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(h) The Agency's Safety Standards and Measures[1] shall be applied, where relevant, to operations making use of technical assistance provided;

(i) Technical assistance shall be provided only for peaceful uses of atomic energy. For the purposes of the technical assistance programme, peaceful uses of atomic energy shall exclude nuclear weapons manufacture, the furtherance of any military purpose and uses which could contribute to the proliferation of nuclear weapons, such as research on, development of, testing of or manufacture of a nuclear explosive device. To this end and to the extent required by the Board of Governors, Agency safeguards shall be applied to all forms of technical assistance in all sensitive tech- nological areas in accordance with the provisions established by the Board of Governors as set forth in the Annex or as subsequently amended by the Board;

(j) To the extent relevant, the Agency's recommendations regarding physical

protection[2] shall be applied to nuclear facilities, equipment and materials relating directly to the technical assistance programme.

ELIGIBILITY OF STATES TO RECEIVE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

2. Subject to the guiding principle referred to in paragraph 1(d) above, that the Agency's resources for technical assistance shall be allocated primarily to meet the needs of developing countries, each Member State of the Agency or group of Member States shall be eligible for technical assistance provided from the Agency's own resources.

3. Eligibility for technical assistance from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is governed by the statutory requirements and criteria of that programme[3].

4. The eligibility of States for technical assistance from funds provided for special projects or programmes by Member States or from funds-in-trust provided by the Govern- ment of a Member State shall be governed by the agreement with the State providing the funds. It is understood that such agreements shall be compatible with the provisions of the Statute.

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5.

SOURCES OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

The Agency may accept voluntary contributions of money and gifts of services, equipment and facilities in accordance with the rules regarding the acceptance of voluntary contributions of money by the Agency (approved by the General Conference on 1 October 1959) and the rules to govern the acceptance of gifts of services, equipment and facilities (adopted by the Board of Governors on 13 January 1959)[4]; it may also accept special fissionable materials and source material[5].

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INFCIRC/18/Rev. 1.

INFCIRC/225/Rev.1.

Participation in UNDP is open to any State which is a Member of the United Nations, of one of its specialized agencies or of the IAEA; the resources of UNDP are utilized exclusively for the benefit of developing countries and territories in accordance with the principles and procedures incorporated in the draft Statute of UNDP.

INFCIRC/13.

Article IX of the Agency's Statute.

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