Consequences for public health and the environment of accidents involving radioactivity
- Author(s):
- Parliamentary Assembly
- Origin
- See Doc. 5594, report of the Social and Health Affairs Committee, and Doc. 5596, opinion of theCommittee on the Environment, Regional Planning and Local Authorities. Text adopted by the Standing Committee, acting on behalf of the Assembly, on 3 July 1986.
- Thesaurus
The Assembly,
1. Noting the grave public and parliamentary concern occasioned by the disastrous accident atthe Chernobyl reactor in the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic ;
2. Moved and in sympathy with those who have suffered or are suffering the short- and longertermeffects caused by the consequent release into the atmosphere of radioactive substances ;
3. Anxious about the effects on public health and the environment of accidental emissions ofradioactivity into the atmosphere ;
4. Aware of the apparent insufficient state of preparedness of local, national and internationalauthorities to react effectively in the case of such emergencies ;
5. Also aware of the manifold implications for many of its specialised committees ;
7. Instructs its competent committees to organise, at the earliest opportunity, a full parliamentaryhearing on the Chernobyl disaster, and to prepare a report on the implications for public healthand the environment of accidents involving releases of radioactivity.
