Agreement for cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy between the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) and the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Date: 2003-10-06
Institutions: European Atomic Energy Community, Uzbekistan
Subjects: Uzbekistan, cooperation agreement (EU), nuclear energy, peaceful use of energy

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for cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy between the European Atomic Energy
Community (Euratom) and the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan

AGREEMENT

THE EUROPEAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMUNITY (EURATOM), hereinafter referred to as ‘the Community’, and

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN hereinafter referred to as ‘Uzbekistan’,

both also generally referred to hereinafter as the ‘Party’ or ‘Parties’, as appropriate.

MINDFUL that the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) between the European Communities and their
Member States and Uzbekistan, which entered into force on 1 July 1999, establishes that trade in nuclear materials is to
be subject to the provisions of a specific Agreement to be concluded between Euratom and Uzbekistan,

WHEREAS all Member States of the Community and Uzbekistan are Parties to the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of
Nuclear Weapons, hereinafter referred to as ‘the Non-proliferation Treaty’,

WHEREAS the Community, its Member States and Uzbekistan are committed to ensuring that the research, development
and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes are carried out in a manner consistent with the objectives of the Non-
proliferation Treaty,

WHEREAS nuclear safeguards are applied in the Community both under Chapter VII of the Euratom Treaty and under
safeguards agreements concluded between the Community, its Member States and the International Atomic Energy
Agency, hereinafter referred to as ‘the IAEA’,

WHEREAS nuclear safeguards are applied in Uzbekistan according to a safeguards agreement between Uzbekistan and
the IAEA,

WHEREAS the Community, its Member States and Uzbekistan reaffirm their support of the IAEA and of its strengthened
safeguards system,

WHEREAS it is appropriate to strengthen the basis for cooperation between the Parties in the civil nuclear sector by a
framework agreement,

HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:

CHAPTER I

OBJECTIVE AND SCOPE

Article 1

The objective of this Agreement is to provide a framework for
cooperation between the Parties in the peaceful uses of nuclear
energy with a view to strengthening the overall cooperation
relationship between the Community and Uzbekistan on the
basis of mutual benefit and reciprocity and without prejudice
to the respective powers of each Party.

Article 2

1.
The Parties may cooperate in the way as specified in Art-
icles 3 to 7 below in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy in the
following areas:

(a) nuclear safety (Article 3);

CHAPTER II

NUCLEAR SAFETY AND SECURITY

Article 3

The cooperation shall encourage and contribute to the
1.
including the definition and
improvement of nuclear safety,
scientifically warranted and internationally
application of
accepted nuclear safety guidelines, as well as to the implemen-
tation of the Convention on Nuclear Safety as far as the Parties
are concerned.

The cooperation shall be as broad as possible and involve

2.
the following areas:

(b) nuclear research and development in other areas than those

(a) Radiation protection

provided for under (a) above (Article 6);

(c) trade in nuclear materials and provision of nuclear fuel

cycle services (Article 7);

(d) other relevant areas of mutual interest (Article 8).

2.
The cooperation referred to in this Article, as between the
Parties, may also take place between authorised persons and
undertakings established in the Community and Uzbekistan.

Research, regulatory aspects, development of safety stan-
dards, training and education. Particular attention shall be
paid to low-dose effects, industrial exposure, forecasting of
doses and personnel and post-accident management;

(b) Nuclear waste management

Assessment and optimisation of geological disposal, and
scientific aspects of the management of nuclear waste;

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(c) Research and development on safeguards of nuclear mate-

CHAPTER III

rial

Development and evaluation of nuclear material measure-
ment techniques and characterisation of reference materials
for safeguards activities and development of the systems of
accounting for and control of nuclear materials;

(d) Prevention of illicit trafficking of nuclear and radioactive

material

Cooperation shall relate to the promotion of methods and
techniques of control of nuclear and radioactive material.

Other areas of cooperation under this Chapter may be
3.
added as agreed between the Parties and as far as they can be
implemented under their respective legislation.

Article 4

The cooperation under this Chapter shall be implemented

1.
in particular through:

— exchange of technical

information by means of reports,

visits, seminars, technical meetings, etc.,

— exchange of personnel between laboratories and/or bodies
involved on both sides, including for training purposes,

— exchange of samples, materials, instruments and apparatus

for experimental purposes,

— balanced participation in joint studies and activities.

2.
To the extent necessary, implementing arrangements to
set out the scope, terms and conditions to implement specific
cooperation activities, may be entered into by the Parties and/
or bodies which either Party may eventually entrust with the
aforementioned activities. Such implementing arrangements
may,
financing provisions, assignment of
management responsibilities and detailed provisions on disse-
mination of information and intellectual property rights.

inter alia, cover

3.
In order to minimise duplication of efforts, the Parties
shall endeavour to coordinate their activities under this Agree-
ment with other international activities related to nuclear safety
in which they are participants.

Article 5

Each Party's obligations under

1.
subject to the availability of the required funds.

this Chapter shall be

All costs resulting from this cooperation shall be borne

2.
by the Party that incurs them.

OTHER AREAS OF NUCLEAR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Article 6

Cooperation under this chapter shall extend to nuclear
1.
research and development activities of mutual interest to the
Parties other than those provided for in Article 3, as agreed
between the Parties, insofar as they are covered by respective
research and development activities undertaken by the Parties.

The cooperation may include in particular the following

2.
areas:

(a) applications of nuclear energy in the fields of medicine and

industry, including generation of electricity;

(b) interaction between nuclear energy and the environment;

(c) any other area of nuclear research and development as
agreed between the Parties and as far as they can be imple-
mented under their respective legislations.

The cooperation shall be implemented in particular

3.
through:

— exchange of technical

information by means of reports,

visits, seminars, technical meetings, etc.,

— exchange of personnel between laboratories and/or bodies
involved on both sides, including for training purposes,

— exchange of samples, materials, instruments and apparatus

for experimental purposes,

— balanced participation in joint studies and activities.

4.

(a) To the extent necessary, the scope, terms and conditions
for cooperation in concrete projects will be laid down in
implementing arrangements, entered into by the Parties
acting through their competent institutions which will
proceed according to their respective legislative and
regulatory requirements.

(b) Such implementing arrangements may, inter alia, cover
financing
of management
responsibilities and detailed provisions on dissemination
of information and intellectual property rights.

assignment

provisions,

(c) Costs resulting from cooperation activities

shall be
borne by the Party that incurs them, unless otherwise
specifically agreed by the Parties.

(d) Any nuclear transfers carried out pursuant to the coop-
eration activities under this chapter shall be made in
accordance with the relevant international and multilat-
eral commitments of the Parties and of the Member
States of the European Union in relation to peaceful uses
of nuclear energy as listed in Article 7(5).

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CHAPTER IV

Transfers of nuclear material shall be subject

5.
following conditions:

to the

TRADE IN NUCLEAR MATERIALS AND PROVISION OF
RELEVANT SERVICES

(a) the nuclear material shall be used for peaceful purposes and
not for any nuclear explosive device or for research on, or
development of, any such device;

Article 7

(b) the nuclear material shall be subject:

1.
Nuclear material transferred between the Parties, whether
directly or through a third country, shall become subject to this
Agreement upon its entry into the territorial jurisdiction of the
receiving Party, provided that the supplying Party has notified
the receiving Party in writing prior to, or at the time of, ship-
ment, in accordance with procedures defined in an Administra-
tive Arrangement to be established by the appropriate authori-
ties of the Parties.

Nuclear material referred to in paragraph 1 above shall

2.
remain subject to the provisions of this Agreement until

— it is determined in accordance with the provisions for the
termination of safeguards in the relevant agreement referred
to in paragraph 5(e), that it is no longer usable for any
nuclear activity relevant from the point of view of safe-
guards, or has become practicably irrecoverable,

— it has been transferred beyond the jurisdiction of the reci-

pient Party in accordance with paragraph 5(e), or

— the Parties agree that it should no longer be subject to this

Agreement.

3.
Trade in nuclear materials and provision of relevant
services between the Parties shall be carried out at market-
related prices.

4.

(a) The Parties shall try to avoid conflict situations requiring
commercial safeguard measures in their mutual trade in
nuclear materials. If problems nevertheless arise in their
mutual trade in nuclear materials which would seriously
jeopardise the viability of the nuclear industry, including
uranium mining, of
the Community or Uzbekistan,
either Party may request consultations which shall be
held as soon as possible in the framework of an ad hoc
Committee.

(b) If no mutually acceptable solution to these problems
can be found in the consultations, the Party having
requested the consultations may take the appropriate
commercial safeguard measures to solve them or miti-
gate their effects in accordance with its internal legisla-
tion and with the relevant principles of international
law.

(c) The implementation of subparagraphs (a) and (b) above
shall be without prejudice to the Euratom Treaty and
secondary legislation thereunder, as well as to the legis-
lation of Uzbekistan.

(i) in the Community, to the Euratom safeguards pursuant
to the Euratom Treaty and to the IAEA safeguards
pursuant to the following safeguards agreements, as
relevant, and as they may be revised and replaced, so
long as coverage as required by the Non-proliferation
Treaty is provided for:

— the Agreement between the Community's non-
nuclear weapon Member States, Euratom and the
IAEA, which entered into force on 21 February
1977 (published as INFCIRC/193),

— the Agreement between France, Euratom and the
IAEA, which entered into force on 12 September
1981 (published as INFCIRC/290),

— the Agreement between the United Kingdom,
Euratom and the IAEA, which entered into force on
14 August 1978 (published as INFCIRC/263),

supplemented in due course by Additional Protocols
concluded on 22 September 1998 on the basis of the
document published as INFCIRC/540 (Model Protocol
Additional to the Agreement(s) between State(s) and the
IAEA for the Application of Safeguards);

(ii) in Uzbekistan, to the safeguards agreement concluded
with the IAEA in implementation of Article III.(1) and
(4) of the NPT, which entered into force on 8 October
1994 (published as INFCIRC/508); supplemented by an
Additional Protocol concluded on 22 September 1998,
on the basis of the document published as INFCIRC/
540 (Model Protocol Additional to the Agreement(s)
between State(s) and the IAEA for the Application of
Safeguards), as well as to the legislation of Uzbekistan;

(c) in the event of the application of any of the Agreements
with the IAEA referred to in paragraph (b) above being
suspended or
terminated for any reason within the
Community or Uzbekistan, the relevant Party shall enter
into an agreement with the IAEA which provides for effec-
tiveness and coverage equivalent to that provided by the
safeguards agreements referred to in paragraphs (b)(i) or
(b)(ii), or, if that is not possible,

the Community, as far as it is concerned, shall apply safe-
guards based on the Euratom safeguards system, which
provides for effectiveness and coverage equivalent to that
provided by the safeguards agreements referred to in para-
graph (b)(i) or, if that is not possible,

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the Parties shall enter arrangements for the application of
safeguards, which provide for effectiveness and coverage
equivalent to that provided by the safeguards agreements
referred to in paragraphs (b)(i) or (b)(ii);

CHAPTER V

OTHER AREAS OF MUTUAL INTEREST

(d) application of physical protection measures at levels which
satisfy as a minimum the criteria set out in Annex C to
IAEA document INFCIRC/254/Rev.5/Part 1 (Guidelines for
Nuclear Transfers) as it may be revised; supplementary to
this document, the Member States of the Community, the
European Commission, as appropriate, and Uzbekistan will
refer when applying physical protection measures to the
recommendations in IAEA document INFCIRC/225/Rev.4
(Physical Protection of Nuclear Material and Nuclear Facil-
ities) as it may be revised. International transport shall be
subject to the provisions of the International Convention
on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (IAEA docu-
ment
it may be revised and
the
accepted by the Parties and the Member States of
Community and to the IAEA Regulations for the Safe
Transport of Radioactive Materials (IAEA Safety Standards
Series TS-R-1/ST-1, Revised), as they may be revised;

INFCIRC/274/Rev.1), as

(e) retransfers of any items subject to this Article outside the
jurisdiction of the Parties shall only be made under the
conditions of the Guidelines for Nuclear Transfers, as set
out in IAEA document INFCIRC/254/Rev.5/Part 1, as it
may be revised.

6.

(a) The Parties shall facilitate nuclear trade between them-
selves or between authorised persons or undertakings
established in the respective territories of the Parties in
the mutual interest of producers, the nuclear fuel cycle
industry, utilities and consumers.

(b) Authorisations, including export and import licences as
well as authorisations or consents to third parties,
relating to trade, industrial operations or nuclear mate-
rial movements on the territories of the Parties shall not
be used to restrict trade or hinder the commercial inter-
ests of either Party on the peaceful use of nuclear energy
both internationally and domestically. The relevant
authority shall act upon applications for such authorisa-
tions as soon as possible after submission and without
unreasonable expense. Appropriate administrative provi-
sions shall be in place to ensure respect of this provi-
sion.

Article 8

The Parties may agree within the scope of their respective
1.
competences to cooperation in other activities in the field of
nuclear energy.

On the Community's side, the activities would have to be
2.
covered by relevant programmes of action and correspond to
the conditions specified for it, e.g.
in areas such as the safe
transport of nuclear material, safeguards or industrial coopera-
tion to promote certain aspects of the safety of nuclear installa-
tions.

3.

The provisions of Article 6(4) are equally applicable.

CHAPTER VI

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 9

Cooperation under this Agreement shall be in accordance with
the laws and regulations in force within the Community and
Uzbekistan as well as with the international agreements entered
into by the Parties. In the case of the Community the applicable
law includes the Euratom Treaty and secondary legislation
thereunder.

Article 10

The utilisation and diffusion of information and intellectual
property rights, patents and copyrights connected with the
cooperation activities under this Agreement shall be in accor-
dance with the Annexes, which form an integral part of this
Agreement.

(c) Provisions of

this Agreement shall not be used to
impede the free movement of nuclear material within
the territory of the Community.

Article 11

7.
Notwithstanding the suspension or termination of this
Agreement for any reason, paragraph 5 shall continue to apply
so long as any nuclear material subject to these provisions
remains under the jurisdiction of either Party or until a deter-
mination is made in accordance with paragraph 2 above.

1.
The Parties will hold regular consultations within the PCA
framework to monitor the cooperation under this Agreement
unless the Parties foresee specific consultation mechanisms.

2.
Any dispute relating to the application or interpretation
of this Agreement may be dealt with according to Article 90 of
the PCA.

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Article 12

1.
The Agreement shall enter into force on the date the
Parties, through an exchange of diplomatic notes, specify its
entry into force and shall remain in force for an initial period
of five years.

2.
Thereafter this Agreement shall be automatically renewed
for five-year periods, unless either Party, by written notice,
requests the termination or renegotiation of the Agreement not
later than six months prior to the expiry date.

If either Party or any Member State of the Community
3.
violates any of the material provisions of this Agreement, the
other Party may, on giving written notice to that effect,
suspend or terminate cooperation under this Agreement
in
whole or in part. Before either Party takes action to that effect
the Parties shall consult with a view to reaching agreement on
the corrective measures to be taken and on the timescale within
which such measures shall be taken. Such action shall be taken
only if there has been failure to take the agreed measures
within the agreed time or, in the event of failure to reach agree-
ment as provided in the foregoing paragraph, after the lapse of
a reasonable period of time having regard to the nature and
gravity of the violation.

For the purpose of this Agreement:

Article 13

(a) ‘nuclear material’ means any source material or special
fissionable material as those terms are defined in Article XX
of the Statute of the IAEA;

(b) ‘Community’ means both:

(i) the legal person created by the Treaty establishing the
European Atomic Energy Community, Party to this
Agreement;

(ii) the territories to which this same Treaty applies;

(c) ‘appropriate authorities of the Parties’ means:

(i) for the Community, the European Commission;
(ii) for Uzbekistan, the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic

of Uzbekistan;

or such other authority as the Party concerned may at any
time notify to the other Party.

Article 14

This Agreement shall be drawn up in duplicate in the Danish,
German, Greek, Spanish, French,
Italian, Dutch, English,
Finnish, Portuguese, Swedish and Uzbek languages, each text
being equally authentic.

Hecho en Bruselas, el seis de octubre de dos mil tres.

Udfærdiget i Bruxelles, den sjette oktober to tusind og tre.

Geschehen zu Brüssel am sechsten Oktober zweitausendunddrei.
Έγινε στις Βρυξέλλες, στις έξι Οκτωβρίου δύο χιλιάδες τρία.

Done at Brussels on the sixth day of October in the year two thousand and three.

Fait à Bruxelles, le six octobre deux mille trois.

Fatto a Bruxelles, addì sei ottobre duemilatre.

Gedaan te Brussel, de zesde oktober tweeduizenddrie.

Feito em Bruxelas, em seis de Outubro de dois mil e três.

Tehty Brysselissä kuudentena päivänä lokakuuta vuonna kaksituhattakolme.

Som skedde i Bryssel den sjätte oktober tjugohundratre.

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Por la Comunidad Europea de la Energía Atómica

På vegne af Det Europæiske Atomenergifællesskab

Für die Europäische Atomgemeinschaft

Για την Ευρωπαϊκή Κοινότητα Ατοµικής Ενέργειας

For the European Atomic Energy Community

Pour la Communauté européenne de l'énergie atomique

Per la Comunità europea dell'energia atomica

Voor de Europese Gemeenschap voor atoomenergie

Pela Comunidade Europeia da Energia Atómica

Euroopan atomienergiayhteisön puolesta

För Europeiska atomenergigemenskapen

Por el Gobierno de la República de Uzbekistán

På vegne af Republikken Usbekistans regering

Für die Regierung der Republik Usbekistan

Για την κυβέρνηση της ∆ηµοκρατίας του Ουζµπεκιστάν

For the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan

Pour le gouvernement de l'Ouzbékistan

Per il governo della Repubblica di Uzbekistan

Voor de regering van de Republiek Oezbekistan

Pelo Governo da República do Usbequistão

Uzbekistanin tasavallan hallituksen puolesta

För Republiken Uzbekistans regering

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ANNEX I

Guidelines on the allocation of intellectual property rights (1) resulting from joint research under the Agree-
ment for cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy between the European Atomic Energy Community
and the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan

I. OWNERSHIP ALLOCATION AND EXERCISE OF RIGHTS

1. All research carried out pursuant to this Agreement shall be ‘joint research’. The participants shall jointly develop
joint technology management plans (TMPs) (2) in respect of the ownership and use, including publication, of
information and intellectual property (IP) to be created in the course of joint research. Those plans shall be
approved by the responsible funding agency or department of the Party involved in financing the research, before
the conclusion of the specific research and development cooperation contracts to which they are attached. The
TMPs shall be developed taking into account the aims of the joint research, the relative contributions of the parti-
cipants, the advantages and disadvantages of licensing by territory or for fields of use, requirements imposed by
laws applicable and other factors deemed appropriate by the participants.

2. Information or IP created in the course of joint research and not addressed in the TMP plan shall be allocated,
with the approval of the Parties, according to the principles set out in the technology management plan. In case
of disagreement, such information or IP shall be owned jointly by all the participants involved in the joint
research from which the information or IP results. Each participant to whom this provision applies shall have the
right to use such information or IP for his own commercial exploitation with no geographical limitation.

3. Each Party shall ensure that the other Party and its participants have the rights allocated to them in accordance

with these principles.

4. While maintaining the conditions of competition in areas affected by this Agreement, each Party shall endeavour
to ensure that rights acquired pursuant to this Agreement are exercised in such a way as to encourage in parti-
cular:

(i) the dissemination and use of information created, disclosed, or otherwise made available, under the Agree-

ment;

(ii) the adoption and implementation of international standards.

II. COPYRIGHT WORKS

Under this Agreement, copyright belonging to the Parties or to their participants shall be accorded treatment consis-
tent with the Bern Convention (1971 Paris Act).

III. SCIENTIFIC LITERARY WORKS

Without prejudice to Section IV, unless otherwise agreed in the TMP, publication of results of research shall be made
jointly by the Parties or participants to that joint research. Subject to the foregoing general rule, the following proce-
dures shall apply:

1. In the case of publication by a Party or public bodies of that Party of scientific and technical journals, articles,
reports, books, including video and software, arising from joint research pursuant to this Agreement, the other
Party shall be entitled to a worldwide, non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free licence to translate, reproduce,
adapt, transmit and publicly distribute such works.

2. The Parties shall ensure that literary works of a scientific character arising from joint research pursuant to the

agreement and published by independent publishers shall be disseminated as widely as possible.

3. All copies of a copyright work to be publicly distributed and prepared under these provisions shall indicate the
names of the author(s) of the work unless an author or authors expressly declines or decline to be named. They
shall also bear a clearly visible acknowledgement of the cooperative support of the Parties.

(1) Definitions of the concepts referred to in these guidelines are set out in Annex II.
(2) The indicative features of such TMPs are set out in Annex III.

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IV. UNDISCLOSED INFORMATION

A. Doc u me ntar y u ndi sclosed i nfor mati on

1. Each Party or its participants, as appropriate, shall identify, at the earliest possible moment and preferably in
the TMP, the information that it wishes to remain undisclosed in relation to this Agreement, taking account,
inter alia, of the following criteria:

— secrecy of the information in the sense that the information is not, as a body or in the precise configura-
tion or assembly of its components, generally known among or readily accessible by lawful means to
experts in the field,

— the actual or potential commercial value of the information by virtue of its secrecy,

— previous protection of the information in the sense that it has been subject to steps that were reasonable

under the circumstances by the person lawfully in control, to maintain its secrecy.

The Parties and the participants may in certain cases agree that, unless otherwise indicated, parts or all of the
information provided, exchanged or created in due course of joint research pursuant to the Agreement may
not be disclosed.

2. Each Party shall ensure that undisclosed information under this Agreement and its ensuing privileged nature
is readily recognisable as such by the other Party, for example by means of an appropriate marking or restric-
tive legend. This also applies to any reproduction of the said information, in whole or in part.

A Party receiving undisclosed information pursuant to the Agreement shall respect the privileged nature
thereof. These limitations shall automatically terminate when the owner without restriction to experts in the
field discloses this information.

3. Undisclosed information communicated under this Agreement may be disseminated by the receiving Party to
persons within or employed by the receiving Party, and other concerned departments or agencies in the
receiving Party authorised for the specific purposes of the joint research under way, provided that any un-
disclosed information so disseminated shall be pursuant to an agreement of confidentiality and shall be readily
recognisable as such, as set out above.

4. With the prior written consent of the Party providing undisclosed information under this Agreement, the
receiving Party may disseminate such undisclosed information more widely than otherwise permitted in para-
graph 3 above. The Parties shall cooperate in developing procedures for requesting and obtaining prior
written consent for such wider dissemination, and each Party will grant such approval to the extent permitted
by its domestic policies, regulations and laws.

B. Non- doc u men t a r y un di sc lose d i n for ma t i on

Non-documentary undisclosed or other confidential or privileged information provided in seminars and other
meetings arranged under this Agreement, or information arising from the attachment of staff, use of facilities, or
joint projects, shall be treated by the Parties or their participants according to the principle specified for docu-
mentary information in the Agreement, provided, however, that the recipient of such undisclosed or other confi-
dential or privileged information has been made aware of the confidential character of the information commu-
nicated at the time such communication is made.

C. Con trol

Each Party shall ensure that undisclosed information received by it under this Agreement shall be controlled as
provided therein. If one of the Parties becomes aware that it will be, or may reasonably be expected to become
unable to meet the non-dissemination provisions of paragraphs A and B above, it shall immediately inform the
other Party. The Parties shall thereafter consult to define an appropriate course of action.

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ANNEX II

Definitions

1.

2.

3.

4.

‘INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY’: shall have the meaning given in Article 2 of the Convention establishing the World
Intellectual Property Organisation, done at Stockholm on 14 July 1967.

‘PARTICIPANT’: any natural or legal person, including the Parties themselves, participating in a project under this
Agreement.

‘JOINT RESEARCH’: research development and/or funded by the joint contributions of the Parties and with collabora-
tion from participants of both Parties, where appropriate.

‘INFORMATION’: scientific or technical data, results or methods of research and development stemming from the
JOINT RESEARCH and any other information deemed necessary by the Parties and/or participants engaged in the
JOINT RESEARCH to be provided or exchanged under this Agreement or research pursuant thereto.

ANNEX III

Indicative features of a technology management plan (TMP)

The TMP is a specific agreement to be concluded between the participants, about the implementation of joint research
and the respective rights and obligations of the participants. With respect to IPR, the TMP will normally address, inter
alia, ownership protection, user rights for R & D purposes, exploitation and dissemination, including arrangements for
joint publication, the rights and obligations of visiting researchers and dispute settlement procedures. The TMP may also
address foreground and background information, licensing and deliverables.