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The Transfrontier Shipment of Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

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6.  A competent authority must not authorise shipments—

(a)to a destination south of latitude 60° south;

(b)to an African, Caribbean or Pacific state that is party to the Partnership Agreement between the members of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States and the European Community and its Member States, (Cotonou ACP-EU Agreement) M1, unless the shipment is a return of radioactive waste to its country of origin following treatment or reprocessing in the United Kingdom; or

(c)to any other country that does not have the administrative and technical capacity and regulatory structure to manage the radioactive waste or spent fuel safety, as stated in the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management M2.

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I1Reg. 6 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1

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M1Signed on 23 June 2000 and available at http://www.europarl.europa.eu/intcoop/acp/03_01/pdf/mn3012634_en.pdf

M2Available at http://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/infcirc546.pdf

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