Hémicycle : Nuclear Safety, Migratory Waterbirds Bills Adopted

Members of the National Assembly on June 28, 2019 during a plenary sitting of the House adopted the bill to lay down the general framework for the Radiological and Nuclear Safety, Nuclear Security, Civil Liability and Safeguards enforcement. The second bill adopted in the plenary sitting chaired by House Speaker, Hon. Cavaye Yeguie Djibril  was that to authorise the President of the Republic to proceed with  Cameroon’s accession to the agreement on the conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA), signed on 15 August 1996 at the Hague, the Netherlands.
Defending the bill on radiological and nuclear safety, the Minister of Scientific Research and Innovation, Madeleine Tchuinte said the bill clarifies the role of the regulatory and control authority whose relevant policy instruments have been strengthened. After promulgation into law, it will enable the authority to effectively discharge its duties of ensuring radiological and nuclear safety, nuclear security and protection against effects of ionising radiation and implementing the safeguards which are currently performed by the Cameroon National Radiation Protection Agency.
The Secretary of State at the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife, Koulsoumi Alhadji assisted by the Minister Delegate at the Ministry of External Relations in charge of Relat...