Recent legislation which has been passed in Europe comprises the Basic
Safety Standard (BSS) [1] and the Medical Exposure Directive (MED) [2
]. These documents are the implementation of ICRP's report 60 [3], and
ICRP publication 73 [4] expands ICRP60 for medical applications. The
BSS repeals 80/836/EURATOM and 84/467/EURATOM amongst other EURATOM di
rectives. The MED repeals 84/466/EURATOM which is the patient protecti
on directive. Member States (MS) are required to implement both the BS
S and the MED by the 13 May 2000, and this is where input from individ
ual members of the EANM is very important. Within every MS it is vital
to ensure that the key points are debated properly, so that legislati
on in the countries of Europe is reasonable.