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Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Acceding to the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management.

Country/Territory
China
Document type
Miscellaneous
Date
2006
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Waste & hazardous substances
Keyword
Waste management Transport/storage Hazardous waste
Geographical area
Asia, Asia and the Pacific, East Asian Seas, Eastern Asia, North Pacific, North-West Pacific
Abstract

At the 21st Session of the Standing Committee of the Tenth National People's Congress, it is decided to accede to the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management. The government of the People's Republic of China understands “transboundary transport” as mentioned in Article 2 (u) and Article 27 of the Joint Convention as: before any contracting state of the Joint Convention as the arrival country permits the transboundary transport of a domestic entity from any other contracting state, it shall make the departure country of the transboundary transport confirm that the transboundary transport has been approved thereby.

Full text
Chinese
Website
www.npc.gov.cn