CELEX: 31973D0129
Language: en
Date: 1973-05-14 00:00:00
Title: Council Decision of 14 May 1973 amending the Decision of 21 June 1971 adopting a five-year research and training programme of the European Atomic Energy Community in the field of fusion and plasma physics

9 . 6. 73                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 153 / 17
                                                       COUNCIL DECISION
                                                           of 14 May 1973
              amending the Decision of 21 June 1971 adopting a five-year research and training pro­
              gramme of the European Atomic Energy Community in the field of fusion and plasma
                                                                physics
                                                          (73/ 129/Euratom)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                              HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
                                                                                                Article 1
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­
pean Atomic Energy Community, and in particular                        The programme set out in the Annex to the Decision
Article 7 thereof;                                                     of 21 June 1971 is replaced by the programme
                                                                       annexed to this Deed's ion .
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission
submitted after consultation with the Scientific and
Technical Committee ;                                                                           Article 2
Whereas the programme which is the subject of the                      Article 2 of the Decision of 21 June 1971 shall be
 Council Decision of 21 June 1971 ( l ) adopting a                     replaced by the following :
five-year research and training programme of the
 European Atomic Energy Community in the field of                          'The upper limit (for expenditure commitments
fusion and plasma physics, should be adjusted ; to take                    and for staff necessary for the implementation of
account of the Accession of new Member States to                           this programme shall! be fixed at 56.196 million
the Community ;                                                            units of account and 112 Community servants
                                                                          plus 20 temporary Community servants , the unit
Whereas the proposal from the Commission con­                              of account being ( defined in the Financial Regu­
 stitutes an adequate adjustment which will strengthen                    lation establishing and implementing the budget
the Community's potential in the field of research                         of the European Communities and concerning the
on controlled thermonuclear fusion and plasma                               responsibility of authorizing officers and
physics ;                                                                   accounting officers'.
 Whereas it is in the common interest to amend the
 Decision of 21 June 1971 with a view to ensuring the                  Done at Brussels, 14 May 1973 .
 active participation of the institutions of the enlarged
 Community in research work ;                                                                                For the Council
                                                                                                              The President
f 1) OJ No L 143 , 29. 6 . 1971 , p . 33 .                                                                R. VAN ELSLANDE
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                                                                 ANNEX
                                                  FUSION AND PLASMA PHYSICS
              1 . An amount of 56.196 million units of account shall be allocated to this objective and the upper
                  limit for staff shall be fixed at 112 servants and 20 temporary servants.
                  This amount is intended to cover the expenditure on equipment concerned with operations
                  accorded priority status and specified in point 5 which are to be carried out during the first three
                  years of execution of the programme, the expenditure throughout the programme on the
                  general activities to be carried out thereunder, and the expenditure for procuring mobility
                  of staff between associated laboratories .
              2. The subject-matter of the programme which will be executed by the associated laboratories
                  shall be :
                  — general physics in the sector concerned, in particular studies of a basic character or relating
                        to confinement of plasmas with suitable devices and to methods for producing and heating
                        plasmas ;
                   — research on the confinement on closed and open-ended configurations of plasmas of widely
                        varying density and temperature ;
                   — production of and research on plasmas of high and very high density ;
                   — improvement of diagnostic methods ;
                   — investigation of technological problems connected with current research and of problems
                        relating to thermonuclear reactor technology.
                   This work shall be carried out under contracts of association .
              3 . The programme set out in point 2 shall be part of a long-term cooperative project embracing
                   all work carried out in the Member States in the field of fusion and plasma physics. It is
                   designed to lead in due course to the joint construction of prototypes with a view to their
                   industrial-scale production and marketing.
               4. "Within the upper limit of 56.196 million units of account :
                   (a) a maximum amount of 8.82 million units of account shall be allocated during the first
                         three years of the programme to the financing of equipment for the operations specified
                         in point 5 , a standard preferential rate of participation equal to or less than 44% being
                         applied. In return therefore, all members of the association shall have the right to take
                         part in the experiments carried out with this equipment ;
                    (b) a maximum amount of 0.45 million units of account shall be set aside for expenditure for
                         procuring mobility of staff between associated laboratories ;
                    (c) the amount which shall not have been set aside for the operations and expenditure specified
                         in sections (a) and (b) shall form the upper limit of financial participation by the Community
                         in other expenditure of the associations and in their management. This participation shall
                         be at a standard rate of about 25 % . By way of derogation from this principle, this rate shall
                         be increased to a maximum of 30% for the Euratom/CNEN-CNR Association , which
                         will further benefit from the assumption by the programme of the expenses in respect of
                         the Euratom staff seconded thereto .
               5. After conducting a technical examination of the various projects, the Commission will be able
                    to finance during the first three years, within the following upper limits, the operations men­
                    tioned below, which are accorded priority status :
                   — low-beta stellarator and Tokomak                        6.3 million units of account
                   — screw pinch and high-beta stellarator                   1.7 million units of account
                    — heating and injection processes                        13 million units of account
                    — very-high-density processes                            0.8 million units of account