European Atomic Energy Organisation
- Author(s):
- Parliamentary Assembly
- Origin
- (see Doc. 455, draft Resolution of the Committee on General Affairs). This Resolution was adopted by the Assembly at its 26th Sitting, on 26th October, 1955
The Assembly,
Having regard to its debate on the "new drive" for European integration and to the statement by M. Spaak, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Committee set up by the Messina Conference, and pending the submission of the general report of the said Committee and the results of the studies being undertaken by O.E.E.C. on "classical" and atomic energy;
Noting with satisfaction the successful progress of the work of the Intergovernmental Committee, especially in connection with plans for a general common market and a European Atomic Energy Organisation;
Hoping that the studies relating to a general common market, which are being conducted on the new lines described by M. Spaak, will lead to favourable results, as these would be of the greatest importance for the progress of European integration;
Believing that only by concerted action can Europe ensure its maximum economic expansion during the coming years, and its independent access to supplies of energy, and that only by this means will all European countries be able to benefit from atomic energy for industrial purposes;
Considering it urgent that a decision be taken to set up for this purpose a European Atomic Energy Organization,
Believes it necessary that immediate measures be taken in order:
1 that work may be begun on the installation of a common basic and industrial research centre and on the construction of European atomic plants for the production of nuclear fuels; (isotopic separation of uranium and the extraction of plutonium by treatment of irradiated uranium);
2 that a European Atomic Energy Organization may be set up with the task of defining and promoting a concerted policy for the joint development of atomic research and atomic industry. The Assembly considers that the Organization should, for this purpose, be endowed with the real powers necessary to fulfil the tasks entrusted to it;
3 that the largest possible number of Member States of the Council of Europe may participate in these schemes;
4 that machinery may be established for European parliamentary control in a form appropriate to the structure contemplated. The Assembly stresses the extreme importance of the role of a European parliamentary body in the vital field of atomic energy;
5 that the studies undertaken at Brussels may be continued without interruption until the Intergovernmental Conferences envisaged by the Messina Conference have been convened, which the Assembly hopes will be at an early date.
