IAEA Comprehensive Safeguards Agreements and Additional Protocols

Canada strongly supports the universalization of safeguards, including the Additional Protocol.

To that end, a number of additional safeguards had been included.

Calls for universal accession to the Comprehensive Safeguards Agreements and Additional Protocols.

Additional protocol to the IAEA safeguards agreement signed on 18 December 2003

Japan also concluded an additional protocol to its IAEA Safeguards Agreement in 1999

Call for universal accession to the comprehensive safeguards agreements and additional protocols, and recognize that comprehensive safeguards agreements and additional protocols have a deterrent effect on nuclear proliferation and form today's verification standard

In recent years, the additional protocol to comprehensive safeguards agreements had proved its worth.

The universal adoption and implementation of comprehensive safeguards agreements, and of Additional Protocols to them, is a prerequisite to an effective and credible safeguards system.

We have concluded safeguards agreements with the International Atomic Energy Agency, including on additional protocols.

The Additional Protocol on strengthened IAEA safeguards offers Middle East States an important confidence building opportunity.

As part of strengthening the safeguards system, we have begun applying the so called integrated safeguards a more effective approach that combines traditional safeguards with more advanced methods of analysis and enhanced access under the Additional Protocol.

We believe that the Additional Protocol should be considered an essential part of an effective safeguards regime and that the Additional Protocol, together with the IAEA Safeguards Agreement, should be considered the verification standard for all NPT States Parties.

The 2005 Review Conference must recognize that a comprehensive safeguards agreement supplemented by an additional protocol constituted the NPT safeguards standard, pursuant to article III of the Treaty.

The EU considers that comprehensive safeguards agreements, together with Additional Protocols, constitute the current IAEA verification standard.

The EU considers that comprehensive safeguards agreements together with additional protocols constitute the current IAEA verification standard.

Croatia considers that the Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement together with Additional Protocols constitutes the current IAEA verification standard and continues to call upon all States that have not yet done so to sign and ratify their safeguards agreements and additional protocols.

Belarus strongly supported initiatives aimed at strengthening the nuclear non proliferation regime and attached great importance to the introduction of the safeguards system based on additional protocols to safeguards agreements.

Yet another illustration of that support is its decision to sign the Additional Protocol on the safeguards regime.

Concluding an Additional Protocol to Safeguards (INFCIRC 540) with IAEA is also an important way of being transparent.

The Additional Protocol and the development of strengthened and integrated safeguards are the most recent manifestation of that.

Finland has concluded a Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement with the IAEA and has signed and ratified the Additional Protocol.

Indeed, the IAEA Safeguards Agreement and Additional Protocol should together be the verification standard for all States parties.

We have also concluded a safeguards agreement with the IAEA and have signed and ratified the Additional Protocols.

As possibilities for additional financial resources are scarce, the issue of differentiation in safeguards implementation must be addressed.

The Conference must also acknowledge and reinforce the vital role played by the IAEA safeguards system and accept that the Additional Protocol was an essential part of an effective safeguards regime.

The Netherlands is of the opinion that the Comprehensive Safeguards together with an Additional Protocol constitutes the verification standard.

The verification authority of IAEA should be enhanced through universal application of the additional protocol to the safeguards agreement.

While expansion of the application of additional protocols to safeguards agreements had allowed the Agency to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the safeguards system, the implementation expenses thereof should be optimized.

This process was furthered by the ratification of the IAEA Safeguards Agreement in 1973 and ultimately further accomplished by the signature of the Additional Protocol to its Safeguards Agreement in 18 December 2003.

The IAEA safeguards system should be strengthened and the additional protocol should be adopted as the new non proliferation standard.

On 22 September 2004, it concluded an additional protocol to its safeguards agreement with the Agency, pursuant to the Treaty.

Widespread conclusion of IAEA comprehensive safeguards agreements and additional protocols would best guarantee the long term effectiveness of the NPT.

Safeguards

Australia and other countries were of the view that the additional protocol, together with a comprehensive safeguards agreement, was now the safeguards standard required of non nuclear weapon States under article III, paragraph 1.

Austria is a member of the informal group Friends of the Additional Protocol convened by Japan, which is working actively towards the universalization of comprehensive safeguards agreements and additional protocols.

Mention should also be made of the coordination built up since 1992 within the European Union, a source of additional safeguards.

The League of Arab States supported the efforts of IAEA to strengthen safeguards through the mechanisms available under the additional protocols.

Australia supports universal application of the strengthened safeguards system of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) embodied in the additional protocol.

Further measures to strengthen the current safeguards regime should not result in additional financial burden on Member States, particularly developing countries.

In that regard, the trigger list developed by the Zangger Committee was an integral part of additional protocols to safeguards agreements.

The CNSC maintains a national system of accounting for and controlling nuclear material in Canada under safeguards, pursuant to its responsibilities for implementing the Canada IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) Safeguards Agreement and Additional Protocol.

GC(48) RES 14 Strengthening the Effectiveness and Improving the Efficiency of the Safeguards System and Application of the Model Additional Protocol

All CARICOM member States had concluded safeguards agreements with IAEA and the process of signing additional protocols had begun in the region.

Last year Armenia ratified the Additional Protocol to the Safeguards Agreement, once again demonstrating its serious approach to cooperation with the Agency.