Financial framework 2007-2013: additional financing needs of the ITER project

The dossier concerns the 2007-2013 financial framework and additional financing needs of the ITER project. Amendments dispute the funding, with some rejecting the Commission's proposed decision and opposing redeployment of Seventh Framework Programme appropriations, while others support securing financing through MFF margins, the Flexibility Instrument or project bonds; they raise the project's cost escalation, management and contingency, the JET programme, and the implications of the March 2011 disaster in Japan.