Decree no.2003-270 on the 24. of march 2003 relative to the protection of persons exposed to ionizing radiations in medical and medico-legal aims and modifying the health code of public health (second part: decrees in Council of State)

This decree concerns the protection of persons exposed to ionizing radiation in medical aims. Three principal points are debated, the justification, the optimization and the procedures to use in practice. The justification requires that it exists an indisputable advantage compared with the risk it can present and no other technique with a comparable efficiency and less risks is available. The optimization needs to use ionizing radiations at the lowest level as reasonably achievable, the third part is devoted to the procedures, the guides and the training of the person who practices the examinations. (N.C.)