Establishing an "exploratory area" and financial compensation to the concer-ned municipality according to the Nuclear Energy Act
Abstract
The Article deals with the most recent amendment of the Nuclear Energy Act, which introduces a system of financial compensation in relation to those municipalities, which are affected by the establishing of an "exploratory area" in their cadastre. Establishing of the "exploratory area" enables to conduct geological works, related to the preparation of the later radioactive waste disposal in underground geological formations.
Such a financial compensation is to be granted ex offo by the Radioactive Waste Repository Authority, which is an organisa-tional unit of the Ministry of Industry and Trade. The paper deals not only with the description of the new legal framework, but also contains its critical analysis and its comparison with other similar models, already existing under the public law of the Czech Republic.