Press Release: Council agrees on general approach for extending the Euratom framework programme for nuclear research (2012-2013)

The Council today (28.6.2011) agreed on a general approach for extending, for a two-year period, the current European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) framework programme for
nuclear research. The new decision will extend the Euratom programme, which expires at the end of 2011, in order to align it with the end of the EU's current financial cycle in 2013. Euratom programmes are limited by the Euratom treaty to five years, whereas the general 7th framework programme for research, which runs until end 2013, lasts for seven years.