At the moment, by convention, primary electricities of renewable origin are accounted on their thermal equivalent per Joule effect (1 TWh = 0.086 Mtoe), whereas electricity of nuclear origin, which is also considered as a primary electricity, is accounted on the basis of the heat produced in the reactor (1 TWh = 0.26 Mtoe by convention).

For the transmutation, both fast and thermal reactors are considered along with dedicated actinide burning facilities.

The key issues are operational reactor safety and management of long-lived waste, both of which are being addressed through continued work at the technical level, though allied political and societal inputs are also required.

– (EL) Commissioner, thank you for your reply confirming that reactors 1 and 2 will be shut down this year, in 2002, that work has in fact already started, and that reactors 3 and 4 will be shut down by 2006 at the latest, as originally agreed, as the President of the Commission, Mr Prodi, has assured me in writing and as you have stressed repeatedly.

The result, as the Commission has already stated in its replies to Oral Question H-0364/01 during Question Time at the plenary session of Parliament in May 2001 and written question P-1794/01 put by the Honourable Member, is that the requirements laid down in Article 4 of Directive 92/46/EEC are only applicable in cases where a Member State authorises the placing on the market of milk intended for direct human consumption, whereas under Article 7(A)(9), each Member State has to lay down its own health rules for milk-based products which are not made from heat-treated milk or which have not been subjected to any heat treatment during thei ...[+++]r manufacturing process, and those rules must be sufficient to enable such products to meet the health criteria guaranteed for every finished product.

The result, as the Commission has already stated in its replies to Oral Question H-0364/01 during Question Time at the plenary session of Parliament in May 2001 and written question P-1794/01 put by the Honourable Member, is that the requirements laid down in Article 4 of Directive 92/46/EEC are only applicable in cases where a Member State authorises the placing on the market of milk intended for direct human consumption, whereas under Article 7(A)(9), each Member State has to lay down its own health rules for milk-based products which are not made from heat-treated milk or which have not been subjected to any heat treatment during thei ...[+++]r manufacturing process, and those rules must be sufficient to enable such products to meet the health criteria guaranteed for every finished product.