CELEX: 31975D0330
Language: en
Date: 1975-05-20 00:00:00
Title: Council Decision of 20 May 1975 amending Decision No 71/237/Euratom adopting a five-year research and training programme of the European Atomic Energy Community in the field of fusion and plasma physics

12 . 6. 75                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                 No L 152/ 13
                                                     COUNCIL DECISION
                                                         of 20 May 1975
             amending Decision No 71/237/Euratom adopting a five-year research and training
             p rogramme of the European Atomic Energy Community in the field of fusion and plasma
                                                              physics
                                                        (75/330/Euratom)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                            Whereas the abovementioned developments call for
                                                                     increased staff mobility,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                         HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
European Atomic Energy Community, and in
particular Article 7 thereof;                                                                Article 1
                                                                     The programme set out in the Annex to Decision
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission                    No 71 /237/Euratom shall be replaced by the
submitted after consultation with the Scientific and                 programme annexed to this Decision.
Technical Committee ;
                                                                                             Article 2
Whereas by Decision No 71 /237/Euratom (*), as last                  Article 2 of Decision No 71 /237/Euratom shall be
amended by Decision No 74/36/Euratorn (2), the                       replaced by the following :
Council adopted a five-year research and training
programme in the field of fusion and plasma physics ;                    'The maximum             amount of expenditure
                                                                         commitments and the staff necessary for the
                                                                         implementation programme shall be fixed at
Whereas the results already obtained in the course                       73 100 000 units of account and 112 Community
of this programme show that it is desirable to                           servants plus 20 temporary Community servants,
undertake detailed studies to serve as a basis for a
                                                                         the unit of account being defined in Article 10 of
possible   subsequent        decision     to    provide    the           the Financial Regulation of 25 April 1973 (1 )
Community with a large machine of the Tokamak                            applicable to the general budget of the European
type (JET : 'Jokrt European Torus'); whereas to                          Communities .
avoid delay it is desirable to start on the preparatory
phase of the project during 1975 , without prejudice,
however, to a final decision to proceed to the                          (x) OJ No L 116, 1 . 5 . 1973 , p. 1 .'
construction phase ;
Whereas, in order to ensure the continuity of the                     Done at Brussels, 20 May 1975 .
said five-year programme which, moreover, takes its
place in the wider context of the security of the                                                               For the Council
long-term energy supplies of the Community, it must                                                              The President
be adequately supplemented with regard to the
operations to be conducted during 1975 ;                                                                           R. RYAN
(*) OT No L 143 , 29 . 6. 1971 , p. 33 .
(2) OJ No L 30, 4. 2. 1974, p. 18 .
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                                                            ANNEX
                                              FUSION AND PLASMA PHYSICS
1 . An amount of 73 100 000 units of account shall be                      ment for the operations specified in point 5 which
     allocated to this programme and the upper limit for                   have been or are to be undertaken, a standard
     staff shall be fixed at 112 permament servants and                    preferential rate of participation not exceeding
     20 temporary servants. This amount is intended to                     44% being applied. In return, all members of the
     cover :                                                               association shall have the right to take part in the
                                                                           experiments carried out with this equipment;
     — the expenditure on equipment concerned with
         operations already undertaken or to be undertaken
         during the last two years of the programme which            (b) a maximum amount of 1 250 000 units of account
         are accorded priority status and specified in                     shall be set aside for expenditure for ensuring
         point 5 ;                                                         mobility of research staff of the Member States
                                                                           in order to enable them to work in the associated
     — the expenditure relating to the design phase and                    laboratories of the JET Working Party ;
         the preparatory phase of the large Tokamak JET
         project ;
                                                                      ( c) a maximum amount of 3 600 000 units of account
     — the cost of staff mobility;                                         shall be set aside for expenditure incurred in the
     — the other expenditure relating to operations to be                  first design phase and the preparatory phase of
         carried out under this programme.                                 the JET project. This amount shall be used to
                                                                           enable the work carried out by way of contracts
                                                                           other than association contracts to be entirely
2. The subject-matter of the programme which will be                       financed by the Commission, and to provide up
     executed by the associated laboratories shall be:                     to 600 000 units of account so as to increase its
                                                                           participation in the work carried out for the JET
     — general physics in the sector concerned, in par­                    project in the associated laboratories to about
         ticular studies of a basic character or relating to               44% ;
         confinement of plasma with suitable devices and
         to methods for producing and heating plasma ;
                                                                     ( d) the amount not set aside for the operations and
     — research on the confinement in closed and open­                     expenditure referred to in sections ( a), (b) and (c)
         ended configurations of plasma of widely varying                  shall form the upper limit of financial participation
         density and temperature ;                                         by the Community in other expenditure of the
    ■— production of and research on plasma of high and                    associations, in their management and in support
         very high density;                                                of the JET project. This participation shall be at
                                                                           a standard rate of about 25% . By way of dero­
     — improvement of diagnostic methods ;                                 gation from this principle, this rate shall be
                                                                           increased to a maximum of 30% for the Euratom­
     — investigation of technological problems connected                   CNEN-CNR        Association,  which     will    further
         with current research and of problems relating to                 benefit from the assumption by the programme
         thermonuclear reactor technology ;                                of the expenses in respect of the Euratom staff
                                                                           seconded thereto .
     — the design phase and the preparatory phase of the
         JET project.
     This work shall be carried out by means of associ­
     ation contracts .                                            5. After conducting a technical examination of the
                                                                     various projects the Commission may finance, within
                                                                     the following upper limits, the operations mentioned
3. The programme set out in point 2 shall be part of a               below, which are accorded priority status:
     long-term cooperative project embracing all work
     carried out in the Member States in the field of fusion                                                    units of account
     and plasma physics. It is designed to lead in due
     course to the joint construction of prototypes with             — low-beta stellarator and Tokamak               11 800 000
     a view to their industrial scale production and                 — screw pinch and hight-beta stellarator           3 300 000
     marketing.
                                                                     — heating and injection processes                  1 900 000
4. Within the upper limit of 73 100 000 units of                     — very high density processes                      1 400 000
     account :
                                                                     — open-ended configurations                          500 000
     (a) a maximum amount of 17 800 000 units of ac­
         count shall be allocated to the financing of equip­         — reactor technology                                 900 000