THE CONFERENCE,

Noting Slovakia's commitment to close Unit 1 and Unit 2 of the Bohunice V1 Nuclear Power Plant at the end of 2006 and 2008 respectively and declaring the Union's willingness to continue to provide financial aid until 2006 in continuation of the pre- accession aid planned under the Phare programme in support of Slovakia's decommissioning effort;

Noting the need to adopt implementing provisions regarding continued Union assistance;

Points out that specific provisions to that end have been included in Title IX of Part Two of the Protocol on the Treaty and Act of Accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic.