Appendix A: Australia's Nuclear Cooperation Agreements
Country / Region | Date of Entry into Force |
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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.