The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) have overall UK government responsibility for negotiating the revision of the EU Basic Safety Standards Directive. HSE is working closely with DECC, other government departments, and officials from the devolved administrations, to prepare the UK detailed negotiating position. A cross government group has been convened to ensure a consistent approach across UK government. The BSS Project Team at HSE, brings together policy, legal, and technical experts, and is working very closely with cross government colleagues on this important work.
The European Commission (EC) has brought forward a formal proposal for a new Basic Safety Standards Directive that brings together and consolidates five existing EURATOM Directives, with a Recommendation also being taken into account.
The revision pf the Directive has had a number of influences:
The HSE team are currently engaging with stakeholders on the proposed reduction of the dose limit for the lens of the eye, to understand its impact on the UK. In particular, HSE is keen to hear from those in the medical and nuclear sectors. HSE is also continuing to engage UK stakeholders, more broadly to ensure that a breadth of interested parties views inform the detailed UK negotiating position.
