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Convention on Nuclear Safety (CNS). National Report of the Kingdom of the Netherlands for the Seventh Review Meeting

AuthorANVS
1-01-0-00-113.pdf
DateAugust 2016
Classification 1.01.0.00/113 (GENERAL)
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Convention on Nuclear Safety (CNS). National Report of the Kingdom of
the Netherlands for the Seventh Review Meeting
August 2016
This report has been prepared by the Dutch Authority for nuclear safety 
and radiation protection, ANVS.

INTRODUCTION
This section sets out the purpose of the present report, and it continues with 
an overview of the national nuclear programme followed by a description of the 
national policy towards nuclear activities in the Netherlands and the main safety 
issues of the reporting period. The introduction finishes with a description of 
the structure of the report. 
Purpose of the report 
On 20 September 1994, the Kingdom of the Netherlands signed the Convention on 
Nuclear Safety (CNS). It was subsequently formally ratified on 15 October 1996 
and entered into force on 13 January 1997. The Convention obliges each Contracting 
Party to apply widely recognised principles and tools in order to maintain a high 
level of safety at its nuclear power plants. It also requires each Contracting 
Party to report on the national implementation of these principles to meetings of 
the parties to the Convention. 
This present report has been prepared by the Kingdom of the Netherlands for the 
Seventh Review Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Convention on Nuclear 
Safety. It shows how the Netherlands meets the obligations of each of the articles 
of the Convention. Regular Review Meetings of Contracting Parties offer an 
important opportunity to share information related to implementation of the 
Convention, and as such the Netherlands has and will continue to actively 
participate. The Netherlands attaches great importance to the Convention, as well 
as to the Vienna Declaration on nuclear Safety that was unanimously adopted by 
Contracting Parties in 2015, as essential to international efforts to strengthen 
nuclear safety. As this report demonstrates, the Netherlands has developed, and 
continues to improve a robust domestic framework for nuclear safety in line with 
its international obligations.
The information provided by the present report applies to the situation of July 
1st 2016 unless explicitly specified otherwise. Updates to the information 
presented in this report may be provided at the CNS peer review meeting in 
April 2017.