The Transfrontier Shipment of Radioactive Waste Regulations 1993

PART II I SHIPMENTS WHERE THE COMPETENT AUTHORITIES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR GIVING AUTHORISATION

Requirement for authorisation and approval.

10.  No person shall carry out in the United Kingdom a shipment to which these Regulations apply, not being a shipment to which Part II applies, except where the shipment is carried out under, and in accordance with, the conditions and requirements contained in—

(a) an authorisation granted by the competent authorities of the Member State entitled under the Directive to grant such authorisation; and

(b) an approval given under regulation 11 by the chief inspector.

Approval

11.—(1) Subject to paragraph (4), where in relation to a shipment the United Kingdom is the country of destination or a country of transit, the chief inspector shall, using the appropriate standard document, not later than two months after receipt of a duly completed application for approval from the competent authorities of the country responsible under Article 4 or 12(1) of the Directive (or under Article 4 as applied by any other provision of the Directive) for sending the same, notify those authorities of his approval of the shipment, or of any conditions which he requires to be attached to approval, or of his refusal to grant approval.

(2) Any conditions required by the chief inspector under paragraph (1) shall not be more stringent than those laid down for similar shipments wholly within the United Kingdom and must comply with existing international agreements.

(3) The chief inspector shall give reasons for attaching conditions to an approval, or for refusing an approval, in accordance with Article 3 of the Directive.

(4) The chief inspector may request a further period of not more than one month in addition to the period referred to in paragraph (1) to make his position known and, if he so requests, the time for giving notification under paragraph (1) of his reply shall be extended by that further period.

(5) Where the chief inspector fails to reply within the period set by this regulation to the competent authorities of a country who have sent him such an application for approval as is mentioned in paragraph (1) the chief inspector shall, for the purposes of regulation 17, be deemed to have notified those authorities that he refuses to grant approval for the shipment in question.