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European Approach for cross-border Emergency Preparedness
The heads of the national nuclear and radiation safety regulators in Europe have developed and agreed on a new approach to further improve the response and cross-border coordination for all types of possible accident scenarios including severe accidents, like the one in Fukushima. It contains overarching principles and provides an incentive for joint actions between neighbouring countries. The regulators have committed to engage a cooperation at national level with the competent authorities in charge of civil protection for the implementation of the corresponding measures.
HERCA Action Plan in relation to the transposition and implementation of Directive 2013/59/Euratom (Euratom-BSS)
The Board of Heads of HERCA has approved on its 14th Meeting held in Stockholm on 21-22 October an Action Plan in relation to the transposition and implementation of the new Euratom BSS. The new BSS, Council Directive 2013/59/Euratom, was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 17th January 2014 and Member States have until the 6th February 2018 to complete the process of transposition into their national regulations.
Multi-stakeholder Workshops on Generic Justification and Accidental and Unintended Exposures
On 24-28 October 2016 in Paris, HERCA will organise two multi-stakholders workshops for discussing two issues in relation to the on-going works on the transposition of the Euratom Basic Safety Standards Directive : (1) Generic Justification of Medical Exposures using Ionising Radiation and (2) Accidental and Unintended Exposures with major stakeholders from the medical field.
18th HERCA Board Meeting
HERCA Board will meet on 3 and 4 November 2016 in Dublin, Ireland. This meeting will be kindly hosted by the Office of radiological Protection from the Environment Protection Agency.
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HERCA and WENRA jointly organised on 14 and 15 June 2016 in Bled, Slovenia, a workshop on the implementation of the HERCA-WENRA Approach for cross-border emergency preparedness with th...
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The final report of the 2nd radon workshop, organized by HERCA, with the participation of ILO, WHO and IAEA, is now available. Some recommendations underline, in particular, the need fo...
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On 1st April 2015, HERCA organized a multi-stakeholder meeting on the dose optimization of CT scanners. The objective of this meeting was to consider dose optimization for ensuring the ...
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HEADS OF THE EUROPEAN RADIOLOGICAL PROTECTION COMPETENT AUTHORITIES
HERCA is a voluntary association in which the Heads of Radiation Protection Authorities work together in order to identify common issues and propose practical solutions for these issues. HERCA is working on topics generally covered by provisions of the EURATOM Treaty. The programme of work of HERCA is based on common interest in significant regulatory issues.
The goal of HERCA is to contribute to a high level of radiological protection throughout Europe. In order to achieve this goal, the association will:
- Build and maintain a European network of chief radiation protection regulatory authorities, with the definite wish to involve ALL such regulatory authorities, throughout Europe
- Promote the exchange of ideas and experiences, avoiding unnecessary duplication of work and learning from one another’s best practices
- Develop a common approach to radiation protection and the way it is transposed into regulation
- Discuss and, where appropriate, express its consensus opinion on significant regulatory issues.
Participating Authorities
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The Uniqueness of HERCA
The uniqueness of HERCA, as compared to other existing networks in radiation protection, is that it is composed of the Heads of the Authorities, persons who either have decision capacity or can at least have a major influence on policy and decisions within their country.