[en] The European Commission has established a modernization and consolidation of the European radiation protection legislation by the development of basic safety standards for ionizing radiation protection. The new guideline offers with a single coherent document the basic standards considering according to the state-of-the-art for all relevant radiation sources, including natural sources, and allows the protection of workers, public, patients and environment for all exposure situations, planned, existing or in case of emergence. The evaluation of numerical data will be harmonized with international standards.