Declaration of the basic technical characteristics
Article 3
1. Any person or undertaking setting up or operating an installation for the production, separation, reprocessing, storage or other use of source material or special fissile material shall declare to the Commission the basic technical characteristics of the installation, using the relevant questionnaire shown in Annex I. For the purpose of the first subparagraph ‘use’ of nuclear materials is taken to include, inter alia : power production in reactors, research in critical or zero energy installations, conversion, fabrication, reprocessing, storage, isotope separation, and ore concentration, as well as treatment or storage of waste. For ore production, the provisions of Articles 24 and 25 apply. 2. Each Member State being a party to Additional Protocol 1999/188/Euratom, shall designate a site representative for each site on its territory who shall provide to the Commission a declaration containing a general description of the site, using the questionnaire shown in Annex II. The declaration shall be submitted within 120 days of the date of entry into force of Additional Protocol 1999/188/Euratom in the Member State concerned and updates shall be submitted by 1 April of each year. The declaration shall fulfil the requirements of Article 2(a)(iii) of Additional Protocol 1999/188/Euratom and shall be separate from the declaration required pursuant to paragraph 1 of this Article. 3. While the site representative carries the responsibility for the timely collection of the relevant information and the submission of the general description of the site to the Commission, the responsibility for the correctness and the completeness of the declarations remains with the persons or the undertakings setting up or operating the installation, and for buildings on a site which do not involve nuclear material with the Member State concerned. As far as possible the declarations provided for in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall be submitted in electronic form if they are kept in such form by the person or undertaking. If information is sent to the Commission both in electronic and in paper form, the paper form shall prevail.