CYIL vol. 11 (2020)

CYIL 11 (2020) THE CURRENT TRENDS OF INTERNATIONAL TREATIES IN THE FIELD… Journal “Energy law forum”. Head of Energy law center of St. Petersburg State University of Economics. Author and co-author of more than 200 publications on energy law. Her researches are devoted to energy law order on national and international levels, legal regulation of energy law security, legal regulation of the protection of rights of energy markets participation, legal regulation of the construction of energy power objects, corporate governance in energy companies with state participation, peculiarities of legal regulation in different spheres of energy. She is arbitrator of the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, arbitrator of the Arbitration Center at the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, The member of the public council of Ministry of Energy of Russian Federation and the member of expert council of the Energy of State Duma Committee. E-mail: branchmp99@yandex.ru. 1. Introduction The main directions of international legal cooperation in the field of nuclear energy use can be distinguished primarily regarding the subject of international treaties in the field of nuclear energy use. First, the areas of global regulation in the field of nuclear energy use include the nuclear and radiation safety, physical protection of nuclear material, spent nuclear fuel management, and liability for nuclear damage. In these areas, there is a fairly high level of global regulatory unification. 1 For global regulation in the field of peaceful uses of nuclear energy (international nuclear law 2 ), all types of international treaties are used: interstate, intergovernmental, interagency agreements. The Russian Federation is currently Contracting Party to many multilateral treaties in the field of nuclear energy use, namely the Convention on Nuclear Safety 3 , the Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident 4 , Convention on Assistance in Case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency 5 the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material 6 , the Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage 7 and the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management. 8 Intergovernmental treaties in the field of nuclear energy use cover various areas of cooperation. International intergovernmental treaties provide for such key areas in the use of nuclear energy as the design and construction of energy and research nuclear reactors, 1 See HANDRLICA, Jakub “Nuclear law revisited as an academic discipline” (2019) 12 Journal of World Energy Law and Business 52. 2 For terminological clarification of the term “nuclear law”, see HANDRLICA, Jakub “Atomic Law” or “Nuclear Law”? An Academic Discussion Revisited’ (2018) 5 BRICS Law Journal 135-155. 3 The Convention on Nuclear Safety (adopted 17 June 1994, entered into force 24 October 1996), INFCIRC/449. 4 The Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident (adopted 26 September 1986, entered into force 27 October 1985), INFCIRC/335. 5 The Convention on Assistance in the Case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency (adopted 26 September 1986, entered into force 26 February 1987), INFCIRC/336. 6 The Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (adopted 26 October 1979, entered into force 8 February 1987), INFCIRC/274. 7 The Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage (adopted 21 May 1963, entered into force 12 November 1977), INFCIRC/500. 8 The Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management (adopted 5 September 1997, entered into force 18 June 2001), INFCIRC/546.

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