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1. Expectations or requirements of environmental protection (as a whole)
2. Expectations or requirements of both chemical and radioactive approaches
3. Suitability of any approaches that derive numerical values for use as criteria or standards
4. Suitability of any numerical values currently applied as criteria or standards

Issues discussed included:

1. Justification for regulating the nuclear industry
2. Alignment of chemical and radioactive substances regulation
3. Appropriate targets for protection
4. Demonstration of compliance against protection goals
5. Credibility of currently suggested benchmark values for ionising radiation and appropriateness of methods used to derive them
6. Treatment of background exposure within assessments

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