Legal provisions of COM(2025)111 - Adoption of the 2024-2027 high flux reactor supplementary research programme at Petten to be implemented by the Joint Research Centre for Euratom
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| dossier | COM(2025)111 - Adoption of the 2024-2027 high flux reactor supplementary research programme at Petten to be implemented by the Joint ... |
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| document | COM(2025)111  |
| date | May 22, 2025 |
Article 1
The supplementary research programme on the operation of the High Flux Reactor at Petten (‘the programme’), the objectives of which are set out in Annex I, is adopted for a period of four years, starting on 1 January 2024.
Article 2
The costs for the execution of the programme, estimated at EUR 26 815 000, shall be financed entirely through contributions from the Netherlands and France, through the Nuclear Research and consultancy Group V.O.F (‘NRG’) and the Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (‘CEA’), respectively. The breakdown of this amount is set out in Annex II. Those contributions shall be considered as external assigned revenue in accordance with Article 21(2), point (a), of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509 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 High Flux Reactor 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 the CEA, respectively, to make further contributions 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 2024.
Article 7
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.