Latest status of ratifications or accessions to the Paris Convention on Nuclear Third Party Liability. 

The Paris Convention establishes a nuclear liability and compensation regime to compensate victims of a nuclear accident. The PC is open to OECD member countries as of right and non-member countries ...

The Brussels Supplementary Convention establishes a scheme to provide compensation supplementary to that required by the Paris Convention. The BSC is open only to contracting parties to the Paris Con...

The NEA Working Party on Nuclear Liability and Transport (WPNLT) met remotely on 17-18 December 2020.

Full text of the Convention on Third Party Liability in the Field of Nuclear Energy of 29th July 1960, as amended by the Additional Protocol of 28th January 1964 and by the Protocol of 16th November ...

The NEA Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) works on a suite of publications, workshops and symposia to advance cooperation and understanding of nuclear liability.

Improves the existing regime by requiring that more money be made available to compensate more victims for a broader range of damages.

The Convention on the Establishment of a Security Control in the Field of Nuclear Energy ("Security Control Convention") and the Protocol on the Tribunal established by the Security Control Conventio...

Inaugural Session of the ENET 10th Mandate, 7 February 2020, OECD Conference Centre, Paris. From the left: Ximena Vásquez-Maignan (Head, NEA Office of Legal Counsel), Khalil Buhari (United Kingdom), ...

Full text of the Joint Protocol Relating to the Application of the Vienna Convention and the Paris Convention.

Texte révisé de l'Exposé des Motifs, approuvé par le Conseil de l'OCDE le 16 novembre 1982.

Revised text of the Exposé des Motifs of the Paris Convention, approved by the OECD Council on 16th November 1982.

Texte de la Convention sur la responsabilité civile dans le domaine de l'énergie nucléaire (Convention de Paris) du 29 juillet 1960 amendée le 28 janvier 1964 et le 16 novembre 1982.

Texte de la Convention du 31 janvier 1963 complémentaire à la Convention de Paris du 29 juillet 1960, amendée par le Protocole additionnel du 28 janvier 1964 et par le Protocole du 16 novembre 1982.

Full text of the Convention of 31st January 1963 Supplementary to the Paris Convention of 29th July 1960, as amended by the additional Protocol of 28th January 1964 and by the Protocol of 16th Novemb...

Statut des ratifications et adhésions à la Convention de Bruxelles complémentaire à la Convention de Paris

Latest status of ratifications or accessions of the Brussels Supplementary Convention (BSC). 

Most countries with a nuclear energy programme have adopted special liability and compensation legislation to ensure that third parties that suffer nuclear damage caused by a nuclear incident have ac...

Contracting Parties to the Paris Convention meeting, 22 June 2020.

Albeit remote, the risk of a severe nuclear accident cannot be reduced to zero, carrying the potential to cause grave consequences to the concerned nuclear site and, if offsite radiological releases ...

10th mandate of the European Nuclear Energy Tribunal (ENET)

Aims to prevent nuclear weapons proliferation arising from Agency activities.

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.

French text of the procès-verbal of rectification of the Italian text ofthe 2004 Protocol to Amend the Paris Convention.

English text of the procès-verbal of rectification of the Italian text of the 2004 Protocol to Amend the Paris Convention. 

Acts as a bridge between the Paris and Vienna Conventions, effectively extending the benefits provided by one convention to victims in countries that have joined the other convention.

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