As part of the work to upgrade the national regulatory framework for nuclear and radiological safety and security, the Moroccan Agency for Nuclear and Radiological Safety and Security (AMSSNuR) organized from March 12 to 19, 2021 a series of meetings of the thematic working groups from the Regulatory Framework Upgrade Committee (RCC).

These meetings were attended by national stakeholders representing ministerial departments, public institutions and associations of professionals concerned by the purpose of the draft regulatory texts examined.

These meetings of the thematic working groups focused on the presentation and discussion of a decree, two orders, seven technical requirements and a technical regulation listed below:

• The draft decree on the estimation of the effective dose and the equivalent dose;
• Draft technical requirements relating to standards for the design, layout and equipment of premises intended to house springs used for medical purposes;
• The draft technical requirements for the safety of the transport of radioactive materials;
• The draft technical requirements relating to the categories of approvals for the measurement of radioactivity in the environment;
• The draft technical requirements for the assessment of public and worker exposure due to radioactive effluent discharges;
• The draft technical prescriptions relating to the discharge procedures for patients receiving treatment with radionuclides;
• The draft decree on the import, export and transit authorization regime for nuclear materials, equipment and related technologies;
• The draft technical requirements on the radiation protection programme applicable to research reactors;
• The draft technical requirements on the limits and conditions of OLC operation applicable to research reactors;
• The draft technical regulation on the integrated management system applicable to category I installations;
• The draft order relating to the content and form of the decommissioning plan applicable to category I installations.

All of these draft regulatory texts will be presented for technical approval at the^10th meeting of the Regulatory Framework Upgrade Committee (RCC) scheduled for April. The objective is to ensure the improvement of the level of nuclear and radiological safety and security at the national level and, thus, to protect humans, society and the environment against any risk or malicious act involving nuclear or other radioactive materials.