CHAPTER 1

SCOPE, DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL PRINCIPLES

Scope
Article 2
1
This Directive shall apply to all stages of:
a
spent fuel management when the spent fuel results from civilian activities;
b
radioactive waste management, from generation to disposal, when the radioactive waste results from civilian activities.
2
This Directive shall not apply to:
a
waste from extractive industries which may be radioactive and which falls within the scope of Directive 2006/21/EC;
b
authorised releases.
3
Article 4(4) of this Directive shall not apply to:
a
repatriation of disused sealed sources to a supplier or manufacturer;
b
shipment of spent fuel of research reactors to a country where research reactor fuels are supplied or manufactured, taking into account applicable international agreements;
c
the waste and spent fuel of the existing Krško nuclear power plant, when it concerns shipments between Slovenia and Croatia.
4
This Directive shall not affect the right of a Member State or an undertaking in that Member State to return radioactive waste after processing to its country of origin where:
a
the radioactive waste is to be shipped to that Member State or undertaking for processing; or
b
other material is to be shipped to that Member State or undertaking with the purpose of recovering the radioactive waste.
This Directive shall not affect the right of a Member State or an undertaking in that Member State to which spent fuel is to be shipped for treatment or reprocessing to return to its country of origin radioactive waste recovered from the treatment or reprocessing operation, or an agreed equivalent.