Item 3 of the Board's provisional agenda
(GOV/2004/51)
Item 13 of the Conference's provisional agenda
(GC(48)/1)

Measures to Strengthen International
Cooperation in Nuclear, Radiation and Transport
Safety and Waste Management

1. In March 2004, the Board of Governors approved the International Action Plan for the Development and Application of IAEA Safety Standards contained in document GOV/2004/6.1The implementation of the International Action Plan to date is described below.

Requirements and Safety Guides are needed to complete the corpus, and to report to the June 2004 meeting of the Commission on Safety Standards. Activity 1.2: To consider the scope for new draft standards at the June 2004 meeting of the Commission. Activity 1.3: To prepare Document Preparation Profiles (DPPs) according to the agreed scope for new draft standards for submission to the November 2004 meeting of the Commission. Activity 1.4: To develop the agreed new standards according to the established procedures and within the defined time-scales.)

2. The Commission on Safety Standards was informed in June 2004 of changes to the structure of the safety standards. It approved a revised structure which will be distributed as a brochure during the 2004 session of the General Conference. In connection with activities 1.3 and 1.4, a progress report is being prepared for submission to the Commission in November 2004.

to introduce the new structure efficiently. (Activity 2.1: To identify standards, current and under development, that need to be modified to be in accordance with the new structure, and to submit to the June 2004 meeting of the Commission a list of actions to be taken for each of these standards and draft standards and a timetable for these actions. Activity 2.2: To revise the document on the structure of the standards to reflect the decisions made by the Secretariat and the Commission, for presentation at the 2004 General Conference.)

3. The Commission on Safety Standards was informed in June 2004 that the safety standards committees had not proposed any changes to the current draft safety standards and would like to complete the current drafts before embarking on the development of new standards.

publications for technical and terminological consistency with current standards and other safety related publications before they are submitted to the committees for review. (Activity 3.1: Progress to be reported to the June 2004 meeting of the Commission.)