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| 3.12.2016 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | L 329/3 |
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3.12.2016

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 329/3

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AGREEMENT

extending the Framework Agreement for International Collaboration on Research and Development of Generation IV nuclearenergy systems

The Government of Canada, the European Atomic Energy Community, the Government of the People's Republic of China, the Government of the French Republic, the Government of Japan, the Government of the Republic of Korea, the Government of the Russian Federation, the Government of the Republic of South Africa, the Government of the Swiss Confederation, and the Government of the United States of America, each as a Party to the Framework Agreement for International Collaboration on Research and Development of Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems, done at Washington on 28 February 2005 (hereinafter the ‘Framework Agreement’), collectively ‘the Parties’:

CONSIDERING their desire to continue the successful and mutually beneficial collaboration conducted under the Framework Agreement to date;

NOTING the Technology Roadmap Update for Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems (January 2014);

RECALLING Article XV of the Framework Agreement, which states that any collaboration initiated under the Framework Agreement but not completed at the expiration or termination of the Framework Agreement may continue to completion under the provisions of the Framework Agreement; and

ACTING pursuant to paragraph 3 of Article XII of the Framework Agreement,

Hereby agree as follows:

Article I

Extension of the Framework Agreement

Subject to paragraph 5 of Article XII of the Framework Agreement, the Framework Agreement shall be extended for a period of ten (10) years, until 28 February 2025.

Article II

Signature and Entry into Force

1.   This Agreement shall enter into force, for those Parties that have given their consent to be bound, on the date when three Parties have indicated their consent to be bound.

2.   The Parties shall indicate their consent to be bound either by signature not subject to acceptance or by signature subject to acceptance followed by deposit of an instrument of acceptance with the Depositary.

3.   For a Party consenting to be bound after the date of entry into force of this Agreement, this Agreement shall enter into force with respect to that Party on the date of its signature not subject to acceptance or on the date of deposit of its instrument of acceptance with the Depositary.

4.   The Parties intend, consistent with Article XV of the Framework Agreement, to continue under the provisions of the Framework Agreement the collaboration initiated but not completed by 28 February 2015, with those Parties to the Framework Agreement for which this Agreement has not entered into force by 28 February 2015.

Article III

Depositary

The original of this Agreement shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, being duly authorised, have signed this Agreement.

DONE in one original, in the English and French languages, each text being equally authentic.

FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA:

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Date: 21 October 2016

FOR THE EUROPEAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMUNITY:

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Date: 10 November 2016

FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA:

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Date: 23 June 2016

FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC:

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Date: 26 February 2015

FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF JAPAN:

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Date: 26 February 2015

FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA:

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Date: 26 February 2015

FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION:

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Date: 29 June 2015

FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA:

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Date: 15 September 2015

FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE SWISS CONFEDERATION:

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Date: 27 August 2015

FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:

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Date: 26 February 2015

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