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Nuclear Safeguards Bill

Documents related to the Nuclear Safeguards Bill, which will establish a UK nuclear safeguards regime as we leave Euratom.

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From:
Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and Office for Nuclear Regulation
Published:
12 October 2017
Last updated:
28 June 2018
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  1. 2nd quarterly Euratom report to Parliament published

  2. Added first quarterly report to Parliament on the UK's exit from the Euratom Treaty and written ministerial statement.

  3. Added updated impact assessment.

  4. Added RPC opinion.

  5. Draft regulations added.

  6. Additional factsheets and Keeling schedule published.

  7. Factsheets added.

  8. First published.

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The Nuclear Safeguards Bill received Royal Assent on 26 June 2018.

Find out more about the Nuclear Safeguards Act 2018.

The measures in the Bill will amend the Energy Act 2013 to:

  • replace the Office for Nuclear Regulation’s existing nuclear safeguards purposes with a new nuclear safeguards purposes definition
  • create new powers for the Secretary of State to put in place in regulations the detail of the domestic safeguards regime, such as accounting, reporting, control and inspection arrangements
  • create a limited power for the Secretary of State to amend the existing regulations so that references to international agreements can be updated once new international agreements have been reached

The UK has been a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency since its formation in 1957 and will continue to apply civil nuclear safeguards in the UK.

Draft regulations

Factsheets

Nuclear Safeguards Bill: summary factsheet

Impact assessments

Announcements

Written Ministerial Statement on energy policy (28 June 2018)

Written Ministerial Statement on energy policy (26 March 2018)

Written Ministerial Statement on energy policy (11 January 2018)

Written Ministerial Statement on energy policy (7 December 2017)

Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee (Thirteenth Report): Nuclear Safeguards Bill

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