CELEX: 31971D0237
Language: en
Date: 1971-06-21 00:00:00
Title: 71/237/Euratom: Council 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

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                                                COUNCIL 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
                                                   (71 /237/Euratom)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                       is in the common interest to adopt a multi-annual
                                                                programme in the field of controlled thermonuclear
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                    fusion and plasma physics ;
European Atomic Energy Community, and in
particular Article 7 thereof;                                   Whereas it is clearly important that the Community
                                                                should encourage the construction of certain
Having regard to the Treaty establishing a Single               equipment relating to activities accorded priority
Council and a Single Commission of the European                 status by granting a preferential rate of
Communities ;                                                   participation in the expenditure on such equipment;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission               Whereas the mobility of staff between associated
submitted after consultation with the Scientific and            laboratories should be encouraged;
Technical Committee;
Having regard to the Council Resolution of 6                    HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
December 1969 on the future activities of the
European Atomic Energy Community;
                                                                                        Article 1
Having regard to the Council Decision of 27 October
19701 adopting a research and training programme of             A research and training programme in the field of
the European Atomic Energy Community for the                    controlled thermonuclear fusion and plasma physics
financial year 1971 comprising a joint programme                shall be adopted for a five-year period from 1
and complementary programmes, as amended by the                 January 1971 . This programme is set out in the
                                                                 Annex to this Decision.
Council Decision of 25 January 19712;               *
Whereas on account of the extent of the effort still                                     Article 2
necessary to reach the stage of the practical
 application of controlled thermonuclear fusion, from
which the Community could benefit, the work                      The upper* limit for expenditure commitments and
 hitherto undertaken in this field should be continued,          for staff necessary for the implementation of this
 at the various stages of development thereof, on a              programme shall be fixed at 46-5 million units of
 joint basis ;                                                   account and 94 Community servants, the unit of
                                                                 account being defined in Article 19 of the Financial
                                                                 Regulation3 establishing and implementing the
Whereas the action proposed by the Commission                    research and investment budget of the EAEC and
 constitutes adequate means of achieving this objective          concerning the responsibility of authorising officers
 at the present stage of research; whereas, therefore, it        and accounting officers (Article 183 (a) and (c) of the
                                                                 Treaty).
1 OJ No L 245, 11.11.1970, p. 27.
2 OJ No L 31 , 8.2.1971 , p. 4.                                 3 OJ No 74, 16.11.1961 , p. 1433/61 .
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                           Article 3                                  Done at Luxembourg, 21 June 1971 .
                                                                                                              For the Council
This Decision repeals and replaces, as regards the                                                               ,       .j
'Fusion and Plasma Physics' programme, the' Council                                                                6 rest ent
Decision of 25 January 1971 .                                                                                M. SCHUMANN
                                                              ANNEX
                                                FUSION AND PLASMA PHYSICS
             1 . An amount of 46-5 million units of account shall be allocated to this , objective and the upper
                 limit for staff shall, be fixed at 94 Community 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 in 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 co-operative 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 46-5 million units of account :
                 ( a) a maximum amount of ' 8 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 therefor, all members-of the association shall have the right to take pact in the exper­
                       iments carried out with this equipment ;                  '
                 (b) a maximum amount of 0*3 million units of account shall be set aside for expenditure for
                       procuring mobility, of staff between associated laboratories ;
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   ( 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 partici­
        pation 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 As­
        sociation , 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 :                                  5-5 million units of account ,
   — Screw pinch and high-beta stellarator :                             1-6 million units of account,
   — Heating and injection processes :                                   1-2 million units of account,
   — Very-high-density processes :                                       0-8 million units of account.