The 2004 Protocol to the BSC improves the existing regime by requiring that significantly more compensation be made available to supplement that which is to be provided for under the Paris Convention.

Adopted: 12 February 2004

Opened for signature: 12 February 2004

Entered into force: 1 January 2022

Signatories: 13 (see table below)

More information on the 2004 Protocol to the BSC, including the text, is available here.

The text of the 2004 Protocol to the BSC is also reproduced in the Supplement to Nuclear Law Bulletin No. 75.

The current status of the 2004 Protocol to the BSC is available here.

The following is a sample of the articles related to the 2004 Protocol to the BC that have been published in the Nuclear Law Bulletin:

• The Reform of the Paris Convention on Third Party Liability in the Field of Nuclear Energy and of the Brussels Supplementary Convention, by R. Dussart Desart (NLB 75, p. 7).

* Country with at least one nuclear power plant in operation.