National LOF
Article 37
1. A national LOF, comprising individual holders of small amounts of nuclear material (‘smallholders’) within that Member State, may be put in place upon a request by the responsible authority of a Member State to the Commission. Several national LOFs may be put in place in a Member State. 2. The responsible authority shall supervise the national LOF and ensure implementation of Articles 3 to 7, 12 to 19, 21 and 23 to 26. 3. The combined inventory of source material and special fissile material in a national LOF shall not exceed one effective kilogram. 4. The declaration of the basic technical characteristics of the national LOF shall be submitted by the responsible authority to the Commission using the questionnaire in Annex I-M. Any update shall be submitted, at the latest, when transmitting the physical inventory listing referred to in Article 15. 5. The declaration of the basic technical characteristics shall describe how responsibilities are shared between the responsible authority and individual smallholders for the purpose of implementing Articles 9 to 11. 6. For the purpose of implementing Articles 9, 14 and 15, the responsible authority shall take appropriate measures to ensure that: (a) the physical inventory is taken by all individual smallholders comprising the national LOF and the data from the smallholders reflect the actual inventory at the date of the physical taking determined by the responsible authority; (b) the physical inventories of each individual smallholder can be identified in the physical inventory listing transmitted to the Commission; (c) the accounting reports are substantiated with the relevant operating records referred to in Article 10(1); (d) the provisions of this Regulation are effectively implemented within the scope of the national LOF.