ºÚÁÏרÇø

ºÚÁÏרÇø (IO) is responsible for the design of the ºÚÁÏרÇø tokamak and its auxiliary systems. The ºÚÁÏרÇø will be responsible for machine installation and assembly, beginning in 2015, and operations, beginning in 2020. Like other international organizations such as Unesco or the World Health Organization, the ºÚÁÏרÇø was established by international treaty. On 21 November 2006 in Paris, France, the seven ºÚÁÏרÇø Members signed the ºÚÁÏרÇø Agreement. On site in Saint Paul-lez-Durance, ºÚÁÏרÇø directly employs approximately 500 staff members representing 30 nationalities.

Domestic Agencies (DAs) were created by each ºÚÁÏרÇø Member. There is thus an ºÚÁÏרÇø Domestic Agency in China, India, Japan, Korea, Russia, the United States and Europe (the European Domestic Agency is located in Barcelona, Spain). These agencies, on behalf of their governments, are charged with procuring the ºÚÁÏרÇø components, systems or buildings that fall under each Member's procurement responsibilities to ºÚÁÏרÇø. Europe, with the largest percent of the Project, contributes 45% (including nearly all site buildings), while each of the other Members contributes 9%. The reason for this disparity is that Europe, as Host to the ºÚÁÏרÇø project, benefits from the largest amount of economic impact.

Agence Iter France (AIF) is an agency of the French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA). Created to manage the French financial contribution to ºÚÁÏרÇø, it supervised the clearing and levelling activities for the ºÚÁÏרÇø site (2007-2009) and the public works on the ºÚÁÏרÇø Itinerary. It collects the contributions pledged to ºÚÁÏרÇø by local governments and plays a role in welcoming international ºÚÁÏרÇø staff members and their families. Agence Iter France is the interface between the ºÚÁÏרÇø project and French authorities and in this capacity oversees, for example, the organization of ºÚÁÏרÇø component transport. It has also organized land acquisition measures to compensate for the clearing of the ºÚÁÏרÇø site. When the ºÚÁÏרÇø project has come to the end of 20 years of operation in the early 2040s, Agence Iter France will be in charge of site decommissioning and dismantling.