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European level should not be envisaged at the moment. However, if the European institutions considered
using the Treaty of the European Communities as a legal base for potential action, further
regulation of decommissioning financing at EU level would be justified. Further harmonisation in
the EU would be achieved by the introduction and implementation of binding legislation by Member
States. Its legal base could focus on the impact of differences in decommissioning financing
schemes on the energy market and/or environmental protection, neither of which are adequately addressed
through the EURATOM Treaty. Such a directive would only be necessary if the current
processes were not fully implemented.
6. Acknowledgements
The study has been carried out on behalf of the European Commission, to which the author of this
paper is extremely grateful for its financial support and co-operation.
A special acknowledgement goes to the members of the consortium who developed and collected
questionnaires whose data and information provided a valuable first basis for this project [2]. Data
and information directly received from operators of nuclear facilities, decommissioning fund managers,
ministries and further stakeholders contacted/interviewed for the purpose of this study added
a lot to this basis. Therefore, the author would particularly like to thank all these stakeholders for
the data and information provided.
Finally, the author would like to thank all the partners who have contributed to the project, in particular:
Kaspar Müller (Ellipson), Dörte Fouquet (Kuhbier Lawfirms), Antony Patrick Froggatt (private
consultant), Abdelkader B. Ameur (AST), Veit Bürger (Öko-Institut), Jozef Krizan, Luba
Kupke-Siposova and Maria Mistrikova (Energia 2000 & partner organisations), Tamás Pázmándi
and Péter Zagyvai (AEKI), Mycle Schneider (Mycle Schneider Consulting), Daiva Semeniene
(AAPC), Ian Smith (private consultant), Stephen Thomas (PSIRU), and, Seppo Vuori (VTT).
References
[1] Wuppertal Institute [Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie GmbH]; et al.: Comparison
among different decommissioning funds methodologies for nuclear installations. Service
Contract TREN/05/NUCL/S07.55436 on behalf of the European Commission, Directorate-
General Energy and Transport, H2. Wuppertal, 2007
Download:
http://www.wupperinst.org/en/projects/proj/index.html?&projekt_id=167&bid=130
[2] European Commission: Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament
and the Council, Second Report on the use of financial resources earmarked for the decommissioning
of nuclear installations, spent fuel and radioactive waste, COM(2004) 794 final.
Brussels, 12 Dec 2007
[3] Questionnaires filled-in by most of the EU Member States and candidate countries (except
Bulgaria) in the course of the DG TREN project „Analysis of the factors influencing the selection
of strategies for decommissioning of nuclear installations“ (Contract Number
TREN/04/NUCL/S07.40075) carried out by Colenco and Iberinco.
[4] KPMG [KPMG Corporate Finance N.V.]; NRG (2006): Financiële Zekerheidsstelling Kernenergiewet,
Ministerie van VROM, Amsterdam, Petten.
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