S.L. 549.51 Art. 3Interpretation. Cap. 549. S.L. 365.15

(1) For the purposes of these regulations the following definitions shall apply:

"the Act" means the Environment Protection Act; "the Community" means the European Atomic Energy Community; "the competent authority" means the Environment and Resources Authority and such other body or person as the Minister may by order in the Gazette, prescribe and different bodies or persons may be designated as the competent authority for different provisions and different purposes of these regulations; "competent authorities" means any authority which, under the law or regulations of the countries of origin, transit or destination, are empowered to implement the system of supervision and control of shipments of radioactive waste or spent fuel; "consignee" means any natural or legal person to whom radioactive waste or spent fuel is shipped; "country or Member State of origin" means any country or Member State from which a shipment is planned to be initiated or is initiated; "country or Member State of destination" means any country or Member State to which a shipment is planned or takes place; "country or Member State of transit" means any country or Member State other than the country or the Member State of origin or the country or the Member State of destination, through the territory of which a shipment is planned or takes place; "disposal" means the emplacement of radioactive waste or spent fuel in an authorised facility without the intention of retrieval; "disused source" means a sealed source which is no longer used or intended to be used for the practice for which authorisation was granted;

"duly completed application" means the standard document that complies with all the requirements, as established in accordance with regulation 5; "extra-Community shipment" means a shipment carried out where the country of origin and, or the country of destination are third countries; "holder" means any natural or legal person who, before carrying out a shipment of radioactive waste or spent fuel is responsible under the applicable national law for such materials and plans to carry out a shipment to a consignee; "intra-Community shipment" means a shipment carried out where the country of origin and the country of destination are Member States; "Malta" means the Island of Malta, the Island of Gozo and the other islands of the Maltese Archipelago, including the territorial waters thereof;

"the Minister" means the Minister responsible for the environment;

"radioactive waste" means radioactive material in gaseous, liquid or solid form for which no further use is foreseen by the countries of origin and destination, or by a natural or legal person whose decision is accepted by these countries, and which is controlled as radioactive waste by a regulatory body under the legislative and regulatory framework of the countries of origin and destination; "recognised installation" means a facility located in the territory of a country authorised by the competent authorities of that country in accordance with national law for the long-term storage or disposal of sealed sources or an installation duly authorised under national law for the interim storage of sealed sources; "reprocessing" means a process or operation, the purpose of which is to extract radioactive isotopes from spent fuel for further use; "sealed source" has the meaning given to it by the Nuclear Safety S.L. 365.15 and Radiation Protection Regulations, and includes the capsule, where applicable, enclosing the radioactive material as an integral part of the source; "shipment" means the whole of operations involved in moving radioactive waste or spent fuel from the country or the Member State of origin to the country or the Member State of destination; "spent fuel" means nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in and permanently removed from a reactor core; spent fuel may either be considered as usable resource that can be reprocessed or be destined for final disposal with no further use foreseen and shall be treated as radioactive waste; "storage" means the holding of radioactive waste or spent fuel in a facility that provides for its containment, with the intention of retrieval; "waste" in addition to what is said in the Act, means any thing, substance, product or object, whether in solid or liquid form, whether hazardous or otherwise, which the holder discards, or intends, or is required to discard, or any other which is deemed to be waste by the competent authority nominated by the Minister responsible for the environment under the Act.

(2) All other terms shall have the same meaning as that assigned to them in regulation 3 of the Nuclear Safety and

Radiation Protection Regulations.