In order to
implement the Euratom program objectives defined in the regulation concerning
fission and fusion energies (excluding ITER), the European Commission adopts
the annual work programs related to the implementation of indirect actions
(research and innovation activities carried out by participants from member or
associated states and to which the Community or the Union brings a financial
support).
In the
execution of this mission, the Commission is assisted by a Committee that meets
in two different configurations, dealing respectively with fission and fusion
related aspects of the Euratom Programme. The “comitology” regulation (regulation (EU) n° 182/2011 of 16 February
2011) lays down the rules and general principles
concerning mechanisms for control by Member States of the Commission’s exercise
of implementing powers through the committees.
The
Commission distributes to the committees’ members its annual work programs
proposals on which CTE consolidates the French position in relation with
concerned administrations and entities. The proposals are then discussed within
the committees that adopt, amend or reject them.
The
Commission regularly informs the committees of the overall progress of the
implementation of the Euratom Programme and provides them with timely
information on all results of indirect actions proposed or funded under the
Euratom Programme.
French
experts appointed to sit in these committees come from the following entities:
- ► Fission Committee: Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, MESRI/DGRI and CTE (representatives), Ministry for the Ecological Transition, MTE/DGEC (expert)
- ► Fusion Committee: MESRI/DGRI (representative), CEA/DRF (expert)