Regulation 3(1)
Column 1 Provision of the 2000 Act | Column 2 Function of the ONR |
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| Section 5(4) | An authorised officer accompanying an Agency inspector while he is exercising a power under section 5 of the 2000 Act. |
Regulation 3(2)
Column 1 Provision of the Nuclear Safeguards Regulations | Column 2 Function of the ONR |
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| Regulation 3(2), (3) and (5): Declaration of basic technical characteristics | Receipt and consideration of the basic technical characteristics of a qualifying nuclear facility together with any changes in basic technical characteristics, or request for, receipt and consideration of any further details, explanations, amplifications or clarifications of information forming part of the basic technical characteristics under regulation 3(5). |
| Regulation 4(1) to (4): Programme of activities | Receipt and consideration of an annual outline programme of activities, including for the taking of a physical inventory together with any change which affects or may affect the outline programme of activities or the taking of a physical inventory. |
| Regulation 5(1) and (2): Particular safeguard provisions | Consideration and imposition of particular safeguard provisions on an operator in respect of a qualifying nuclear facility. Provision of written notice of the particular safeguard provisions to the operator under regulation 5(2). |
| Regulation 6(5): Accountancy and control | Request and consideration of the operating records referred to in regulation 10 and of the accounting records referred to in regulation 11. |
| Regulation 7(3) and (5): Accountancy and control plan | Receipt, consideration and approval of the whole or part of an accountancy and control plan. |
| Regulation 8(1) to (4): Replacement, amendment and revocation of accountancy and control plan | Receipt, consideration and approval of an amendment to an accountancy and control plan. |
| Regulation 9(2): Operation of an accountancy and control plan | Consideration and notification to an operator of whether a matter is, in the opinion of the ONR, unlikely to be prejudicial to the maintenance of the system of safeguards in respect of qualifying nuclear material at a qualifying nuclear facility. |
| Regulation 10(2): Operating records | Request, receipt and consideration of the operating records which set out the information described in regulation 10(1). |
| Regulation 11(5): Accounting records | Request, receipt and consideration of the accounting records for a material balance area which show— (a) all inventory changes so that the book inventory can be determined at any time; (b) all measurement and counting results used to determine the physical inventory; and (c) all adjustments and corrections that have been made in respect of inventory changes, book inventories and physical inventories. |
| Regulation 12(3): Accounting reports | Request, receipt and consideration of further details, explanations, amplifications or clarifications of any of the information provided by an operator to the ONR in an accounting report submitted in accordance with regulations 14 to 20. |
| Regulation 14(1) to (4): Inventory change report | Receipt and consideration of an inventory change report in respect of all qualifying nuclear material for each material balance area. |
| Regulation 15(1): Material balance report and physical inventory listing | Receipt and consideration of a material balance report and physical inventory listing. |
| Regulation 16(1) and (2): Special report | Request, receipt and consideration of a special report in the case of an unusual occurrence, as described in regulation 17(1) or loss or delay during transport as described in regulation 23. Request and consideration of further details or explanations in connection with a special report. |
| Regulation 17(2) and (3): Unusual occurrences | Receipt and consideration of a special report concerning an increase in or loss of qualifying nuclear material or a sudden change in containment conditions or anything that leads to an unusual occurrence. Receipt and consideration of a statement of the causes of an unusual occurrence. |
| Regulation 18(2): Reporting of nuclear transformations | Consideration of whether the particular safeguard provisions, imposed under regulation 5, should specify alternative procedures for recording and reporting nuclear transformations and consideration of what alternative procedures should be specified. |
| Regulation 21(1) and (3): Exports | Receipt and consideration of a notification of the export of any qualifying nuclear material outside the United Kingdom where the consignment exceeds one effective kilogram or where a qualifying nuclear facility transfers a total quantity of materials to the same State that could exceed one effective kilogram in any consecutive period of twelve months, even though no single consignment exceeds one effective kilogram. Consideration and agreement of special arrangements concerning the form and transmission of notifications under regulation 21(3), required for reasons of physical protection. |
| Regulation 22(1) and (3): Imports | Receipt and consideration of a notification of the import of any qualifying nuclear material into the United Kingdom where the consignment exceeds one effective kilogram or where a qualifying nuclear facility transfers a total quantity of materials from the same State that could exceed one effective kilogram in any consecutive period of twelve months, even though no single consignment exceeds one effective kilogram. Consideration and agreement of special arrangements concerning the form and transmission of the notification under regulation 22(3), required for reasons of physical protection. |
| Regulation 24: Communication of change of date | Receipt and consideration of a notification of any change of dates for packing before transfer, transport or unpacking of qualifying nuclear material which have been given in a notification of export or import of qualifying nuclear material under regulations 21 or 22. |
| Regulation 28(2): Ore shipment and export reports | Receipt and consideration of reports and information on the amount of material dispatched from each qualifying nuclear facility and exports of ores outside the United Kingdom. |
| Regulation 29(4): Stock list and accounting records for conditioned and retained waste | Specification of requirements for reporting the processing of retained waste if specified in the particular safeguard provisions imposed by the ONR under regulation 5. |
| Regulation 30(1): Transfers of conditioned waste | Receipt and consideration of reports/information on shipments or exports of conditioned waste to a qualifying nuclear facility or outside the United Kingdom or of receipts or imports of conditioned waste from a qualifying nuclear facility or installation without a material balance area code or which is located outside the United Kingdom. |
| Regulation 35(c): Communication with the ONR | Agreement with an operator of the method of communication with the ONR. |
| Regulation 36(1) and (2): Safeguards Equipment | Consultation with an operator on what safeguards equipment is appropriate for a qualifying nuclear facility and notification of additional safeguards required. |
| Regulation 38: Interference with safeguards equipment | Provision of permission to a person to take action in connection with the operation of any safeguards equipment in a qualifying nuclear facility which results in the safeguards equipment providing information on qualifying nuclear material that is significantly different from the information which the equipment would have provided had the action not occurred. |
| Regulation 39(1), (2), (3) and (4): Inspections by the ONR | For the purpose of ensuring compliance with the requirements of the Nuclear Safeguards Regulations— (a) examination of the records kept by an operator in accordance with the requirements of the Nuclear Safeguards Regulations; (b) the making of independent measurements of any qualifying nuclear material; (c) the application and making use of surveillance and containment measures together with any other objective methods of monitoring which the ONR considers to be reasonable; (d) the observation that samples of qualifying nuclear material at key measurement points for accounting purposes are taken in accordance with procedures which produce representative samples; (e) the observation of the treatment and analysis of the samples and the obtaining of duplicates of such samples; (f) the verification of the functioning and calibration of an operator’s instruments used to measure or control qualifying nuclear material, including observation of calibration activities and assessing whether the measurements of qualifying nuclear material at key measurement points are representative; (g) making such observations or measurements necessary to verify the accuracy of basic technical characteristics and any changes to them declared under regulation 3 or 31. Writing to an operator to require the operator to— (a) take additional measurements or samples of the qualifying nuclear material for the ONR’s use; (b) analyse the ONR’s standard analytical samples; (c) use appropriate absolute standards in the operator’s equipment and calibrating instruments; (d) carry out additional calibrations to the relevant equipment or instruments. Application of the ONR seals and other identifying and tamper-indicating devices to containments of qualifying nuclear material. Writing to an operator to require the operator to send, within a reasonable timescale specified by the ONR, any samples of qualifying nuclear material which have been taken for the ONR’s use to a location specified by the ONR. |
| Regulation 42(1): Provision of information to the Agency | Providing to the Agency information supplied by an operator to the ONR under the Regulations, and which the United Kingdom is required to supply to the Agency. |