§ Mr. Llew SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when the specifications of the wastes to be returned to Germany under the agreement between the German and United Kingdom Governments on the treatment of irradiated German origin spent nuclear fuel by BNFL, dated 21 March 1991, Cm 1639 were agreed to be satisfactory; and if he will place in the Library copies of subsequent exchanges of notes on the repatriation arrangements for radioactive wastes arising from reprocessed German fuel. [62492]
§ Mr. BattleSince 1976, all BNFL's contracts for the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel for overseas customers have been underpinned by inter-governmental exchanges of letters covering such issues as the return of wastes and the assurances over the application of international safeguards. The arrangements for the return of the wastes are a commercial matter between BNFL and its overseas customers, subject to meeting the appropriate regulatory requirements.