{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2013-59/article-61",
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  "legislation": "eudr/2013/59",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive 2013/59/Euratom of 5 December 2013 laying down basic safety standards for protection against the dangers arising from exposure to ionising radiation, and repealing Directives 89/618/Euratom, 90/641/Euratom, 96/29/Euratom, 97/43/Euratom and 2003/122/Euratom",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2013-59",
  "path": "article/61",
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  "number": "61",
  "heading": "Special practices",
  "text": "1. Member States shall ensure that appropriate medical radiological equipment, practical techniques and ancillary equipment is used in medical exposure:\n(a) of children;\n(b) as part of a health screening programme;\n(c) involving high doses to the patient, which may be the case in interventional radiology, nuclear medicine, computed tomography or radiotherapy.\nSpecial attention shall be given to quality assurance programmes and the assessment of dose or verification of administered activity for these practices.\n2. Member States shall ensure that practitioners and those individuals referred to in Article 57(2) who perform the exposures referred to in paragraph 1 obtain appropriate training on these medical radiological practices as required by Article 18.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2013/59/article/61",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:21:50.860989+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}