European Nuclear Energy Tribunal

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The European Nuclear Energy Tribunal (ENET) is an international tribunal, established 1 January 1960, that operates under the auspices of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Its member states are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. The tribunal was established by the Convention on the Establishment of the Security Control in the Field of Nuclear Energy, signed in 1957.^[1]

The purpose of the tribunal is to hear cases concerning liability over nuclear accidents. Formerly it also had the role of hearing cases concerning the violation of the European regional nuclear safeguards system operated by the OECD but that jurisdiction was suspended in the 1970s due to its duplication of the IAEA and the Euratom systems.

The tribunal consists of seven judges appointed to five-year terms.^[2]

The OECD Council appointed judges for a term from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2024, with Mr. Francis Delaporte serving as the President of the Tribunal. The appointed judges come from Finland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom.^[3]

The Registrar of the Tribunal is currently Ximena Vásquez-Maignan, Head of Legal Affairs at the Nuclear Energy Agency. Located at the OECD headquarters in Paris, France, the Tribunal's seat is established by Article 7(b) of its Protocol.^[3]

In the over fifty years of its existence the tribunal has never been presented with a case.

• European Nuclear Energy Tribunal page at the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency