Appendix Understandings for the extension of the duration of the ITER EDA Agreement

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Each Party will have an interest and involvement in the work to be based on all site characteristics provided. The work, therefore, will be undertaken jointly and managed accordingly under the responsibility of the ITER Director within the EDA framework with the exception of the preparation by native speakers of documents required in the host Party's/country's language and formats.

The interested Parties will:

• provide by the time of the 14th ITER Council meeting (IC-14, July 1998) site characteristics in line with the site requirements and site design assumptions document,

• enable on a timely basis informal dialogue with regulators for the purpose of preparing applications for licences to build and operate ITER.

The Director and the concerned home team (HT) leaders will start informal consultation so that, in the light of the site characteristics provided by the interested Parties, tasks of point I(1) can appear in the work programme to be submitted to IC-14 via the appropriate Management Advisory Committee (MAC) meeting.

The design adaptations will be carried out with due emphasis on the control of the project's estimated cost.

The Parties will:

• maintain the joint central team (JCT) and undertake assigned tasks,

• provide voluntary contribution in various areas, including consolidating the scientific basis for activities in point I(2), for example, by taking advantage of the existing voluntary arrangements,

• continue to provide joint work sites (JWS) and support enhanced interconnection.

The estimated resources for the intended scope of work noted in point I (beyond those already committed through Task Agreements) from the Director's proposals as supported by the ITER Council (IC-12 record of decisions 6.1.1, attachment 9) are the following:

Each Party will make its best efforts to provide its share of the resources (Articles 12 and 14 of the Agreement) in fulfilment of its obligation in accordance with Article 17(1) of the Agreement.

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