CELEX: 31976D0345
Language: en
Date: 1976-03-25 00:00:00
Title: 76/345/Euratom: Council Decision of 25 March 1976 adopting a research and training programme (1976 to 1980) for the European Atomic Energy Community in the field of fusion and plasma physics

No L 90/ 12                               Official Journal of the European Communities                               3 . 4. 76
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                                                          COUNCIL
                                                       COUNCIL DECISION
                                                         of 25 March 1976
                adopting a research and training programme ( 1976 to 1980) for the European
                      Atomic Energy Community in the field of fusion and plasma physics
                                                           (76/345/Euratom)
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                          to adopt a multiannual programme in the field of
 COMMUNITIES,                                                         fusion and plasma physics ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                Whereas it is important that the Community should
 Atomic Energy Community, and in particular Article                   continue to encourage both the construction of
 7 thereof,                                                           certain equipment concerned with operations
                                                                      accorded priority status, by granting a preferential rate
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission                    of participation in the expenditure on such equip­
 submitted after consultation with the Scientific and                 ment, and the implementation of major projects
Technical Committee,                                                  carried out jointly by all the associated laboratories ;
 Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia­                 Whereas, furthermore, the mobility of staff between
 ment ('),                                                            organizations cooperating in the execution of the
                                                                      programme should be promoted,
 Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and
Social Committee (2),
                                                                       HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
Whereas in view of the considerable efforts needed to
 reach the application stage of controlled thermonuc­                                            Article 1
 lear fusion , which could be of benefit to the Commu­
 nity, particulary in the wider context of the security of            A research and training programme in the field of
 its long-term energy supplies, the various stages of                 fusion and plasma physics as defined in the Annex is
development of the work hitherto undertaken in this                   hereby adopted for a five-year period beginning 1
 field should continue on a joint basis ;                             January 1976.
Whereas the progress achieved during the third five-
year programme illustrates, particulary in the case of                                           Article 2
the Tokamak process, the need for larger, more
complex and more costly devices which no single                       The upper limit for expenditure commitments and
associated laboratory can contemplate building                        the maximum number of staff required for the execu­
unaided ;                                                             tion of this programme shall be 124 million units of
                                                                      account and 1 1 3 Community employees respectively,
Whereas the research proposed by the Commission                       with the unit of account as defined in Article 10 of
constitutes an appropriate means of pursuing such                     the Financial Regulation of 25 April 1973 applicable
action and it is, consequently, in the common interest                to the general budget of the European Communi­
                                                                      ties (3).
(') OI No C       12 . 1 . 19"6 , p . 43 .
(: ) OJ No C 35. 16 . 2 . 19-6. p . 19 .                              (3 ) OJ No L 116, 1 . 5 . 1973 , p. 1 .
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                            Article 3                             Done at Brussels, 25 March 1976.
The Commission will submit to the Council in 1978 a                                                  For the Council
review proposal designed to replace the present                                                       The President
programme with a new five-year programme as from
1 January 1979.                                                                                          M. MART
                                                              ANNEX
                                                FUSION AND PLASMA PHYSICS
1 . The subject matter of the programme which will be                     specified in paragraph 5, a standard preferential rate of
    executed shall be :                                                   participation of about 45 % being applied. In return,
    — general physics in the sector concerned, in particular              all partner associations shall have the right to take part
        studies of a basic character or relating to confinement           in the experiments carried out with this equipment ;
        with suitable devices and to methods for producing            (L) a maximum amount of four million units of account
        and heating plasma ;                                              shall be set aside for administration costs and for
    — research into the confinement, in closed configura­                 expenditure intended to ensure the mobility of
        tions, of plasma of widely varying density and tempera­           research staff of the Member States necessary if they
        ture ;                                                            are to work in organizations cooperating in the imple­
    — production of and research into plasma of high and                  mentation of the programme ;
        very high density ;                                           (c) the amount not set aside for the operations and expen­
    — improvement of diagnostic methods ;                                 diture referred to in (a) and (b) shall form the upper
    — investigation into technological problems connected                 limit of financial participation by the Community in
        with current research and problems relating to thermo­            other expenditure incurred by the associations. This
        nuclear reactor technology.                                       participation shall be at a standard rate of about 25 % .
    This work shall be carried out by means of association or
    limited duration contracts designed to yield the results       5. After conducting a technical examination of the various
    necessary for the implementation of the programme.                projects, the Commission may, within the following upper
                                                                      limits, finance at a rate of about 45 % the operations
2. The programme set out in point 1 shall be part of a long­          mentioned below, which are accorded priority status by
    term cooperative project embracing all work carried out in        the liaison group :
    the Member States in the field of fusion and plasma
    physics. It is designed to lead in due course to the joint                                                  (million units of
    construction of prototypes with a view to their industrial­                                                      account)
    scale production and marketing.                                   — Tokamak systems and JET                         50
3 . A maximum amount of 124 million units of account and              — High-beta systems                               20
                                                                      — Low-beta systems (Stella­
    a maximum number of 113 employees shall be allocated
                                                                          rator)                                         5
    to this objective . The amount in question is intended to
    cover :
                                                                      — Heating         and      injection
                                                                          processes                                     12
    — expenditure on equipment concerned with operations              — Technology                                      18
        accorded priority status ;                                    — Very high density processes                      2
    — the cost of staff mobility ;
    — other expenditure relating to operations to be carried
        out under the programme .                                     Each of these amounts shall constitute the maximum
                                                                      expenditure to be taken into consideration for each of the
4. Within the upper limit of 124 million units of account :
                                                                      above priority operations. Moreover, the total amount for
    (a) a maximum amount of 39 million units of account               all operations shall not exceed 86-7 million units of
        shall be allocated to the financing of the operations         account .