Proposal for a Council Decision amending Decision 2007/198/Euratom establishing the European Joint Undertaking for ITER and the Development of Fusion Energy and conferring advantages upon it

In its conclusions of 12 July 2010 on the Commission's Communication "ITER status and possible way forward", the Council requested the European Commission to examine and address the way in which the Commission, the Member States and the Joint Undertaking for ITER and the Development of Fusion Energy "Fusion for Energy" (F4E) should implement their responsibilities and tasks on ITER.

A detailed list of actions was identified in the Commission’s Staff Working Paper "Towards a robust management and governance of the ITER project" issued on 9 November 2010, which at the international level were directed mainly to the ITER Organization (IO) and at the European level mainly to F4E.

With the accession of Croatia to the European Union on 1 July 2013, the Statutes of F4E shall be amended to grant Croatia voting rights in the Governing Board of F4E. Taking the opportunity of this amendment and in line with the Commission's Staff Working paper of 2010, the Commission proposes the adoption of additional modifications to improve the management and the governance of F4E.

These proposals have been extensively discussed with the Members of F4E’s Governing Board and following these exchanges, the Governing Board adopted unanimously the proposed amendments at its meeting on 9-10 December 2013. Pursuant to the amendment procedure laid down in Article 21 of the F4E Statutes, once the Governing Board has approved the proposed amendments, the Commission can submit the proposal to modify the Statutes to the Council for its adoption.

Therefore, in accordance with Article 50 of the Euratom Treaty and Article 21 of the F4E Statutes, the Commission is hereby making a proposal to the Council for the approval of these amendments.

• Primary Source

EUR-Lex: COM(2014)459: Follow the progress of this proposal through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2014:459:FIN

ESO: Background information: Website: ITER http://www.europeansources.info/record/website-iter/

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