Nuclear Energy Ordinance
(NEO)

¹ EN­SI shall no­ti­fy the gen­er­al pub­lic without delay of any spe­cial events and find­ings in nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tions that:

a.

rep­res­ent a haz­ard to the in­stall­a­tion or its per­son­nel, or have sig­ni­fic­ant ra­di­olo­gic­al im­pacts on the en­vir­on­ment (events and find­ings of cat­egory 3 or great­er of the INES scale, ac­cord­ing to An­nex 6);

b.

are of sig­ni­fic­ance in terms of safety, but have no or only a neg­li­gible ra­di­olo­gic­al im­pact on the en­vir­on­ment (events and find­ings of cat­egory 2 or great­er of the INES scale, ac­cord­ing to An­nex 6).

² In the case of spe­cial events and find­ings of pub­lic in­terest that are not covered by para­graph 1 above, EN­SI shall ar­range for the pro­vi­sion of in­form­a­tion to the pub­lic.