Article 1 
The purpose of this Directive is to supplement Directive 80/836/Euratom thereby optimizing at Community level operational protection arrangements for outside workers performing activities in controlled areas.
Article 2 
For the purposes of this Directive: — ‘controlled area’ means any area subject to special rules for the purposes of protection against ionizing radiation and to which access is controlled, as specified in Article 20 of Directive 80/836/Euratom; — ‘operator’ means any natural or legal person who under national law, is responsible for a controlled area in which an activity required to be reported under Article 3 of Directive 80/836/Euratom is carried on; — ‘outside undertaking’ means any natural or legal person, other than the operator, including members of his staff, performing an activity of any sort in a controlled area; — ‘outside worker’ means any worker of category A, as defined in Article 23 of Directive 80/836/Euratom, performing activities of any sort in a controlled area, whether employed temporarily or permanently by an outside undertaking, including trainees, apprentices and students within the meaning of Article 10 of that Directive, or whether he provides services as a self-employed worker; — ‘radiological monitoring system’ means measures to apply the arrangements set out in Directive 80/836/Euratom, and in particular in Title VI thereof, during the activities of outside workers. — ‘activities carried out by a worker’ means any service or services provided by an outside worker in a controlled area for which an operator is responsible.
Article 3 
Each Member State shall make the performance of the activities referred to in Article 2 of Directive 80/836/Euratom by outside undertakings subject to reporting or prior authorization as laid down in accordance with Title II of the aforementioned Directive, in particular Article 3 thereof.
Article 4 
1. Each Member State shall ensure that the radiological monitoring system affords outside workers equivalent protection to that for workers employed on a permanent basis by the operator. 2. Pending the establishment, at Community level, of a uniform system for the radiological protection of outside workers, such as a computer network, recourse shall be had: (a) on a transitional basis, in accordance with the common provisions set out in Annex I, to — a centralized national network, or — the issuing of an individual radiological monitoring document to every outside worker, in which case the common provisions of Annex II shall also apply; on a transitional basis, in accordance with the common provisions set out in Annex I, to — a centralized national network, or — the issuing of an individual radiological monitoring document to every outside worker, in which case the common provisions of Annex II shall also apply; (b) in the case of cross-frontier outside workers, and until the date of establishment of a system within the meaning of paragraph 2, to the individual document referred to in (a).
Article 5 
Outside undertakings shall, either directly or through contractual agreements with the operators, ensure the radiological protection of their workers in accordance with the relevant provisions of Titles III to VI of Directive 80/836/Euratom, and in particular: (a) ensure compliance with the general principles and the limitation of doses referred to in Articles 6 to 11 thereof; (b) provide the information and training in the field of radiation protection referred to in Article 24 thereof; (c) guarantee that their workers are subject to assessment of exposure and medical surveillance under the conditions laid down in Articles 26 and 28 to 38 thereof; (d) ensure that the radiological data of the individual exposure monitoring of each of their workers within the meaning of Annex I, part II to this Directive are kept up to date in the networks and individual documents referred to in Article 4 (2).
Article 6 
1. The operator of a controlled area in which outside workers perform activities shall be responsible, either directly or through contractual agreements, for the operational aspects of their radiological protection which are directly related to the nature of the controlled area and of the activities. 2. In particular, for each outside worker performing activities in a controlled area, the operator must: (a) check that the worker concerned has been passed as medically fit for the activities to be assigned to him; (b) ensure that, in addition to the basic training in radiation protection referred to in Article 5 (1) (b), he has received specific training in connection with the characteristics of both the controlled area and the activities; (c) ensure that he has been issued with the necessary personal protective equipment; (d) also ensure that he receives individual exposure monitoring appropriate to the nature of the activities, and any operational dosimetric monitoring that may be necessary; (e) ensure compliance with the general principles and limitation of doses referred to in Articles 6 to 11 of Directive 80/836/Euratom; (f) ensure or take all appropriate steps to ensure that after every activity the radiological data of individual exposure monitoring of each outside worker within the meaning of Annex I, Part III, are recorded.
Article 7 
Every outside worker shall be obliged to make his own contribution as far as practicable towards the protection that the radiological monitoring system referred to in Article 4 is intended to afford him.
Article 8 
1. Member States shall bring into force not later than 31 December 1993, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall forthwith inform the Commission thereof. 2. When Member States adopt the measures referred to in paragraph 1, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or shall be accompanied by such reference on the occasion of their official publication. The methods of making such a reference shall be laid down by the Member States. 3. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the main provisions of domestic law which they adopt in the field governed by this Directive.
Article 9 
This Directive is addressed to the Member States. Done at Brussels, 4 December 1990. For the Council The President G. DE MICHELIS Done at Brussels, 4 December 1990. For the Council The President G. DE MICHELIS For the Council The President G. DE MICHELIS