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1. To encourage and assist research on, and development and practical application of,
atomic energy for peaceful uses throughout the world; and, if requested to do so,
to act as an intermediary for the purposes of securing the performance of services
or the supplying of materials, equipment, or facilities by one member of the Agency
for another; and to perform any operation or service useful in research on, or development
or practical application of, atomic energy for peaceful purposes;
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2. To make provision, in accordance with this Statute, for materials, services, equipment,
and facilities to meet the needs of research on, and development and practical application
of, atomic energy for peaceful purposes, including the production of electric power,
with due consideration for the needs of the under-developed areas of the world;
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3. To foster the exchange of scientific and technical information on peaceful uses of
atomic energy;
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4. To encourage the exchange and training of scientists and experts in the field of peaceful
uses of atomic energy;
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5. To establish and administer safeguards designed to ensure that special fissionable
and other materials, services, equipment, facilities, and information made available
by the Agency or at its request or under its supervision or control are not used in
such a way as to further any military purpose; and to apply safeguards, at the request
of the parties, to any bilateral or multilateral arrangement, or, at the request of
a State, to any of that State's activities in the field of atomic energy;
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6. To establish or adopt, in consultation and, where appropriate, in collaboration with
the competent organs of the United Nations and with the specialized agencies concerned,
standards of safety for protection of health and minimization of danger to life and
property (including such standards for labour conditions), and to provide for the
application of these standards to its own operations as well as to the operations
making use of materials, services, equipment, facilities, and information made available
by the Agency or at its request or under its control or supervision; and to provide
for the application of these standards, at the request of the parties, to operations
under any bilateral or multilateral arrangement, or, at the request of a State, to
any of that State's activities in the field of atomic energy;
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7. To acquire or establish any facilities, plant and equipment useful in carrying out
its authorized functions, whenever the facilities, plant, and equipment otherwise
available to it in the area concerned are inadequate or available only on terms it
deems unsatisfactory.