The CERN Nuclear Safeguards Policy

CERN, as an intergovernmental organization  for fundamental research in particle physics, hereby establishes a Nuclear Safeguards Policy (“the Policy”).

In line with a longstanding practice of the Organization, this Policy is aimed to ensure non-proliferation and nuclear security, including the protection, control and accounting of nuclear materials situated on the CERN site. Such materials may be used in the framework of CERN’s activities for peaceful purposes only, in accordance with its founding Convention