3. Member States shall, without prejudice to Article 5(2), ensure that the competent regulatory authority engages, as appropriate, in cooperation activities on the nuclear safety of nuclear installations with competent regulatory authorities of other Member States in the vicinity of a nuclear installation, inter alia, via the exchange and/or sharing of information.

Safety, signalling and telecommunications installations on the open track, in stations and in marshalling yards, including plant for generating, transforming and distributing electric current for signalling and telecommunications; buildings for such installations or plant; track brakes,

National responsibility of Member States for the nuclear safety of nuclear installations is the fundamental principle on which nuclear safety regulation has been developed at the international level, as endorsed by the Convention on Nuclear Safety.

National responsibility of Member States for the nuclear safety of nuclear installations is the fundamental principle on which nuclear safety regulation has been developed at the international level, as endorsed by the Convention on Nuclear Safety.

- Transport and telecommunications: Projects proposed under this sub- programme include investments to move towards the harmonisation of various standards such as road safety, and the installation of more efficient cable links between the two regions using the most advanced technology such as optical fibres; - Environment: Under which there is a range of projects including the care and protection of the White Cliffs in England and the Caps Gris in France; The programme, which will last until the end of 1993, will be managed by a tra ...[+++]nsfrontier committee which will contain representatives of both British and French national local government and the European Commission.

The Governments of the Member States and the Commission of the European Communities were represented as follows: Belgium Mr Jan DE BOCK Deputy Permanent Representative Denmark Mr Jann SJURSEN Minister for Energy Mr Soeren SKAFTE State Secretary, Ministry of Industry and Energy Germany Mr Dieter von WÜRZEN State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs Greece Mr Georges APOSTOLAKIS Secretary-General for Energy Spain Mr Claudio ARANZADI Minister for Industry and Energy France Mr Gérard LONGUET Minister for Energy and External Trade Ireland Mr Brian COWEN Minister for Energy Italy Mr Paolo SAVONA Minister for Industry Luxembourg Mr A ...[+++]lex BODRY Minister for Energy Netherlands Mr Koos ANDRIESSEN Minister for Energy Portugal Mr Luis Filipe PEREIRA State Secretary for Energy United Kingdom Mr Timothy EGGAR Minister for Energy * * * Commission Mr Abel MATUTES Member NUCLEAR SAFETY IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE AND THE FORMER USSR - COUNCIL CONCLUSIONS "THE COUNCIL, committed to assisting with improving the nuclear safety in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union and aware of the need for sustainable, medium and long-term solutions, to energy supply problems of those coutries, 1.recalls the Council conclusions of 7 December 1992 on nuclear safety in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, involving measures under the Community's PHARE and TACIS programmes for immediate improvements in the safety of nuclear power plants; recalls the importance of the G-24 mechanism for the co-ordination of assistance programmes and the leading role of the Community in this area; recalls also the Community's intended contribution to the multilateral fund for nuclear safety in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union; 2.notes the assistance already provided by the Community for an immediate improvement in the safety of the plants in question, as presented in the report tabled by the Commiss ...