EURATOM: Equipment

(asked on 21st May 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of (a) purchasing and (b) decommissioning nucler safeguarding equipment from Euratom.


This question was answered on 24th May 2018

The UK Government is committed to having all necessary equipment in place to ensure continuity of safeguards operations when the UK leaves the EU and Euratom. Article 80 of the draft Withdrawal Agreement between the United Kingdom and the European Union, of 19 March 2018, provides for the transfer of safeguards equipment from the Euratom Community to the United Kingdom, and states that “[t]he United Kingdom shall reimburse to the Union the value of that equipment and other property, calculated based on the value assigned to that equipment and other property in the consolidated accounts for the year 2020.” As the subject of on-going negotiations, it is not possible at this stage to provide details on specific equipment and its valuation.

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