CELEX: 51985PC0031
Language: en
Date: 1985-02-15
Title: AMENDED PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DECISION COMPLEMENTING COUNCIL DECISION 84/1/EURATOM OF 22 DECEMBER 1983 REALISATION OF A TRITIUM HANDLING LABORATORY

19.3.85                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                        No C 73/9
                    ORIGINAL PROPOSAL                                                             AMENDED PROPOSAL
                                                     Article 3 unchanged
                         Article 4                                                                    Article 4
Decision 82/350/Euratom is hereby repealed with                            Decision 82/350/Euratom is replaced by this Decision
effect from 1 January 1985.                                                with effect from 1 January 1985.
However, amounts which, pursuant to Decision                               Unchanged.
82/350/Euratom, are authorized under the relevant
headings of the 1982, 1983 and 1984 budgets on
which on 1 January 1985 have not yet been
committed, or which, by that date, have been
committed but not yet paid, may be used for the
execution of the present programme.
                                                                   ANNEX
                                                  Points 1 and 2 unchanged
3. The appropriation of 443 million ECU fixed for the pro-                  3. Notwithstanding the Commission's responsibility for
    gramme exclusive of JET can be broken down as follows:                     implementing the programme, the appropriations for the
                                                                               programme exclusive of JET (five words deleted) can be
                                                                               broken down as follows:
                                          S u b p a r a g r a p h s (a) t o (e) u n c h a n g e d
                                                  Points 4 and 5 u n c h a n g e d
              Amended proposal for a Council Decision complementing Council Decision 8 4 / 1 /
                    Euratom of 22 December 1983 — Realization of a tritium handling laboratory
                                                           COM(85)         39final
               (Submitted to the Council by the Commission pursuant to the second paragraph of Article
                                     119 of the Euratom Treaty on 19 February 1985)
                                                               (85/C 73/10)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                                 Having regard to the opinion of the European Par-
COMMUNITIES,                                                                liament (2),
                                                                           Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro-                         Social Committee (3),
pean Atomic Energy Community, and in particular                            Whereas, in the context of the common policy re-
Article 7 thereof,                                                         lating to the field of science and technology, the
                                                                           multiannual research programme is one of the prin-
                                                                           cipal means whereby the European Atomic Energy
Having      regard    to the proposal            from          the         Community can contribute to the safety and
Commission ('), presented after consultation of the                        development of nuclear energy and to the acquisition
Scientific and Technical Committee,                                        and dissemination of information in the nuclear field;
                                                                           C) Advice given on 17. 1. 1985.
(') OJ No C 198, 27. 7. 1984, p. 6.                                        (3) Advice given on 21. 11. 1984.
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Whereas, during the period 1984 to 1987, the Joint              gramme ('), concern the realization of a tritium
Research Centre (JRC) must continue to play a                   handling laboratory at the Ispra Establishment of the
central role in the Community's research strategy and           JRC.
to carry out work of common interest by drawing on
a level of resources which is the equivalent of the                                         Article 2
level of the previous multiannual programme;
                                                                The construction and exploitation of the Tritium
                                                                handling laboratory is fully integrated into the 1984
Whereas more generally, the JRC programme as a
                                                                to 1987 programme of the JRC, as part of the 'Fusion
whole must be in keeping with the conclusions of the
                                                                technology and safety' subprogramme. With reference
Council of 10 March 1983 with regard to European
                                                                to Annexe A of the Council Decision (4), the project
research activities of particular significance;
                                                                'studies concerning a Tritium handling laboratory' is
                                                                replaced by 'realization of a Tritium handling labor-
Whereas Council Decision of 22 December 1983                    atory'.
adopting a research programme to be implemented by
the Joint Research Centre underlines a particular role
of the JRC in the field of fusion technology and
safety.                                                                                     Article 3
                                                                With reference to annex B of the abovementioned
HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:                                         Decision, a line entitled 'Specific appropriations for
                                                                projects of European significance' is included in the
                         Article 1                              section on the nuclear-fusion programme 'Fusion
                                                                technology and safety'.
The European research activities of particular
significance, to which the Council refers in its
Decision of 22 December 1983 on the JRC pro-                    (4) O J N o L 3 , 5. 1. 1984, p. 21.