Proposal for a Council Decision approving the conclusion by the European Commission on behalf of the European Atomic Energy Community of an Agreement on scientific and technological cooperation between the European Atomic Energy Community, of the one part, and the Swiss Confederation, of the other part, associating the Swiss Confederation to the Framework Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community for nuclear research and training activities (2012-2013)

Switzerland was associated to the previous Euratom research framework programme (2007-2011) on the basis of a scientific and technological cooperation agreement which was signed on 25 June 2007, with effect from 1 January 2007. By letter of 14 March 2011 Switzerland expressed its interest to become associated to the Euratom Framework Programme for 2012 and 2013.

The Council authorised the Commission to negotiate a new agreement to that effect on 24 April 2012. The negotiations of the new agreement were conducted in line with the directives issued by the Council.

This agreement will provide for the Swiss association to the Euratom research framework programme for the years 2012-2013, without prejudice to the terms of the Cooperation Agreement between the Swiss Confederation and the European Atomic Energy Community in the field of controlled thermonuclear fusion and plasma physics of 1978. The new agreement will apply from 1 January 2012.

EUR-Lex: COM(2012)651: Follow the progress of this document through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2012:651:FIN

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