1.The Commission shall be responsible for promoting and facilitating nuclear research in the Member States and for complementing it by carrying out a Community research and training programme.
2.The activity of the Commission in this respect shall be carried out within the fields listed in Annex I to this Treaty.
This list may be amended by the Council, acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the Commission. The latter shall consult the Scientific and Technical Committee established under Article 134.
For purposes of coordinating and complementing research undertaken in Member States, the Commission shall, either by a specific request addressed to a given recipient and conveyed to the government concerned, or by a general published request, call upon Member States, persons or undertakings to communicate to it their programmes relating to the research which it specifies in the request.
After giving those concerned full opportunity to comment, the Commission may deliver a reasoned opinion on each of the programmes communicated to it. The Commission shall deliver such an opinion if the State, person or undertaking which has communicated the programme so requests.
By such opinions the Commission shall discourage unnecessary duplication and shall direct research towards sectors which are insufficiently explored. The Commission may not publish these programmes without the consent of the State, person or undertaking which has communicated them.
The Commission shall publish at regular intervals a list of those sectors of nuclear research which it considers to be insufficiently explored.
The Commission may bring together representatives of public and private research centres as well as any experts engaged in research in the same or related fields for mutual consultation and exchanges of information.
To encourage the carrying out of research programmes communicated to it the Commission may:
provide financial assistance within the framework of research contracts, without, however, offering subsidies;
supply, either free of charge or against payment, for carrying out such programmes, any source materials or special fissile materials which it has available;
place installations, equipment or expert assistance at the disposal of Member States, persons or undertakings, either free of charge or against payment;
promote joint financing by the Member States, persons or undertakings concerned.
Community research and training programmes shall be determined by the Council, acting unanimously on a proposal from the Commission, which shall consult the Scientific and Technical Committee.
These programmes shall be drawn up for a period of not more than five years.
The funds required for carrying out these programmes shall be included each year in the research and investment budget of the Community.
The Commission shall ensure that these programmes are carried out and shall submit an annual report thereon to the Council.
The Commission shall keep the Economic and Social Committee informed of the broad outlines of Community research and training programmes.
1.After consulting the Scientific and Technical Committee, the Commission shall establish a Joint Nuclear Research Centre.
This Centre shall ensure that the research programmes and other tasks assigned to it by the Commission are carried out.
It shall also ensure that a uniform nuclear terminology and a standard system of measurements are established.
It shall set up a central bureau for nuclear measurements.
2.The activities of the Centre may, for geographical or functional reasons, be carried out in separate establishments.
1.After obtaining the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee the Commission may, within the framework of the Joint Nuclear Research Centre, set up schools for the training of specialists, particularly in the fields of prospecting for minerals, the production of high purity nuclear materials, the processing of irradiated fuels, nuclear engineering, health and safety and the production and use of radioisotopes.
The Commission shall determine the details of such training.
2.An institution of university status shall be established; the way in which it will function shall be determined by the Council, acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the Commission.
The Commission may, by contract, entrust the carrying out of certain parts of the Community research programme to Member States, persons or undertakings, or to third countries, international organisations or nationals of third countries.
The Commission shall publish the research programmes referred to in Articles 7, 8 and 10, and also regular progress reports on their implementation.