Nuclear Energy Act
(NEA)

¹ A con­struc­tion li­cence is gran­ted if the fol­low­ing con­di­tions are met:

a.

the pro­tec­tion of hu­mans and the en­vir­on­ment is en­sured;

b.

the pro­ject meets the prin­ciples gov­ern­ing nuc­le­ar safety and se­cur­ity;

c.

the grant­ing of the li­cence does not con­flict with any oth­er pro­vi­sions of fed­er­al le­gis­la­tion, in par­tic­u­lar gov­ern­ing en­vir­on­ment­al pro­tec­tion, pre­ser­va­tion of loc­al nat­ur­al and cul­tur­al her­it­age, and spa­tial plan­ning;

d.

the ap­plic­ant is able to guar­an­tee pro­fes­sion­al pro­ject man­age­ment and has drawn up a pro­gramme of meas­ures re­lat­ing to qual­ity as­sur­ance for all con­struc­tion activ­it­ies;

e.

a plan has been sub­mit­ted for de­com­mis­sion­ing, or a pro­ject for the mon­it­or­ing peri­od and a plan for the clos­ure of the in­stall­a­tion.

² For in­stall­a­tions that re­quire a gen­er­al li­cence, a con­struc­tion li­cence will only be gran­ted if:

a.

the ap­plic­ant is in pos­ses­sion of a leg­ally val­id gen­er­al li­cence;

b.

the pro­ject con­cerned com­plies with the pro­vi­sions of the gen­er­al li­cence.

³ For in­stall­a­tions that are not sub­ject to a gen­er­al li­cence, the re­quire­ments cited in Art­icle 13 para­graph 1 let­ters d-f and para­graph 2 also ap­ply.