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Dear Mr Ghods
Is there any further information on this?
With best wishes
Simon Walker

> On 2017-02-15, at 08:04:26, ghods@nppd.co.ir wrote:
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> Dear Mr. S. Walker
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> I received your kind email.
> About process of the mutual cooperation, after discussing this subject with NPPD (Operating Organization) and AEOI, I will inform you about result of decision.
> Thanks for your cooperation, I remain.
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> M.Ghods
> TAVANA General Director
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> From: "Simon Walker"
> To: ghods@nppd.co.ir
> Cc: "mamdouh elshanawany"
> Sent: Thursday, 9, 2017 11:24:03 AM
> Subject: Mutual Cooperation for Nuclear Safety
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> 2017-02-09
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> Mr Mohammad Ghods
> General Director
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> Nuclear Power Plant
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> Safety Development and Improvement Company (TAVANA)
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> Mutual Cooperation for Nuclear Safety
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> Dear Mr Ghods
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> As I have reported to you periodically during the process, for the last many months we have been going through the necessary procedures with the Export Control authorities here in the United Kingdom, in order to be legally allowed to engage with you in the mutual cooperation for nuclear safety that we have been discussing.
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> I can only apologise once more that this has taken so long, but I am delighted to say that I think we now have reached a position where things can move forwards quite smoothly.
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> In essence the process is that the appropriate Iranian authorities provide an End User Certificate to the United Kingdom confirming the nature of the work proposed.
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> I have had extensive discussions with our Export Control authorities to understand just what classes of activity are acceptable, and how they need to be described and presented in the context of this "End User Certificate".
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> I enclose a draft certificate that I am confident will meet their requirements.
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> This certificate is a document that in principle originates with the organisation directly concerned (yourself, TAVAVA), and is then passed by you to the appropriate authority within your country. It is my understanding that for Iran the appropriate authority is the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI).
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> The end-user certificate needs to be printed on the headed official paper of AEOI and signed by a suitable Officer.
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> This is the document that then needs to be returned to the United Kingdom government. That returning can be done by either
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> (i) sending it to me here, and I will pass it on, or
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> (ii) it can be sent to the Commercial Attaché of the United Kingdom embassy in Teheran.
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> In either case, initial return by email of a scanned / photographed copy, followed by the return of the paper original, is needed.
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> I do hope this now means we can make progress after all this time! If it would be helpful to have a telephone discussion, or similar, we should of course be happy to.
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> Yours sincerely
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> Simon Walker
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