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The Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR) is co-chairing this week the Open-Ended Meeting of Technical and Legal Experts for Sharing Information on States’ Implementation of the Code of Conduct on the Safety and Security of Radioactive Sources, which is being organised by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Austria.
More than 270 legal and technical experts from 128 countries and four international organisations have convened to review progress achieved in the code and address areas in need of improvement.
In 2003, the IAEA developed the Code of Conduct on the Safety and Security of Radioactive Sources to help countries tackle risks and protect people and the environment from accidental radiation exposure or intentional unauthorised acts involving radioactive sources.
FANR presented the Second National Paper of the United Arab Emirates on the Implementation of the Code of Conduct on the Safety and Security of Radioactive Sources and its Associated Guidance on the Import and Export of Radioactive sources. The report details the progress achieved towards the requirements of the code of conduct where FANR established and implemented a robust regulatory framework and an integrated licensing and inspection regime.