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Nuclear Safeguards Bill

Documents related to the Nuclear Safeguards Bill, which will establish a UK nuclear safeguards regime as we leave Euratom.

This collection was withdrawn on 10 August 2018

The Nuclear Safeguards Bill received Royal Assent on 26 June 2018.

Find out more about the Nuclear Safeguards Act 2018.

• From: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and Office for Nuclear Regulation
• Published: 12 October 2017
• Last updated: 28 June 2018 — See all updates

The measures in the Bill will amend the Energy Act 2013 to:

• replace the Office for Nuclear Regulation’s existing nuclear safeguards purposes with a new nuclear safeguards purposes definition
• create new powers for the Secretary of State to put in place in regulations the detail of the domestic safeguards regime, such as accounting, reporting, control and inspection arrangements
• create a limited power for the Secretary of State to amend the existing regulations so that references to international agreements can be updated once new international agreements have been reached

The UK has been a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency since its formation in 1957 and will continue to apply civil nuclear safeguards in the UK.

Related legislation

• IAEA Voluntary Offer Agreement
• IAEA Additional Protocol
• Euratom Treaty
• Euratom Regulation No 302/2005
• Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
• Nuclear Safeguards and Electricity (Finance) Act 1978
• Nuclear Safeguards Act 2000
• Nuclear Safeguards (Notification) Regulations 2004

Draft regulations

• Nuclear Safeguards Bill: draft regulations
• Nuclear Safeguards Bill: changes to existing legislation (Keeling schedule)

Factsheets

Nuclear Safeguards Bill: summary factsheet

• Euratom exit: factsheets
  • 18 June 2018
  • Policy paper

Impact assessments

• Nuclear Safeguards Bill: impact assessment
  • 26 January 2018
  • Impact assessment
• Nuclear Safeguards Bill: RPC opinion
  • 22 January 2018
  • Research and analysis

Announcements

Written Ministerial Statement on energy policy (28 June 2018)

Written Ministerial Statement on energy policy (26 March 2018)

Written Ministerial Statement on energy policy (11 January 2018)

Written Ministerial Statement on energy policy (7 December 2017)

• Nuclear Safeguards Bill introduced today
  • 11 October 2017
  • Press release
• Written ministerial statement on energy policy
  • 14 September 2017
  • Written statement to Parliament
• Safeguarding funding for research and innovation
  • 13 August 2016
  • News story
• Queen's Speech 2017
  • 21 June 2017
  • Speech
• UK Role in Fusion following EU Exit
  • 13 February 2017
  • News story
• Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) annual conference 2017
  • 7 December 2017
  • Speech

Related documents

Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee (Thirteenth Report): Nuclear Safeguards Bill

• Euratom exit: quarterly update, April to June 2018
  • 28 June 2018
  • Corporate report
• Euratom exit: quarterly update, January to March 2018
  • 27 March 2018
  • Corporate report
• Collaboration on science and innovation - a future partnership paper
  • 6 September 2017
  • Policy paper
• Technical note on existing contracts for the supply of nuclear material
  • 28 August 2017
  • Policy paper
• Technical note on spent fuel and radioactive waste
  • 28 August 2017
  • Policy paper
• Nuclear materials and safeguards issues - position paper
  • 13 July 2017
  • Policy paper
• Queen’s Speech 2017: background briefing notes
  • 21 June 2017
  • Policy paper

Published 12 October 2017
Last updated 28 June 2018 + show all updates

1. 28 June 2018

   2nd quarterly Euratom report to Parliament published

2. 27 March 2018

   Added first quarterly report to Parliament on the UK's exit from the Euratom Treaty and written ministerial statement.

3. 26 January 2018

   Added updated impact assessment.

4. 22 January 2018

   Added RPC opinion.

5. 19 January 2018

   Draft regulations added.

6. 11 January 2018

   Additional factsheets and Keeling schedule published.

7. 31 October 2017

   Factsheets added.

8. 12 October 2017

   First published.