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Supplementary Agreement amending the Agreement between the Government of Canada and the Government of India relating to the Rajasthan Atomic Power Station and the Douglas Point Nuclear Generating Station signed at New Delhi on December 16, 1963 [1966] CATSer 12 (20 December 1966)

E100339 - CTS 1966 No. 27

SUPPLEMENTARY AGREEMENT AMENDING THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA AND THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA RELATING TO THE RAJASTHAN ATOMIC POWER STATION AND THE DOUGLAS POINT NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION SIGNED AT NEW DELHI ON DECEMBER 16, 1963

The Government of Canada and the Government of India, having cooperated closely in the development of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes during the past several years, having concluded the Agreement relating to the Rajasthan Atomic Power Station and the Douglas Point Nuclear Generating Station, signed on December 16, 1963, and being desirous of expanding cooperation for the further application of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

Article VII of the Agreement signed on December 16, 1963 is amended to read as follows:

"The two Governments agree that half the fuel elements for the initial charge of the first reactor of the Rajasthan Atomic Power Station to be constructed plus such numbers of additional fuel elements as may be required by the Government of India from time to time for the Rajasthan Atomic Power Station will be supplied from Canada by AECL at a price, f.o.b. manufacturing plant, no higher than that at which similar fuel elements are available at the same time for the Douglas Point Nuclear Generating Station in Canada. It is also agreed that uranium for the continuing requirements of the Rajasthan Atomic Power Station, to the extent it is not available from indigenous sources within India, will be procured from Canada provided it is available on financial terms no less favourable than those from other sources".

ARTICLE II

Article XVI of the Agreement signed on December 16, 1963 is amended by substituting for paragraph (a) of the Article the following new paragraph (a), to read as follows:

"The Rajasthan Atomic Power Station means the electric generating power plant with a total net output of approximately 400 MWe consisting of two heavy water moderated and heavy water cooled reactors of the CANDU type and associated equipment, facilities and premises to be located at Rana Pratap Sagar, Rajasthan State, India".

This Supplementary Agreement shall enter into force upon signature and shall thereafter remain in force indefinitely as though it were an integral part of the Agreement of December 16, 1963.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned have signed this Supplementary Agreement.

DONE, in two copies, in the English, French and Hindi languages, each version being equally authentic, at New Delhi the Sixteenth of December 1966.

Roland Michener

FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA

Vikram Sarabhai

FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA