{"id":92645,"date":"2018-06-07T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=4228468ad8587741b2a96d567b7f3193"},"modified":"2018-06-07T15:33:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T15:33:00","slug":"press-release-uk-meeting-milestones-for-euratom-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=92645","title":{"rendered":"Press release: UK meeting milestones for Euratom exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<ul>\n<li>new international safeguards agreements signed with the International Atomic Energy Agency<\/li>\n<li>moves provide certainty to the civil nuclear industry and international partners as the UK prepares for <abbr title=\"European Atomic Energy Community\">Euratom<\/abbr> exit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/services.parliament.uk\/bills\/2017-19\/nuclearsafeguards.html\">Nuclear Safeguards Bill<\/a> has become one of the first pieces of legislation addressing the United Kingdom\u2019s departure from the European Union to complete its passage through Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>The Bill, which will shortly become an Act, addresses the United Kingdom\u2019s departure from the European Atomic Energy Community (<abbr title=\"European Atomic Energy Community\">Euratom<\/abbr>), an international organisation that governs the peaceful use of nuclear energy within the <abbr title=\"European Union\">EU<\/abbr>. This essential legislation enables the government to establish a domestic nuclear safeguards regime following departure from <abbr title=\"European Atomic Energy Community\">Euratom<\/abbr> and provides a clear signal to the public, industry and international partners that the UK is on track to meet its obligations from day one of exit.<\/p>\n<p>Nuclear safeguards are important processes through which the UK demonstrates to the international community that civil nuclear material is not diverted into military or weapons programmes.<\/p>\n<p>The UK\u2019s commitment to international safeguards and nuclear non-proliferation was reaffirmed in Vienna today, with the signing of 2 new safeguards agreements with the International Atomic Energy Agency (<abbr title=\"International Atomic Energy Agency\">IAEA<\/abbr>).<\/p>\n<p>These key agreements with the <abbr title=\"International Atomic Energy Agency\">IAEA<\/abbr> \u2013 of which the UK is a founding member \u2013 are a major milestone in <abbr title=\"European Atomic Energy Community\">Euratom<\/abbr> exit preparations and provide the basis for civil nuclear trading arrangements. This step will be welcomed by the industry in the UK and trading partners around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Minister for Business and Industry, Richard Harrington said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This major step in our work to prepare for <abbr title=\"European Atomic Energy Community\">Euratom<\/abbr> exit ensures that we will continue in our role as a responsible nuclear state after leaving the <abbr title=\"European Union\">EU<\/abbr> and <abbr title=\"European Atomic Energy Community\">Euratom<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">These new agreements emphasise our continued commitment to the <abbr title=\"International Atomic Energy Agency\">IAEA<\/abbr> and to international safeguards and nuclear non-proliferation, ensuring continuity for our civil nuclear industry from day one of exit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Suella Braverman, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">These agreements are a positive step and will help ensure our cooperation with third countries in the field of nuclear energy will continue. This positive progress gives the UK nuclear industry the confidence that there will be no disruption to these arrangements as we leave the <abbr title=\"European Union\">EU<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>These developments come just weeks after the UK signed a new Nuclear Cooperation Agreement (<abbr title=\"Nuclear Cooperation Agreement\">NCA<\/abbr>) with the United States of America, which will allow the UK and <abbr title=\"United States\">US<\/abbr> to continue their mutually beneficial civil nuclear cooperation when the current <abbr title=\"European Atomic Energy Community\">Euratom<\/abbr> arrangements cease to apply to the UK.<\/p>\n<p>This <abbr title=\"United States\">US<\/abbr>-UK <abbr title=\"Nuclear Cooperation Agreement\">NCA<\/abbr> is expected to be the first in a series of new international agreements ensuring uninterrupted cooperation and trade following the UK\u2019s exit from <abbr title=\"European Atomic Energy Community\">Euratom<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"notes-to-editors\">Notes to Editors<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>The <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/services.parliament.uk\/bills\/2017-19\/nuclearsafeguards.html\">Nuclear Safeguards Bill<\/a> will amend the Energy Act 2013 to:\n<p>a. Provide the Office for Nuclear Regulation with a new safeguards function<br \/>\n<br \/>\nb. Create new powers for the Secretary of State to put in place regulations setting out the detail of the domestic safeguards regime<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The Bill will also create a limited power for the Secretary of State to amend 3 existing pieces of legislation to update references to the new <abbr title=\"International Atomic Energy Agency\">IAEA<\/abbr> agreements.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The UK\u2019s Voluntary Offer Agreement and Additional Protocol were signed in Vienna on 7 June.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The UK has been a member of the <abbr title=\"International Atomic Energy Agency\">IAEA<\/abbr> since its formation in 1957.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The signing of new bilateral agreements with the <abbr title=\"International Atomic Energy Agency\">IAEA<\/abbr>, a Voluntary Offer Agreement and Additional Protocol, will replace existing trilateral arrangements between the <abbr title=\"International Atomic Energy Agency\">IAEA<\/abbr>, <abbr title=\"European Atomic Energy Community\">Euratom<\/abbr> and the UK.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The new agreements ensure that the <abbr title=\"International Atomic Energy Agency\">IAEA<\/abbr> retains its right to inspect all civil nuclear facilities, and continues to receive current safeguards reporting, thereby ensuring that international verification of our safeguards activity continues to be robust. Such agreements have been put in place on a voluntary basis by the 5 nuclear-weapon States parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>The new safeguards regime to be established in the UK will be operated by the Office for Nuclear Regulation (<abbr title=\"Office for Nuclear Regulation\">ONR<\/abbr>). The <abbr title=\"Office for Nuclear Regulation\">ONR<\/abbr> already regulates nuclear safety and security in the UK and has been making preparation to replace <abbr title=\"European Atomic Energy Community\">Euratom<\/abbr> as the regulator of safeguards.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuclear safeguards legislation successfully passes through Parliament; UK on track to meet international obligations from day one of exit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}