Translation of "Réacteur à lit fixe " (French → English) :

I would like to emphasise and draw my colleagues’ attention to the fact that, together with Slovakia and Bulgaria, Lithuania has fulfilled the obligations laid down in its accession agreement and has closed its old Soviet nuclear reactors within the deadline set.

As part of their accession negotiations, these three countries have undertaken to shut down and decommission the nuclear reactors within an agreed timetable.

The competent authority may authorise exemptions from the emission limit values set out in this point for waste incineration plants using fluidised bed technology, provided that the permit sets an emission limit value for carbon monoxide (CO) of not more than 100 mg/Nm3 as an hourly average value.

"Production" (GTN NTN All) means all production phases, such as: construction, production engineering, manufacture, integration, assembly (mounting), inspection, testing, quality assurance.

In particular, the Union has insisted that candidate countries that operate nuclear reactors of certain vintage types that cannot be upgraded at a reasonable cost commit themselves to their early closure according to a fixed timetable.

12. Recognising the role that nuclear energy played in some Member States energy mix, while noting that no country is currently constructing new nuclear reactors and that eleven of the fifteen Member States do not have nuclear power or are currently phasing it out. Further noting that the EU and other signatories have excluded nuclear power within the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol. Recognises that the EU is committed to reaching its Kyoto target of 8% reduction in Co2 by 2010 and welcoming the statement of the Green Book that unless energy efficiency is introduced to curb energy demand, the EU will have trouble meeting its CO2 reduction commitments. Further calls for the EU to lead discussions to set Co2 reduction target ...[+++]s for 2020; also recognises that nuclear energy will be playing a less significant role following decisions to phase it out and/or introduce moratoria in five other Member States; points out that after the attack on the World Trade Center it is of great importance to take special measures in the Member States to substantially improve the safety of nuclear power stations, and calls for special vigilance within the IAEA in order to counteract the smuggling of nuclear fuel;