The new Basic Safety Standards (BSS) Directive (Council Directive 2013/59/Euratom) modernises European radiation protection legislation by taking account the latest scientific knowledge, technological progress, and operational experience with current legislation. The new Directive entails substantial new requirements in various topical areas, e.g. improving the protection of patients in medical applications, improving the protection of workers, and improving the protection of the public in particular from natural radiation sources. After entry into force of the BSS Directive on the 6 February 2014, Member States will have...

The European Commission (EC) is aware that the transposition and implementation of the BSS Directive in the medical sector will constitute a major challenge for the respective national legislators and regulators in European Union Member States. Therefore, the EC approved a 15-month tender project in May 2016 to monitor the transposition of the BSS directive in the medical sector into Member States’ national legislation and to support its implementation. This project was awarded to a consortium headed by the European Federation of Organisations for Medical...

After the successful survey and the workshop held in Brussels in mid-January, the project consortium is currently in the last phase of the project, i.e. the preparation of the report on the findings from the survey and the evaluation of the workshop, which will be issued, in confidence, to the EC in mid-2017.

Coordinator: EFOMP Consortium members: ESR, EFRS Project Management: European Society of Radiology (ESR), [email protected]

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