Can civil society directly influence policy and decision-making?
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Can civil society directly influence decision making and policy?
– Citizen control over nuclear
safety and [email protected]
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Belene, Bulgaria
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Issues brought into the debate:
Seismic risk Real costs and economics Corruption The existence of alternatives
Programme cancelled in 2012
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Direct influence difficult
The cards are not divided equally
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Example: Ombudsman vs European Commission on Euratom art. 44 abuse
Commission slowing down Commission not willing to find
solution Citizens lack capacity for
European Court
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Aarhus ConventionEspoo Convention
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Access to Information
Public Participation
Access to Justice
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Nuclear Transparency Watch
European Parliament NGOs academia local information
committees
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Nuclear Transparency Watch
Emergency Preparedness and Response
Nuclear waste Ageing reactors
Support in Access to info requests Public participation complaints
Alerting EC, national govts, regulators
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More control by citizens? JEIN!
EURATOM Directive 2011/70/EURATOM art. 11 to 14NTW information request to
European Commission: Access to all MS radioactive
waste plans and programmes Aggregated overview stockpiles
of radioactive waste
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ROMANIA refused table of amounts of radioactive waste
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Other examples
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HUNGARY not granting public par-ticipation to all citizens in Paks II
The UNITED KINGDOM not notifying potentially affected countries for Hinkley Point C
UKRAINE, NETHERLANDS, BELGIUM, CZECHIA (and Sweden? Spain?) not organising public participation for life-time extension of nuclear plants
The European Commission not giving access to information under Euratom art. 44
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