Annex AMENDMENT EXTENDING THE ITER EDA AGREEMENTF1

THE EUROPEAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMUNITY, THE GOVERNMENT OF JAPAN, THE GOVERNMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (‘the parties’),

HAVING REGARD to the Agreement among the Parties on Cooperation in the Engineering Design Activities (EDA) for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), concluded on 21 July 1992 (‘the Agreement’), and the Protocol 2 to the Agreement concluded on 21 March 1994,

NOTING the progress achieved and the proposals made on approaches to continued joint implementation, all within the framework of the Agreement,

DESIRING to continue to work jointly within the framework of the Agreement to enable future decisions on construction and operation of ITER in accordance with Article 1 of the Agreement, and

ACTING in accordance with Articles 22 and 25(2) of the Agreement,

HAVE AGREED to amend the Agreement as follows:

Replace the words ‘six years’ in Article 25(1) by the words ‘nine years’.

This Amendment shall enter into force on signature of the Parties.