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298/59 OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 12.3.59

REGULATION No 2

determining the procedure for completing the declarations laid down in Article 78 of the Treaty

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN ATOMIC Article 2 ENERGY COMMUNITY , The declarations referred to in Article 1 shall be made in respect of existing installations within three Having regard to the provisions of the Treaty, and months from the date on which this Regulation in particular those of Articles 77, 78 , 124 and 161 enters into force . thereof;

Whereas it is the responsibility of the Commission to Article 3 determine the procedure for discharging the obligations imposed on persons and undertakings by The declarations referred to in Article 1 shall be the first paragraph of Article 78 ; made in respect of new installations, including replacements or conversions of existing installations, Whereas the declarations laid down in the first in the month preceding and at least fifteen days paragraph of Article 78 must communicate to the before the installation is put into service, or in the Commission the basic technical characteristics of the month preceding and at least fifteen days before the installations covered by that Article to the extent first consignment of materials subject to safeguards is necessary for the application of the safeguards which received, if that consignment is received before the devolve upon the Commission pursuant to Article 77 ; installation is put into service.

Article 4 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : The obligation to make a declaration in accordance with this Regulation devolves on any person or Article 1 persons setting up a new installation or operating an The declarations laid down in Article 78 of the existing installation ; this obligation shall devolve Treaty in respect of the basic technical characteristics upon the local managements of establishments under of installations for the production, separation or the authortiy of persons or undertakings established other use of source materials or special fissile outside the Community. materials or for the processing of irradiated nuclear fuels (hereinafter called 'installations') shall be Article 5 communicated to the Commission using a form, the model for which is annexed to this Regulation. The Annex to this Regulation shall form an integral part thereof. Where a communication to the Commission has already given details of the characteristics concerned, Article 6 the declarations referred to in the preceding paragraph may be made by citing that com ­ This Regulation shall enter into force on the munication, provided that any supervening changes twentieth day following its publication in the Official are stated precisely. Journal of the European Communities .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 18 February 1959 . For the Commission

The President

E. HIRSCH

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ANNEX

to Commission Regulation No 7 of 18 February 1959

— Name and address of the person making the declaration and, where appropriate, name of a responsible person to whom supplementary questions may be addressed if necessary.

—' Name and site of the installation .'

— State whether it is an existing installation , a new installation, a replacement or a conversion . Where a new installation, a replacement or a conversion . is concerned , state the planned commissioning date.

Questions concerning basic technical characteristics of Questions concerning basic technical characteristics of installations for the production, separation or other use nuclear reactors of all types and for all purposes. of source materials or special fissile materials, or for the processing of irradiated nuclear fuels, with the exception B. 1 . Name of type of reactor. of nuclear reactors.

B. 2 . Principal use(s). A. 1 . Brief description and general plans of the installation, in particular : B. 3 . Thermal power rating in kW ; mechanical and ( a) Description and position in the plan of related electrical power rating, if applicable (gross power installations for storing materials which are in kW, net power of the whole installation in kW). subject to safeguards ; B. 4 . Annual utilisation (hours/year). ( b ) Form in which those materials are stored .

B. 5 . Fuels (composition , enrichment of fissile material A. 2 . Description of the technical processes employed for and weight of the first charge for the power stated the operation of the installation , with reference, in B 3 , mean and maximum burn-up in kWd/kg, where appropriate, to publications relating to the cooling time for irradiated fuels). installation in question .

B. 6. Annual fuel consumption and irradiated-fuel content A. 3 . Description of the methods used in the installations of all fissile and fertile material ; recoverable isotopes ( type, frequency and points at which used) for (for the power rating and utilisation shown in B 3 measuring and checking the quantity and quality and B 4 for the initial period and in steady-state' of materials which are subject to safeguards . operation ).

A. 4. Composition and nature of production ; annual B. 7. Maximum and mean neutron flux, according to the capacity. type of reactor :

( a ) Thermal neutrons,

(b ) Fast neutrons .

B. 8 . General plans of reactor ( in particular, lattice definition and heat-cycle diagram ).

N.B. Under Article 79 of the Treaty, those subject to such requirements shall notify the • authorities of the Member State concerned of any communications they make to the Commission pursuant to Article 78 .