The EU ‘Stress Tests’: The Basis for a New Regulatory Framework for Nuclear Safety

Among the constitutional tensions at the heart of the European integration process, the relationship between ‘mainstream’ EU Law (framed by the Treaty on European Union) and Euratom Law has often been overlooked.
Nonetheless, the EU's response to the nuclear power plant accident in Fukushima provides an opportunity to revisit this relationship.

This article specifically aims to highlight the dysfunctions of the prevailing understanding of the Euratom's provisions on nuclear safety matters as well as to identify, under a joint interpretation of all EU Treaties, how to develop a European nuclear safety regime that reinforces the compensatory role of EU law and contributes to enhance the EU's legitimacy.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Energy http://www.europeansources.info/record/energy-4/

ESO: Background information: Euratom Supply Energy http://www.europeansources.info/record/website-euratom-supply-agency-2/

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