File composed of letters, reports of meetings, COREU telexes (Political Co-operation direct communications network) concerning Chernobyl, includes: Letter from Léo Tindemans, Belgian Foreign Minister to President Jacques Delors, requesting on behalf of his Government that the Commission define the criteria for security from the outset of a disaster and that EURATOM devise a disaster plan;
Aide Memoire on nuclear safeguards by the Nuclear Energy Directorate;
Communication by the Commission to the Council on the Community measures taken after Chernobyl, COM(86)276;
IAEA press dispatch on accident at Chernobyl and information on what happened from Soviet authorities with copy of note for IAEA from the Permanent Mission of the USSR to the International Organisations in Vienna;
Note to Audland (part of EC delegation at Tokyo Summit) regarding the origins of the International Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Materials;
Press cutting from the "Financial Times" regarding the disaster and Soviet reaction;
Briefing note from DG XII (DG for Science, Research and Development) on accident;
Copies of letters from Audland to Dr. Blix, Director-General of IAEA regarding current attitudes;
Information memo on Commission request for information on radioactivity levels following Soviet nuclear plant accident;
Preparatory documents for statement from Tokyo Summit on the implications of the Chernobyl nuclear accident;
IAEA booklet: Guidelines on Reportable Events and Integrated Planning and Information Exchange in a Transboundary Release of Radioactive Materials, January 1985;
EC periodical: Nuclear Safety in the EC, May 1985;
Photocopy of IAEA booklet: Guidelines for Mutual Emergency Assistance Arrangements in Connection with a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency, January 1984.

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