the Euratom
Treaty concerning the monitoring of the levels of radioactivity in the environment for the
purpose of assessing the exposure of the population as a whole, by reason of the accession of
Bulgaria and Romania

(notified under document number C(2006) 4931)

(2006/715/Euratom)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(3)

Having regard to the Treaty of Accession of Bulgaria and
Romania, and in particular Article 4(3) thereof,

Having regard to the Act of Accession of Bulgaria and Romania,
and in particular Article 56 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Pursuant to Article 56 of the Act of Accession, where
acts which remain valid beyond 1 January 2007 require
adaptation by reason of accession, and the necessary
adaptations have not been provided for in the Act of
Accession or its Annexes, the necessary adaptations are
to be adopted by the Commission in all cases where the
Commission adopted the original act.

The Final Act of the Conference which drew up the
Treaty of Accession indicated that the High Contracting
Parties had reached political agreement on a set of adap-
tations to acts adopted by the Institutions required by
reason of accession and invited the Council and the
Commission
before
accession, completed and updated where necessary to
take account of the evolution of the law of the Union.

adaptations

adopt

these

to

Commission Recommendation 2000/473/Euratom of 8
June 2000 on the application of Article 36 of
the
Euratom Treaty concerning the monitoring of the levels
of radioactivity in the environment for the purpose of
assessing the exposure of the population as a whole (1)
should therefore be amended accordingly,

HEREBY RECOMMENDS:

1. Recommendation 2000/473/Euratom is amended as set out

in the Annex.

2. This Recommendation shall enter into force subject to, and
the Treaty of

the entry into force of

on the date of,
Accession of Bulgaria and Romania.

3. This Recommendation is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 23 October 2006.

For the Commission

Olli REHN
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 191, 27.7.2000, p. 37. Recommendation as amended by the

2003 Act of Accession.

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ANNEX

ENVIRONMENT

RADIATION PROTECTION

32000 H 0473: Commission Recommendation 2000/473/Euratom of 8 June 2000 on the application of Article 36 of
the Euratom Treaty concerning the monitoring of the levels of radioactivity in the environment for the purpose of
assessing the exposure of the population as a whole (OJ L 191, 27.7.2000, p. 37), as amended by:

— 12003 T: Act concerning the conditions of accession and the adjustments to the Treaties — Accession of the Czech
Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the
Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic
(OJ L 236, 23.9.2003, p. 33).

In Annex II, the following is added to the table:

‘BG

RO

Bulgaria

Romania’

and the map is replaced by the following:

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‘Definition of the geographical regions

’.