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Paragraphs in "Convention On Nuclear Safety" coded as IMPL

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Art.4 ARTICLE 4. IMPLEMENTING MEASURES
Art.4.1x Each Contracting Party shall take, within the framework of its national law, the legislative, regulatory and administrative measures and other steps necessary for implementing its obligations under this Convention.
Art.7 ARTICLE 7. LEGISLATIVE AND REGULATORY FRAMEWORK
Art.7.1 1. Each Contracting Party shall establish and maintain a legislative and regulatory framework to govern the safety of nuclear installations.
Art.7.2 2. The legislative and regulatory framework shall provide for:
Art.7.2.i i. the establishment of applicable national safety requirements and regulations;
Art.7.2.ii ii. a system of licensing with regard to nuclear installations and the prohibition of the operation of a nuclear installation without a licence:
Art.7.2.iii iii. a system of regulatory inspection and assessment of nuclear installations to ascertain compliance with applicable regulations and the terms of licences;
Art.7.2.iv iv. the enforcement of applicable regulations and of the terms of licences, including suspension, modification or revocation.
Art.9 ARTICLE 9. RESPONSIBILITY OF THE LICENCE HOLDER
Art.9.1x Each Contracting Party shall ensure that prime responsibility for the safety of a nuclear installation rests with the holder of the relevant licence and shall take the appropriate steps to ensure that each such licence holder meets its responsibility.
Sect.2.c c. General Safety Considerations
Art.13 ARTICLE 13. QUALITY ASSURANCE
Art.13.1x Each Contracting Party shall take the appropriate steps to ensure that quality assurance programmes are established and implemented with a view to providing confidence that specified requirements for all activities important to nuclear safety are satisfied throughout the life of a nuclear installation.
Art.14 ARTICLE 14. ASSESSMENT AND VERIFICATION OF SAFETY
Art.14.1x Each Contracting Party shall take the appropriate steps to ensure that:
Art.14.1x.i i. comprehensive and systematic safety assessments are carried out before the construction and commissioning of a nuclear installation and throughout its life. Such assessments shall be well documented, subsequently updated in the light of operating experience and significant new safety information, and reviewed under the authority of the regulatory body;
Art.14.1x.ii ii. verification by analysis, surveillance, testing and inspection is carried out to ensure that the physical state and the operation of a nuclear installation continue to be in accordance with its design, applicable national safety requirements, and operational limits and conditions.
Art.16 ARTICLE 16. EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
Art.16.1 1. Each Contracting Party shall take the appropriate steps to ensure that there are on-site and off-site emergency plans that are routinely tested for nuclear installations and cover the activities to be carried out in the event of an emergency.
Art.16.1.ix For any new nuclear installation, such plans shall be prepared and tested before it commences operation above a low power level agreed by the regulatory body.
Art.16.2 2. Each Contracting Party shall take the appropriate steps to ensure that, insofar as they are likely to be affected by a radiological emergency, its own population and the competent authorities of the States in the vicinity of the nuclear installation are provided with appropriate information for emergency planning and response.
Art.13.2 3. Contracting Parties which do not have a nuclear installation on their territory, insofar as they are likely to be affected in the event of a radiological emergency at a nuclear installation in the vicinity, shall take the appropriate steps for the preparation and testing of emergency plans for their territory that cover the activities to be carried out in the event of such an emergency.
Sect.2.d d. Safety of Installations
Art.19 ARTICLE 19. OPERATION
Art.19.1x Each Contracting Party shall take the appropriate steps to ensure that:
Art.19.1x.i i. the initial authorization to operate a nuclear installation is based upon an appropriate safety analysis and a commissioning programme demonstrating that the installation, as constructed, is consistent with design and safety requirements;
Art.19.1x.ii ii. operational limits and conditions derived from the safety analysis, tests and operational experience are defined and revised as necessary for identifying safe boundaries for operation;
Art.19.1x.iii iii. operation, maintenance, inspection and testing of a nuclear installation are conducted in accordance with approved procedures;
Art.19.1x.iv iv. procedures are established for responding to anticipated operational occurrences and to accidents;
Art.19.1x.v v. necessary engineering and technical support in all safety-related fields is available throughout the lifetime of a nuclear installation;
Art.19.1x.vi vi. incidents significant to safety are reported in a timely manner by the holder of the relevant licence to the regulatory body;
Art.19.1x.vii vii. programmes to collect and analyse operating experience are established, the results obtained and the conclusions drawn are acted upon and that existing mechanisms are used to share important experience with international bodies and with other operating organizations and regulatory bodies;
Art.19.1x.viii viii. the generation of radioactive waste resulting from the operation of a nuclear installation is kept to the minimum practicable for the process concerned, both in activity and in volume, and any necessary treatment and storage of spent fuel and waste directly related to the operation and on the same site as that of the nuclear installation take into consideration conditioning and disposal.
Sect.3 CHAPTER 3. MEETINGS OF THE CONTRACTING PARTIES