of1986,inter-agency consultations wereconvened atVienna, involving in particular theorganizations dealing withhealthandfoodquestions: FAO, lAEA,theUnitedNations Scientific Committee ontheEffects ofAtomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) andWHO. 5.Duringaspecial session ofthelAEAGeneral Conference, whichwasheld inSeptember 1986,twoconventions wereadopted: theConvention onEarlv Notification ofaNuclear Accident andtheConvention onAssistance inthe CaseofaNuclear Accident orRadiological Emergency. Following theadoption oftheconventions, inter-agency co-operation wasexpanded toother orqanizations andtheInter-Agency Committee fortheResponse toNuclear Accidents (lAC/RNA) wasformed. Thefollowing organizations haveparticipated intheworkofthisCommittee: ECE,FAO,lLD,IMO,UNDRO, UNEP,UNESCO, UNSCEAR, WHOandWHO. 6.lAC/RNA meetstwiceayearandonanadhocbasis,ifcircumstances requireit.Thetopicswhicharediscussed inthemeetings canbedivided intotwoma;orcategories: follow-up ofactivities concerning previous accidents (theChernobyl accident, theGoiania accident) andtheplanning and preparing ofjointandco-ordinated actiontobetakenincaseofafuture accident. 7.Inthediscussions onfollow-up activities, reports aremadebycommittee members onreported accidents/incidents andrumours, onassistance rendered to memberStates, onprojects andstudies carried outbythevarious organizations, ondatabasesandonvarious otherrelatedactivities. 8.Intheareaofactivity regarding futurepotential accidents lAC/RNA has discussed, interalia,intervention levels, monitoring networks andthe reporting ofmonitoring results, channels ofcommunications andthegeneral structure oftheimplementation ofthetwoconventions. Inaddition, questions ofpublicinformation anditsco-ordination duringaccident situations havebeentakenup.Theparticipation oftheinternational organizations inemergency exercises isencouraged, discussed and,following theexercise, evaluated. 9.Aspecial session oflAC/RNA wasconvened todiscuss theresponse to recentrequests andappeals forassistance tomitigate theeffects ofthe Chernobyl accident intheaffected Republics oftheUSSR.Itwasrecommended, res the res bas ex est rad' cou ind' that Food 12. Reso 13. cont acti July Comm radi rema 14. orga samp radii 15. food impl E/1990/97 page3 atthatsession thattheCommittee beentrusted withtheadditional taskof harmonizing theimplementation ofChernoby1-re1ated projects dealing withthe elimination oftheconsequences oftheaccident, withthepurpose of strengthening international co-operation andfostering co-ordinated national efforts. UNITED NATIONS SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ONTHEEFFECTS OFATOMIC RADIATION (UNSCEAR) 10.Thetermsofreference oftheUnitedNations Scientific Committee onthe Effects ofAtomicRauiation, whichwasestablished bytheGeneral Assembly at itstenthsession, in1955,aresetoutinAssembly resolution 913(X}.The Committee iscomposed ofthefollowing memberStates: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China,Czechoslovakia, Egypt,France, Germany, Federal Republic of,India,Indonesia, Japan,Mexico, Peru,Poland, Sudan, Sweden, UnionofSovietSocialist Republics, UnitedKingdom ofGreatBritain andNorthern Ireland, andUnitedStatesofAmerica. 11.Aspartofitsmandate toassessthesources andeffects ofionizing radiation, UNSCEAR hasevaluated theworldpopulation's exposure toradiation resulting fromtheChernoby1 accident. Thisevaluation wasincluded inthe 1988reportofUNSCEAR totheGeneral Assembly. Numerous detailed measurement results wereavailable from34countries. Theseresults wereusedtocompute thefirst-year dosesandtoestablish thegeneral patterns ofexposures. The results werethenextended toallotherareasofthenorthern hemisph~re, basedonadeposition-distance relationship. Thedosesfromcontinued
**Analysis**
The text appears to be discussing international cooperation and coordination in response to nuclear accidents, with a focus on the Chernobyl accident. It mentions various organizations and their roles in providing assistance and sharing information. The text also touches on scientific aspects, such as radiation exposure and monitoring networks. Given these themes, it seems likely that the text is related to the field of health and science.

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Health, Science and technology