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A new transnational regime for nuclear liability and compensation in Europe

Publication at Faculty of Law |
2022

Abstract

On 1 January 2022, two new international treaties governing nuclear liability and compensation entered into force. Th e Revised Paris Convention has established a up-todate regime of liability of nuclear operators and superseded the liability framework existing in Western Europe since the 1960s. At the same time, the Revised Brussels Supplementary

Convention has strengthened the system of public funds available for compensation of nuclear damages. Th is Article aims to analyse the main benefi ts this Revised Paris-Brussels system implies for potential victims of a nuclear incident within Europe. It also aims to deal with mutual relations of this newly established regime with other regimes of nuclear liability that currently exist in Europe.