Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council – Evaluation of the implementation of the Instrument for Nuclear Safety Cooperation (INSC) during its first three years (2007-2009)

The Council Regulation establishing an Instrument for Nuclear Safety Cooperation (the INSC Regulation) requires, under Article 21, that (besides a report on progress as per Article 18) the Commission submit a report to the European Parliament and the Council evaluating the implementation of the INSC regulation during the first three years of the programme.

As part of the evaluation process, the Commission contracted a group of independent experts to conduct an evaluation of the implementation of the programme from 2007 to 2009. The experts were selected on the basis of their experience in the field of nuclear energy, nuclear safety, radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel management.

The full expert report on the actions carried out by the Commission under the Annual Action Programmes (AAPs) 2007 to 2009 is available as an accompanying Commission Staff Working Document.

The present Report is the evaluation by the Commission, taking into account the Commission's INSC Progress Report for 2007-2009 and the above-mentioned expert report.

EUR-Lex: COM(2011)648: Follow the progress of this document through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2011:648:FIN

European Commission: SEC(2011)1199: External evaluation report on the implementation of Council Regulation (EURATOM) No 300/20047 (Instrument for Nuclear Safety Cooperation) in the period 2007-2009 http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=SEC:2011:1199:FIN:EN:PDF

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