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The text of the Protocol is being published in the English language in the Schedule to these regulations.

SCHEDULE (Regulation 11)

ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL to the Agreement between the Republic of Austria, the Kingdom of Kingdom of Denmark, the Republic of Finland, the Federal Republic the Hellenic Republic, Ireland, the Italian Republic, the Gr Luxembourg, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Portuguese Kingdom of Spain, the Kingdom of Sweden, the European Atom Community and the International Atomic Energy Agency in implementation Article III(1) and (4) of the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear (notified under document number COM(1998) 314)

(1999/188/Euratom) PREAMBLE Whereas the Republic of Austria, the Kingdom of Belgium, the Denmark, the Republic of Finland, the Federal Republic of Germany, Republic, Ireland, the Italian Republic, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Portuguese Republic, the Kingdom Kingdom of Sweden (hereinafter referred to as 'the States`) and Atomic Energy Community (hereinafter referred to as 'the Community`) to an Agreement between the States, the Community and the International Energy Agency (hereinafter referred to as the 'the Agency`) in implementation Article III(1) and (4) of the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear (hereinafter referred to as the 'Safeguards Agreement`), which entered 21 February 1997; Aware of the desire of the international community to further enhance non-proliferation by strengthening the effectiveness and improving the the Agency's safeguards system; Recalling that the Agency must take into account in the implementation safeguards the need to avoid hampering the economic and technological development in the Community or international cooperation in the field nuclear activities, to respect health, safety, physical protection and provisions in force and the rights of individuals, and to take every protect commercial, technological and industrial secrets as well as other information coming to its knowledge; Whereas the frequency and intensity of activities described in this be kept to the minimum consistent with the objective of strengthening effectiveness and improving the efficiency of Agency safeguards; Now therefore the Community, the States and the Agency have agreed RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE PROTOCOL AND THE SAFEGUARDS AGREEMENT Article 1

The provisions of the Safeguards Agreement shall apply to this extent that they are relevant to and compatible with the provisions of In case of conflict between the provisions of the Safeguards Agreement this Protocol, the provisions of this Protocol shall apply. PROVISION OF INFORMATION S.L.365.20 AND ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL)

shall provide the Agency with a declaration containing the identified in sub-paragraphs (i), (ii), (iv), (ix) and (x). The Community the Agency with a declaration containing the information identified in sub-paragraphs (v), (vi) and (vii). Malta and the Community shall provide the a declaration containing the information identified in sub-paragraphs general description of and information specifying the location of nuclear fuel cyclerelated research and development activities not involving nuclear material carried out anywhere that are funded, specifically authorised or controlled by, or carried out on behalf of, Malta. Information identified by the Agency on the basis of expected gains in effectiveness or efficiency, and agreed to by Malta, on operational activities of safeguards relevance at facilities and locations outside facilities where nuclear material is customarily used. general description of each building on each site, including its use and, if not apparent from that description, its contents. The description shall include a map of the site. description of the scale of operations for each location engaged in the activities specified in Annex I to this Protocol. Information specifying the location, operational status and the estimated annual production capacity of uranium mines and concentration plants thorium concentration plants in Malta, and the current annual production of such mines and concentration plants. The Community shall provide, on request by the Agency, the current annual production an individual mine or concentration plant. The provision of this information does not require detailed nuclear material accountancy. Information regarding source material which has not reached the composition and purity suitable for fuel fabrication or for being isotopically enriched, as follows:

(a) the quantities, the chemical composition, the use or intended use of such material, whether in nuclear or non-nuclear use, for each location in the States at which the material is present in quantities exceeding 10 tonnes of uranium and/or 20 tonnes of thorium, and for other locations with quantities of more than 1 tonne, the aggregate for the States as a whole if the aggregate exceeds 10 tonnes of uranium or 20 tonnes of thorium. The provision of this information does not require detailed nuclear material accountancy;

(b) The quantities, the chemical composition and the destination of each export from the States to a State outside the Community, of such material for specifically non-nuclear purposes in quantities exceeding:

(1) 10 tonnes of uranium, or for successive exports of uranium to the same state, each of less than 10 tonnes, but exceeding a total of 10 tonnes for the year;

(2) 20 tonnes of thorium, or for successive exports of thorium to the same State, each of less than 20 tonnes, but exceeding a total 20 tonnes for the year;

(c) the quantities, chemical composition, current location intended use of each import into the Sates from Community of such material for specifically purposes in quantities exceeding:

(1) 10 tonnes of uranium, or for successive imports each of less than 10 tonnes, but exceeding tonnes for the year;

(2) 20 tonnes of thorium, or for successive imports each of less than 20 tonnes, but exceeding tonnes for the year; it being understood that there is no requirement information on such material intended for a non-nuclear it is in its non-nuclear end-use form.

(vii) (a) Information regarding the quantities, uses and nuclear material exempted from safeguards pursuant of the Safeguards Agreement;

(b) information regarding the quantities (which may be estimates) and uses at each location, of nuclear material from safeguards pursuant to Article 36(b) of the Agreement but not yet in a non-nuclear end-use quantities exceeding those set out in Article 37 of Agreement. The provision of this information does detailed nuclear material accountancy.

(viii) Information regarding the location or further intermediate or high-level waste containing plutonium, uranium or uranium-233 on which safeguards have been pursuant to Article 11 of the Safeguards Agreement. For this paragraph, 'further processing` does not include repackaging waste or its further conditioning not involving the elements, for storage or disposal.

(ix) The following information regarding specified equipment nuclear material listed in Annex II:

(a) for each export out of the Community of such material: the identity, quantity, location of intended receiving State and date or, as appropriate, expected export;

(b) on specific request by the Agency, confirmation by importing State, of information provided to the Agency outside of the Community concerning the export equipment and material to Malta.

(x) General plans for the succeeding 10-year period relevant development of the nuclear fuel cycle (including planned cycle-related research and development activities) when the appropriate authorities in Malta.

(b) Malta shall make every reasonable effort to provide the Agency following information:

(i) a general description of and information specifying the nuclear fuel cycle-related research and development S.L.365.20 AND ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL)

involving nuclear material which are specifically related to enrichment, reprocessing of nuclear fuel or the processing of intermediate or high-level waste containing plutonium, high enriched uranium or uranium-233 that are carried out anywhere in Malta but which are not funded, specifically authorised or controlled by, or carried out on behalf of, Malta. For the purpose of this paragraph 'processing` of intermediate or high-level waste does not include repackaging of the waste or its conditioning not involving the separation of elements, for storage or disposal. general description of activities and the identity of the person or entity carrying out such activities, at locations identified by the Agency outside a site which the Agency considers might be functionally related the activities of that site. The provision of this information is subject a specific request by the Agency. It shall be provided in consultation with the Agency and in a timely fashion. request by any or all of the Agency, Malta or the Community, as shall provide amplifications or clarifications of any information this Article, in so far as relevant for the purpose of safeguards.

or the Community, or both, as appropriate, shall provide to the information identified in Article 2(a)(i), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)(a), (vii), and 2(b)(i) within 180 days of the entry into force of this Protocol.

or the Community, or both, as appropriate, shall provide to the May of each year, updates of the information referred to in paragraph period covering the previous calendar year. If there has been no change to information previously provided, Malta or the Community, or both, as shall so indicate.

Community shall provide to the Agency, by 15 May of each year, the identified in Article 2(a)(vi)(b) and (c) for the period covering the calendar year. shall provide to the Agency on a quarterly basis the information Article 2(a)(ix)(a). This information shall be provided within 60 days of quarter. Community and Malta shall provide to the Agency the information Article 2(a)(viii) 180 days before further processing is carried out and, each year, information on changes in location for the period covering calendar year. and the Agency shall agree on the timing and frequency of the information identified in Article 2(a)(ii). shall provide to the Agency the information in Article 2(a)(ix)(b) of the Agency's request. COMPLEMENTARY ACCESS

following shall apply in connection with the implementation of access under Article 5 of this Protocol: Agency shall not mechanistically or systematically seek to verify the information referred to in Article 2; however, the Agency shall have access

(i) any location referred to in Article 5(a)(i) or (ii) on a selective order to assure the absence of undeclared nuclear activities;

(ii) any location referred to in Article 5(b) or (c) to resolve relating to the correctness and completeness of the information pursuant to Article 2 or to resolve an inconsistency relating information;

(iii) any location referred to in Article 5(a)(iii) to the extent the Agency to confirm, for safeguards purposes, the Community's, appropriate, Malta’s declaration of the decommissioned facility or location outside facilities where nuclear customarily used.

(b) (i) Except as provided in paragraph (ii), the Agency shall give access under Article 5(a) or under Article 5(c) where nuclear involved, Malta and the Community, advance notice of access 24 hours.

(ii) For access to any place on a site that is sought in conjunction design information verification visits or ad hoc or routine on that site, the period of advance notice shall, if the requests, be at least two hours but, in exceptional circumstances, be less than two hours.

(c) Advance notice shall be in writing and shall specify the reasons and the activities to be carried out during such access.

(d) In the case of a question or inconsistency, the Agency shall and, as appropriate, the Community with an opportunity to clarify and resolution of the question or inconsistency. Such an opportunity will before a request for access, unless the Agency considers that delay in prejudice the purpose for which the access is sought. In any event, the not draw any conclusions about the question or inconsistency until appropriate, the Community have been provided with such an opportunity.

(e) Unless otherwise agreed to by Malta, access shall only take regular working hours.

(f) Malta, or for access under Article 5(a) or under Article 5(c) material is involved, Malta and the Community, shall have the right inspectors accompanied during their access by its representatives appropriate, by Community inspectors provided that Agency inspectors thereby be delayed or otherwise impeded in the exercise of their functions. Article 5

Malta shall provide the Agency with access to:

(a) (i) any place on a site;

(ii) any location identified under Article 2(a)(v) to (viii);

(iii) any decommissioned facility or decommissioned location facilities where nuclear material was customarily used.

(b) Any location identified by Malta under Article 2(a)(i), Article Article 2(a)(ix)(b) or Article 2(b), other than those referred to in paragraph provided that if Malta is unable to provide such access, Malta shall S.L.365.20 AND ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL)

effort to satisfy Agency requirements, without delay, through other location specified by the Agency, other than locations referred to in and (b), to carry out location-specific environmental sampling, if Malta is unable to provide such access, Malta shall make every effort to satisfy Agency requirements, without delay, at adjacent through other means.

implementing Article 5, the Agency may carry out the following activities:

access in accordance with Article 5(a)(i) or (iii): visual observation; environmental samples; utilisation of radiation detection and devices; application of seals and other identifying and tamper devices specified in Subsidiary Arrangements; and other objective which have been demonstrated to be technically feasible and the use of agreed by the Board of Governors (hereinafter referred to as 'the following consultations between the Agency, the Community and Malta. access in accordance with Article 5(a)(ii): visual observation; item nuclear material; non-destructive measurements and sampling; radiation detection and measurement devices; examination of records quantities, origin and disposition of the material; collection of samples; and other objective measures which have been demonstrated technically feasible and the use of which has been agreed by the Board and consultations between the Agency, the Community and Malta. access in accordance with Article 5(b): visual observation; collection of samples; utilisation of radiation detection and measurement devices; of safeguards relevant production and shipping records; and other measures which have been demonstrated to be technically feasible and the has been agreed by the Board and following consultations between the Malta. access in accordance with Article 5(c), collection of environmental in the event the results do not resolve the question or inconsistency at specified by the Agency pursuant to Article 5(c), utilisation at that visual observation, radiation detection and measurement devices, and, as Malta and, where nuclear material is involved, the Community, and the objective measures.

request by Malta, the Agency and Malta shall make arrangements for access under this Protocol in order to prevent the dissemination of sensitive information, to meet safety or physical protection or to protect proprietary or commercially sensitive information. Such shall not preclude the Agency from conducting activities necessary to credible assurance of the absence of undeclared nuclear materials and location in question, including the resolution of a question relating to and completeness of the information referred to in Article 2 or of an relating to that information.

may, when providing the information referred to in Article 2, inform the places at a site or location at which managed access may be

(c) Pending the entry into force of any necessary Subsidiary Malta may have recourse to managed access consistent with the paragraph (a).

Article 8 Nothing in this Protocol shall preclude Malta from offering the Agency locations in addition to those referred to in Articles 5 and 9 or from Agency to conduct verification activities at a particular location. The without delay, make every reasonable effort to act on such a request. Article 9

Malta shall provide the Agency with access to locations specified to carry out wide-area environmental sampling, provided that if Malta provide such access that State shall make every reasonable effort to requirements at alternative locations. The Agency shall not seek such the use of wide-area environmental sampling and the procedural therefor have been approved by the Board and following consultations Agency and Malta. Article 10

(a) The Agency shall inform Malta concerned and, as appropriate, Community of:

(i) the activities carried out under this Protocol, including those of any questions or inconsistencies the Agency had attention of Malta and, as appropriate, the Community within the activities being carried out by the Agency.

(ii) The results of activities in respect of any questions or the Agency had brought to the attention of Malta and, the Community as soon as possible but in any case within results being established by the Agency.

(b) The Agency shall inform Malta and the Community of the conclusions drawn from its activities under this Protocol. The conclusions shall annually. DESIGNATION OF AGENCY INSPECTORS

Article 11

(a) (i) The Director-General shall notify the Community and the Board's approval of any Agency official as a safeguards Unless the Community advises the Director-General of such an official as an inspector for the States within three receipt of notification of the Board's approval, the inspector to the Community and Malta shall be considered designated States.

(ii) The Director-General, acting in response to a request by or on his own initiative, shall immediately inform the Community the States of the withdrawal of the designation of any inspector for the States.

(b) A notification referred to in paragraph (a) shall be deemed to the Community and Malta seven days after the date of the transmission post of the notification by the Agency to the Community and the States. S.L.365.20 AND ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL)

within one month of the receipt of a request therefor, provide the inspector specified in the request with appropriate multiple entry/exit visas, where required, to enable the inspector to enter and remain on Malta for the purpose of carrying out his/her functions. Any visas be valid for at least one year and shall be renewed, as required, to duration of the inspector's designation to the States. SUBSIDIARY ARRANGEMENTS

Malta or the Community, as appropriate, or the Agency indicate that to specify in subsidiary Arrangements how measures laid down in this be applied, Malta, or Malta and the Community and the Agency shall Subsidiary Arrangements within 90 days of the entry into force of this where the indication of the need for such Subsidiary Arrangements is entry into force of this Protocol, within 90 days of the date of such

Pending the entry into force of any necessary Subsidiary Arrangements, the be entitled to apply the measures laid down in this Protocol. COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS

shall permit and protect free communications by the Agency for purposes between Agency inspectors in Malta and Agency Headquarters and/ Offices, including attended and unattended transmission of information Agency containment and/or surveillance or measurement devices. The have, in consultation with Malta concerned, the right to make use of established systems of direct communications, including satellite other forms of telecommunication, not in use in Malta. At the request of Agency, details of the implementation of this paragraph in Malta with attended or unattended transmission of information generated by containment and/or surveillance or measurement devices shall be specified Subsidiary Arrangements. Communication and transmission of information as provided for in shall take due account of the need to protect proprietary or sensitive information or design information which Malta regards as particular sensitivity. PROTECTION OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

Agency shall maintain a stringent regime to ensure effective protection disclosure of commercial, technological and industrial secrets and other information coming to its knowledge, including such information Agency's knowledge in the implementation of this Protocol. regime referred to in paragraph (a) shall include, among others, relating to: general principles and associated measures for the handling of confidential information;

(ii) conditions of staff employment relating to the protection information;

(iii) procedures in cases of breaches or alleged breaches of confidentiality.

(c) The regime referred to in paragraph (a) above shall be periodically reviewed by the Board. ANNEXES Article 16

(a) The Annexes to this Protocol shall be an integral part thereof. purposes of amendment of Annexes I and II, the term 'Protocol` instrument means this Protocol and the Annexes together.

(b) The list of activities specified in Annex I, and the list of material specified in Annex II, may be amended by the Board on the open-ended working group of experts established by the Board. any such shall take effect four months after its adoption by the Board.

(c) Annex III to this Protocol specifies how measures in this Protocol implemented by the Community and the States.

ENTRY INTO FORCE Article 17

(a) This Protocol shall enter into force on the day on which the Agency from the Community and the States written notification that their requirements for entry into force have been met.

(b) The States and the Community may, at any date before this into force, declare that they will apply this Protocol provisionally.

(c) The Director-General shall promptly inform all Member Agency of any declaration of provisional application of, and of the entry of, this Protocol.

DEFINITIONS Article 18 For the purpose of this Protocol:

(a) 'nuclear fuel cycle-related research and development activities' activities which are specifically related to any process or system development of any of the following: - conversion of nuclear material, - enrichment of nuclear material, - nuclear fuel fabrication, - reactors, - critical facilities, - reprocessing of nuclear fuel, - processing (not including repackaging or conditioning not separation of elements, for storage or disposal) of intermediate level waste containing plutonium, high enriched uranium 233, but do not include activities related to theoretical or basic scientific S.L.365.20 AND ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL)

development on industrial radioisotope applications, medical, and agricultural applications, health and environmental effects and maintenance.

means that area delimited by the Community and Malta in the relevant information for a facility, including a closed-down facility, and in the relevant a location outside facilities where nuclear material is customarily a closed-down location outside facilities where nuclear material was used (this is limited to locations with hot cells or where activities related enrichment, fuel fabrication or reprocessing were carried out). 'Site' include all installations, colocated with the facility or location, for the use of essential services, including: hot cells for processing irradiated containing nuclear material; installations for the treatment, storage and waste; and buildings associated with specified activities identified by the under Article 2(a)(iv).

'Decommissioned facility' or 'decommissioned location outside facilities' installation or location at which residual structures and equipment use have been removed or rendered inoperable so that it is not used no longer be used to handle, process or utilise nuclear material. 'Closed-down facility' or 'closed-down location outside facilities' means an location where operations have been stopped and the nuclear material which has not been decommissioned.

enriched uranium' means uranium containing 20% or more of the uranium-235.

'Location-specific environmental sampling' means the collection of samples (e.g. air, water, vegetation, soil, smears) at, and in the vicinity of, a location specified by the Agency for the purpose of assisting draw conclusions about the absence of undeclared nuclear material or activities at the specified location.

'Wide-area environmental sampling' means the collection of environmental air, water, vegetation, soil, smears) at a set of locations specified by the purpose of assisting the Agency to draw conclusions about the undeclared nuclear material or nuclear activities over a wide area. 'Nuclear material' means any source or any special fissionable material as Article XX of the Statute. The term source material shall not be applying to ore or ore residue. Any determination by the Board under the Statute of the Agency after the entry into force of this Protocol the materials considered to be source material or special fissionable have effect under this Protocol only on acceptance by the Community

'Facility' means:

reactor, a critical facility, a conversion plant, a fabrication plant, a reprocessing plant, an isotope separation plant or a separate storage installation, or location where nuclear material in amounts greater than one effective kilogram is customarily used. 'Location outside facilities' means any installation or location, which is not a nuclear material is customarily used in amounts of one effective less.

ANNEX I List of activities referred to in Article 2(a)(iv) of the Protocol

(i) The manufacture of centrifuge rotor tubes or the assembly centrifuges.

Centrifuge rotor tubes means thin-walled cylinders as described at of Annex II.

Gas centrifuges means centrifuges as described in the introductory 5.1 of Annex II.

(ii) The manufacture of diffusion barriers. Diffusion barriers means thin, porous filters as described in point Annex II.

(iii) The manufacture or assembly of laser-based systems. Laser-based systems means systems incorporating those items as point 5.7 of Annex II.

(iv) The manufacture or assembly of electromagnetic isotope separators.

Electromagnetic isotope separators means those items referred to in Annex II containing ion sources as described in 5.9.1(a) of Annex II.

(v) The manufacture or assembly of columns or extraction equipment. Columns or extraction equipment means those items as described 5.6.2, 5.6.3, 5.6.5, 5.6.6, 5.6.7 and 5.6.8 of Annex II.

(vi) The manufacture of aerodynamic separation nozzles or vortex Aerodynamic separation nozzles or vortex tubes means separation vortex tubes as described respectively in points 5.5.1 and 5.5.2 of Annex

(vii) The manufacture or assembly of uranium plasma generation systems.

Uranium plasma generation systems means systems for the generation plasma as described in point 5.8.3 of Annex II.

(viii) The manufacture of zirconium tubes. Zirconium tubes means tubes as described in point 1.6 of Annex II.

(ix) The manufacture or upgrading of heavy water or deuterium.

Heavy water or deuterium means deuterium, heavy water (deuterium any other deuterium compound in which the ratio of deuterium to hydrogen exceeds 1:5 000.

(x) The manufacture of nuclear grade graphite.

Nuclear grade graphite means graphite having a purity level better per million boron equivalent and with a density greater than 1,50 g/cm

(xi) The manufacture of flasks for irradiated fuel. A flask or irradiated fuel means a vessel for the transportation and/or irradiated fuel which provides chemical, thermal and radiological protection, dissipated decay heat during handling, transportation and storage.

(xii) The manufacture of reactor control rods. Reactor control rods means rods as described in point 1.4 of Annex S.L.365.20 AND ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL)

manufacture of criticality safe tanks and vessels. safe tanks and vessels means those items as described in points 3.2 and II. manufacture of irradiated fuel element chopping machines.

fuel element chopping machines means equipment as described in point II.

construction of hot cells. means a cell or interconnected cells totalling at least 6 m3 in volume equal to or greater than the equivalent of 0,5 m of concrete, with a 3 g/cm or greater, outfitted with equipment for remote operations.

ANNEX II specified equipment and non-nuclear material for the reporting of exports according to Article 2(a)(ix) REACTORS AND EQUIPMENT THEREFOR Complete nuclear reactors reactors capable of operation so as to maintain a controlled self-sustaining reaction, excluding zero energy reactors, the latter being defined as a designed maximum rate of production of plutonium not exceeding year. note reactor` basically includes the items within or attached directly to the the equipment which controls the level of power in the core, and the which normally contain or come in direct contact with or control the of the reactor core.

intended to exclude reactors which could reasonably be capable of to produce significantly more than 100 grams of plutonium per year. designed for sustained operation at significant power levels, regardless of for plutonium production, are not considered as 'zero energy reactors`. pressure vessels vessels, as complete units or as major shop-fabricated parts therefor, which designed or prepared to contain the core of a nuclear reactor as paragraph 1.1 and are capable of withstanding the operating pressure of coolant.

note for a reactor pressure vessel is covered by item 1.2 as a major shop-of a pressure vessel. internals (e.g. support columns and plates for the core and other vessel control rod guide tubes, thermal shields, baffles, core grid plates, diffuser normally supplied by the reactor supplier. In some cases, certain support components are included in the fabrication of the pressure vessel. sufficiently critical to the safety and reliability of the operation of (and, therefore, to the guarantees and liability of the reactor supplier), so supply, outside the basic supply arrangement for the reactor itself, would practice. Therefore, although the separate supply of these unique, especially designed and prepared, critical, large and expensive items necessarily be considered as falling outside the area of concern, such supply is considered unlikely.

1.3. Reactor fuel charging and discharging machines Manipulative equipment especially designed or prepared for inserting fuel in a nuclear reactor as defined in paragraph 1.1 capable of on-load employing technically sophisticated positioning or alignment features complex off-load fuelling operations such as those in which direct access to the fuel is not normally available. 1.4. Reactor control rods Rods especially designed or prepared for the control of the reaction nuclear reactor as defined in paragraph 1.1. Explanatory note

This item includes, in addition to the neutron absorbing part, suspension structures therefor is supplied separately.

1.5. Reactor pressure tubes Tubes which are especially designed or prepared to contain fuel elements primary coolant in a reactor as defined in paragraph 1.1 at an operating excess of 5,1 MPa (740 psi).

1.6. Zirconium tubes Zirconium metal and alloys in the form of tubes or assemblies of quantities exceeding 500 kg in any period of 12 months, especially prepared for use in a reactor as defined in paragraph 1.1, and in which hafnium to zirconium is less than 1:500 parts by weight. 1.7. Primary coolant pumps

Pumps especially designed or prepared for circulating the primary nuclear reactors as defined in paragraph 1.1.

Explanatory note Especially designed or prepared pumps may include elabor multisealed systems to prevent leakage of primary coolant, canned-driven and pumps with inertial mass systems. This definition encompasses pumps to NC-1 or equivalent standards.