The Committee on European Integration concluded that the Bill on Nuclear Waste Treatment conforms to the Law of the European Union

27 September 2011, 16:00

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Under the bill (Reg. No. 8795), centralized storage for PWR nuclear fuel of national nuclear power plants is a part of integral complex of nuclear waste treatment of State Specialized Enterprise "Chornobyl NPP" (SSE ChNPP). The bill reads that the building owner of centralized storage directs funds at the rate of 10% of the total contract price of construction of objects of specialized purpose in Slavutych city, Ivanivske and Poliskyi districts of Kyiv region according to the register adopted by Kyiv Regional State Administration, The funds are recorded in the contract price of centralized storage. Transfer is made proportional to the assimilated capital investments according to the bookkeeping operations without recording of the value-added tax.

The committee concluded that according to the subject of legal regulation the bill refers to the power industry, including nuclear power. Legal relations in this sphere are regulated by the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Directive 2003/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning common rules for the internal market in electricity repealing Directive 96/92/EC and also Council Directive 92/3/Euratom on the supervision and control of shipments of radioactive waste between Member States and into and out of the Community.

The committee concluded that the bill conforms to the above-mentioned international documents and the European law.