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2.2.7 Eligibility of Supra-National Organizations to Accede
to the Amended Paris Convention
63
2.2.8 The OECD-Membership as a Precondition for Accession
to the Amended Paris Convention
64
2.2.9 Preliminary Conclusions: the Euratom’s Accession to
the Amended Paris Convention as a Very Hypothetical Scenario
65
2.3 The European Nuclear Liability Legislation vis-á-vis
the Nuclear Liability Treaties
65
2.3.1 International Law Superseded: Some General Remarks
65
2.3.2 Questioning the Vienna Convention as a “Pre-Community
Agreement”
67
2.3.3 The “Labyrinth” of Nuclear Liability Conventions
and the Competencies of the European Union
69
2.4 Nuclear Liability Rules and Environmental Law
70
2.5 Nuclear Liability Rules and Jurisdictional Cooperation and
Enforcement of Judgements
71
2.5.1 The European Rules on Nuclear Liability as an Engine
for the Ratification of International Treaties? Towards
a Synergy between the “Global” and “Regional” Approach
71
2.6 The European Union and Its Member States as Parties
of the Conventions on Nuclear Liability?
73
2.7 Legislation and Other Forms of EU Action Related to the Material
and Procedural Aspects of Nuclear Liability
75
2.7.1 The “Brussels I” Regulation and Its Relation to International
Nuclear Liability Conventions
77
2.7.1.1 Material Application of the “Brussels I” Regulation
in Nuclear Liability Matters
79
2.7.1.2 Relationship of the “Brussels I” Regulation, the Vienna
Convention (1963) and the Paris Convention (1960)
81
2.7.2 Relation of the EU and its Legislation to the 1997
and 2004 Protocols
83
2.7.3 The “Rome II” Regulation and the Nuclear Liability Legislation
88
3 The Nature of the Nuclear Liability Regime: Civil-Law
or International-Law Based Liability?
93
3.1 Exploring the Limits of the Civil-Law Regime of Nuclear Liability 98