Appendix A: Australia's Nuclear Cooperation Agreements

Table 17: Australia's Nuclear Cooperation Agreements at 30 June 20221
Country / Region Date of Entry into Force
Republic of Korea (ROK) 2 May 1979
Finland 9 February 1980
Canada 9 March 1981
Sweden 22 May 1981
France 12 September 1981
Philippines 11 May 1982
Japan 17 August 1982
Switzerland 27 July 1988
Egypt 2 June 1989
Mexico 17 July 1992
New Zealand 1 May 2000
United States (covering cooperation on Silex Technology) 24 May 2000
Czech Republic 17 May 2002
United States (covering supply to Taiwan) 17 May 2002
Hungary 15 June 2002
Argentina 12 January 2005
People's Republic of China2 3 February 2007
Russian Federation 11 November 2010
United States 22 December 2010
European Union3 1 January 2012
United Arab Emirates 14 April 2014
India 13 November 2015
Ukraine 15 June 2017
United Kingdom 1 January 2021

Note: The above list does not include Australia's Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement with the IAEA, concluded on 10 July 1974 or the Protocol Additional to that Safeguards Agreement concluded on 23 September 1997. In addition to the above Agreements, Australia has an Exchange of Notes constituting an Agreement with Singapore Concerning Cooperation on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Materials, which entered into force on 15 December 1989.

1 Several of the NCAs have been renegotiated over the years to keep them up to date. This list only includes the most recent NCAs for each country/region.

2 Australia has two agreements with China: one covering nuclear material transfers and one covering nuclear cooperation.

3 Euratom is the European Atomic Energy Community. The Australia-Euratom NCA covers all 27 Member States of the European Union.