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Paragraphs in "Convention On Nuclear Safety" coded as SUBS

Label Provision
Art.1 ARTICLE 1. OBJECTIVES
Art.1.1x The objectives of this Convention are:
Art.1.1x.i i. to achieve and maintain a high level of nuclear safety worldwide through the enhancement of national measures and international co-operation including, where appropriate, safety-related technical co-operation;
Art.1.1x.ii ii. to establish and maintain effective defenses in nuclear installations against potential radiological hazards in order to protect individuals, society and the environment from harmful effects of ionizing radiation from such installations;
Art.1.1x.iii iii. to prevent accidents with radiological consequences and to mitigate such consequences should they occur.
Art.6 ARTICLE 6. EXISTING NUCLEAR INSTALLATIONS
Art.6.1x Each Contracting Party shall take the appropriate steps to ensure that the safety of nuclear installations existing at the time the Convention enters into force for that Contracting Party is reviewed as soon as possible. When necessary in the context of this Convention, the Contracting Party shall ensure that all reasonably practicable improvements are made as a matter of urgency to upgrade the safety of the nuclear installation. If such upgrading cannot be achieved, plans should be implemented to shut down the nuclear installation as soon as practically possible. The timing of the shut-down may take into account the whole energy context and possible alternatives as well as the social, environmental and economic impact.
Sect.2.b b. Legislation and regulation
Art.8 ARTICLE 8. REGULATORY BODY
Art.8.1 1. Each Contracting Party shall establish or designate a regulatory body entrusted with the implementation of the legislative and regulatory framework referred to in Article 7, and provided with adequate authority, competence and financial and human resources to fulfil its assigned responsibilities.
Art.8.2 2. Each Contracting Party shall take the appropriate steps to ensure an effective separation between the functions of the regulatory body and those of any other body or organization concerned with the promotion or utilization of nuclear energy.
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.10 ARTICLE 10. PRIORITY TO SAFETY
Art.10.1x Each Contracting Party shall take the appropriate steps to ensure that all organizations engaged in activities directly related to nuclear installations shall establish policies that give due priority to nuclear safety.
Art.11 ARTICLE 11. FINANCIAL AND HUMAN RESOURCES
Art.11.1 1. Each Contracting Party shall take the appropriate steps to ensure that adequate financial resources are available to support the safety of each nuclear installation throughout its life.
Art.11.2 2. Each Contracting Party shall take the appropriate steps to ensure that sufficient numbers of qualified staff with appropriate education, training and retraining are available for all safety-related activities in or for each nuclear installation, throughout its life.
Art.12 ARTICLE 12. HUMAN FACTORS
Art.12.1x Each Contracting Party shall take the appropriate steps to ensure that the capabilities and limitations of human performance are taken into account throughout the life of a nuclear installation.
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.15 ARTICLE 15. RADIATION PROTECTION
Art.15.1x Each Contracting Party shall take the appropriate steps to ensure that in all operational states the radiation exposure to the workers and the public caused by a nuclear installation shall be kept as low as reasonably achievable and that no individual shall be exposed to radiation doses which exceed prescribed national dose limits.
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.17 ARTICLE 17. SITING
Art.17.1x Each Contracting Party shall take the appropriate steps to ensure that appropriate procedures are established and implemented:
Art.17.1x.i i. for evaluating all relevant site-related factors likely to affect the safety of a nuclear installation for its projected lifetime;
Art.17.1x.ii ii. for evaluating the likely safety impact of a proposed nuclear installation on individuals, society and the environment;
Art.17.1x.iii iii. for re-evaluating as necessary all relevant factors referred to in sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii) so as to ensure the continued safety acceptability of the nuclear installation;
Art.17.1x.iv iv. for consulting Contracting Parties in the vicinity of a proposed nuclear installation, insofar as they are likely to be affected by that installation and, upon request providing the necessary information to such Contracting Parties, in order to enable them to evaluate and make their own assessment of the likely safety impact on their own territory of the nuclear installation.
Art.18 ARTICLE 18. DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION
Art.18.1x Each Contracting Party shall take the appropriate steps to ensure that:
Art.18.1x.i i. the design and construction of a nuclear installation provides for several reliable levels and methods of protection (defense in depth) against the release of radioactive materials, with a view to preventing the occurrence of accidents and to mitigating their radiological consequences should they occur;
Art.18.1x.ii ii. the technologies incorporated in the design and construction of a nuclear installation are proven by experience or qualified by testing or analysis;
Art.18.1x.iii iii. the design of a nuclear installation allows for reliable, stable and easily manageable operation, with specific consideration of human factors and the man-machine interface.
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
Art.26 ARTICLE 26. LANGUAGES
Art.26.1 1. The languages of meetings of the Contracting Parties shall be Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish unless otherwise provided in the Rules of Procedure.
Art.26.2 2. Reports submitted pursuant to Article 5 shall be prepared in the national language of the submitting Contracting Party or in a single designated language to be agreed in the Rules of Procedure. Should the report be submitted in a national language other than the designated language, a translation of the report into the designated language shall be provided by the Contracting Party.
Art.26.3 3. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 2, if compensated, the secretariat will assume the translation into the designated language of reports submitted in any other language of the meeting.
Art.27 ARTICLE 27. CONFIDENTIALITY
Art.27.1 1. The provisions of this Convention shall not affect the rights and obligations of the Contracting Parties under their law to protect information from disclosure. For the purposes of this Article, "information" includes, inter alia, (i) personal data; (ii) information protected by intellectual property rights or by industrial or commercial confidentiality; and (iii) information relating to national security or to the physical protection of nuclear materials or nuclear installations.
Art.27.2 2. When, in the context of this Convention, a Contracting Party provides information identified by it as protected as described in paragraph 1, such information shall be used only for the purposes for which it has been provided and its confidentiality shall be respected.
Art.27.3 3. The content of the debates during the reviewing of the reports by the Contracting Parties at each meeting shall be confidential.
Art.28 ARTICLE 28. SECRETARIAT
Art.28.1 1. The International Atomic Energy Agency, (hereinafter referred to as the "Agency") shall provide the secretariat for the meetings of the Contracting Parties.
Art.28.2 2. The secretariat shall:
Art.28.2.i i. convene, prepare and service the meetings of the Contracting Parties;
Art.28.2.ii ii. transmit to the Contracting Parties information received or prepared in accordance with the provisions of this Convention.
Art.28.2.iiix The costs incurred by the Agency in carrying out the functions referred to in sub-paragraphs i) and (ii) above shall be borne by the Agency as part of its regular budget.
Art.28.3 3. The Contracting Parties may, by consensus, request the Agency to provide other services in support of meetings of the Contracting Parties. The Agency may provide such services if they can be undertaken within its programme and regular budget. Should this not be possible, the Agency may provide such services if voluntary funding is provided from another source.
Sect.4 CHAPTER 4. FINAL CLAUSES AND OTHER PROVISIONS