CELEX: 51983PC0640
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Date: 1983-10-20
Title: Amended proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION adopting a research programme to be implemented by the Joint Research Centre for the European Atomic Energy Community and for the European Economic Community (1984-1987) (submitted to the Council by the Commission pursuant to the second paragraph of Article 149 of the EEC Treaty)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                                            C0M(83) 6 4 0 final
                                                                            B r u s s e l s , 20 O c t o b e r 1983
                                        A m e n d e d p r o p o s a l for a
                                              C O UN CIL D E C I S I O N
            a d o p t i n g a research p r o g r a m m e t o be i m p l e m e n t e d by the
              Joint Re s e a r c h Centre for th e E u r o p e a n Atomic En ergy
                  Co m m u n i t y and for the E u ro pea n E c on omi c Co m m u n i t y
                                                   (1984-1987)
        (s ub mitted to the Coun cil by the C o m m i s s i o n p u r s u a n t to the
         s e c o n d p a r a g r a p h of A r t i c l e 149 of the EEC Treaty)
C0M(83) 6 4 0 final
 ---pagebreak---                                    A N N E X     I
                         Proposal for a Council Decision
  adopting a research programme to be implemented by the Joint Research Centre
                for the European Atomic Energy Community and for
                    the European Economic Community (1S84-87)
                             fr........./EEC, EURATOM)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
HAVING REGARD TO the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community,
 and in particular Article 7 thereof,
HAVING REGARD TO the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
and in particular Article 235 thereof,
HAVING REGARD TO the proposal from the Commission presented after consultation,
with regard to nuclear projects, of the Scientific and Technical Committee,
HAVING REGARD TO the opinion of the European Parliament (l),
HAVING REGARD TO the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (2),
WHEREAS in the context of the common policy relating to the field of science
and technology the multiannual research programme is one of the principal
means whereby the European Atomic Energy Community can contribute to the safety
and development of nuclear energy and to the acquisition and the dissemination
of information in the nuclear field;
WHEREAS Article 2 of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community
assigns to the Community inter alia the task of promoting throughout the
Community a harmonious development of economic activities, a continuous
and balanced expansion and an increase in stability; whereas the objectives
pursued by the Community's activities     to this end are set out in Article 3
of the said Treaty;
(1 )
( 2 )
 ---pagebreak--- WHEREAS the non-nuclear projects provided for by the Decision appear necessary
for the attainment of these objectives;
WHEREAS the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community has not provided
powers required for this purpose;
WHEREAS the Council has adopted a resolution concerning the coordination of
national policies and the definition of Community actions in the field of
science and technology (3);
WHEREAS the programme was drawn up in accordance with the Council Resolution
of 17 December 1970 concerning the procedures for adopting research and
training programmes (4);
WHEREAS Article 3 of Council Decisions 77/488/EEC, EURATOM (5) and 80/317/EEC,
Euratom (6) provides for a review of the programme during its third year;
WHEREAS there is every incentive - as reaffirmed by the Council at its meetings
held on 9 November 1981, 8 March and 30 June 1982 and 8 February 1983 -
 for defining and embodying the common science and technology strategy in
 the multiannual framework programmes setting out the complete range of
 scientific and technical activities already conducted or due to be conducted
 on the basis of the three Treaties;
 WHEREAS, during the period 1984-87, the JRC must continue to play a central role
 in the Community's research strategy and to carry out work of common concern
 by drawing on a level of resources equivalent to the current level;
  (3) Concil Resolution of 14 January 1974
  (4) 0J No L 16, 20.1.1971, p. 13
  (5) 0J No L 200, 8.8.1977, p.
  (6) 0J L 72, 18.3.1980, p. 11
 ---pagebreak---                              HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS
Article 1
A research programme as presented in Annex A to this Decision is hereby adopted
for a period for four years, as from 1 January 1984.
Article 2
The estimated expenditure commitments based on 1983 currency levels, for the
execution of the programme set out in Annex A is 700 million ECU.   The indicative
breakdown is given in Annex B.   The Commission shall update these estimates under
the budgetary procedure, taking account of Council Decisions on salaries and wages
in the case of the staff expenditure appropriations and of changes in the
economic situation in the case of the appropriations for other expenditure.
The scale of Member State contributions to the complementary research and
training programme of the European Atomic Energy Community is set out in
Annex C.
Article 3
The number of staff needed to execute the programme is estimated at 2 260.
However, in view of the implementation of termination-of-service measures
which could affect 100 persons or so, provision shall be made for a temporary
surplus of an equivalent number of staff for a period not exceeding two years.
These transitional measures shall be determined under the budgetary procedures
of the years in question.
Article 4
During the third year of the programme the Commission shall forward to the
Council the proposal for a new multiannual programme to take effect from
1 January 1987.
Article 5
The dissemination of the information resulting from the implementation of
the non-nuclear parts of the programme shall be carried out in accordance
with Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2380/74 of 17 September 1974, adopting
provisions for the dissemination of information relating to research programmes
for the European Economic Community (7).
 (7) 0J No. L 255, 20.9.1974, p. 1
 ---pagebreak--- Article S
The Commission shall be responsible for the implementation of the programme an
to this end, shall call upon the services of the Joint Research Centre.
Article 7
Before the next proposal for a multiannual programme, the Commission shall
transmit to the Council and to Parliament a critical analysis, carried out by
independent experts, of the programmes launched by the Joint Research Centre.
T h i s a n a l y s i s shall c o m p r i s e q u a n t i t a t i v e i n d i c a t o r s of r e se arc h p e r f o r m a n c e .
Done at Brussels,
                                                                      For the Council
                                                                         The President
 ---pagebreak---                                                               AN N E X A
                                            R E S E A R C H P R O G R A M M E (1984-87)
                                            OF THE J O I N T R E S E A R C H CE NT RE
RE S E A R C H A C T I O N P R O G R A M M E - I N D U S T R I A L T E C H N O L O G I E S
N u cl ear m e a s u r e m e n t s and r e f e r e n c e m a t e r i a l s
- Nuclear measurements
- Reference materials
High-temperature materials
- Re s e a r c h on st e e l s and a l l o y s
- Re s e a r c h on s u b a s s e m b l i e s
- Re s e a r c h on c e r a m i c s
- Data ba nk on h i g h - t e m p e r a t u r e m a t e r i a l s
- Information centre on high-temperature materials
R E SE ARC H A C T I O N P R O G R A M M E - FU SI ON
 Fusion t e c h n o l o g y
- Stud ies in resp ect of re a c t o r s
- T e c h n o l o g y of the b r e e d i n g b l a n k e t
- Study on s t r u c t u r a l m a t e r i a l s
Sa fety and li c e n s i n g c r i t e r i a
- Risk a s s e s s m e n t
- L a b o r a t o r y for t r i t i u m and o p e r a t i n g s a f e t y
 ---pagebreak--- R E S E A R C H A C T I O N P R O G R A M M E - F I SS ION
R e ac tor sa fe ty
- R e l i a b i l i t y and risk a s s e s s m e n t
- I n t e g r i t y of c o m p o n e n t s and s y s t e m s for l i g h t - w a t e r r e ac tor s
- Study on a b n o r m a l b e h a v i o u r in c o r e - c o o l i n g s y s t e m s in l i g h t - w a t e r
    reac tor s
- Study on s e v e r e l y d a m a g e d fuel
- C o n s t r u c t i o n of m o d e l s r e l a t i n g to a c c i d e n t s in fast re a c t o r s
- Study on the p r o p e r t i e s of m a t e r i a l s and on the b e h a v i o u r of s t r u c t u r e s
    in fast re a c t o r s
- E v a l u a t i o n of a v i b r a t i n g ta b l e
M a n a g e m e n t of r a d i o a c t i v e wa s t e
- Wa st e m a n a g e m e n t and the fuel cycle
- Sa fety f a c t o r s c o n n e c t e d with the s t o r a g e of w a s t e in c o n t i n e n t a l
    geological formations
- f e a s i b i l i t y and s a f e t y of s t o r i n g w a s t e in d e e p o c e a n s e d i m e n t s
S a f e g u a r d i n g and m a n a g e m e n t of f i s s i l e m a t e r i a l s
- M e t h o d s and i n s t r u m e n t s for the d e t e r m i n a t i o n of f i s s i l e m a t e r i a l s
    and for c o n t a i n m e n t and m o n i t o r i n g
- P r o c e s s i n g , t r a n s m i s s i o n and e v a l u a t i o n of s a f e g u a r d s da ta
- I n t e g r a t i o n of s a f e g u a r d s a c t i v i t i e s
Nu c l e a r fuels and a c t i n i d e s re s e a r c h
- Li mi ts to the use of n u c l e a r fuels
- B e h a v i o u r of o x i d e fu el s u n d e r t r a n s i t o r y c o n d i t i o n s and r e l e a s e of fi s s i o n
   p r o d u c t s in the ev en t of se v e r e d a m a g e
- S a fe ty of the a c t i n i d e cy cl e
- Re s e a r c h on a c t i n i d e s
 ---pagebreak--- R E SE ARC H A C T I O N P R O G R A M M E - N O N - N U C L E A R EN ER GY SO U R C E S
T e c h n i q u e s for so la r e n e r g y te st s
- Photovoltaic systems
- Heat c o n v e r s i o n
M a n a g e m e n t of e n e r g y in d w e l l i n g s
- E v a l u a t i o n of h y b r i d s y s t e m s
- Passive technologies
 - Energy audit
 RESEARCH ACTION PROGRAMME ~ ENVIRONMENT
 Environmental protection
 - Chem ica l p r o d u c t s in the e n v i r o n m e n t
 - Q u a l i t y of the e n v i r o n m e n t
 - Energy and the e n v i r o n m e n t
 A p p l i c a t i o n of r e m o t e - s e n s i n g t e c h n i q u e s
 - A g r i c u l t u r e and soil m a n a g e m e n t
 - P r o t e c t i o n of the m a r i n e e n v i r o n m e n t
  - Natural disasters
  In d u s t r i a l h a z a r d s
  - Ac c i d e n t p r e v e n t i o n
  - A c ci den t m a n a g e m e n t and c o nt rol
  A C T I V I T I E S OF S C I E N T I F I C D E P A R T M E N T S
   ( c o m p l e m e n t a r y pr og ram me )
  E x p l o i t a t i o n of the HFR reactor
 ---pagebreak---                                                        ANNEX B
                                        INDICATIVE BREA KDO WN OF RESOURCES
                  (Appropriations in millions of ECU                at 1983 currency levels)
                                                                   COMMITMENT              PERCENTAGE
                     PROGRAMMES                                 APPROPRIATIONS            OF RESOURCES
   INDUSTRIAL TE CHNOLOGIES
   - Nuclear me asurements and reference
     materials                                                         64                       9.2
   - High-te mp era tu re materials                                    28                       4.0
                                                    TOTAL              92                      13.2
   FUSION
   - Fusion technology                                                 44                       6/3
   - Safety and licensing criteria for                                 24   (*)                 3/4
     fusion reactors
                                                    TOTAL              68                       9,7
   FISSION
   - Reactor safety                                                   18 6 (**)                26,6
   - Management of radioactive waste                                   47                       6,7
   - Safeguarding and ma nagement of                                   44                       6, 3
     fissile materials
   - Nuclear fuels and ac tinides research                             66                       V
                                                    TOTAL             343                      49,0
   NON-NUCLEAR ENERGY SOURCES
   - Techniques for solar energy tests                                 22                     3.1
   - Management of energy in dwellings                                  17                    2.4
                                                    TOTAL              39                     5.5
   ENVIRONMENT
   - Environmental prot ect io n                                       49
   - Application of remo te- se nsi ng                                                        7.0
     techniques                                                         29                    4.1
   - Industrial hazards                                                 21                    3.0
                                                    TOTAL               99                   14.1
   ACTIVITIES OF SC IE NTIFIC DEPARTMENTS
   - Exploitation of the HFR                                            59                    8.4
   TOTAL PROGRAMME (1984-87)                                          700 (***)             100.0
  (*) including an indicative sum of 12.5 MioECUS for the tritium handling laboratory
 (**) including an indicative sum of          2.5 MioECUS to continue studies on a large
       capacity v ibration table
(***) non programmed research is carried out with i n the overall level of resources,
     ■ 7C0 MioECUS. When the annual resources made a vailable to the JRC to implement
       the programme are a d e q u a t e to carry out e x ploratory actions of this kind,
       whose nature is not yet identified, a sum not exceeding 5X of the total
       specific scientific approp r i a t i o n can be set aside for this purpose on chapter
       100 of the budget of the relevant year.
 ---pagebreak---                                                           AN NE X C
SC AL E OF M E M B E R S T A T E C O N T R I B U T I O N S TO THE C O M P L E M E N T A R Y R E S E A R C H AND
TR A I N I N G P R O G R A M M E OF THE E U R O P E A N AT O M I C EN E R G Y CO M M U N I T Y
                     S t a n d a r d sc al e
                     O p e r a t i o n of the HFR reactor:
                     - F e de ral R e p u b l i c of G e r m a n y            50%
                     - Netherlands                                            50%