The Negotiation of the IAEA-EURATOM NPT Safeguards Arrangements in Western Europe

In May 1970 the IAEA Board of Governors established a Safeguards Committee to draw up details of the safeguarding arrangement between the IAEA and each NNWS.1 The Safeguards Committee was set up with the explicit intention of representing as many opinions from the respective Member States as possible. In conformity with this principle, the participants were also drawn from a wide variety of occupations (diplomats, lawyers, chemists, physicists, etc.) and collectively they represented a very broad spectrum of political opinion.2