Responsibility of the Federal States in the area of precautionary radiation protection against dangerous radiological events with impacts on the environment

The legal foundations of protective measures against radiological events ar e the Atomic Energy Act (AtG) and the Precautionary Radiation Protection Ac t (StrVG). Both acts are part of federal German law, and are implemented pa rtly by the Federal States in the form of the carrying out of the so-called administrative duties (Bundesauftragsverwaltung). In radiological situatio ns involving very considerable impacts on the environment or a high risk wi th regard to radiation-related diseases among the population, the competent administrative body of the Federal State can declare the occurrence of a d isaster for a defined region. Responsibility for the assessment of the radi ological situation in Bavaria falls to the emergency management unit of the Bavarian Stare Ministry for State Development and Environmental Affairs. T his unit advises both the central federal government and the Bavarian disas ter control management.