How the EU budget is spent: Instrument for Nuclear Safety Cooperation
Briefing
14-07-2017
The EU's Instrument for Nuclear Safety Cooperation (INSC) was created to help promote a high level of nuclear safety, radiation protection, and safeguards for nuclear material outside the EU. It does this by funding peer support for, and technical assistance to, third countries that are managing or in the process of developing nuclear power. EU cooperation in the field of nuclear energy dates back to the EU's post-war beginnings, but financial assistance to non-EU countries only began in the 1990s, with the TACIS programme to help the countries that emerged from the former Soviet Union to manage their nuclear legacy.
Briefing
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- budget
- commitment of expenditure
- cooperation policy
- decommissioning of power stations
- electrical and nuclear industries
- ENERGY
- energy policy
- EU finance
- European treaties
- EUROPEAN UNION
- European Union law
- FINANCE
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- international security
- multiannual financial framework
- nuclear reactor
- nuclear research
- nuclear safety
- peacekeeping
- third country