Conor Lenihan (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)

I move amendment No. 9:

In page 12, line 7, after "safety," to insert the following:

"which may include specifying standards and codes of practice referred to in section 13L(3),".

This amendment has also been tabled for reasons of clarity in the context of the expanded public consultation process for establishing the safety framework. It provides that the codes of practice and technical standards used in setting the minimum safety benchmark to be achieved by developers will be specified in the safety framework. The individual details will be set out in the safety case guidelines that are specific to each designated petroleum activity. By specifying codes and standards within the framework, the CER can recognise the best practice which a petroleum undertaking must, at a minimum, apply. This does not obviate the responsibility placed on petroleum undertakings to reduce their safety-related risk to a level that is as low as is reasonably practicable. An additional benefit of setting out the relevant codes and standards in this manner is that it will remove any ambiguity as to what the appropriate code or standard for each designated activity will be.

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