EU-Argentina nuclear energy cooperation agreement
The Agreement for cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy between the European Community (Euratom) and Argentina, signed in June 1996, entered into force on 29 October 1997. The Agreement aims to develop cooperation between the Community and Argentina on the basis of mutual benefit and reciprocity. The following areas fall under the scope of the Agreement: - Reactor safety research; - Nuclear waste management and disposal; - Radiation protection; - Decommissioning of nuclear installations; - Controlled thermonuclear fusion; - Research into nuclear applications in the fields of agriculture, medicine and industry; - Nuclear safeguards; - Research into interaction between nuclear energy and the environment; - Other areas of mutual interest jointly agreed by the parties. Cooperative activities, whether between the Community and Argentina or between persons and organizations established in their territories, will be implemented through participation in each others' research activities in the field. Other activities would include exchanges of technical information, exchanges of personnel between laboratories, exchanges of samples, materials and equipment for experimental purposes and joint participation in studies. The costs of such cooperative activities will, in general, be borne by the party which incurs them. Activities under the Agreement will be reviewed by regular joint meetings of the parties. The first such joint meeting took place on 29 October 1997, when Commissioner Edith Cresson met Mr Juan Carlos del Bello, Argentinean Secretary of State for science and technology in Brussels, to mark the Agreement's coming into force. The Agreement will remain in force for a period of ten years, and may be extended or renewed.
Countries
Argentina