This information has been prepared ahead of the debate to be held in Westminster Hall on Tuesday 24 July 2018 at 2.30pm on taxpayer liability for safety at the Wylfa Nuclear power project. The debate will be opened by Alan Brown MP. UK nuclear liability: The Paris and Brussels Conventions The United Kingdom is party to the following international conventions managed under the auspices of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency which establish a framework for nuclear liability: the Convention on Third Party Liability in the Field of Nuclear Energy of 29th July 1960, as amended by the Additional Protocol of 28th January 1964 and by the Protocol of 16th November 1982 (“the Paris Convention”) the Convention of 31st January 1963 Supplementary to the Paris Convention of 29th July 1960, as amended by the Additional Protocol of 28th January 1964 and by the Protocol of 16th November 1982 (“the Brussels Convention”).
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