The Agency apos s regulatory responsibility should not lead to the imposition of arbitrary restrictions on the transfer of nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency was formed in 2003 with the merger of the Medicines Control Agency (MCA) and the Medical Devices Agency (MDA).

An independent nuclear regulatory authority is in its fifth year of existence to ensure safe operation of nuclear plants.

The NSCA established a national nuclear regulatory authority, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), for the purpose of administering the Act.

Energy Agency on an African nuclear weapon free zone

In anticipation of the new plant, our national regulatory body, the Nuclear Energy Regulatory Agency of Indonesia (BAPETEN), has embarked upon a comprehensive programme to develop the entire necessary infrastructure, including the training of the required personnel, particularly in activities related to the licensing and inspection of the plant.

The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is an agency of the European Union (EU) with regulatory and executive tasks in the field of civilian aviation safety.

China s decision to execute the head of its drug regulatory agency has rekindled international debate about capital punishment.

The Law on Nuclear Safety defines safety and protection measures while using nuclear materials and specified equipment in performing nuclear activities and establishes an independent regulatory body for nuclear safety the State Office for Nuclear Safety.

It is incumbent upon States to establish regulatory infrastructures that will support credible national nuclear safety regimes.

Improvements have been and still are being introduced in order to remedy the shortcomings identified in nuclear power plants and in national nuclear regulatory systems.

We therefore continue to expect cooperation and assistance from the Agency, particularly in building the capacity of the regulatory authority.

Following a mission from the Agency's International Physical Protection Advisory Service, Romania's nuclear regulatory body had also started an upgrade of national nuclear physical protection systems.

We fully understand the Agency apos s efforts to ensure nuclear safety.

For example, Japan s nuclear regulatory authority was not sufficiently independent, and oversight of the plant operator, TEPCO, was weak.

It has forsworn nuclear weapons, having signed a comprehensive nuclear safeguards agreement with Argentina and the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Of key importance are the nuclear safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

The Agency inspectors were able to verify all nuclear material subject to safeguards.

Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean

Poland supports the Agency apos s work on preparing a nuclear safety convention.

The CNSC ensures through its regulatory process that licensees have in place appropriate policies and procedures that include the reporting and monitoring of nuclear material and nuclear activities.

(b) Presentation by the European Space Agency (ESA), entitled Space nuclear power sources concepts and European Space Agency applications for scientific exploration

And, given the deep disparities in nuclear power s importance for European economies, consensus on regulatory harmonization is hard to reach.

The Office for Civil Nuclear Security (OCNS), which is part of the Department of Trade and Industry, is the national security regulatory authority for the UK's civil nuclear industry.

Regulatory issues

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For England and Wales, a regulatory agency for water (OFWAT) was created as part of the privatization of the water industry in 1989.

Centralized regulatory guidelines exist in Australia and the United Kingdom while in the United States, the procedures are largely determined on an agency by agency basis, and sometimes on a procurement by procurement basis.

c. In Item 15 on matrix p. 15 , China's national nuclear regulatory authority is the China Atomic Energy Authority of China.

That will include better harmonization of national regulatory approaches to ensure at all times high quality, independent oversight for nuclear activities.

It is charged with preparing and presenting an opinion on the regulatory standards that would ensure radiological protection and nuclear safety.

IAEA is also assisting the nuclear regulatory authority of Ukraine in the regulatory process of decommissioning the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and in the development of an approach for characterizing and managing radioactive residual material resulting from investigating the status of the shelter and its reconstruction and or repair.

It comes at a time when the Agency has assumed increasing responsibility for nuclear security.

4. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Group of Experts on the Transport of Nuclear Fuel

Other regulatory controls

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regulatory government guidance

regulatory voluntary action

The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is an executive agency of the Department of Health in the United Kingdom which is responsible for ensuring that medicines and medical devices work and are acceptably safe.

All the nuclear activities of States within a nuclear free zone must be placed under the safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

In the intervening four years, the Agency has conducted more than 100 nuclear security field missions.

Questions about Iran's nuclear activities remain unanswered, despite repeated efforts by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

International cooperation for the peaceful uses of nuclear energy is an important task confronting the Agency.

Russia has been actively cooperating with the Agency in another important sphere of activity nuclear power.