The European Commission's Directorate-General for Energy, in particular the health protection sector, is responsible for the radiological protection of staff members. Therefore, it shall arrange that every classified staff member is equipped with an appropriate passive individual radiation dosemeter. The dosemeters shall be periodically distributed and analysed. The results of the subsequent estimation of the personal equivalent doses shall be recorded and reported systematically to the health protection sector.

The dosemeters shall be appropriate for the expected typical radiation environment inside nuclear fuel cycle installations. They should monitor mixed fields of gamma, beta and neutron radiations.

The estimation of the individual personal dose equivalent values Hp(10) and Hp(0,07) shall be based on the parameters given by the Radiation Protection Basic Safety Standards Directive No 96/29/Euratom of 13.5.1996 as well as of the 1990 recommendations of the ICRP, in the publication 60.

250 passive personal dosemeters are to be supplied and analysed each month.

Additionally, the Radiation Protection service of the Commission is responsible for environmental monitoring in the nuclear laboratories. Therefore, about 20 dosemeters for ambient radiation exposures H* for gamma, beta and neutron radiation are to be delivered. Furthermore, each delivery shall comprise dosemeters for radiation background determination and subtraction.