Abstract

The accident in the nuclear power plant Fukushima Dai-ichi reopened again the interest of the European Union in harmonising the legal framework for nuclear third party liability. Currently, we face a "labyrinth" of international treaties that create a number of different regimes of nuclear third party liability. There are grave differences between the Western and Eastern European member states. This paper aims to deal with the problem from two points of view: At first, it will deal with the question of whether the accession of the European Atomic Energy Community to a nuclear ...