Draft amendment to Decree No 408/2016 – areas of change in the current text of the Decree: • Correction of evident defects that have been discovered over the course of previous years. • Adjustments related to novelties in international recommendations, in particular those of the International Atomic Energy Agency. These include recommendations in the area of the role of senior management, the tasks of senior management, recommendations in the area of managing discrepancies and implementing changes to the management system. • Changes related to changes in international practice, reaction to findings that quality assurance for processes and activities and their outputs, i.e. items such as selected equipment, components of nuclear installations, in recent years not only in the Czech Republic, but also globally, suffers from certain shortcomings and so-called fraudulent items are being detected. Fraudulent items are a highly critical problem in the nuclear field as they can lead to quality degradation and consequently to impacts on safety assurance, i.e. nuclear safety, radiation protection, technical safety, radiation monitoring, radiation incident management and security. • Adjustments in connection with planned new sources and their construction. New sources will to a significant extent make use of technologies that have not yet been implemented in practice, or that depend on the use of already implemented nuclear installation projects, but with a number of new developments…