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Department of State Notawisselingen tussen de regeringen van het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden, de Bondsrepubliek Duitsland en het Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland, enerzijds, en de regering van de Verenigde Staten van Amerika, anderzijds, houdende een verdrag inzake de toepassing van non-proliferatie-waarborgen op aan Taiwan geleverd licht verrijkt uranium

Bij de wisseling van de onderhavige nota's op 21 juli 1999 te Washington heeft de Verenigde Staten van Amerika aan het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden, de Bondsrepubliek Duitsland en het Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland een begeleidend schrijven ("side letter") doen toekomen, waarin een nadere toelichting op paragraaf 11 van de Bijlage wordt gegeven. De tekst daarvan luidt als volgt:

Washington, July 21, 1999

“The Department of State refers to the Agreement of July 21, 1999 between the Governments of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (hereinafter referred to as “the Troika") and the Government of the United States of America (hereinafter referred to as “the U.S.") concerning cooperation between the Troika and the U.S. on the application of non-proliferation assurances to low enriched uranium transferred from the Troika countries to the United States for fabrication into fuel and retransfer to Taiwan for use in Taiwan's light water nuclear reactor programs.

Paragraph 11 of the Annex of that agreement requires that the Troika shall ensure that all necessary steps are taken to require URENCO to share the costs of the U.S. implementing its right to apply fallback safeguards, in accordance with paragraph 9 of the agreement, or the costs of the U.S. implementing its right of return, in accordance with paragraph 10 of the agreement, as they apply to “Troika uranium" or special nuclear material produced therefrom on a proportionate basis based on the relative value of the enrichment and fabrication components of the nuclear fuel supplied.

The Department of State would like to confirm that “a proportionate basis based on the relative value of the enrichment and fabrication components of the nuclear fuel supplied" means that URENCO will assume 70 percent of all costs incurred by the U.S. in its exercise of the enumerated rights, while the U.S. will assume 30 percent of all these costs. This allocation of costs is predicated on the basis that no other parties are contributing, directly or indirectly through URENCO, to the cost of U.S. exercise of the enumerated rights. Should, following negotiation, additional parties assume a share of the exercise of the enumerated rights, the U.S. will seek to agree with the Troika on a different allocation of costs between the U.S. and URENCO. Such additional parties would include, for example, those supplying the natural uranium feed material or the conversion services for material enriched by URENCO or the party supplying the conversion services for the enriched product from URENCO.

The Department of State would like to further confirm the understanding that the cost of the return of the nuclear fuel, whether irradiated or unirradiated, would include any required compensation to Taiwan, transportation costs, storage costs, and disposal costs. These costs would be offset by any revenue that may be accrued from disposal of the fuel."

Regeling
Notawisselingen tussen de regeringen van het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden, de Bondsrepubliek Duitsland en het Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland, enerzijds, en de regering van de Verenigde Staten van Amerika, anderzijds, houdende een verdrag inzake de toepassing van non-proliferatie-waarborgen op aan Taiwan geleverd licht verrijkt uranium
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01-05-2000
BWB-id
BWBV0001430
Versie
2000-05-01_0

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