Law No. 58 “On radiation safety of the population”. Pays/Territoire Kirghistan Type du document Législation Date 1999 (2003) Source FAO, FAOLEX Sujet Environnement gén. Mot clé Radiation Risques Accès-à-l'information Aire géographique Asie, Asie Centrale, CEI (Communauté des États indépendants), Europe et Asie Centrale, Nations en développement sans littoral, Asie du Nord Entry into force notes This Law enters into force on the date of its official publication. Résumé This Law regulates legal relations in the sphere of ensuring radiation safety and establishes liability for non-fulfilment of radiation safety requirements. The Act consists of 5 Sections divided into 27 articles: (1) general provisions; (2) state management in the sphere of ensuring radiation safety, state supervision and control for ensuring thereof; (3) plenary powers of state bodies; (4) general requirements for ensuring radiation safety; and (5) the rights and the duties of citizens and legal persons, and liability. Basic principles for ensuring radiation safety shall be: (a) rate setting – keeping radiation doses from all sources of ionizing radiation for citizens within set limits; (b) substantiation – prohibition of use of sources of ionizing radiation if utility does not overbalance possible risks; (c) optimization – keeping the lowest possible radiation doses from all sources of ionizing radiation; and (d) openness and transparency – access by the population to information on sources of ionizing radiation in residential area and on nuclear disasters. Texte intégral Russe Site web www.nature.kg