Nuclear Energy Act
(NEA)

¹ In the event that the pay­ments by a fund in fa­vour of a be­ne­fi­ciary should ex­ceed its en­ti­tle­ment, the be­ne­fi­ciary shall re­pay the dif­fer­ence to the fund, to­geth­er with in­terest at nor­mal mar­ket rates.

² If the be­ne­fi­ciary is un­able to ef­fect re­pay­ment with­in a peri­od spe­cified by the Fed­er­al Coun­cil, the oth­er con­trib­ut­ing parties and be­ne­fi­ciar­ies of the fund con­cerned shall cov­er the dif­fer­ence through ad­di­tion­al pay­ments in pro­por­tion to their con­tri­bu­tions.

³ An ob­lig­a­tion to pay ad­di­tion­al con­tri­bu­tions shall also ap­ply:

a.

in the case of Art­icle 78 para­graph 4, if the con­tri­bu­tions that have be­come the prop­erty of the fund should not suf­fice to cov­er the de­com­mis­sion­ing or dis­pos­al costs;

b.

in the case of Art­icle 79 para­graph 3, if the party re­spons­ible for dis­pos­al fails to re­pay the dif­fer­ence to the fund.

⁴ In the event that ad­di­tion­al pay­ments to cov­er short­ages of funds should be deemed un­reas­on­able by the parties con­cerned, the Fed­er­al As­sembly shall de­cide wheth­er, and to what ex­tent, the Con­fed­er­a­tion shall con­trib­ute to­wards the un­covered costs.