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Policy Department D: Budgetary Affairs
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4.3.1. Establishment of national organisational structures
Bulgaria
After having closed Kozloduy Unit 1 and 2 before 2003, based on a memorandum between Bulgaria
and the EC in 1999, Bulgaria committed to the closure of Unit 3 and 4 in 2005 (Accession 2005) 17 and
shut down these two units on the 31 st of December 2006.
The decommissioning activities (fuel unloading etc.) started under control of the former operator
organisation of the plant.
In 2004, the state-owned organisation DP RAO (or SE RAW) was constituted by law (Act 2011a,
Section II - Radioactive Waste State-Owned Company, Effective 1.01.2004) and put in charge of
managing all activities concerning nuclear waste. The responsibility to decommission Units 1 and 2
were later transferred to this organisation in 2008, Units 3 and 4 followed in 2012.
DP RAO is under administrative control of the Ministry for Economy and Energy (MEE 2013).
In 2003, Bulgaria established a fund which aimed to cover the decommissioning costs (Act 2011a,
Section V - Nuclear Facilities Decommissioning Fund - Effective 1.01.2003). The main contributor to
the fund is the State of Bulgaria and, since the amendment of 2010, the state-owned operating
company of Kozloduy NPP Units 5 and 6. The control of the fund is performed by a Management
board comprised of Ministries, the operator of the nuclear power plants and others (Article 52 in
Act 2011a).
Lithuania
In 2003 Lithuania committed to close its RBMK Units 1 and 2 of the nuclear power plant in Ignalina
(Accession 2003a) 18 .
Decommissioning preparations for Unit 1 were already earlier initiated by law (Act 2000), but the
terms of this law remain very general. Article 4 of the law calls for a decommissioning plan, for which
the operator of the Ignalina nuclear power plant (INPP) is mandated. Article 5 sets up a fund, but
remains very general about the size, the sources and the administration rules of this fund. Article 10
requires the government to draft a fund law. This law (Act 2001) names as sources for the funds
mainly deductions from sold electricity from INPP, foreign contributions and the sale of property.
INPP is formally administered by the Minister of Energy (ME 2013). The structure is shown in Figure 32.
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Accession 2005: Article 30: '1. Bulgaria, having closed - in line with its commitments - definitively for
subsequent decommissioning Unit 1 and Unit 2 of the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant before the year 2003,
commits to the definitive closure of Unit 3 and Unit 4 of this plant in 2006 and to subsequent decommissioning
of these units.'
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Accession 2003a: Article 1: 'Acknowledging the readiness of the Union to provide adequate additional
Community assistance to the efforts by Lithuania to decommission the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant and
highlighting this expression of solidarity, Lithuania commits to the closure of Unit 1 of the Ignalina Nuclear
Power Plant before 2005 and of Unit 2 of this plant by 31 December 2009 at the latest and to the subsequent
decommissioning of these units.'
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