CELEX: 51980PC0217
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Date: 1980-04-30
Title: DRAFT COUNCIL DECISION INSTRUCTING THE COMMISSION TO NEGOTIATE AN AGREEMENT FOR COOPERATION BETWEEN THE EUROPEAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMUNITY AND SPAIN IN THE FIELD OF CONTROLLED THERMONUCLEAR FUSION (presented by the Commission to the Council)

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                           DRAFT COUNCIL DECISION
         INSTRUCTING THE COMMISSION TO NEGOTIATE AN AGREEMENT FOR
         COOPERATION BETWEEN THE EUROPEAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMUNITY
       AND SPAIN    IN THE FIELD OF CONTROLLED THERMONUCLEAR FUSION
               (presented by the Commission to the Council )
 C0M(80 ) 217 final
 ---pagebreak---                COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL
SUBJECT : Cooperation with Spain in the field of controlled thermonuclear
            fusion through Spanish participation in the staff mobility con­
           tract concluded between the Commission and its partners in the
            field      1
1.The Spanish authorities have expressed a desire for immediate cooperation
    with the Community in the_ field of controlled thermonuclear fusion .
2 . The Commission and the Spanish authorities have undertaken a preliminary
    examination of the possibilities for cooperation in the field of fusion .
    This examination has revealed that :
    2.1 - Research in Spain in the field of thermonuclear fusion only began
          a few years ago ;
        - the national programm in Spain in this field will employ 25 scien­
          tists in the next two years ;
        - this programm will be based on the Tokamak concept (a small machine
          of this type , identical to the " Erasmus " of the Belgian " Ecole
          Royale Militaire ", has been ordered in the United States and will
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          be delivered in 1980; a medium-sized Tokamak is in the design stage )
    2.2 Given the present stage of the fusion research programm in Spain,
        complete association , with the Community 's programm , such as was con­
        cluded with Sweden and Switzerland , would not be justified and is
        not desired by Spain .
    2.3 However , cooperation between the Community and Spain involving parti­
        cipation by Spain in the staff mobility contract concluded by the
        Commission and its partners under the fusion programm is in the in­
        terests of the Community and of Spain .
 ---pagebreak---  2.4   This participation would enable Spain to send scientists to work
        in the laboratories of the Commission 's partners and to invite
       scientists from these laboratories to Spain in order to develop
       a programm compatible with the Community 's programm with a view
       to a broader association (which may be expected in the event of
       Spain joining the Community ).
 2.5   Spain would pay its contribution to the staff mobility fund as
       a function of the ratio between her Gross Domestic Product and
       that of the Community , i.e. approx . 7,5 % of 2 MUA = 0,15 MUA
  -  '"over five years , i.e. approx . 30.000 UA- per annum . (The same for
       mula as was used in the agreements with Sweden and Switzerland ).
 The various advisory committees of the community fusion programm and
,among them the ACF were consultedorv the subject of such a cooperation
 with Spain and expressed a favourable advice .
 In conclusion, the Commission is transmitting to the Council as
 Annex 1 of this communication, a Draft Decision instructing the Com­
 mission to negotiate an agreement for cooperation between the Europea
 Atomic Energy Community and Spain , through Spanish participation in
 the staff mobility contract concluded between the Commission and its
 partners in the field of controlled thermonuclear fusion.
 ---pagebreak---                                                              ANNEX I
                                  DRAFT C-OUNCIL DECISION
                   INSTRUCTING THE COMMISSION TO NEGOTIATE AN AGREEMENT
                   FOR COOPERATION BETWEEN THE EUROPEAN ATOMIC ENERGY
                   COMMUNITY AND SPAIN IN THE FIELD OF CONTROLLED THERMOr
                                     NUCLEAR FUSION
The Council of the European Communities ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community
  in particular the second paragraph of Article 101 thereof,          •
Having re^rd to the Draft of the Commission,
Whereas the Council adopted, on 13 March 1980 , a fifth research and training
  programm for the European Atomic Energy Community in the field of controlled
  thermonuclear fusion covering the period 1979-1983 and ensuring the long-
term continuity of the community programm ;
Whereas Spain , as a country seaking accession to the European Communities ,
has expressed the desire to participate immediately in the staff mobility
contract under the fusion programm in order to map out- and start up the Spa­
  nish fusion programm under the best . possible conditions with a view to bro­
  ader association ;                       :     ' '
Whereas the existing Committees under the fusion programm have been consulted
  on this subject and have expressed a favourable advice ;
HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :        '  \
1 ) the Commission shall negotiate , on the basis of the second paragraph of
     Article 101 of the Treaty" establishing the European Atomic Community , an
     agreement for cooperation between the Community and Spain in the field of
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   controlled thermonuclear fusion , limited to the participation
   of Spain in the staff mobility contract concluded between the
   Community and its partners in the field of fusion ;
2) the rights and obligations resulting from the agreement , par­
   ticularly with regard to financial matters , taken together
   shall not have the effect of putting Spain in a more favourable
   position than that of the Member States ;
3) the financial contribution ofSpain shall be fixed on the basis
   of the ratio between its Gross Domestic Product and tha^of the
   Community ;
4) the agreement shall provide for the setting up , at a suitable
   level , of a Committee formed of representatives of the two con­
   tracting parties , which shall meet at the request of either of
   them and at least once a year , to discuss problems of joint in­
   terest in the field of fusion ;
5) the agreement shall be concluded for a period of three years .
   Six months before the end of that period, the two parties shall
   hold consultations on what further measures to take .
   The contracting parties may terminate the agreement by giving
   six month 's notice .