“News from the Shop-Floor of Nuclear Law” [update]

Welcome and introduction

Dr. Christian Raetzke, Chairman of the German Branch of AIDN/INLA

Message to the auditorium

Els Reynaers Kini, President AIDN/INLA

Keynote speech: The Atom and its power – Rational fears

Dr. Reinhard Müller, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Preview of the conference

Akos Frank LL.M., Head of the Organizing committee

Session 1

Turnkey – a viable contractual concept for nuclear new build and decommissioning?

Chair: Akos Frank LL.M., AREVA

Session secretary: Julius F.W. Weitzdörfer, Darwin College Cambridge

• Florian Cahn LL.M., AREVA GmbH – Turnkey – definition of the term and practical application in nuclear new build.

• Graham Alty, Pinsent Masons LLP – Turnkey – appropriate use in Decommissioning projects and alternative structures.

• Ingmar Kohl, Ernst & Young – Contracting strategies in the nuclear Renaissance and beyond.

Session 2

Access to justice in environmental law and related to international investments disputes

Chair: Ulrike Feldmann, German Association of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Industries

Session secretary: Michaela Rexhaeuser LL.M, AREVA

• Professor Dr. Sabine Schlacke, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster – Access to justice in environmental and nuclear law.

• MinR Dr. Christof Sangenstedt, Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety – Europeanisation of the German administrative procedural law and administrative adjective law resulting from legal requirements on the access to justice in environmental law.

• Professor Dr. Hans-Georg Dederer, Universität Passau – Access to justice in international investments disputes at the ICSID – exemplified by the arbitration case “Vattenfall II”.

Franconian Feast in the medieval restaurant Heilig-Geist-Spital

(The Heilig-Geist-Spital is within walking distance from the conference hotel)

Session 3

Legal requirements on the final disposal of highly radioactive waste – An international overview

Chair: Dr. Klaus-Jürgen Brammer, Gesellschaft für Nuklear-Service mbH

Session secretary: Lisa-Kristin Trapp LL.M., AREVA

• Hanns Näser, Gesellschaft für Nuklear-Service mbH – Long-term safety of one million years as criterion for final disposal?

• MinDir a.D. Hubert Steinkemper, Commission Storage Highly Radioactive Waste – Status of final disposal in Germany.

• Nuria Prieto Serrano, ENRESA – Legal requirements of the Radioactive Waste Directive 20011/70/ Euratom for the Member States.
• Jay R. Kraemer, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP – Status of HLW disposal in the USA.

Panel discussion

National developments and challenges in the field of legal requirements for final disposal

• Dr. Sara Maciel Sánchez, Martínez & Maciel Nuclear Law Firm, Mexico,

• Judit Silye, Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority, Hungary,

• Lisa Thiele, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, Canada,

• Nuria Prieto Serrano, ENRESA, Spain,

• MinDir a.D. Hubert Steinkemper, Commission Storage Highly Radioactive Waste, Germany,

• Jay Kraemer, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, USA,

• Hanns Näser, Gesellschaft für Nuklear-Service mbH, Germany.

Session 4

Nuclear liability – latest developments

Chair: Dr. Norbert Pelzer, Universität Göttingen

Session secretary: Łukasz Młynarkiewicz, Legal Counsel’s Office of Dariusz Młynarkiewicz, Poland

• Els Reynaers Kini, MV Kini, Mumbai – Nuclear liability – Latest developments in India.
• Dr. Christian Raetzke, CONLAR, Leipzig – Liability of German operators for transboundary damage: The reciprocity principle of section 31 of the German Nuclear Energy Act.

Session 5

Nuclear safety in the EU and beyond

Chair: Dr. Christian Raetzke, CONLAR, Leipzig

Session secretary: Alexandra van Kalleveen, European Commission, ITU Karlsruhe

• Massimo Garribba, Nuclear Safety and Fuel Cycle, Directorate-General for Energy, European Commission – The revised EU Nuclear Safety Directive.
• Ana Stanic (to be confirmed), E&A Law Limited, London – Does the EU nuclear safety directive risk fragmenting international standards?.

• Carlton Stoiber, Consultant on international and nuclear law, Washington D.C. – New Development in the Law of Nuclear Safety: the Vienna Declaration.