ITER (Extract from: Provisional Version, Competitiveness Council of 26 November)

Brussels, 26 Nov 2004

• Decision to amend the negotiating directives

The Council, with a view to concluding the international negotiations with the six partners1 on the site of ITER, decided unanimously to modify the Commission's negotiating Directives.

These directives thus modified:

• ensure the widest possible international partnership;

• confirm the European support for Cadarache as the site for ITER;

• recognize the importance of the broader approach in the negotiations with all partners;

• provide clarification on the transitional arrangements between current coordinated technical activities for ITER and an efficient start to ITER joint implementation.

1 EU, China , Japan, Russia, South-Korea and the United States.

http:///ue.eu.int/ueDocs/cms_Data/docs/pr essData/en/intm/82805.pdf