--The United States participated in the Fourth United Nations Conference of the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy. 1972 --Forty-one facility inspections were carried out by U.S. personnel in the five countries in which safeguards continue to be applied under agreements for cooperation. --Meetings were held with other nuclear material and equipment supplier nations to define the extent of their responsibilities under Article III of the NPT. --In the interest of strengthening international safeguards for nuclear materials, the Commission participated with the IAEA and the U. S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in testing prototype safeguards instru mentation. 1973 --The Commission continued to support the objectives of the NPT, including the IAEA's responsibility for administering the treaty's safeguards provisions. --Discussions continued on the 1967 offer to permit the IAEA to apply its safeguards to all United States nuclear activities, excluding those with direct national security significance. 1974 --The Commission provided technical support to the IAEA for safeguards. --Negotiations, in which the Commission played a major role, neared completion on a safeguards agreement with the IAEA under which the IAEA will implement safeguards at selected U. S. nuclear facilities. --The Commission negotiated bilateral information exchange agreements with five nations covering systematic reciprocal exchanges of data on operating experience and other technical informatition related to the safety and environmental impact of nuclear powerplants. --In mid-1974, the Commission began a small-scale program of assigning a limited number of foreign regulatory employees from countries with embryonic nuclear power programs to work for one to two years within the AEC regulatory organization. PRINCIPLES FOR ESTABLISHING THE SAFEGUARDS AND The principles which will govern the establishment and operation of the safeguards and control system are as follows: The EURATOM Commission will: 1. Examine the design of equipment, devices and facilities, including nuclear reactors, and approve it for the purpose of assuring that it will not further any military purpose and that it will permit the effective application of safeguards, if such equipment, devices and facilities: (a) are made available pursuant to this Agreement; or (c) use any special nuclear material produced as the result of 2. Require the maintenance and production of operating records to assure accountability for source or special nuclear material made available, or source or special nuclear material used, recovered, or produced as a result of the use of source or special nuclear material, moderator material or any other material relevant to the effective application of safeguards, or as a result of equipment, devices and facilities made available pursuant to this Agreement. 3. Require that progress reports be prepared and delivered to the EURATOM Commission with respect to projects utilizing material, equipment, devices and facilities referred to in paragraph 2 of this Annex. 4. Establish and require the deposit and storage, under continuing safeguards, in EURATOM facilities of any special nuclear material referred to in paragraph 2 of this Annex which is not currently being utilized for peaceful purposes in the Community or otherwise transferred as provided in the Agreement for Cooperation between the Government of the United States of America and the Community. 5. Establish an inspection organization which will have access at all times: (a) to all places and data, and (b) to any person who by reason of his occupation deals with materials, equipment, devices or facilities safeguarded under this Agreement, necessary to assure accounting for source or special nuclear material subject to paragraph 2 of this Annex and to determine whether there is compliance with the guarantees of the Community. The inspection organization will also be in a position to make and will make such independent measurements as are necessary to assure compliance with the provisions of this Annex and the Agreement for Cooperation. It is the understanding of the Parties that the above principles applicable to the establishment of the Community's inspection and control system are compatible with and are based on Article XII of the Statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency,['] Chapter VII of Title Two of the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, and those adopted by the Government of the United States of America in its comprehensive Agreements for Cooperation. |