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I can assure you that the Commission intends to apply the ‘polluter pays’ principle to the nuclear sector as well. Both the Commission’s final decision on the restructuring of British Energy and its decision to open proceedings on the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority make it clear that under the polluter pays principle, operators of nuclear stations bear the primary responsibility for the payment of the management of their waste and other nuclear liabilities, including planned decommissioning.
However, one has to keep in mind that, as with all principles of Community law, the polluter pays principle must be reconciled with other Community principles and objectives, which may, in certain circumstances, conflict with it. In the British Energy case, for instance, the polluter pays principle had to be reconciled with the need to preserve nuclear safety, which is also, as you know, a major Community objective enshrined in the Euratom Treaty. In such cases the Commission seeks to strike the best possible balance between diverging principles for the benefit of the Community."@en1
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