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COMMISSION OFTHEEUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
COMMUNICATION OFTHE COMMISSION TOTHE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
AND TOTHE COUNCIL ONTHE UPDATING OFTHE JET PROJECT
AMENDMENT OFTHE PROPOSAL FOR ACOUNCIL DECISION
ADOPTING ARESEARCH AND TRAINING PROGRAMME (1979-83 )
FOR THE EUROPEAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMUNITY
INTHE FIELD OFCONTROLLED THERMONUCLEAR FUSION
(presented bytheCommission totheCouncil
pursuant tothesecond paragraph ofarticle 149oftheEECTreaty )
C0M(79 )160finalCOM(79 )160 final
Brussels .26March 1979
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COMMUNICATION OFTHE COMMISSION
TOTHE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND TOTHE COUNCIL
ONTHE UPDATING OFTHE JET PROJECT
INTRODUCTION
Initsproposal forafusion programme 1979 /83theCommission indi­
cated (1)that theJETJoint Undertatking wasupdating thecost estimate
fortheJETproject initsbasic performance andconsidering thepossi­
bility ofproceeding atanearlier stage than previously foreseen to
theimplementation oftheextended performance during theconstruction
phase .Attherequest oftheChairman oftheJETCouncil ,theDirector
oftheJoint Undertaking recently submitted corresponding proposals
totheJETCouncil ,which examined them during itsmeeting on8/9
February 1979 .TheCommission attaches great importance toinforming
the Parliament and the Council forthwith onthis examination and is
putting forward inthis document itsproposals forthesolution ofthe
resulting problems .
1.PRESENT SITUATION OFTHE COST ESTIMATES OFJET
Inupdating theJETProject theJETCouncil took into account four
elements :
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(a)acceleration ofcommitments ,
(b)inflation ,
(c)operation oftheJETdevice ,
(d)possible earlier access toextended performance .
1.1Acceleration ofcommitments
On30May 1978 theCouncil approved thefollowing timetable for
financing theJETproject (2)(inMEUA atJanuary 1977 terms ):
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2)Seedoe .COM(78 )616final ,paga 30andpagas 78/79,paragraph 5.2 .
Seedoe .R/820/78(ATO 17),Doe .COM(78 )158final ,page 4.

Years 1976 /77/78 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 Total
lst half
Commitments 20 60 48 35 17 4.6 184.6
Payments 12 35 50 43 30 14.6 184.6
Inorder toachieve completion ofconstruction bytheend of1982 instead
ofmid-83 ,theJETCouncil hasproposed toincrease thecommitment forecast
for 1980 by10MEUA (atJanuary 1977 terms )and todecrease theforecasts
for 1981 by4MEUA and for 1982 by6MEUA .Thepayments profile would
remain unchanged ,aswell asthe total of184.6 MEUA atJanuary 1977 terms .
Thenewcommitments profile would be(inMEUA atJanuary 1977 terms ):
1976 /78 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 Total
20 60 58 31 H 4.6 184.6
1.2 Inflation
On30May 1978 theCouncil approved thecost estimates for thecon­
struction phase oftheJETproject ,amounting to184.6 MEUA at
January 1977 prices .
Taking into account inflation in1977 and 1978 ,theJETCouncil has
nowestimated thecost oftheconstruction phase atJanuary 1979 prices
atabout 200 MEUA .
Thecommitments andpayments profiles ofthe200MEUA ,already adjusted
toacceleration shown under paragraph 1.1,would become :
Years 1976 /78 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 Total
Commitments 20 1) 683) 62.1 33.2 11.7 5.0 200
Payments 11.85 2)40 3)54.6 46.8 32.7 14.05 200
O
2)
3)-committed
-spent
-budget adopted

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TheCommunity hastofinance80%oftheJETexpenditure .Thecommit­
mentandpaymentprofiles fortheCommunity wouldtherefore be(in
MEUAatJanuary 1979prices):
Years 1976/781979 1980 1981 1982 1983Total Grand
79/83total
Commitments 16 54.4 49.6 26.6 9.4 4.0 144 160
Payments 9.48 32 43.7 37.426.211.22 |
II150.52 160
Therefore theappropriation oftheCommission neededtofinancetheJETcommit­
mentsfortheyears1979-1983 covered bythefusionprogramme isnowestimated
at144MEUAatJanuary 1979prices.
1.3Operation ofJET
TheJETCouncilestimates theyearlycostofoperation tobeabout
30MEUAatJanuary 1979prices.Thepresentplanning ofJETprovides
forcompletion ofconstruction bytheendof1982andstartofoperation
atthebeginning of1983.Therefore thefullamountof30MEUAhas
tobeprovidedforin1983tocovertheoperation ofthedevice.
Sincefor19835MEUAdevotedtooperation (atJanuary 1979prices)
werealreadyincludedinthecostestimates fortheconstruction
phase,anadditional amountof30-5=25MEUAistobeprovidedfor
theoperation ofJETin1983(ofwhich80%■20MEUAfortheCommunity).
1.4Possibleearlieraccesstoextended performance
Severalveryencouraging resultsobtainedrecentlyinthefieldof
Tokamaks,andthedesiretokeepJETcompetitive withotherlarge
devicesoutsidetheCommunity ,haveledtheJETCounciltoexamine
thepossibility ofproceeding atanearlierstagethanpreviously
foreseen totheimplementation oftheextended performance
oftheJETdeviceandtoasktheJETScientific Council whosemembers
havejustbeenappointed ,togiveadviceontheprogramme proposal
ontheextendedperformance established bytheDirectoroftheJETJoint
Undertaking .

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Thecostfortheimplementation oftheextended performance isestimated
,atabout60MEUAatJanuary 1979prices,ofwhich80%■48MEUAfor
theCommunity .Asalreadystatedindoc.COM(78)158final(page6)on
theestablishment oftheJETJointUndertaking ,approved bytheCouncil
on30May1978,andreiterated intheproposalforthe1979/83programme
(page79),itisprobablethatmostofthisexpenditure willhavetobe
committed duringtheconstruction phase.However,afinalreconmendation
onthetimingoftheimplementation ofextended performance andthe
relatedexpenditure profilecanonlybegivenaftercompletion ofan
assessment tobemadebytheJETScientific Councilandthesubsequent
proposal oftheJETCouncil .
2.PROPOSALS OFTHECOMMISSION
2.1Acceleration ofcommitments
-Theapproval oftheoriginal timetable forfinancing theJETproject,
provided forinArticle 46,paragraph 2(c),oftheEURATOMTreaty,has
beenshownintherecordsoftheCouncilsessionon30May1978(3).
-Inthese~records ,itwasmentioned (4)that"TheCommission willnotify
theCouncilifthetimescale established bytheJointUndertaking inthe
framework ofitsannualbudgetary procedure andconverted totherates
of1January 1977differsfromthetimescale abovewhetherthisisdue
to:
-morerapidcommitments ,or
-alikelihood oftheestimated costsofbuilding theexperiment
beingexceeded".
-TheCommission proposes thentotheCounciltotakenoteoftherevised
timetable forfinancing (atJanuary 1977prices)asindicated under
paragraph 1.1ofthepresentdocument andtoshowthisapproval inthe
recordsofthenextCouncilsessiondealingwiththeproposalforthe
fusionprogramme 1979/83.
(3)Seedoc.C0M(78)158final,page4,paragraph 2.2.d
(4)Seedoc.C0M(78)158final»page7,paragraph2.3.c.iii

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2.2 Inflation
TheCouncil ofMinisters recorded that thecosts oftheJETconstruction
phase have been estimated atJanuary 1977 prices .InArticle 2ofits
proposal foraCouncil decision onthefusion programme 1979 /83(5)the
Commission showed anallocation of131.7 MEUA forJET (equal to80%of
164.6 MEUA ■184.6 -20MEUA committed in1978 )allthese figures calculated
atJanuary 1977 prices .
TheParliament initsopinion ontheproposed fusion programme 1979 /83,
recommended toround upthefigure concerning theneeds oftheprogramme
without JET (from 217to220MEUA )and tomodify thefigure concerning
theneeds for theconstruction phase ofJET (from 131.7 to145 MEUA )
inorder tocope with thechanges ineconomic conditions since January 1977 .
Initsopinion theParliament proposes toamend consequently Article 2
oftheproposed Council decision adopting thefusion programme 1979 /1983
andasks some other amendments inthedrafting ofArticles 1,3and 4.
The Commission endorses these amendments .
Therefore theCommission under the terms ofArt .119second paragraph
oftheTreaty establishing theEAEC modifies ,following theopinion ofthe
European Parliament ^theproposed Council decision included inthe"Proposal
foraresearch andtraining programme (1979-83 )for theEAEC inthefield
ofcontrolled thermonuclear fusion "(6).Thenewproposed Council decision
isgiven inAnnex tothepresent document .
2.3 Operation ofJET in1983 .
Theadditional funds required fortheoperation ofJET in1983 are
tobecommitted in1983 .TheCommission proposes toinclude these
funds intheprogramme revision in1981 when more accurate data are
available .
2.4 Possible earlier access toextended performan ce
Asstated inparagraph 1.3 .aofdoc .COM(78 )147final ,approved by
theCouncil on30May 1978 ,theallocation offunds fortheextended
performance oftheJETdevice requires aprograirane decision bythe
(5)Seedoe .C.OM(78 )616final ,page 63.
+) Tliisfigure isarounding upofthe144MEUA atJanuary 1979 prices resulting
from thecommitment profile given attheendofparagraph 1.2 .
(6)Doc .COM(78 )616final .

Council .Aftercompletion oftherelevant assessment tobemadeby
theJETScientific Council andtheJETCouncil theCommission willsubmit
totheParliament andtotheCouncilinduecourse,probablyatthe
revision oftheprogramme 1979/83tobeundertaken in1981butevenearlier
ifitappeared tobeadvisable ,aproposalforaprogramme decision on
theimplementation oftheextended performance .
2.5SummaryofCommission proposals
TheCommission :
-notifies theCouncilthattherevisedtimetable forfinancing the
JETprojectatJanuary 1977pricesisthesecondtableshownonpage2
ofthepresent document ,
-modifies ,following theopinionoftheEuropean Parliament ,theproposed
Councildecision includedinthe"Proposal foraresearch andtraining
programme (1979-83)fortheEAECinthefieldofcontrolled thermo­
nuclearfusion".Thenewproposed CouncildecisionisgiveninAnnex
tothepresent document .
-intendstorequest,ontheoccasion oftherevision tobeundertaken
in1981,thefundsneededfortheoperation ofJETin1983and
toforwardinduecourse,probablyatthesamerevision ,aproposal
foraprogramme decision ontheimplementation oftheextendedperfor­
manceoftheJETdevice.

ANNEX
AMENEKENT
oftheproposalforaCouncilDecision
adoptingaresearchandtrainingprogramme (1979-83)
fortheEuropean AtomicEnergyCommunity
inthefieldofcontrolled thermonuclear fusion
Originai proposai
(DocCOM(78)616final,p.62-64)Amendedproposal
(amendments underlined )
Preamble andrecitals unchanged
Article 1 Article 1
Aresearch andtraining programme
inthefieldofcontrolled thermo­
nuclear fusionasdefined inthe
Annexisherebyadoptedforafive-
yearperiodbeginning 1January 1979*Aresearch andtraining programme
inthefieldofcontrolled thermo­
nuclear fusionasdefined inthe
Annexisherebyadoptedforthe
periodendingon31December 1983
Article 2
Theglobalneedsfortheentire
duration oftheprogramme without
JETareestimated at217MEUAand
113Community employees .
Theglobalneedsfortheconstruction
phaseofJETduringtheduration of
theprogramme areestimated at131*7
MEUAand150temporary staffwithin
themeaningofArticle2(a)ofthe
conditions ofemployment ofother
servants oftheEuropean Communities .
Thesefiguresareonlyindicative .
TheEuropeanunitofaccountis
defined inArticle 10ofthe
Financial Regulation of21£c.ceraber
1977applicable toth*rsneral
budgetoftheEuropeanCoowvunit ?asKArticle 2
Theglobalneedsfortheentire
duration oftheprogramme without
JETareestimated at220MEUAand
113Community employees .
Theglobalneedsfortheconstruction
phaseofJETduringtheduration of
theprogramme areestimated at145
MEUAand150temporary staffwithin
themeaningofArticle2(a)ofthe
coaditions ofemployment ofother
servants oftheEuropean Communities .
"'heseU.guresareofanindicative
natureonlx.
1)0,J.WoLV)6,31.12.1977 .P.1

Original proposal
Article 3
TheCorami88ionshallsubmit ,tothe
Councilin1981areviewproposal
designed toreplacethepresent
programme withanewfive-year
programme witheffectfrom
1January 1982,Amended proposal
Article 3
TheCommission shallsubmittothe
European Parliament andtheCouncil ,
notlaterthan1July1981,areview
proposal designed toreplacethe
present programme withanewfive-
yearprogramme witheffectfrom
1January 1982.
Article 4
Decisions 76/345/Euratomand
78/470/Euratomarerepealed.
ThisDecision shallenterinto
forceon1January 1979*Article 4
Decisions 76/345/Euratomand
78/470/Euratomarerepealed.
ThisDecision shallenterinto
forceimmediately .