Strengthening Sustainability for Security of Radioactive Material and Associated Facilities through Interaction with Operators during the Improvement of Normative and Legal Framework

Establishment legislative and legal framework is one of the essential elements of the State's nuclear security regime included in the Objective and Essential Elements of a State's Nuclear Security Regime (NSS 20) and Nuclear Security Recommendations on radioactive material and associated facilities (NSS 14). These IAEA's publications contain recommendations to States and their competent authorities on developing of obligatory security requirements based on risk assessment, applying of graded approach when sets of requirements for different security levels are established, implementation of defence in depth concept. Despite all the variety of topics that are usually presented at conferences and seminars on the development of regulatory acts on security area, they are reduced to the list of developed national normative acts, their main requirements and to name of used IAEA's publication. At the same time, the process of developing regulations on security is discussed very rarely. But it is the procedures for developing regulations that determine the involvement of operators (license holders) in the process of drafting (revising) a normative act. Discussion of proposals of the regulatory body to amend the regulatory requirements with the operator, obtaining feedback from operators is the key to successful understanding of new requirements by operators.