1.1 Purpose of the Report

As the first country with a nuclear installation in terms of the Convention, the Slovak Republic ratified on 23 February 1995 the Nuclear Safety Convention (hereinafter the Convention). In undertaking this step, the Slovak Republic declared its willingness and readiness to actively participate in the honoring of the Convention provisions. The National Report presented has been compiled in terms of article 5, and its structure respects the Guidelines Regarding National Report . Slovakia presented its first Report in September 1998; it contained an account of the fulfillment of the Convention as of 1 July, 1998. The present, second National Report contains an account of the fulfillment of the Convention provisions for the period between 1 July 1998 and 1 July 2001. Consequently, the two documents (both the first and the second National Report) have to be viewed as an integral whole, along with the document entitled Answers and Questions of April 1999.

For the list of nuclear installations in terms of article 2 of the Convention, see Annex No. 6.1.