# The Transfrontier Shipment of Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel (EU Exit) Regulations 2018, 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;
“competent authority” (except when referring to the competent authority of another country) means—
(a) in England, the Environment Agency;
(b) in Scotland, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency;
(c) in Wales, the Natural Resources Body for Wales;
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2018/9780111175354/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-transfrontier-shipment-of-radioactive-waste-and-spent-fuel-eu-exit-regulations-2018/regulation-2
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.