Amendments to the Convention For The Protection Of The Marine Environment Of The North East Atlantic (OSPAR Decision 98/2 on Dumping of Radioactive Waste)
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OSPAR Decision 98/2 on Dumping of Radioactive Waste
WELCOMING the statement by the Government of the French Republic at the 1997 meeting of the Oslo and Paris Commissions that it had agreed to renounce for good the possibility of resuming dumping at sea of radioactive substances, including waste,
WELCOMING equally the statement by the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the same meeting that it no longer wished to preserve the possibility of an exemption for the United Kingdom from the permanent and complete prohibition on the dumping at sea of radioactive substances, including waste, contained in the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic,
RECALLING the provisions of subparagraph 3(c) of Article 3 of Annex II to that Convention,
THE CONTRACTING PARTIES TO THE CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT OF THE NORTH-EAST ATLANTIC DECIDE THAT:
The exception, provided in subparagraph (b) of paragraph 3 of Article 3 of Annex II to the OSPAR Convention, to the prohibition, in subparagraph (a) of that paragraph, on the dumping of low and intermediate level radioactive substances, including wastes, shall not be continued.
