Partijen en gegevens

The Government of Japan, in acceding tot[lees: to] the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management, adopted at Vienna on September 5, 1997, declares reprocessing to be part of spent fuel management pursuant to Article 3, paragraph 1 of the Convention.

The declaration made by the People's Republic of China to Subparagraph (u), Article 2 and Article 27 of the Convention also applies to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

… for the time being, the signature on behalf of Denmark does not commit the Faroe Islands and Greenland.

Until further notice the Convention shall not apply to Greenland and the Faroe Islands.

[…] Denmark withdrew its territorial declaration with regard to Greenland […]

The following States are presently members of the European Atomic Energy Community: the Kingdom of Belgium, the Czech Republic, the Kingdom of Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of Estonia, the Hellenic Republic, the Kingdom of Spain, the French Republic, Ireland, the Italian Republic, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Lativa, the Republic of Lithuania, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Poland, the Portuguese Republic, the Republic of Slovenia, the Slovak Republic, the Republic of Finland, the Kingdom of Sweden, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

The Community declares that Articles 1 to 16, 18, 19 to 21 and 24 to 44 of the Joint Convention apply to it. The Community possesses competences, shared with the abovementioned Member States, in the fields covered by Articles 4, 6 to 11, 13 to 16, 19 and 24 to 28 of the Joint Convention as provided by the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community in Article 2(b) and the relevant Articles of Title II, Chapter 3, entitled 'Health and Safety.

When acceding to this Convention, the European Atomic Energy Community also wishes to put forward a reservation with regard to the non-compliance of Article 12(1) of the Directive 92/3/Euratom on the supervision and control of shipments of radioactive waste between Member States and into and out of the Community with the specific requirement in Article 27(1)(i) of the Joint Convention which requires the consent of the state of destination in the framework of transboundary movements. A revision of this Directive, which will bring the relevant Community law in conformity with this Convention, is currently in the process of adoption.

In keeping with the object and purpose of the Convention, including its recognition of the "special needs of developing countries, and in particular the least developed countries" (Preamble, para (x)), Eritrea understands its responsibilities under Articles 19 and 20 of the Convention to take into account the current very preliminary state of development and planning for Eritrea's use of nuclear materials as well as the burden on human and other resources of the development of regulatory institutions to deal with future problems of spent fuel and radioactive waste management.

Until the full re-establishment of the territorial integrity of the Republic of Moldova, the provisions of the Protocol will be applied only on the territory controlled effectively by the authorities of the Republic of Moldova.

Türkiye will implement the provisions of the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management in accordance with the Convention Regarding the Regime of the Turkish Straits, signed in Montreux on 20 July 1936, as well as by taking into account 1998 Maritime Traffic Regulations for the Turkish Straits.

Under the said Regulations, Turkish Straits Vessel Traffic Services Center is effectively providing traffic information, navigational assistance and traffic organisation in order to ensure the safety of navigation and to protect the marine environment in the Straits. Türkiye's decision to become a party to the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management should in no way be construed as implying any form of recognition of the Greek Cypriot Administration's pretention to represent the "Republic of Cyprus", nor as implying any obligations on the part of Türkiye to enter into any dealing with authorities or institutions of the so-called "Republic of Cyprus" within the framework of the activities specified in the said Convention.

With the Presidential Decision dated 14/8/2019 and numbered 1426, published at the Official Gazette dated 15/8/2019 and numbered 30859, the "Maritime Traffic Regulations for the Turkish Straits" was revoked and "Maritime Traffic By-law for the Turkish Straits" was put into force.