N/A: China is not subject to Action 31 because, as a nuclear-weapon State under the NPT, it does not have a comprehensive safeguards agreement with a small quantities protocol.
N/A: China is not subject to Action 31 because, as a nuclear-weapon State under the NPT, it does not have a comprehensive safeguards agreement with a small quantities protocol.
N/A: China is not subject to Action 31 because, as a nuclear-weapon State under the NPT, it does not have a comprehensive safeguards agreement with a small quantities protocol.
The modified Small Quantities Protocol for the French Caribbean territories (INFCIRC 718) took effect on February 2019. The European Union has conducted outreach dialogue on this aspect, especially towards states which have not yet modified their original Small Quantities Protocols (SQP) to their Comprehensive Safeguards Agreements.
France’s implementation of the Small Quantities Protocol has continued during the current Review Cycle.
EU Statement at the General Debate 68th Regular Session of the General Conference International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Vienna, 16-20 September 2024, https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/24/09/hungary-
on-behalf-of-eu-gc68.pdf
Agreement between the French Republic, the European Atomic Energy Community and the
International Atomic Energy Agency for the Application of Safeguards in Connection with the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean, Information Circular, INFCIRC/718, 3 January 2008,
https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/publications/documents/infcircs/2008/infcirc718.pdf
Russia called upon all countries that have signed a small quantities protocol but have not yet adopted the modified text to do so as soon as possible and called upon any states in which nuclear facilities are being built to rescind the small quantities protocol in a timely manner
Russia called upon all countries with small quantities protocols to comprehensive safeguards agreements that have not yet adopted the modified text to take that step.
National report of the Russian Federation for the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (New York), 21 May 2015.
https://www.un.org/en/conf/npt/2015/pdf/NPT-CONF2015-48_National%20report%20of%20the%20Russian%20Fed_E.pdf
National report of the Russian Federation, 2020 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (New York), 19 March 2021.
https://docs.un.org/en/NPT/CONF.2020/17/Rev.1
National report of the Russian Federation, 2026 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (New York), 2 March 2026.
https://docs.un.org/en/NPT/CONF.2026/14
This action is not applicable because the United Kingdom, as a declared nuclear-weapon state, does not use the IAEA Small Quantities Protocols, as these are only for non-nuclear-weapon states with minimal nuclear material.
This action is not applicable because the United Kingdom, as a declared nuclear-weapon state, does not use the IAEA Small Quantities Protocols, as these are only for non-nuclear-weapon states with minimal nuclear material.
N/A – The UK does not have and has never had a SQP agreement with IAEA.
In 2018, the United States modified the small quantities protocol that covered its Caribbean territories.
Following its amendment to the small quantities protocol covering the U.S. Caribbean territories, the IAEA conducted its first inspection in 2022 under the auspices of the modified protocol.
U.S. Mission to International Organizations in Vienna. U.S. statement as delivered by Ambassador Laura S.H. Holgate. IAEA Board of Governors Meeting, Agenda Item 8(b): Safeguards Implementation Report for 2021. June 8, 2022. https://vienna.usmission.gov/on-the-2021-safeguards-implementation-report/.