International Atomic Energy Agency General Conference (Unofficial electronic version)	GC(42)/RES/12 September 1998 GENERAL Distr. ENGLISH
Forty-second regular session Agenda item 12 (GC(42)/20)

The General Conference,

(a) Welcoming the report contained in document GC(42)/INF/15 on the International Conference on the Safety of Radiation Sources and the Security of Radioactive Materials held in Dijon, France, from 14 to 18 September 1998, and

(b) Noting with interest the major findings of the Conference,

1. Encourages all governments to join in international co-operative efforts directed towards strengthening the safety of radiation sources and the security of radioactive materials;

2. Further encourages all governments to take steps to ensure the existence within their territories of effective national systems of control for ensuring the safety of radiation sources and the security of radioactive materials;

3. Requests the Secretariat to prepare for the consideration of the Board of Governors a report on (i) how national systems for ensuring the safety of radiation sources and the security of radioactive materials can be operated at a high level of effectiveness and (ii) whether international undertakings concerned with the effective operation of such systems and attracting broad adherence could be formulated; and

4. Requests the Director General to report to it at the next (1999) regular session on the implementation of this resolution.

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