19.3.85 Official Journal of the European Communities No C 73/9 
ORIGINAL PROPOSAL AMENDED PROPOSAL 
Article 3 unchanged 
Article 4 
Decision 82/350/Euratom is hereby repealed with 
effect from 1 January 1985. 
However, amounts which, pursuant to Decision 
82/350/Euratom, are authorized under the relevant 
headings of the 1982, 1983 and 1984 budgets on 
which on 1 January 1985 have not yet been 
committed, or which, by that date, have been 
committed but not yet paid, may be used for the 
execution of the present programme. Article 4 
Decision 82/350/Euratom is replaced by this Decision 
with effect from 1 January 1985. 
Unchanged. 
ANNEX 
Points 1 and 2 unchanged 
3. The appropriation of 443 million ECU fixed for the pro- 3. Notwithstanding the Commission's responsibility for 
gramme exclusive of JET can be broken down as follows: implementing the programme, the appropriations for the 
programme exclusive of JET (five words deleted) can be 
broken down as follows: 
Subparagraphs (a) to (e) unchanged 
Points 4 and 5 unchanged 
Amended proposal for a Council Decision complementing Council Decision 84/1/ 
Euratom of 22 December 1983 — Realization of a tritium handling laboratory 
COM(85) 39final 
(Submitted to the Council by the Commission pursuant to the second paragraph of Article 
119 of the Euratom Treaty on 19 February 1985) 
(85/C 73/10) 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN 
COMMUNITIES, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­
pean Atomic Energy Community, and in particular 
Article 7 thereof, 
Having regard to the proposal from the 
Commission ('), presented after consultation of the 
Scientific and Technical Committee, 
(') OJ No C 198, 27. 7. 1984, p. 6. Having regard to the opinion of the European Par­
liament (2), 
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and 
Social Committee (3), 
Whereas, in the context of the common policy re­
lating to the field of science and technology, the 
multiannual research programme is one of the prin­
cipal means whereby the European Atomic Energy 
Community can contribute to the safety and 
development of nuclear energy and to the acquisition 
and dissemination of information in the nuclear field; 
C) Advice given on 17. 1. 1985. 
(3) Advice given on 21. 11. 1984. 
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Whereas, during the period 1984 to 1987, the Joint 
Research Centre (JRC) must continue to play a 
central role in the Community's research strategy and 
to carry out work of common interest by drawing on 
a level of resources which is the equivalent of the 
level of the previous multiannual programme; 
Whereas more generally, the JRC programme as a 
whole must be in keeping with the conclusions of the 
Council of 10 March 1983 with regard to European 
research activities of particular significance; 
Whereas Council Decision of 22 December 1983 
adopting a research programme to be implemented by 
the Joint Research Centre underlines a particular role 
of the JRC in the field of fusion technology and 
safety. 
HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS: 
Article 1 
The European research activities of particular 
significance, to which the Council refers in its 
Decision of 22 December 1983 on the JRC pro­gramme ('), concern the realization of a tritium 
handling laboratory at the Ispra Establishment of the 
JRC. 
Article 2 
The construction and exploitation of the Tritium 
handling laboratory is fully integrated into the 1984 
to 1987 programme of the JRC, as part of the 'Fusion 
technology and safety' subprogramme. With reference 
to Annexe A of the Council Decision (4), the project 
'studies concerning a Tritium handling laboratory' is 
replaced by 'realization of a Tritium handling labor­
atory'. 
Article 3 
With reference to annex B of the abovementioned 
Decision, a line entitled 'Specific appropriations for 
projects of European significance' is included in the 
section on the nuclear-fusion programme 'Fusion 
technology and safety'. 
(4) OJNoL3, 5. 1. 1984, p. 21.