Legal provisions of COM(2020)108 - Adoption of the 2020-2023 high flux reactor supplementary research programme at Petten to be implemented by the Joint Research Centre for Euratom

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dossier COM(2020)108 - Adoption of the 2020-2023 high flux reactor supplementary research programme at Petten to be implemented by the Joint ...
document COM(2020)108 EN
date June 29, 2020

Contents

Article 1

The supplementary research programme on the operation of the High Flux Reactor at Petten (‘HFR’) (‘the programme’), the objectives of which are set out in Annex I, shall be adopted for a period of four years, starting on 1 January 2020.

Article 2

The costs for the execution of the programme, estimated at EUR 27 854 000, shall be financed entirely out of contributions from the Netherlands and France, through the NRG and CEA, 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), point (a)(i), of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 of the European Parliament and of the Council (4).

Article 3

1. The Commission shall be in charge of the management of the programme. To this 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 the NRG officially notifies the definitive shutdown of the HFR to the Dutch national regulatory authority, prior to the declaration of a safe conservation state, the obligations on the part of the Netherlands and France, through the NRG and CEA, 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 programme.

Article 6

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

It shall apply from 1 January 2020.

Article 7

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.