TECHNICAL COOPERATION
RER/9/096 Regional Planning Meeting
“Strengthening National Infrastructures
for the Control of Radiation Sources”
(TSA-1), (Phase II) “
19-20 March 2009
IAEA Headquarters in Vienna
AUSTRIA
The Government of Montenegro
The Ministry of Tourism and
Environment
Tamara Djurovic
tamara.djurovic@gov.me
www.mte.gov.me
STRATEGIC
 Montenegro`s strategic goal
is integration in the EU
 Montenegro signed
Agreement on association
and stabilization 2007
 The National Plan for
Integration of Montenegro –
NPI into European Union is
being adopted 2008
 Montenegro applied for EU
membership which was the
key moment for Montenegro
2008
GOAL
Regulatory framework
in Montenegro
current status
National Regulatory Infrastructure
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Regulatory Framework
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Functions of the regulatory authority
Regulatory framework
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Legislation
Radiation safety regulations
Regulatory Authority establishment
and independence
Regulatory Authority staffing and
training
Regulatory Authority funding
Coordination and cooperation at the
national level
International cooperation
Functions of the Regulatory
Authority (1)
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Notification
Inventory of sources
Authorization
Inspection (Compliance monitoring )
Enforcement
Investigation
Information dissemination
Quality management
Functions of the Regulatory
Authority (2)
Additional functions, e.g.
– Role of the regulatory authority in
intervention (Emergency
preparedness and response)
– Technical services availability
LEGISLATIONS
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Law on Protection against Ionising Radiation 1996
Law banning the construction of nuclear power plants
in FRY 1995
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Law on transport of danger substances 2007
Law on rescue and protection 2007
National Strategy for emergency situation 2007
Law on Environment 2008
Law on protection from ionizing radiation and
radiation safety (adopted by Government) 2008
National Action Plan in Emergency Situation
(radiological accident) at the beginning -2009
Strategy on radiation protection and radiation safety
with Action plan (planned 2011)
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O.G. FRJ No. 45/1997.
Decision about education levels and health conditions of persons that work with
ionizing radiation sources.
Decision about evidencing of ionizing radiation sources and about exposure of
population, patients and people who works with ionizing radiation sources.
Decision about systematic investigation of radionuclide contents in the
environment.
Decision about conditions that must be fulfilled by institutions which perform
measurements to estimate level of exposure to ionizing radiation of people who
works with ionizing radiation sources, patients and population.
O.G. FRJ No. 32/1998.
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Regulation about application of ionizing radiation sources in medicine and basic
prescriptions.
Regulation about conditions that must be fulfilled by institutions which performs
systematic investigation of radionuclide contents in the environment.
Regulation about conditions for trafficking and use of radioactive materials,
roentgen units and other devices which produce ionizing radiation.
Regulation about of maximum permissible levels of exposure to ionizing
radiation.
O.G. FRJ No. 9/1999.
Regulation about conditions that must be fulfilled by institution which performs
decontamination.
Regulation about levels of radioactive contamination of the environment and
about ways to conduct decontamination.
Regulation about ways and conditions of collecting, kipping, evidencing, storing,
processing, and disposing of radioactive vast materials.
COMPETENTIES
According
to
the
previous
Regulation
on
public
administration organization, the designated competent
authorities to carry out the state regulatory supervision of
radiation safety based on laws are:
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The Ministry of Tourism and Environment
(non-medical use) and
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Care
(medical use)- Temporary Regulatory Body
For transport and emergency:
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The Ministry of Interior Affairs and Public
Administration
COMPETENTIES
According
to
the
new
Regulations
on
public
administration organization (2008), the designated
competent authorities to carry out the state regulatory
supervision of radiation protection and safety based on
existing laws are:
 The Ministry of Tourism and Environment (policy
and legislation tasks)
 The Environmental Protection Agency (executive
tasks-implementation of legislations and policies)
FOR TRANSPORT AND RESPOND IN EMERGENCY SITUATION:
 The Ministry of Interior Affairs and Public Administration
I THE MINISTRY OF TOURISM AND ENVIRONMENT
Among other
consists:
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sectors
and
departments,
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SECTOR FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
 Department for Atmosphere Protection
and Ionizing Radiation – preparing Laws,
regulations, strategy, policy…
II ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Trough cooperation with EU (European Agency for
Reconstruction) project "Assistance to the Ministry of
Environmental Protection and Physical Planning“ almost
finished
 Established Environmental Protection Agency – EPA, a
state administrative body in charge of, among other
things, ionizing radiation protection and radiation
security and safety, under the MTE
 strict division of responsibilities of policy and legislation
tasks as well as legal implementation and enforcement
of the environmental legislation
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
 The Director (nominated by Minister and appointed
and dismissed by the Government)
 The five departments have the Heads of the
Departments (appointed by the Director
in public procedure)
 The EPA has Advisory Committee appointed by the
Minister and is composed of the experts and
professionals (intention-majority in this Committee are the
individuals out of the public administration and local
governance)
 The Agency shall be exclusively funded by the state
budget and by grants.
THIS MODEL WILL:
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Suit ‘good governance’
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Carefully balance between political and
professional influence
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Increase environmental protection
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Establish an integrated environmental approach
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Guarantee stakeholder involvement,
transparency and public participation
DEPARTMENTS - TASK AREA
 Monitoring
 Reporting
 Permitting
 Inspection
 Communication
ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA
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Air
Water
Soil
Waste
Noise
Nature
 Ionising radiation
 Chemicals
 GMOs
 Remediation
 Hazardous
substances
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Industrial
accidents
“REGULATORY BODY” -radiation
protection
Rulebook on systematization and internal
organization on Environmental Protection
Agency adopted by Government 25 December
2008
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PERIMTS WRITER
INSPECTOR
MONITORING
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REGULATORY
BODY
MONITORING
PERMIT WRITER
INSPECTOR
PERMIT WRITER
INSPECTOR
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EPA BUILDING
III THE MINISTRY OF INTERIOR AFFAIRS AND
PUBLIC ORGANIZATION
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Sector for emergency
situation and civil security
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112 network
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ARGOS
ARGOS
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A-(accident)
R-(reporting)
G-(guidance)
O-(operational)
S-(system)
Sector for Emergency Management signed a
Contract to join ARGOS Consortium and became the
11th member.
ARGOS users are the national organizations
responsible for managing emergency situations.
ARGOS, among other things, represents the system
for early warning for radiation hazard and it is also
used as a support to decision-making in response
to disasters.
ARGOS Consortium
members are:
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Australia
Brazil
Canada
Denmark
Estonia
Ireland
Lithuania
Norway
Poland
Sweden
Faroe Islands
Turkey
Montenegro
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ARGOS mission is to support organizations for
emergency situations in order to adopt the best
decisions in case of CBRN accident.
ARGOS allows you to:
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Review the current situation,
Predict the way in which the situation will
develop,
Analyse and present calculation and model
measuring,
Calculate consequences of an accident,
Decide on appropriate countermeasures,
Forward information to public.
ARGOS allows handling data
obtaind through monitoring.
It pools all data obtained
through monitoring of mobile
units (vehicles and aircraft)
and
related
measuring
stations.
COOPERATION WITH IAEA
 COUNTRY PROGRAMME FRAMEWORK 2009-2013- CPF
SIGNED 2008
 Agreements and Conventions signed and
taken by succession procedure
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Ongoing and next projects
(regional, interregional and national)
Agreements (1)
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In November and June 2006 Montenegro notified
officially the depositories (Russian Federation and
United Kingdom) on accepting the following
international agreements:
Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the
Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water of
August 5, 1963
Treaty on the Prohibition of the Emplacement of
Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass
Destruction on the Sea-Bed and the Ocean Floor and in
the Subsoil Thereof of February 11, 1971.
Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, July
1, 1968
Agreements (2)
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Agreement on small quantities
with additional Protocol signed
May 2008
Ratification 2010
Agreements and
Conventions
Through the succession procedure Montenegro signed
the following conventions:
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Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear
Damage, 1963;
The Convention on Physical Protection of Nuclear
Material, 1980;
Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear
Accident, 1986;
Convention on Assistance in the Case of Nuclear
Accident or Radiology Emergency, Vienna, 26/9/86;
MAAE Technical Assistance Agreement signed in 1983
Conventions (2)-planned
activities
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Amendment to the Convention on
the Physical Protection of Nuclear
Material (2009), and
Joint Convention on the Safety of
Spent Fuel Management and on
the Safety of Radioactive Waste,
IAEA, Vienna 5/9/97 (2009).
Conventions (3)
The ratification of the
documents is also planned:
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Protocol to the
Civil Liability
(2010)
Convention
Compensation
(2010)
following
Vienna Convention on
for Nuclear Damage
on
for
Supplementary
Nuclear Damage
MTE AND PI “Centre for Eco –
Toxicological research of
Montenegro” are currently IN
phase of finishing the project
dealing with construction of
storage for low and
intermediate level radioactive
waste. CETI is managing
radioactive storage waste.
The ionizing radioactive
sources that are in use in
Montenegro are of low and
medium activity.
TEHNICAL SERVICES
– Dosimetry services
– Analytical services
– Calibration services
– Waste management
– Medical services
– Training services
– Expert assistance
TECHNICAL SUPPORT
Public Institution “Center
for Eco–Toxicological
Research of Montenegro”
- ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY
MONITORING PROGRAM
Also controls of:
- Food, feed, and similar products connected
with human ingestion.
- Goods for general use.
- Building materials, industrial, raw
materials, scrap metal,…
- Controls of radiation sources in industry,
science or in public places.
- QA/QC – sources of ionizing radiation used
in medicine.
- Personal dosimetry control – TLD.
RADON MEASUREMENTS
We have started with the Project of indoor
radon measurements in Montenegro. The
Project is planed to be realized in
approximately 1000 dwellings, 2 six-month
exposure, with passive nuclear track
detectors (Intercast CR 39). Till now
approximately 60 % is finished. Project is
realized in cooperation with Jozef Stefan
Institute – Ljubljana Slovenia.
ACTIVITIES
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Project of decontamination location
contaminated with Th 232 – source of
contamination military planes jet
engines.
Decontamination of Cape Arza from
depleted uranium. We remove 258 DU
penetrators, or 86 % of total 300* DU
penetrators fired on cape Arza. (*
based on NATO – UNEP official
information).
CETI`s ANNIVERSARY
Institute for The Ferrous Metallurgy a.d. Nikšić
Faculty of Science – University of Montenegro
Dosimetry services (X-Ray machine)
Strengths
Weaknesses
•Establishing
regulatory body
Proposed
Actions
Needs
•Slow procedures
Missing
portal Experience from Scientific visit
countries
who
monitor system
has it established
•Adoption
Draft Law
Government
of
by •Parliament
procedures
pending
•Prompt adoption
•Secondary
legislations must
be improved (17
regulations)
•Translation
existing
regulations
•Assistant
of
IAEA
experts
(CRO, Slovenia,
Macedonia,
Serbia...)
of •If IAEA experts
are not from ex
FRY
•IAEA
coordinate
to
•IAEA
coordinate
to
Strengths
Weaknesses
Proposed
Actions
Needs
Basic training
course
for
permits
writers and
inspectors
Training
in
Slovenia or
Croatiapractical
skills
for
inspectors
visit
3. Training for
other
authorities
(police,
border
police)
• IAEA
to
coordinate
as
soon as possible
(equipment?)
• 5 member staff • still luck of staff
of
regulatory -global economic
body
crises
•Education
(physicist,
chemistry,
physic-chemistry)
•Education
1.
/knowledge
should
be
improved–
starting
with
basic level
2.
Technical
supportupgrading
knowledge
•IAEA
coordinate
to
Strengths
Weaknesses
• guidance
missing about
sources
•guidance
missing about
control of
sources
•guidance
and
forms
for
licensing
and
inspections
•Management
skills
(Information
management
Quality
management)
Proposed
Actions
Needs
•Develop
guidance
•Develop
guidance
•Develop
guidance
Comparable with
•Trainings about similar country
management
•Developing
plans and tools
Strengths
Weaknesses
Proposed Actions
•Training
in
• built
radioactive •Knowledge about dgorica or ...
storage waste
permit procedure for
disposal according
to standards
•Equipped
radioactive storage
waste
•started
with •Luck of experience
collection data
Needs
Po
•Experts help
RAIS trough IAEA
support-national
project
Financial support
•Luck of experience •Common
from IAEA
in work JUST with inspections
in
radioactive sources neighbour countries
•Common
web
portal with guidance
•Regional meetings
for inspectors
•Regional meetings
for permits writer
Opportunities
Threats
New knowledge and skills trough Missing funds;global crises
IAEA and EC projects
…and ATTENTION !