# Council Decision of 4 December 2014 approving the conclusion by the European Commission, on behalf of the European Atomic            Energy Community, of the Agreement for scientific and technological cooperation between the European Union and European Atomic            Energy Community and the Swiss Confederation associating the Swiss Confederation to Horizon 2020 — the Framework Programme            for Research and Innovation and the Research and Training Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community complementing            Horizon 2020, and regulating the Swiss Confederation's participation in the ITER activities carried out by Fusion for Energy            (2014/954/Euratom)         

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# Council Decision

# of 4 December 2014

# approving the conclusion by the European Commission, on behalf of the European Atomic Energy Community, of the Agreement for                        scientific and technological cooperation between the European Union and European Atomic Energy Community and the Swiss Confederation                        associating the Swiss Confederation to Horizon 2020 — the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation and the Research                        and Training Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community complementing Horizon 2020, and regulating the Swiss Confederation's                        participation in the ITER activities carried out by Fusion for Energy                     

# (2014/954/Euratom)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, and in particular the second paragraph of Article                           101 thereof,                        

Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,

Whereas:

(1)On 15 November 2013, the Council authorised the Commission to open negotiations, on behalf of the European Union and the European                              Atomic Energy Community, with the Swiss Confederation with a view to concluding a comprehensive agreement for scientific and                              technological cooperation between the European Union and European Atomic Energy Community and the Swiss Confederation associating                              the Swiss Confederation to Horizon 2020 — the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2014-2020) and the Research                              and Training Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community (2014-2018) complementing the Horizon 2020; and regulating                              Switzerland's participation in the ITER project in the years 2014-2020.

(2)Those negotiations have been successfully completed.

(3)The signature and conclusion of the Agreement for scientific and technological cooperation between the European Union and                              European Atomic Energy Community and the Swiss Confederation associating the Swiss Confederation to Horizon 2020 — the Framework                              Programme for Research and Innovation and the Research and Training Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community complementing                              Horizon 2020, and regulating the Swiss Confederation's participation in the ITER activities carried out by Fusion for Energy                              (‘the Agreement’) is subject to a separate procedure as regards matters falling within the scope of the Treaty on European                              Union and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.

(4)The Agreement should be concluded also on behalf of the European Atomic Energy Community as regards matters falling in the                              scope of the Euratom Treaty.

(5)The conclusion by the Commission, acting on behalf of the European Atomic Energy Community, of the Agreement should be approved.

(6)In order to be able to treat Swiss legal entities like entities from an Associated Country in fission calls under the Research                              and Training Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community complementing Horizon 2020, which have a deadline in the last                              quarter of 2014, the Agreement should be applied with effect from 15 September 2014,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

# Article 1U.K.

The conclusion by the Commission, on behalf of the European Atomic Energy Community, of the Agreement for scientific and technological                     cooperation between the European Union and European Atomic Energy Community and the Swiss Confederation associating the Swiss                     Confederation to Horizon 2020 — the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation and the Research and Training Programme                     of the European Atomic Energy Community complementing Horizon 2020, and regulating the Swiss Confederation's participation                     in the ITER activities carried out by Fusion for Energy is hereby approved.                  

The text of the Agreement is attached to this Decision.

# Article 2U.K.

This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption.

Done at Brussels, 4 December 2014.

*For the Council*                            

*The President*                            

S. Gozi