Law and Regulation
Overview
Since work began in this area the need for a proper legal basis for effective regulatory scrutiny and control of the decommissioning programme has increased as planning for and implementation of the Iraq Decommissioning Programme has got underway.
Work which had commenced on drafting a new nuclear law, provisionally entitled the Ionising Radiation Control Law, advanced well and is now the subject of examination by a group from the Prime Ministers Office. They are reviewing early drafts which were intended to provide both the legal basis for the licensing of the decommissioning of the former nuclear facilities and that for regulation of other radiological activities allowed under the terms of UN Security Council Resolution 707, i.e. the use of radioactivity for medical, agricultural or industrial purposes. Iraq's legislative framework is evolving fast, as is the organisation of those ministries which will operate under it. Careful consideration is needed, and this care is being matched to the urgency of requirement.
Regulation of the work at Al-Tuwaitha is currently proceeding well under existing laws supplemented by the regulations drafted by the IAEA to support the forthcoming new nuclear legislation.
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