General report on legal problems in radiation protection. Working group 4

The legal implications and especially how some of the less definite concepts of the ICRP recommendations in Publication 60, issued in 1991, are given regulatory form are analysed. The preparation of the new EC directive on radiation protection and the attempt by IAEA and NEA to integrate the ICRP radiological protection principles with the nuclear safety principles are also examined. A special paragraph deals with long-debated question of exemptions. The report then analyses the right to be informed and the obligation to inform, in the field of radiation protection of the public, highlighting the different approaches in the regulatory systems developed during the past years at Community level and in the US. The problems of coordination between the provisions of the EC and the EURATOM treaties on environmental protection and radiation protection respectively, are then considered, partly with a view to the possible merging of these provisions into a single Treaty. Lastly, some considerations are developed concerning the different possible approaches to compensation for potentially radiation-induced diseases. 27 refs., 1 tab