Traduction de «directives applicables aux exportations nucléaires » (Français → Anglais) :

Common rules for exports Summaries of EU legislation: direct access to the main summaries page

19. Recalls that as a consequence of the 2008 decision of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) on the exemption rule for India, China offered similar nuclear technology exports to Pakistan; deeply regrets the position taken by several European leaders in 2010 in favour of granting India full membership in the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) namely French President Sarkozy and German Chancellor Merkel; calls on EU Member States to abandon the idea of a NSG membership for India ahead of the June 2011 NSG meeting in the Netherlands because ...[+++]it would strengthen and formalize double standards and severely weaken international efforts in the field of nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament in accordance with the Action Plan agreed to at the 2010 NPT Review Conference; urges EU Member States to revoke the 2008 exemption decision for India and to only grant India NSG membership rights in case the country signs, ratifies and implements all relevant international nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament norms such as NPT, Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) and Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (FMCT);

38. Believes that the nuclear non-proliferation regime under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is in serious danger and calls on the Council and particularly the two Member States possessing nuclear weapons to bring forward a European initiative on the implementation of the disarmament obligations contained in Article VI of the NPT with regard, in particular, to the 2010 NPT review conference; strongly opposes the production and dissemination of WMD, which threatens to become a reality in an increasing number of countries due to the impossibility of clearly separating the use of nuclear technology for energy purposes and its use for we ...[+++]apons production; cites in this context, in particular, the uncertainties as to the goals of Iran's nuclear programme; calls on Iran to be actively transparent in its relations with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and to seek to rebuild trust with the international community; calls on the members of the UN Security Council to refer the Iran issue back to the IAEA and to start negotiations without preconditions; calls on the Member States to ban all exports of nuclear technology to any country that has not ratified the additional protocols to the NPT;

The contracting States must ensure that the nuclear material they import, export or accept in transit on their territory is protected in accordance with the applicable safety level.

Where amendments proposed incorporating GMO and nuclear issues inside the scope of the directive, I voted against. This is because nuclear liability covered by the Vienna and Paris Conventions is currently being reviewed.

M. recognising that China did not accede to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty until 1992 and, despite having signed up to the 1997 International Atomic Agency Additional Safeguards Protocol, is not part of the nuclear arms control regimes such as the Nuclear Suppliers Group and the Australia Group; recognising, moreover, that China insists on its right to export nuclear energy 'for peaceful purposes' and in the past provided P ...[+++]akistan and Iran with nuclear technology,