92/194/Euratom: Commission Decision of 4 March 1992 relating to a procedure in application of Article 83 of the Euratom Treaty (XVII-002 - UKAEA Dounreay) (Only the English text is authentic)

• Articles: 4

Article 1

UKAEA Dounreay has infringed Article 79 of the Treaty as defined in Articles 3, 9, 10, 11, 14 and 16 of Commission Regulation (Euratom) No 3227/76 of 19 October 1976 and in code 3 of the Commission Decision of 4 February 1981 laying down particular safeguard provisions, through:

(a) its failure to communicate in advance changes in the basic technical characteristics of its uranium scrap/residue recovery plant;

(b) its failure to maintain a system of accounting for, and control of, nuclear materials which includes accounting and operating records and, in particular, information on the quantities, nature, form and composition of these materials and their actual location;

(c) its failure to apply a system of measurements on which the records are based which complies with the most recent international standards;

(d) its failure to meet the requirements on recording inventory changes and physical inventory data;

(e) its failure to meet the requirements on operating records for transfer of nuclear material;

(f) as a consequence of the failures listed under (b) to (e), its failure to report inventory changes and physical inventory data.

Article 2

1. The Commission issues a warning to UKAEA Dounreay.

2. The warning is imposed with the understanding that the failures listed in Article 1 be rectified so that they do not recur when the uranium scrap-residue recovery plant resumes operations for purposes other than testing or calibration.

3. Based on the reports referred to in Article 3 and its own verifications the Commission will assess UKAEA Dounreay's compliance with the requirement set out in paragraph 2.

4. If UKAEA Dounreay does not provide the Commission with the report referred to in Article 3 (2) or if any of the failures listed in Article 1 is not rectified when the uranium scrap/residue recovery plant has resumed its normal operation, the Commission will consider imposing a further sanction.

Article 3

1. UKAEA Dounreay shall provide the Commission with a report describing the measures intended to rectify the failures listed in Article 1 at least two weeks before the uranium scrap/residue recovery plant resumes its normal operation.

2. Within one month after the uranium scrap/residue recovery plant has resumed its normal operation UKAEA Dounreay shall provide the Commission with a report on the performance of the rectified accounting system.

Article 4

1. This Decision is addressed to the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Corporate Headquarters, 11 Charles II Street, London SW1Y 4QP.

2. This Decision shall be communicated to the United Kingdom.

Done at Brussels, 4 March 1992. For the Commission

António CARDOSO E CUNHA

Member of the Commission