INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
International cooperation is a key instrument to achieve high standards on safety in the nuclear sector and also on the management of spent fuel and radioactive waste essential to the protection of workers and the general public against the dangers arising from ionizing radiation and the imperative of avoiding unnecessary burdens on future generations.
Within the framework of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Portugal is party to the following treaties and conventions:
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Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons with membership on December 15th, 1977;
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Safeguards Agreement whose membership was inherent in the accession to the Community European Economic, 1986;
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Nuclear Safety Convention (Convention on Nuclear Safety, CNS), August 1998;
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Additional Protocol, April 2004;
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Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management, August, 2009.
Within the IAEA, Portugal is still part of the following conventions:
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Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident, May, 1993;
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Convention on Assistance in Case of Nuclear Accident on Radiological Emergency, November 2003;
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Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material and Nucear Installations, October de 1991.
On a more operational aspect of international cooperation, Portugal also participates:
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European Radiological Data Exchange Platform, EURDEP;
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Real Time On-Line Decision Support for Nuclear Off-site management, RODOS;
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Convention Exercises, Nuclear Energy Agency, NEA - ConvEX ;
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International Nuclear Emergency Exercises, IAEA - INEX .
ENSREG
Following the invitation of the Council to create a high-level group at a EU scale, as recorded in its conclusions of May 2007 on nuclear safety and safe management of spent fuel and radioactive waste, it was created the European high Level Group on nuclear safety and waste management - European Regulators Group for Nuclear safety, ENSREG (European Nuclear safety Regulators Group) - in order to contribute to the achievement of community objectives in the field of nuclear safety, through 2007/530/Euratom Commission Decision of 17 July 2007.
COMRSIN, as a regulatory authority of a Member State, integrates ENSREG and it's represented by its President.
