CHAPTER V U.K. JUSTIFICATION AND REGULATORY CONTROL OF PRACTICES

SECTION 2 U.K. Regulatory control

Article 26 U.K. Exemption from notification

1. Member States may decide that justified practices involving the following do not need to be notified:

(a) radioactive materials where the quantities of the activity involved do not exceed in total the exemption values set out in Table B, column 3, of Annex VII, or higher values that, for specific applications, are approved by the competent authority and satisfy the general exemption and clearance criteria set out in Annex VII; or

(b) without prejudice to Article 25(4), radioactive materials where the activity concentrations do not exceed the exemption values set out in Table A of Annex VII, or higher values that, for specific applications, are approved by the competent authority and satisfy the general exemption and clearance criteria set out in Annex VII; or

(c) apparatus containing a sealed source, provided that:

(i)

the apparatus is of a type approved by the competent authority;

(ii)

the apparatus does not cause, in normal operating conditions, a dose rate exceeding at a distance of 0.1 m from any accessible surface; and

(iii)

conditions for recycling or disposal have been specified by the competent authority; or

(d) any electrical apparatus provided that:

(i)

it is a cathode ray tube intended for the display of visual images, or other electrical apparatus operating at a potential difference not exceeding 30 kilo volt (kV), or it is of a type approved by the competent authority; and

(ii)

it does not cause, in normal operating conditions, a dose rate exceeding at a distance of 0.1 m from any accessible surface.

2. Member States may exempt specific types of practices from the notification requirement subject to compliance with the general exemption criteria established in point 3 of Annex VII, on the basis of an assessment showing that exemption is the best option.