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Project – 60 Steering Committee Reviews Progress in Implementation

Wednesday October 14th, 2020

On 14 October 2020 the Steering Committee of the EU CBRN CoE Project 60 convened its 8th meeting to review the remaining elements for the completion of the initial objectives and to consider the conduct of some activities, that can be performed remotely, under the enduring pandemic conditions. Silvia Bottone, EC DEVCO Program Manager, welcomed the resilience of the CoE network that allowed Project 60 to make progress despite the challenging pandemic conditions and travel restrictions. She emphasized that countering the illicit trafficking of radioactive material - which is the core objective of the Project’s second stage - requires further improvement of the regional collaboration among the participating countries. ISTC ED David Cleave noted that the Project continues to be the flagship of EU activities on nuclear security in Africa. It accumulated experiences that deserve sharing and multiplying. The upcoming Review Conference of the amended Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material offers an opportunity for that. Bojan TOMIC, Principal Consultant, ENCO, echoed that notion. He reminded that the initial P-60 Work plan comprised a workshop dedicated to the achieved regulatory improvements. Under the prevailing circumstances an online workshop could be organized to be followed by other online events…

Monday July 2nd, 2018

The Expert mission to Uganda, in the frame of CoE project P 60, took place in Kampala from 2 to 5 July 2018. The twenty-one staff (five were women) from the main stakeholders including President’s Office, Ministry of Defense, Atomic Energy Council, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Justice, National Customs Authority, and the Data Expert Solution (DES) participated in the meetings. Three experts of the Consortium (ENCO, SCK-CEN, and STUK) implemented the mission. The objectives were to collect information and assess the status in areas of interest for the CoE project P 60. The scope of the discussions included legal and regulatory framework, activities using radioactive sources in Uganda, authorization process, inspection and enforcement, import/export of radioactive sources, radiological emergency preparedness and response, interim radioactive source storage facility, control of scrap metal companies, etc. Also discussed were training on going activities and future needs, international cooperation, national coordination related with safety and security of radioactive sources, specific nuclear security activities with the IAEA, current developments on different topics, etc. The Atomic Energy Council is the regulatory authority responsible for preparing the regulation. Drafting of several of those is ongoing. The legal texts and some standard operating procedures that are…