The Government approved the project concept of the Nuclear Code

The Cabinet of Ministers approved the draft Concept of the Nuclear Code. The corresponding order № 2208-r Government adopted at yesterday's meeting on Dec. 8, 2010. Ministry of Fuel and Energy together with the interested central executive bodies entrusted to develop with regard to the provisions of the Concept and submitted before December 1, 2011 in the prescribed manner to the Cabinet of Ministers a draft of the Nuclear Code. The purpose of the Concept is to define ways to develop an internally consistent project of the Nuclear Code, which systematized the legal rules governing social relations in the sphere of nuclear energy. There are two versions of the draft Nuclear Code to streamline the legislation to ensure its consistency and eliminate obsolete regulations. In the first variant in a single piece of legislation is planned to connect the existing provisions of law in the area of ??nuclear energy, which effectively govern the appropriate public relations and have not lost their relevance. This option does not require a subsequent viewing of a large number of legislative acts. The second option involves a thorough treatment of existing legislation in the sphere of nuclear energy, and making any significant changes. The adoption of the Nuclear Code will contribute to: creating a legal framework for the smooth development of nuclear and radiation technologies and their safe use, clear division of responsibility and ensure the protection of human rights and the environment from ionizing radiation by the gravity of these technologies eliminate these shortcomings of legislative acts in the use of nuclear energy as a disorder, the incompleteness of legal regulation and the inconsistency of the provisions of these acts, an adaptation of Ukrainian legislation in the field of nuclear energy with the EU legislation, the introduction of a minimum number of changes to relevant legislation.