[Reproduced from I.A.E.A. Document INFCIRC/153 of May 1971. The Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, by Resolutions adopted on July 28, 1970, and February 23, 1971, authorized the Director General to use earlier, partial versions of the material in this document as the basis for negotiating the agreements required by Article III of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (7 International Legal Materials 809 (1968). By a Resolution adopted on April 20, 1971, the Board of Governors requested him to use the material in the present version of the document for this purpose.

[The Board of Governors approved the texts of the first two agreements under the NPT on June 9, 1971. The agreements with Finland and Austria will apply I.A.E.A. safeguards to all nuclear material in all peaceful activities in these two countries to assure that there is no diversion to nuclear weapons or nuclear explosive devices. The agreement with Finland was signed at Vienna on June 11, 1971; it is subject to the approval of the Finnish Parliament.]