Definition and Recommendations for the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter

Under the terms of the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, the IAEA is the organization with the responsibility for defining high level radioactive wastes or other high level radioactive matter which is unsuitable for dumping at sea. The IAEA established a provisional Definition and Recommendations in 1972 and a revised version in 1978. The present Safety Series document contains the second revised Definition and Recommendations, which were established in 1985.