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... NOTING that comprehensive measures have been and are being take to ensure a high level of safety in nuclear activities, aimed at preventing nuclear accidents and minimizing the consequences of any such accident, should it occur, ...
... NOTING that comprehensive measures have been and are being take to ensure a high level of safety in nuclear activities, aimed at preventing nuclear accidents and minimizing the consequences of any such accident, should it occur, ...
... CONVINCED of the need for States to provide relevant information about nuclear accidents as early as possible in order that transboundary radiological consequences can be minimized, ...
ARTICLE-1: Scope of application [go to this ARTICLE]
... This Convention shall apply in the event of any accident involving facilities or activities of a State Party or of persons or legal entities under its jurisdiction or control, referred to in paragraph 2 below, from which a release of radioactive material occurs or is likely to occur and which has resulted or may result in an international transboundary release that could be of radiological safety significance for another State.
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ARTICLE-2: Notification and information [go to this ARTICLE]
... In the event of an accident specified in article 1 (hereinafter referred to as a "nuclear accident"), the State Party referred to in that article shall: ...
... In the event of an accident specified in article 1 (hereinafter referred to as a "nuclear accident"), the State Party referred to in that article shall: ...
... forthwith notify, directly or though the International Atomic Energy Agency (hereinafter referred to as the "Agency"), those States which are or may be physically affected as specified in article 1 and the Agency of the nuclear accident, its nature, the time of its occurrence and its exact location where appropriate; and
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ARTICLE-3: Other Nuclear Accidents [go to this ARTICLE]
... Other Nuclear Accidents ...
... With a view to minimizing the radiological consequences, States Parties may notify in the event of nuclear accidents other than those specified in article 1. ...
ARTICLE-5: Information to be provided [go to this ARTICLE]
... the assumed or established cause and the foreseeable development of the nuclear accident relevant to the transboundary release of the radioactive materials;
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