31.12.76 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 363/1 I (Acts whose publication is obligatory) COMMISSION REGULATION (EURATOM) No 3227/76 of 19 October 1976 concerning the application of the provisions on Euratom safeguards THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, : Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, and in par- ticular Articles 77, 78, 79 and 81 thereof, Having regard to the approval of the Council, Whereas Commission of the European Atomic Energy Community Regulation No 7 established the im- plementing procedures for the declarations required - by Article 78 of the Treaty (1), Whereas Commission of the European Atomic Energy Community Regulation No 8 (%) defined the nature and the extent of the requirements referred to in Article 79 of the Treaty; Whereas, in view of the increasing quantities of nuclear materials produced, used and carried in the Community and the development of trade in these materials, it is essential, in order to ensure the effectiveness of safeguards, that the nature and the extent of the requirements referred to in Article 79 of the Treaty and laid out in Regulation No 8 referred to above, be defined and brought up to date in the light of experience particularly with regard to the transportation of,-or commerce in these materials; Whereas, moreover, the Kingdom of Belgium, the - Kingdom of Denmark, the Federal Republic of (1) OJ No 15, 12. 3. 1959, p. 298/59, and communication on the numbering of EAEC Regulations (O] No 34, 29. 5. 1959, p. 649/59). (%) O] No 34, 29. 5. 1959, p. 651/59. Germany, Ireland, the Italian Republic, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Kingdom of the Nether- lands and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) concluded on 5 April 1973 an Agreement (hereinafter called ‘the Agreement’) with the Inter- national Atomic Energy Agency in implementation of Article IIl (1) and (4) of the Treaty on the non- proliferation of nuclear weapons; - Whereas the Agreement contains a particular under- taking entered into by the Community concerning the application of safeguards on source and special fissile materials on the territories of the Community. Member States which have no nuclear weapons of their own and which are parties to the Treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and, in conjunction with the Community, to the Agreement signed on 5 April 1973 with the International Atomic Energy Agency (hereinafter called ‘the Member States party to the Agreement’); Whereas the implementation of this undertaking requires the establishment of particular procedures for the application of safeguards on the territories of the Member States party to the Agreement in order to amplify the provisions of the aforementioned Regulations No 7 and No 8; Whereas, moreover, the procedures foreseen by this Agreement are in conformity with those devised in the course of a very wide-ranging international negotiation conducted, in view of the provisions of paragraphs 1 and 4 of Article III of the Treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, with the Inter- national Atomic Energy Agency, the result of which has been approved by the Board of Governors of that organization, and that these procedures are based on the most modern developments in the field of safeguards;