# Council Directive 2009/71/Euratom of 25 June 2009 establishing a Community framework for the nuclear safety of nuclear installations, Article 8a: Nuclear safety objective for nuclear installations

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. Member States shall ensure that the national nuclear safety framework requires that nuclear installations are designed, sited, constructed, commissioned, operated and decommissioned with the objective of preventing accidents and, should an accident occur, mitigating its consequences and avoiding:
(a) early radioactive releases that would require off-site emergency measures but with insufficient time to implement them;
(b) large radioactive releases that would require protective measures that could not be limited in area or time.
2. Member States shall ensure that the national framework requires that the objective set out in paragraph 1:
(a) applies to nuclear installations for which a construction licence is granted for the first time after 14 August 2014 ;
(b) is used as a reference for the timely implementation of reasonably practicable safety improvements to existing nuclear installations, including in the framework of the periodic safety reviews as defined in Article 8c(b).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2009/71/article/8a (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2009-71/article-8a
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