CELEX: 31978D0470
Language: en
Date: 1978-05-30 00:00:00
Title: 78/470/Euratom: Council Decision of 30 May 1978 amending Decision 76/345/Euratom adopting a research and training programme (1976 to 1980) of the European Atomic Energy Community in the field of fusion and plasma physics

No L 151 / 8                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                      7 . 6 . 78
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                                                      COUNCIL
                                                  COUNCIL DECISION
                                                       of 30 May 1978
                amending Decision 76/345 / Euratom adopting a research and training
                programme ( 1976 to 1980) of the European Atomic Energy Community in the
                                           field of fusion and plasma physics
                                                       (78 /470/ Euratom )
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                         1978 a         review proposal designed to replace the
COMMUNITIES,                                                        present      programme with a new five-year programme
                                                                    as from      1 January 1979 , which will include the conti­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               nuation      of the JET Project,
Atomic Energy Community, and in particular Article
7 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission                   HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
submitted after consultation with the Scientific and
Technical Committee ,                                                                          Article 1
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia­                Article 2 of Decision 76/345/ Euratom shall be supple­
ment (•),                                                           mented by the following paragraph :
Whereas the Council has adopted, by Decision                              ' In addition to the appropriation and the staff
76/345/ Euratom , a research and training programme                       shown in the first paragraph , the ceiling of
( 1976 to 1980) in the field of fusion and plasma                         commitments of expenditure required for the
physics ;                                                                  implementation of the JET Project shall be fixed
                                                                           at 102-4 million European units of account, this
Whereas it is necessary to equip the Community with                        unit of account being defined in Article 10 of the
a large Tokamak-type device (JET — 'Joint European
                                                                           Financial Regulation of 21 December 1977 appli­
Torus') ;
                                                                           cable to the general budget of the European
Whereas it is therefore necessary to provide in an                         Communities (2), and the maximum staff required
adequate manner additional resources for this                              for this project shall be fixed at 150 temporary
programme as far as the implementation of the JET                          staff within the meaning of Article 2 (a) of the
Project is concerned, so as to ensure continuity of this                   conditions of employment of other servants of the
programme, which , moreover, comes within the more                         European Communities .'
general context of security of Community energy
supplies in the long term ;
                                                                                                Article 2
Whereas, by virtue of Article 3 of Decision 76/345/ Eu­
ratom , the Commission will submit to the Council in                The Annex to          Decision 76 / 345 / Euratom shall be
                                                                    supplemented by the following paragraph :
(') Opinion delivered on 12 . 5 . 1978 ( not yet published in
    the Official Journal).                                          ( : ) OJ No 1. 3% , 31 . 12 . 1977 , p. 1 .
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     ' 6.  The programme defined above is completed            Done at Brussels, 30 May 1978 .
     by the implementation of the JET Project to
     which is allocated a maximum sum estimated at
      102.4 million European units of account and a
                                                                                        For the Council
     maximum staff of 150 temporary agents. The sum­
     indicated is to finance the first half of the construc­                             The President
     tion phase of the JET Project with a participation
     rated at 80 % .'                                                                   I. NØRGAARD