These requirements are concerned with ensuring that there are proper preparedness and response arrangements in place to manage a nuclear or radiological emergency.

• Emergency management system — The government shall ensure that an integrated and coordinated emergency management system is established and maintained.

• Preparedness and response to an emergency — The government shall ensure that protection strategies are developed, justified and optimized at the planning stage, and that emergency response is undertaken through their timely implementation.

• Arrangements for controlling the exposure of emergency workers — The government shall establish a programme for managing, controlling and recording the doses received in an emergency by emergency workers.

• Transition stage — The government shall ensure that arrangements are in place and are implemented as appropriate for the transition from an emergency exposure situation to an existing exposure situation.