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.
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30 January 2020
Improves the existing regime by requiring that more money be made available to compensate more victims for a broader range of damages.
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17 November 2020
The NEA Working Party on Nuclear Liability and Transport (WPNLT) held a virtual workshop on “The Qualification of Nuclear Substances and Nuclear Liability” on 29-30 March 2021.
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31 March 2021
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...
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8 July 2020
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26 September 1999
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9 September 1990
Latest status of ratifications or accessions to the Paris Convention on Nuclear Third Party Liability.
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15 February 2021
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 ...
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7 February 2021
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...
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7 February 2021
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29 January 2020
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29 January 2020
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21 December 2020
10th mandate of the European Nuclear Energy Tribunal (ENET)
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14 January 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 ...
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14 December 2020
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16 July 2020
The NEA Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) works on a suite of publications, workshops and symposia to advance cooperation and understanding of nuclear liability.
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3 December 2020
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16 November 2020
The Fourth International Workshop on the Indemnification of Damage in the Event of a Nuclear Accident, 8‑10 October 2019 in Lisbon, Portugal.
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18 November 2019
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16 November 2020
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16 November 2020
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2 April 2018
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...
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22 October 2020
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The workshop was held at the International Energy Agency (IEA) Headquarters in Paris on 10-11 December 2013, and gathered nearly 75 invited experts from 14 NEA m...
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10 December 2013
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 ...
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16 June 2020
The Workshop on the Indemnification of Damage in the Event of a Nuclear Accident, organised by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency in close co-operation with the French authorities, was held in Paris from...
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12 March 2003
The Second International Workshop on the Indemnification of Nuclear Damage was held in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, from 18 to 20 May 2005. The workshop was co-organised by the OECD Nuclear Energy Ag...
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12 July 2006
The International Symposium on the Reform of Civil Nuclear Liability, organised by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency in co-operation with the International Atomic Energy Agency and the European Commissi...
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1 January 2000
10th mandate of the European Nuclear Energy Tribunal (ENET)
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4 March 2020
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2 April 2020
Contracting Parties to the Paris Convention meeting, 22 June 2020.
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1 July 2020
This study constitutes an initial analysis, at an international level, of the institutional aspects of the long-term management of radioactive waste and may be added to the numerous scientific and te...
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1 January 1984
Cette publication commémore l’École internationale de droit nucléaire qui célèbre son 10e anniversaire en 2010. L’objectif de la publication est d’offrir une vue d’ensemble des instruments internatio...
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30 July 2010
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6 December 2006
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1 January 1989
The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986 heightened awareness of the need to improve the international legal framework governing the safe and peaceful uses of nuclear energy. Numerou...
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17 July 2006
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1 January 1994
This publication commemorates the International School of Nuclear Law which is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2010. The purpose of the publication is to provide an overview of the international ...
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26 July 2010
This book describes the legal regime established to deal with the aftermath of a nuclear accident and the reappraisal of that regime following the Chernobyl disaster. It focuses particularly on the i...
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1 January 1994
Following the TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident, extraordinary efforts were undertaken in Japan to implement a compensation scheme for the proper and efficient indemnification of t...
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31 December 2013
The symposium was held in Monaco on 7-11 October 1968. It discussed the third party liability rules deriving from maritime and nuclear conventions, as well as the practical positions as regards the m...
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1 January 1968
The Symposium on Nuclear Third Party Liability and Insurance: Status and Prospects, organised jointly by the NEA and the IAEA, took place in Munich from 10 to 14 September 1984. The purpose of the me...
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1 January 1985
The Symposium on Nuclear Accidents: Liabilities and Guarantees, organised by the NEA in collaboration with the IAEA, took place in Helsinki, from 31 August to 3 September 1992. The meeting discussed ...
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1 January 1993
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Bratislava, Slovak Republic
The Third International Workshop on the Indemnification of Damage in the Event of a Nuclear Accident aims to explore the practical application of international nuclear liability instruments and the p...
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18 October 2017
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.
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9 July 2020
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...
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9 July 2020
Revised text of the Exposé des Motifs of the Paris Convention, approved by the OECD Council on 16th November 1982.
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15 July 2020
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.
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15 July 2020
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10 October 2019
Lisbon, Portugal
The Fourth International Workshop on the Indemnification of Damage in the Event of a Nuclear Accident aims to explore the practical application of the international nuclear third party liability inst...
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21 January 2020
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), ...
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19 August 2020
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11 August 2020
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