General international law and facilities
near the borders in the 1980s in
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Le droit international général et les installations nucléaires proches des frontières dans les années ’80 en Europe occidentale
General international law and facilities near the borders in the 1980s in Western Europe

Author(s): FLORE POP
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Publishing Inc. European Readings & Prodifmultimedia/Editura Napoca Star
Keywords: Nuclear energy; international cooperation; international law; nuclear law; institutional framework; nuclear installation close to the border; transboundary pollution; environment protection

Summary/Abstract: This short article recalls the bilateral or multilateral nuclear agreements concluded between the countries ofWestern Europe decades ago. Since the 80s there were established specific mechanisms of mutual consultationamong stakeholders in the Western countries, interested in the implantation of new nuclear plants close to theirborders, these taking both classical forms of nuclear agreements and the less formal ones like the memorandum, theexchange of letters, directives of cooperation, those mechanisms encouraging the exchange of information andconsultations. These agreements provided precise mechanisms and procedures of mutual information in situationswhere new nuclear plants were built close to a state border.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 07+08
  • Page Range: 204-211
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English
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