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Transitional Waste Management Act.

Country/Territory
Germany
Document type
Legislation
Date
2017 (2020)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
Bundesgesetzblatt, Part I, No. 5, 2 February 2017, pp. 120-124.
Long title
Act regulating the transition of financing and action obligations for the disposal of radioactive waste of the operators of nuclear power plants.
Subject
Energy, Waste & hazardous substances
Keyword
Nuclear energy Liability/compensation Business/industry/corporations Hazardous waste Waste disposal Waste management
Geographical area
Alps, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, European Union Countries, North Sea, North-East Atlantic, Western Europe
Entry into force notes
This Act comes into force on 16 June 2017.
Abstract

The present Act enforces the Atomic Energy Act of 23 December 1959 and the Disposal Fund Act of 27 January 2017. In particular, the Act transfers responsbility for nuclear waste storage providing for the responsibility for financing final and interim storage to be passed on from the NPP operators to the German government. Under the new legislation, responsibility will be transferred from the relevant operator to the Fund upon receipt of the payment by the Fund. The German government will establish a new state-owned company tasked with managing interim storage, which will take over the NPP operators’ various interim storage sites as of 1 January 2019 (for high active nuclear waste), and as of 1 January 2020 (for low and medium active nuclear waste). The sites designated for low and medium active waste will be able to accept both waste that has been packaged correctly and waste that has yet to be packaged correctly. Ownership of waste that has been packaged correctly will be transferred directly to the German government, whereas waste that has yet to be packaged correctly will remain the property of the relevant operator. There will be clear requirements in place as to how this “mixed storage” is to be organised and as to what additional treatment the waste that has yet to be packaged correctly has to receive, so as to keep any risks at a minimum. Full responsibility for waste that has yet to be packaged correctly will lie with the operators. The text consists of 4 Articles attached with two tables. Reference to this text is mentioned in Article 2 of the Act on the Reorganization of Responsibility in Nuclear Waste Management.

Full text
English
Website
www.bgbl.de