Radioactive substances legislation - scope: guidance

Footnotes

1 The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Regulations 2018, SSI 2018 No. 219

2 Scope of an exemptions from the radioactive substances legislation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, BEIS, Defra, Welsh Government, DAERA

3 Council Directive 2013/59/Euratom of 5 December 2013 laying down basic safety standards for protection against the dangers arising from exposure to ionising radiation, European Commission

4 Radiation protection and safety of radiation sources: international basic safety standards, GSR Part 3, IAEA

5 Liquids and gases can contain entrained solid particulate material and gases can contain liquids in aerosol form. For the purposes of EASR, intractable particulates or aerosols are treated as an integral part of the liquid or gas.

6 Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008, Classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures, European Commission

7 An ‘authorised person’ is defined in EASR (regulation 5) as any person who has been granted a permit or registration or who is carrying on a radioactive substances activity which has been notified or is subject to general binding rules.

8 This is the terminology used in EASR. Note that, for natural radionuclides, background levels are already out of scope when the material or waste is not being used in an industrial activity or practice.

9 BEIS (2017) Revised Requirements For Radiological Protection: Regulation of Public Exposures and the Justification of Practices https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/649935/Consultation_o n_BSSD_Public_Exposures_and_Justification.pdf

10 BEIS (2017) Revised Requirements For Radiological Protection: Regulation of Public Exposures and the Justification of Practices https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/649935/Consultation_o n_BSSD_Public_Exposures_and_Justification.pdf

11 Ionising Radiations Regulations 2017, SI 2017 No. 1075

12 Application of the concepts of exclusion, exemption and clearance, RS-G-1.7, IAEA

13 Radiation protection 122, Practical use of the concepts of clearance and exemption, Part II Application of the concepts of exemption and clearance to natural radiation sources, European Commission

14 Derivation of liquid exclusion or exemption levels to support the RSA93 exemption order review, HPA-CRCE-005, HPA 2010

15 Advised in HPA letter to DECC dated 27 August 2010