Статья 15«Соглашение между Правительством Российской Федерации и Правительством Лаосской Народно-Демократической Республики о сотрудничестве в области использования атомной энергии в мирных целях» [рус., англ.]

Настоящее Соглашение вступает в силу с даты получения по дипломатическим каналам последнего письменного уведомления о выполнении Сторонами внутригосударственных процедур, необходимых для его вступления в силу.

Настоящее Соглашение заключается сроком на десять (10) лет. Его действие автоматически продлевается на последующие 5-летние периоды, если ни одна из Сторон не уведомит по дипломатическим каналам в письменной форме другую Сторону не менее чем за шесть (6) месяцев до истечения первоначального или очередного периода о своем намерении прекратить действие настоящего Соглашения.

Прекращение действия настоящего Соглашения не затрагивает программ, проектов и договоров (контрактов), выполнение которых начато в период действия настоящего Соглашения и не завершено до даты прекращения его действия, если Стороны не договорятся об ином.

В случае прекращения действия настоящего Соглашения обязательства Сторон в соответствии со статьями 8 - 12 настоящего Соглашения остаются в силе.

Совершено в г. Москве 15 июня 2026 г. в двух экземплярах, каждый на русском, лаосском и английском языках, при этом все тексты имеют одинаковую силу. В случае возникновения разногласий в толковании настоящего Соглашения используется текст на английском языке.

The Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Lao People's Democratic Republic hereinafter referred to as «the Parties»,

mindful that the Parties' States are Members of the International Atomic Energy Agency and are the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons of July 1, 1968, to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material and Nuclear Facilities of October 26, 1979, to the Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident of September 26, 1986, and the Convention on Assistance in the Case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency of September 26, 1986,

being aware that the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes and the provision of nuclear and radiation safety is an important factor in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals formulated in the United Nations General Assembly resolution «Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development» № 70/1 dated September 25, 2015,

seeking to contribute to further cooperation between the Parties' States in the field of use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes,

have agreed as follows:

The terms that are used in this Agreement have the meanings identified in the International Atomic Energy Agency documents «Guidelines for the Export of Nuclear Material, Equipment and Technologies» (INFCIRC/254/ Part 1 and INFCIRC/254/ Part 2) and their further amendments which will be made. Any such modification will be valid in the framework of this Agreement only in case if both Parties inform each other in written form through diplomatic channels of their acceptance of such modification.

The term «intellectual property» has the meaning defined in Article 2 of the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization signed on July 14, 1967.

The terms used in this Agreement have the following meanings:

«information» means scientific, commercial, technical data and (or) information in any form, defined as such and agreed by the competent authorities of the Parties for transfer or exchange in the framework of this Agreement;

«background intellectual property» means intellectual property obtained not in connection with performance of any agreements (contracts), concluded in the course of the implementation of this Agreement, which belongs to one of the Party's State and (or) its competent authorities and (or) its authorized organizations, and other individuals and (or) legal entities of each of the Party's State which is used in the course of the implementation of this Agreement;

«results of intellectual activity» means scientific, engineering, technical and technological solutions contained in engineering, scientific and technical documents or embedded in the products that are developed, manufactured and delivered through the cooperation in the course of performing this Agreement;

«know-how» means information of any nature (manufacturing, technical, economic, organizational and others), on the results of intellectual activity in scientific and technical fields and information on methods of carrying out of professional activity having real or potential commercial value due to being unknown to third parties provided that third parties have no free legal access to the such information and its owner takes reasonable measures in order to ensure its confidentiality, including introducing a regime of trade secret;

«foreground intellectual property» means intellectual property developed in the course of performing joint activities (cooperation) under this Agreement.

The Parties shall develop cooperation in the area of use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, in particular in medicine, industry, agriculture and science, in accordance with the needs and priorities of their national nuclear programs.

Cooperation shall be carried out in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and legislations of the each of the Parties' States.

The Parties shall cooperate in the following areas:

1. design, construction and modernization of research nuclear facilities, power reactors, particle accelerators, neutron generators and other irradiation facilities for application in agriculture, medicine, industry, science, environmental monitoring and other areas;

2. supply of services in managing nuclear materials and radioactive waste;

3. nuclear fuel cycle services for nuclear power plants and research reactors;

4. ensuring nuclear and radiation safety, emergency response;

5. decommissioning of research nuclear facilities;

6. nuclear and radiation safety regulation, control of physical protection of nuclear materials, research nuclear facilities, power reactors, radiation sources, storage areas of nuclear materials and radioactive substances, as well as accounting systems and control of nuclear materials, radioactive materials and radioactive waste;

7. production of isotopes and their application in industry, medicine and agriculture;

8. basic and applied research and studies in the field of use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes;

9. education, training and retraining of experts for the field of nuclear energy, including the personnel of nuclear and radiation safety regulatory body of the Lao Peoples' Democratic Republic;

10. assistance in establishment and enhancement of the nuclear energy infrastructure of the Lao Peoples' Democratic Republic, including governmental regulation of safety in accordance with international recommendations;

11. other areas of cooperation that might be agreed upon by the Parties in written form through diplomatic channels.

Cooperation in the areas covered by Article 3 of this Agreement shall be implemented in the following forms:

establishment of joint working groups to implement specific projects and scientific research;

exchange of experts;

organization of seminars and symposia;

assistance in education and training of scientific and technical personnel;

exchange of scientific and technical information;

supply of equipment, materials and components.

Cooperation may be executed in other forms agreed upon by the Parties in written form through diplomatic channels.

The Parties shall designate following competent authorities for the purpose of implementing this Agreement:

for the Russian Party — the State Atomic Energy Corporation «Rosatom» and the Federal Environmental, Industrial and Nuclear Supervision Service (for the area of nuclear and radiation safety regulation, control of physical protection of nuclear materials, research nuclear facilities, power reactors, radiation sources, storage areas of nuclear materials and radioactive substances, supervision of accounting and control systems of nuclear materials, radioactive substances and radioactive waste, including assistance in establishment and enhancement of the Lao People's Democratic Republic system of the state regulation of atomic energy use and training of the personnel of the nuclear and radiation safety regulatory body of the Lao People's Democratic Republic);

for the Lao Party — the Ministry of Industry and Commerce of the Lao People's Democratic Republic.

In the case of change of the competent authorities, their names or functions, the Parties shall notify each other without delay in written form through diplomatic channels.

The competent authorities of the Parties shall establish a Joint Coordination Committee consisting of the representatives designated by the competent authorities of the Parties to monitor the implementation of this Agreement, review the issues arising in the course of its implementation and hold consultations on issues related to the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

The meetings of the Joint Coordination Committee shall be held when necessary alternately in the Russian Federation and in the Lao People's Democratic Republic as agreed by the competent authorities of the Parties.

Joint Working Groups shall be established as agreed by the competent authorities of the Parties to implement specific projects in the framework of this Agreement.

Cooperation in the areas referred to in Article 3 of this Agreement shall be implemented by Russian and Lao organizations authorized by the competent authorities of the Parties (hereinafter — authorized organizations) by concluding agreements (contracts) that determine the scope of cooperation, the rights and obligations of authorized organizations and other participants of the agreements (contracts), financial and other terms of cooperation in accordance with the legislation of each Party's State.

Authorized organizations shall ensure that agreements (contracts) envisage terms and conditions required to guarantee that the authorized organizations and other participants to the agreements (contracts) comply with the provisions of this Agreement.

In the framework of this Agreement the information that constitutes a state secret of the Russian Federation and a state secret of the Lao People's Democratic Republic is not being transferred.

Information transferred in the framework of this Agreement or created from the implementation thereof and regarded by the transferring Party as confidential shall be clearly defined as such. The Party transferring such information in the framework of the Agreement shall mark such information in the Russian language as «Для служебного пользования», in the Lao language as , in the English language as «Confidential».

The Party receiving this identified information shall protect it at a level equivalent to the level of protection applied by the supplying Party to such information. Such information shall not be disclosed or transferred to any third party without the written consent of the transferring Party.

The Parties shall limit as much as possible the number of individuals with access to information, which the transferring Party regards as confidential.

Such information shall be treated in the Russian Federation as official information of limited distribution. Such information shall be protected in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.

Such information shall be treated in the Lao People's Democratic Republic as official information of limited distribution. Such information shall be protected in accordance with the legislation of the Lao People's Democratic Republic.

All information transferred under this Agreement shall be used exclusively in accordance with this Agreement.

1. Granting the rights to the background intellectual property is the subject of agreements (contracts) to be concluded in the course of the implementation of this Agreement.

The background intellectual property granted to the Party, its competent authorities or the authorized organizations shall only be used strictly in accordance with the terms and conditions of the agreements (contracts) concluded for the purposes of performance of this Agreement and shall not be granted to any third party without prior written consent of the Party, its competent authorities or the authorized organizations that have granted the background intellectual property.

The Parties, their competent authorities and the authorized organizations, in accordance with each Party's State legislation and the international treaties, that the respective Party's State has joined, shall take all necessary measures to provide legal protection of the results of intellectual activity, foreground intellectual property and the background intellectual property that are necessary for the implementation of this Agreement.

2. The procedure, the terms and conditions of vesting the rights for, providing the legal protection of the results of intellectual activity created in the course of the implementation of this Agreement, legal control and protection of the intellectual property created under this Agreement shall be set forth in the agreements (contracts) to be concluded in the course of the implementation of this Agreement.

3. The competent authorities of the Parties or the authorized organizations shall stipulate in the agreements (contracts) to be concluded in the course of the implementation of this Agreement obligations concerning the granting of right to the background intellectual property, allocation (vesting) of rights to the results of intellectual activity jointly created in the course of the implementation of this Agreement, as well as legal protection of foreground intellectual property:

1. stipulate that granting of rights and usage of any background intellectual property may take place only after providing its legal protection on the territory of the state of use, where such intellectual property is planned to be used;

2. ensure that the contribution, including background intellectual property, made by each Party, their competent authorities or the authorized organizations is adequately measured and taken into account in the process of allocating (vesting) of rights to the results of intellectual activity jointly created in the course of the implementation of this Agreement, as well as in the process of distributing the proceeds generated by their use;

3. set forth a procedure to ensure legal protection of the results of intellectual activity jointly created in the course of the implementation of this Agreement, as well as set forth a priority regarding filing of patent applications on the basis of that patent applications with respect to protectable (registrable) results of intellectual activity created on the territory of the Russian Federation shall be filed to the Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent) in the first place, and patent applications with respect to protectable (registrable) results of intellectual activity created on the territory of the Lao People's Democratic Republic shall be filed to the Department of Intellectual Property of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce of the Lao People's Democratic Republic in the first place;

4. ensure protection of the results of intellectual activity and (or) know-how created in the course of the implementation of this Agreement until relevant decisions as to their legal protection have been made and implemented;

5. retain for the owner of the background intellectual property right of control over its use;

6. compensate losses due to misuse of the intellectual property the results of intellectual activity and (or) know-how.

4. The Party, its competent authority or the authorized organizations, which receive the results of intellectual activity and (or) know-how, granted by the other Party, its competent authorities or the authorized organizations, shall admit and recognize such rights on the results of intellectual activity and (or) know-how and ensure its (their) security and protection.

Granting and usage of the results of intellectual activity and (or) know-how, shall take place only if and when its (their) security and protection are adequately ensured by the Receiving Party, its competent authority or the authorized organizations.

Any of the results of intellectual activity and (or) know-how granted in the course of performing this Agreement shall be used strictly for the purposes of performing this Agreement in accordance with the terms and conditions of the agreements (contracts) to be concluded in the course of the implementation of this Agreement.

The Receiving Party, its competent authority or the authorized organizations shall ensure that the level of security and protection of any results of intellectual activity and (or) know-how is at least at the same level as that applied by the Disclosing Party, its competent authorities or the authorized organizations.

The Receiving Party, its competent authority or the authorized organizations shall not use the granted results of intellectual activity and (or) know-how in its own research and development activities, design, technical and engineering solutions without prior written consent of the Disclosing Party, its competent authorities or the authorized organizations.

The Receiving Party, its competent authority or the authorized organizations shall not disclose, publish, use commercially any results of intellectual activity and (or) know-how or grant the same to any third state, any international organization or any third party.

The Disclosing Party, its competent authority or the authorized organizations shall retain the right to apply and receive the patent to any protectable (registrable) results of intellectual activity contained in the results of intellectual activity and (or) know-how granted to the Receiving Party. The Receiving Party, its competent authorities or the authorized organizations shall not seek to secure (vest) any rights for such protectable (registrable) results. In the event of breach of this clause, the Receiving Party, its competent authorities or the authorized organizations shall cede (alienate) free of charge the rights and title for such results to the Disclosing Party, its competent authorities or the authorized organizations in full and free of charge.

5. In order to avoid any unauthorized access to the results of intellectual activity and (or) know-how, which may be granted within this Agreement, the Parties, their competent authorities and the authorized organizations shall have the right to use any means of information security and to furnish products that embed and (or) constitute the results of intellectual activity or the intellectual property, which are granted within this Agreement with technological measures that limit unauthorized copying, changing and (or) modification in accordance with the procedure envisaged by the legislation of the respective Party's State.

6. The Parties, their competent authorities and the authorized organizations shall take all necessary actions free of charge in order to provide, vest and grant rights to the results of intellectual activity and foreground intellectual property to the legitimate owner, in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement and of the agreements (contracts) to be concluded in the course of the implementation of this Agreement.

Export of nuclear materials, equipment, special non-nuclear materials and respective technologies, as well as dual use items under this Agreement shall be carried out in accordance with the obligations of the Parties' States arising from the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons of July 1, 1968, and from other international treaties and agreements within the framework of the multilateral mechanisms of export control to which the Russian Federation and (or) the Lao People's Democratic Republic are parties to.

Nuclear materials, equipment, special non-nuclear materials and respective technologies, as well as nuclear and special non-nuclear materials, facilities and equipment produced thereof or as a result of their use, received by the Lao People's Democratic Republic under this Agreement:

shall not be used for the manufacturing of nuclear weapons and other nuclear explosive devices or for any other military purpose;

shall be under the International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards in accordance with the Agreement between the Government of the Lao People's Democratic Republic and International Atomic Energy Agency on the application of safeguards under the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons of November 22, 1991;

shall be provided with physical protection measures at a level not lower than the levels recommended by the International Atomic Energy Agency publication «Nuclear Security Recommendations on Physical Protection of Nuclear Material and Nuclear Facilities» (INFCIRC/225/Revision 5);

shall be re-exported or transferred from the jurisdiction of the Lao People's Democratic Republic to any other state only according to the terms and conditions mentioned in this Article and only with prior written approval from the State Atomic Energy Corporation «Rosatom» agreed upon with the Federal Service for Technical and Export Control.

Nuclear material transferred to the Lao People's Democratic Republic under this Agreement shall not be enriched to 20 percent or more in uranium-235 and shall not be enriched or reprocessed without prior written consent of the competent authority of the Transferring Party issued in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.

Dual use items and related technologies used for nuclear purposes received from the Russian Federation under this Agreement and any reproduced copies of them:

shall be used only for declared purposes that are not connected with activities of manufacturing nuclear explosive devices;

shall not be used to carry out any activities in the field of nuclear fuel cycle that are not subject to the International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards;

shall not be copied, modified, re-exported, and transferred to a third party without written consent of the Russian authorized organizations, issued according to legislation of the Russian Federation.

The Parties shall cooperate on the issues of export control of nuclear materials, equipment, special non-nuclear materials and respective technologies, as well as dual use items. Control of the use of supplied nuclear materials, equipment, special non-nuclear materials and respective technologies, as well as nuclear and special non-nuclear materials, facilities and equipment produced thereof or as a result of their use shall be exercised in a way agreed upon through consultations between the Parties.

Facilities and technologies for chemical reprocessing of irradiated nuclear fuel, isotopic uranium enrichment and heavy water production, their major components or any items produced thereof, as well as uranium enriched to 20 percent and more in uranium-235, plutonium and heavy water shall not be transferred under this Agreement.

Civil liability for nuclear damage that may arise from the implementation of cooperation under this Agreement shall be governed by the Parties according to the Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage of May 21, 1963. The mentioned convention shall be applied to cooperation in the framework of the Agreement as if the Lao People's Democratic Republic is the party to this Convention.

Any disagreements arising from the application and (or) interpretation of the provisions of this Agreement shall be settled by consultations and (or) negotiations between the competent authorities of the Parties unless the Parties agree otherwise.

In the event of any discrepancy between the provisions of this Agreement and agreements (contracts) concluded within the framework of this Agreement the provisions of this Agreement shall prevail.

This Agreement may be amended by mutual written consent of the Parties.

This Agreement shall enter into force from the date of the receipt through diplomatic channels of the last written notification of the completion by the Parties of internal procedures necessary for its entry into force.

The duration of this Agreement is ten (10) years and shall be automatically renewed for successive periods of five (5) years, unless one Party notifies the other in written form through diplomatic channels about its intention to terminate this Agreement, no less than six (6) months before the expiration of the initial or a successive period.

The termination of the Agreement shall not affect the implementation of programs, projects and agreements (contracts) initiated while this Agreement was in force and not completed by the date of its termination, unless otherwise agreed by the Parties.

In case of termination of this Agreement the obligations of the Parties under the Articles 8 — 12 of this Agreement shall remain in force.

Done at Moscow «15» June 2026 in duplicate, each in the Russian, Lao and English languages, all texts being equally authentic. Should any disagreement concerning the interpretation of this Agreement arise, the English text shall be used.

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