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COMMISSION OFTHEEUROPEAN COMMUNITIE
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AMENDING THEPROPOSAL FORACOUNCILDECISION ADOPTING A
RESEARCH ANDTRAINING PROGRAMME (1982-1986 )INTHEFIELD
OFCONTROLLED THERMONUCLEAR FUSION
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TheCommission presented totheCouncil on23July 1981 ,aProposal ,for a
Council Decision adopting aresearch and training programme (1982-1986 )
inthefield ofcontrolled thermonuclear fusion (doc C0M(81 )357final ).
TheEuropean Parliament ,consulted byletter on24August 1981 bythe
President oftheCouncil ,hasadopted on12March 1982 anadvice inwhich
itapproves this Proposal ,provided that theCommission endorses the
amendments given inANNEX (underlined text ).
These amendments areessentially inagreement with therecommendations of
the "European Fusion Review Panel "(Doc ,SEC (81)1933 )andwith themoti­
vation oftheinitial proposal bytheCommission .
TheCommission ,onthebasis ofarticle 112 §2oftheTreaty establishing
theEAEC ,modifies itsinitial proposal ,introducing all theamendments pro­
posed bytheParliament andpresents totheCouncil theModification given
inANNEX .
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ANNEX
Modification
totheProposal for aCouncil Dscisicn
adopting aresearch andtraining programme (1382-1286 )
inthe field ofcontrolled thermonuclear fusion
Initial proposal , Modified proposal
(doc .COM(81)357f inal ) (amendments areunderlined )
Preamble andfirst Recital unchanged
Second Recital Second Recital
Whereas ,mview oftheconsiderable
efforts needed toreach theappli­
cation stage ofcontrolled thermonu­
clear fusion ,which could beof
benefit totheCommunity ,particularly
inthewider context ofthesecurity
ofitslong-term energy supplies ,the
various stages ofdevelopment ofthe
work hitherto undertaken inthis field
should continue onajoint basis ;Whereas 9mview oftheconsiderable
efforts needed toreach theappli­
cation stage ofcontrolled thermonu­
clear fusion ,which could beof
benefit totheCommunity ,particularly
inthewider context ofthesecurity
ofitslong-term energy supplies ,the
various stages ofdevelopment ofthe
work hitherto undertaken inthis field
should ^continue onajoint basis ,
attaching great importance tothe
strategy ofconcentrating effort on
the Tokamak line and sizeable effort on
twoalternative lines inmagnetic
confinement ,thereverse field pinch
andstellarators ,given aperiodic
reassessment ofthe reactor relevance
ofthese lines compared with that
ofthe Tokamak :

Third Recital Third Recital
Whereas thescientific progress achieved
inthis field inrecent years inthe
Community and therest oftheworld
illustrates theneed ,particularly for
Tokamak systems ,toconstruct larger
andmore complex devices and toconcen­
trate inparticular onthedevelopment
ofplasma heating techniques ;Whereas thescientific progress achieved
inthis field inrecent years inthe
Community and therest oftheworld
illustrates theneed ,particularly for
Tokamak systems ,toconstruct larger
andmore complex devices and toconcen­
trate inparticular onthedevelopment
ofplasma heating techniques ,attaching
greater impor tance toexperiments relating
toignition withcompact devices having
ahigh magnetic field ?ifthefeasibili ty
thereof has been proved ;
The other Recitals and the four Articles unchanged
ANNEX
CONTROLLED THERMO NUCLEAR FUSION
1.Thesubject matter oftheprogramme Unchanged
tobeexecuted shall be :
(a)plasma physics inthesector Unchanged
concerned ,inparticular studies
ofabasic character relating to
confinement with suitable devices
and tomethods forproducing and
heating plasma ;
(b)research into theconfinement ,in Unchanged
closed configurations ,ofplasma
ofwidely varying density andtem­
perature ;

3.
(c)research into light-matter inter­
actions and transport phenomena
and thedevelopment ofhigh-power
lasers ;Unchanged
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confinement devices ofsufficient
powerful plasma heating methods ;
(e)improvement ofdiagnostic methods ; Unchanged
(f)definition ofthelarge device cons- Unchanged
titutmg thenext step after JET and
technological developments required
for itsdesign andconstruction as
well asthose needed inthelonger
term for the fusion reactor
(g)completion oftheconstruction of Unchanged
theJETdevice initsbasic perfor­
mance ;extension ofJET tofull
performance ;operation andexploi­
tation ofJET .
Thework referred toin (b)must be
pursued having regard toprogress else­
where inthe world inorder toestablish
aposition formutual technical exchanges
whenever cooperation malarger inter­
national framework .takes place .
Theremainder oftheAnnex unchanged