Editorial note

Council Regulation Euratom/1493/93 of 8 June 1993 on shipments of radioactive substances between Member States establishes a scheme of notification and information exchange in relation to substances whose quantities exceed the levels laid down by Directive 80/836/Euratom and in relation to radioactive wastes as defined by Directive 92/3/Euratom (Article 1(1)). Each Member State is required to implement Article 3 of Directive 80/836/Euratom in respect of each recipient of a shipment of nuclear material from another Member State (Article 1(2)). The Regulation specifies that control procedures for the purpose of radiation protection are to be applied in a nondiscriminatory manner (Article 3). A holder of a radioactive substance who intends to send it to another Member State must first obtain a declaration from the consignee in the form of Annexes I and II, indicating that all the provisions of Article 3 of Directive 80/836/Euratom have been complied with (Article 4(1)). The declaration must first go to the competent authority in the destination Member State and then to the holder (Article 4(2)). The Regulation permits the declaration to refer to more than one shipment under certain specified conditions for a maximum period of three years (Article 5). The Regulation requires holders of radioactive substances who have dispatched such substances to provide the competent authority of the destination Member State regularly with the particulars of the shipments (Article 6). The Regulation is without prejudice to any existing national provisions and international agreements on the transport and transit of radioactive material (Article 9) or to Directive 92/3/Euratom (Article 10).