CELEX: 31974D0036
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-17 00:00:00
Title: Council Decision of 17 December 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

No L 30/ 18                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                         4. 2 . 74
                                                       COUNCIL DECISION
                                                       of 17 December 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
                                                          ( 74/36/Euratom )
 LHE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                            delay, without prejudice, however, to a final decision
                                                                      to proceed to the construction stage ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                          Whereas the abovementioned developments call for
European Atomic Energy Community, and in                              increased mobility of staff,
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
Whereas the programme which is the subject of the                     The programme set out in the Annex to the
Council Decision of 21 June 1971 (*) adopting a five­                 Decision of 21 June 1971 is replaced by the pro­
                                                                      gramme annexed to this Decision .
year research and training programme of the EAEC
in the field of fusion and plasma physics should be
 adjusted, amended by the Decision of 14 May                                                        Article 2
 1973 (2 ) to take account of the additions to the
operations to be conducted pursuant to this Decision ;                Article 2 of the Decision of 21 June 1971 shall be
                                                                      replaced by the following :
Whereas the Commission proposal adequately                                   'The maximum             amount of expenditure
supplements the third five-year programme as                                 commitments and the staff necessary for the
 regards the operations to be conducted during 1974                          implementation of this programme shall be fixed
and 1975 in order to ensure the continuity of this                            at 71*1   million     units    of account     and     112
programme which, moreover, takes its place in the                            Community servants plus 20 temporary
wider context of the security of the long-term                               Community servants, the unit of account being
energy supplies of the Community ;                                           defined   in    Article      10      of   the   Financial
                                                                             Regulation (3 ) of 25 April 1973 applicable to the
                                                                             general budget of the European Communities .'
Whereas the results already obtained in the course
of the third programme show that it is desirable to
undertake detailed studies to serve as a basis for a                  Done at Brussels, 17 December 1973 .
possible subsequent decision on providing the                                                                    For the Council
Community with a large machine of the Tokamak
                                                                                                                   The President
type JET ('Joint European Torus'); whereas
measures must be taken to avoid any unnecessary                                                                   I. N0RGAARD
 (!) OJ No L 143 , 29 . 6. 1971 , p. 33 .
 ( 2) OJ No L 153, 9 . 6. 1973 , p. 17.                                ( 8 ) OJ No L 116 , 1 . 5 . 1973 , p. 1 .
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                                                        ANNEX
                                            FUSION AND PLASMA PHYSICS
          1 . An amount of 71-1 million units of account shall be allocated to this programme and the
              upper limit for staff shall be fixed at 112 permanent servants! and 20 temporary servants .
              This amount is intended to cover:
              — the expenditure on equipment concerned with operations already undertaken or to be
                   undertaken during the last two years of the programme which are accorded priority
                   status and specified in point 5 ;
              — the expenditure relating to the design phase of the large Tokamak JET project ;
              — the cost of staff mobility ;
              — the other expenditure relating to operations to be carried out under this programme.
          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 plasma with suitable devices and to methods for producing
                   and heating plasma ;
              — research on the confinement in closed and open-ended configurations of plasma of
                   widely varying density and temperature;
              — production of and research on plasma of high and very high density ;
              — improvement of diagnostics methods;
              — investigation of technological problems connected with current research and of problems
                   relating to thermonuclear reactor technology ;
              — the design phase of the JET project.
              This work shall be carried out by means of association contracts.
          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 71-1 million units of account;
              ( a) a maximum amount of 17-8 million units of account shall be allocated to the financing
                   of equipment for the operations specified in point 5 which have been or are to be
                   undertaken, a standard preferential rate of participation not exceeding 44°/o being
                   applied,. In return, 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 1-25 million units of account shall be set aside for expenditure
                   for ensuring mobility of research staff of the Member States in order to enable them
                   to work in the associated laboratories or the JET Working Party ;
              ( c) a maximum amount of 1-6 million units of account shall be set aside for expenditure
                   incurred in the first design phase of the JET project, of which 1 million units of
                   account may be financed at 100 °/o by the Commission for work to be carried out by
                   contracts other than association contracts, and up to 0-6 million units of account may
                   be provided to increase its participation in the work carried out for the JET project in
                   each associated laboratory to about 44 °/o.
              (d) the amount not set aside for the operations and expenditure referred to in sections ( a),
                   (b) and (c) shall form the upper limit of financial participation by the Community in
                   other expenditure of the Associations, in their management and in support of the JET
                   project. 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 °/o 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 may
              finance, within the following upper limits, the operations mentioned below, which are
              accorded priority status:
              — low-beta stellarator and tokamak                        11-8 million u.a .
              —    screw pinch and high-beta stellarator                 3-3 million u.a.
              —    heating and injection processes                       1-9 million u.a.
              —    very high density processes                           1*4 million u.a.
              —    open-ended configurations                             0-5 million u.a.
              —    reactor technology                                    0-9 million u.a.