Regulation 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations—

• “Chief Inspector” means the Chief Inspector for Northern Ireland appointed under section 4(7) of the Radioactive Substances Act 1993^f1;

• “competent authority” (except when referring to the competent authority of another country) means—

  1. (a)

     in England, the Environment Agency;

  2. (b)

     in Scotland, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency;

  3. (c)

     in Wales, the Natural Resources Body for Wales;

  4. (d)

     in Northern Ireland, the Chief Inspector;

• “holder” means any person who, before carrying out a shipment of radioactive waste or spent fuel, is responsible under the applicable national law for such materials and plans to carry out a shipment to a consignee;

• “radioactive waste” means radioactive material in gaseous, liquid or solid form for which no further use is foreseen by the countries of origin and destination, or by a person whose decision is accepted by those countries, and which is controlled as radioactive waste by a regulatory body under the legislative and regulatory framework of each of those countries;

• “reprocessing” means a process or operation, the purpose of which is to extract radioactive isotopes from spent fuel for further use;

• “shipment” means the whole of operations involved in moving radioactive waste or spent fuel from a country of origin to a country of destination and “ship” must be construed in accordance with this definition;

• “spent fuel” means nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in and permanently removed from a reactor core; spent fuel may either be considered as a usable resource that can be reprocessed or be destined for final disposal with no further use foreseen and treated as radioactive waste; and

• “third country” means a country that is not a Member State of the European Union.