Legal provisions of COM(2017)83 - Adoption of the 2016-2019 High Flux Reactor supplementary research programme to be implemented by the Joint Research Centre for Euratom

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dossier COM(2017)83 - Adoption of the 2016-2019 High Flux Reactor supplementary research programme to be implemented by the Joint Research Centre ...
document COM(2017)83 EN
date May 29, 2017

Contents

Article 1

The supplementary research programme on the operation of the HFR, the objectives of which are set out in Annex I, shall be adopted for a period of 4 years, starting on 1 January 2016.

Article 2

The costs for the execution of the programme, estimated at EUR 30,2 million, shall be financed entirely out of contributions from France and the Netherlands, through the CEA and NRG, respectively. The breakdown of this amount is set out in Annex II. This contribution shall be considered as assigned revenue in accordance with Article 21(2) of Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council (2).

Article 3

1. The Commission shall be in charge of the management of the programme. To that end, it shall call upon the services of the Joint Research Centre.

2. The Commission shall keep the Board of Governors of the Joint Research Centre informed of the implementation of the programme.

Article 4

In the event that NRG officially notifies the definitive shutdown of the HFR to the Dutch national regulatory authority (prior to the declaration of safe conservation state), the obligations on the part of France and the Netherlands, through the CEA and NRG, respectively, to make further payments shall be suspended, as shall any calls for funds by the Commission under this Decision.

Article 5

The Commission shall submit a final report on the implementation of this Decision to the European Parliament and to the Council after the end of the 2016-2019 HFR supplementary research programme.

Article 6

This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from 1 January 2016.

Article 7

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.