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- Recitals
CHAPTER I — SUBJECT MATTER AND SCOPE
CHAPTER II — DEFINITIONS
CHAPTER III — SYSTEM OF RADIATION PROTECTION
- Article 5 — General principles of radiation protection
SECTION 1 — Tools for optimisation
SECTION 2 — Dose limitation
- Article 8 — Age limit for exposed workers
- Article 9 — Dose limits for occupational exposure
- Article 10 — Protection of pregnant and breastfeeding workers
- Article 11 — Dose limits for apprentices and students
- Article 12 — Dose limits for public exposure
- Article 13 — Estimation of the effective and equivalent dose
CHAPTER IV — REQUIREMENTS FOR RADIATION PROTECTION EDUCATION, TRAINING AND INFORMATION
- Article 14 — General responsibilities for the education, training and provision of information
- Article 15 — Training of exposed workers and information provided to them
- Article 16 — Information and training of workers potentially exposed to orphan sources
- Article 17 — Prior information and training for emergency workers
- Article 18 — Education, information and training in the field of medical exposure
CHAPTER V — JUSTIFICATION AND REGULATORY CONTROL OF PRACTICES
SECTION 1 — Justification and prohibition of practices
SECTION 2 — Regulatory control
- Article 23 — Identification of practices involving naturally-occurring radioactive material
- Article 24 — Graded approach to regulatory control
- Article 25 — Notification
- Article 26 — Exemption from notification
- Article 27 — Registration or licensing
- Article 28 — Licensing
- Article 29 — Authorisation procedure
- Article 30 — Release from regulatory control
CHAPTER VI — OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES
- Article 31 — Responsibilities
- Article 32 — Operational protection of exposed workers
- Article 33 — Operational protection of apprentices and students
- Article 34 — Consultations with a radiation protection expert
- Article 35 — Arrangements in workplaces
- Article 36 — Classification of workplaces
- Article 37 — Controlled areas
- Article 38 — Supervised areas
- Article 39 — Radiological surveillance of the workplace
- Article 40 — Categorisation of exposed workers
- Article 41 — Individual monitoring
- Article 42 — Dose assessment in the case of accidental exposure
- Article 43 — Recording and reporting of results
- Article 44 — Access to the results of individual monitoring
- Article 45 — Medical surveillance of exposed workers
- Article 46 — Medical classification
- Article 47 — Prohibition to employ or classify unfit workers
- Article 48 — Medical records
- Article 49 — Special medical surveillance
- Article 50 — Appeals
- Article 51 — Protection of outside workers
- Article 52 — Specially authorised exposures
- Article 53 — Emergency occupational exposure
- Article 54 — Radon in workplaces
CHAPTER VII — MEDICAL EXPOSURES
- Article 55 — Justification
- Article 56 — Optimisation
- Article 57 — Responsibilities
- Article 58 — Procedures
- Article 59 — Training and recognition
- Article 60 — Equipment
- Article 61 — Special practices
- Article 62 — Special protection during pregnancy and breastfeeding
- Article 63 — Accidental and unintended exposures
- Article 64 — Estimates of population doses
CHAPTER VIII — PUBLIC EXPOSURES
CHAPTER IX — GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF MEMBER STATES AND COMPETENT AUTHORITIES AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS FOR REGULATORY CONTROL
SECTION 1 — Institutional infrastructure
- Article 76 — Competent authority
- Article 77 — Transparency
- Article 78 — Information on equipment
- Article 79 — Recognition of services and experts
- Article 80 — Occupational health services
- Article 81 — Dosimetry services
- Article 82 — Radiation protection expert
- Article 83 — Medical physics expert
- Article 84 — Radiation protection officer
SECTION 2 — Control of radioactive sources
- Article 85 — General requirements for unsealed sources
- Article 86 — General requirements for sealed sources
- Article 87 — Requirements for control of high-activity sealed sources
- Article 88 — Specific requirements for licensing of high-activity sealed sources
- Article 89 — Record keeping by the undertaking
- Article 90 — Record keeping by the competent authority
- Article 91 — Control of high-activity sealed sources
SECTION 3 — Orphan sources
SECTION 4 — Significant events
SECTION 5 — Emergency exposure situations
SECTION 6 — Existing exposure situations
SECTION 7 — System of enforcement
CHAPTER X — FINAL PROVISIONS
- ANNEX I — Reference levels for public exposure as referred to in Articles 7 and 101
- ANNEX II
- ANNEX III — Activity values defining high-activity sealed sources as referred to in point (43) of Article 4
- ANNEX IV — Justification of new classes or types of practices involving consumer products as referred to in Article 20
- ANNEX V — Indicative list of practices involving non-medical imaging exposure as referred to in Article 22
- ANNEX VI — List of industrial sectors involving naturally-occurring radioactive material as referred to in Article 23
- ANNEX VII — Exemption and clearance criteria as referred to in Articles 24, 26 and 30
- ANNEX VIII — Definition and use of the activity concentration index for the gamma radiation emitted by building materials as referred to in Article 75
- ANNEX IX — Indicative list of information for licence applications as referred to in Article 29
- ANNEX X — Data system for individual radiological monitoring as referred to in Articles 43, 44 and 51
- ANNEX XI — Emergency management systems and emergency response plans as referred to in Articles 69, 97 and 98
- ANNEX XII — Information to members of the public about health protection measures to be applied and steps to be taken in the event of an emergency as referred to in Articles 70 and 71
- ANNEX XIII — Indicative list of types of building materials considered with regard to their emitted gamma radiation as referred to in Article 75
- ANNEX XIV — Information to be provided in the records for high-activity sealed sources (HASS) as referred to in Article 89
- ANNEX XV — Requirements for undertakings responsible for a high-activity sealed source as referred to in Article 91
- ANNEX XVI — Identification and marking of high-activity sealed sources as referred to in Article 91
- ANNEX XVII — Indicative list of types of existing exposure situations as referred to in Article 100
- ANNEX XVIII — List of items to be considered in preparing the national action plan to address long-term risks from radon exposures as referred to in Articles 54, 74 and 103
- ANNEX XIX