Vietnam: Failing to store dossier of radiation and nuclear safety shall be fined up to VND 200 million

According to Decree No. 107/2013/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, organizations failing to make or store dossier of radiation and nuclear safety shall be fined up to VND 200 million. Specifically, fines for violations against provisions on dossier of radiation and nuclear safety are as follows:

1. A fine of between VND 2,000,000 and 5,000,000 for act of not storing one of the following documents:

- Conclusions of the inspection and examination of documents about the fulfillment of the requirements of competent state agencies;

- Reports on safety assessment of radiological works.

2. A fine of between VND 3,000,000 and 6,000,000 for act of failing to make or not storing one of the following dossiers and documents:

- Documents about radiation sources, radiological equipment, the changes, repair, and upgrade of radiological equipment;

- Dossier on the decontamination, measurement in working areas of radiological workers;

- Dossier of maintenance, inspection, and calibration of radiation measurement equipment and radiological equipment;

- The journal of the operation and use of radiological equipment and radiation sources;

- Documents about accidents while doing radiological works;

- Training documents, documents about health of radiological workers;

- Documents about radiation doses of radiological workers;

- The application for the license for radiological works;

- Documents on the treatment, storage, and burial of radioactive waste;

- Documents about the radioactive delivery when transporting radioactive material.

3. A fine of between VND 4,000,000 and 8,000,000 for one of the following acts:

- Failing to send reports on safety assessment of radiological works; documents about radiation sources, radiological equipment, the changes, repair, and upgrade of radiological equipment; dossier on the decontamination, measurement in working areas of radiological workers; dossier of maintenance, inspection, and calibration of radiation measurement equipment and radiological equipment; the journal of the operation and use of radiological equipment and radiation sources; training documents, documents about health of radiological workers; documents about radiation doses of radiological workers to the competent state agencies before terminating operation;

- Failing to send documents about radiation sources, radiological equipment, the changes, repair, and upgrade of radiological equipment; dossier of maintenance, inspection, and calibration of radiation measurement equipment and radiological equipment to the new owning and using facility, in case where the radioactive source, radiation equipment are send to new facility.

4. A fine of between VND 6,000,000 and 12,000,000 for act of not storing reports on safety analysis for radiation facility when apply for license for construction, change of operational scale and scope, operational termination according to regulation.

5. A fine of between VND 20,000,000 and 40,000,000 shall be imposed for organizations failing to make or failing to store one of the following dossiers and documents:

- Documents about nuclear material, nuclear equipment, the changes, repair, and upgrade of nuclear equipment;

- Dossier of maintenance and inspection of nuclear equipment.

6. A fine of between VND 50,000,000 and 80,000,000 shall be imposed for organizations failing to make dossiers of upgrade of nuclear facility.

7. A fine of between VND 100,000,000 and 160,000,000 shall be imposed for organizations failing to store reports on safety analysis in the application for the approval of location of nuclear power plant.

8. A fine of between VND 120,000,000 and 200,000,000 shall be imposed for organizations failing to store dossiers of upgrade of nuclear facilities.

View more details at Decree No. 107/2013/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from November 15, 2013.

Ty Na

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