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Rising Global Interest to Join Nuclear Damage Compensation Treaty.

Mirage News, 26 July 23,

The Contracting Parties and Signatories to the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage (CSC) convened for their Third Meeting from 6 to 8 June 2023, at the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), in Tokyo, Japan.

Some 70 representatives from 10 Contracting Parties and Signatories (Argentina, Canada, India, Japan, Lithuania, Indonesia, Philippines, Romania, United Arab Emirates, United States of America) and eight invited observer countries (Brazil, China, Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, Uruguay, United Kingdom and Viet Nam) participated in the Third Meeting. Several representatives of intergovernmental organizations, the nuclear industry and academia gave presentations. The IAEA Office of Legal Affairs acted as the Secretariat to the Meeting.

The event provided an opportunity for the Contracting Parties and Signatories to build on the momentum created by their inaugural Meeting in Ottawa, Canada, 2019 and the Second Meeting in Vienna, Austria, 2022, especially with respect to achieving a global regime based on the CSC……………………………………………………………………………………………………………

The CSC was adopted under IAEA auspices in 1997 and currently has 11 Contracting Parties (Argentina, Benin, Canada, Ghana, India, Japan, Montenegro, Morocco, Romania, United Arab Emirates and United States of America) and 11 Signatories (Australia, Czech Republic, Indonesia, Italy, Lebanon, Lithuania, Mauritius, Peru, Philippines, Senegal, Ukraine). The Convention functions as an “umbrella” for all countries that are party to one of the existing international conventions on civil liability for nuclear damage or have national legislation in place conforming to the principles underlying those conventions. An online CSC Calculator is available to countries to run scenarios of contributions to the international fund. https://www.miragenews.com/rising-global-interest-to-join-nuclear-damage-1054123/

July 27, 2023 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics international