Revision of the atomic act from year 2008 and the new legislation intentions in nuclear law into the future

The contribution deals with the revision of the atomic act done in year 2008 and with the prepared changes in the nuclear legislation in the near or long future. The revision of the nuclear act in year 2008 was justified by the need of the transposition of the Directive of the council 2006/117/EURATOM about the supervision and control of the transport of the radioactive wastes and burn nuclear fuel over the state boundaries. The Directive modifies the administrative procedure of the applicant for permission and the related supervisory bodies touched by planned transport at the information exchange and the mutual adjustment of the imports, exports and transits of the radioactive wastes and burn nuclear fuel across the European Union. The listed Directive replaces the present Directive 92/3/EURATOM, which was up to now transposed in paragraph 16 of the Atomic Act. Compared to the actual state, there is an enhancement of the Atomic Act as well as the legal form of permission for transport of the radioactive wastes over the state boundaries and there are also some administrative changes. The National Council of Slovak Republic definitely approved the government proposal of the revision of the Atomic Act. dtd. 18.09.2008 and it was published in the Collection of Laws on 25.10.2008 ref. 408/2008 Coll. Regarding the usage of the standard documents for permission of the transport of radioactive waste and burn nuclear fuel over the state boundaries, these documents were excluded from the Atomic Act and they were replaced directly to the reference on the Decision of the European committee No. 2008/312/EURATOM. The contribute includes also the review of the performed works and the content intention of the prepared new Atomic Act. Up to now, the problem fields were identified and solved, which by experience from the practical application of the actual Act, from the conclusions from WEN RA group, from the new accepted international agreements in the area of terrorism control, the new recommendation of the IAEA and OECD/NEA and some proposed necessary differences from the administrative procedure, all these have to be reflected in the new Act. The new Atomic Act will be influenced in the future by the new proposed Directive of European committee about the nuclear safety, which was in the fall of the year 2008 in a very high elaboration stage and we can assume to be definitely approved and published in the end of year 2009. The last part deals with the building of the new civil responsibility for the nuclear damages. The government of the Slovak Republic in terms of the works plan of the government of Slovak Republic approved on 03.12.2008 the material 'Analyze of the state and conception of building of new system of civil responsibilities for nuclear damages in Slovak Republic' and it also accepted the Decision of government of Slovak Republic No. 880/2008. The material put the base for the fundaments to create the new Act. Of the civil responsibility for nuclear damages and about its financial coverage, this should be, by the individual act, excluded from the Atomic Act regime