shall be followed with respect to source or special fissionable material whether it is
being produced, processed or used in any principal nuclear facility or is outside any
such facility. The safeguards required by this Article shall be applied on all source or
special fissionable material in all peaceful nuclear activities within the territory of such
State, under its jurisdiction, or carried out under its control anywhere.
2. Each State Party to the Treaty undertakes not to provide: (a) source or special
fissionable material, or (b) equipment or material especially designed or prepared for
the processing, use or production of special fissionable material, to any non-nuclearweapon State for peaceful purposes, unless the source or special fissionable material
shall be subject to the safeguards required by this Article.
3. The safeguards required by this Article shall be implemented in a manner designed
to comply with Article IV of this Treaty, and to avoid hampering the economic or
technological development of the Parties or international co-operation in the field
of peaceful nuclear activities, including the international exchange of nuclear
material and equipment for the processing, use or production of nuclear material for
peaceful purposes in accordance with the provisions of this Article and the principle of
safeguarding set forth in the Preamble of the Treaty.
4. Non-nuclear-weapon States Party to the Treaty shall conclude agreements with the
International Atomic Energy Agency to meet the requirements of this Article either
individually or together with other States in accordance with the Statute of the International
Atomic Energy Agency. Negotiation of such agreements shall commence within 180
days from the original entry into force of this Treaty. For States depositing their instruments
of ratification or accession after the 180-day period, negotiation of such agreements
shall commence not later than the date of such deposit. Such agreements shall enter
into force not later than eighteen months after the date of initiation of negotiations.
Article IV
1. Nothing in this Treaty shall be interpreted as affecting the inalienable right of all the
Parties to the Treaty to develop research, production and use of nuclear energy for
peaceful purposes without discrimination and in conformity with Articles I and II of this
Treaty.
2. All the Parties to the Treaty undertake to facilitate, and have the right to participate in,
the fullest possible exchange of equipment, materials and scientific and technological
information for the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. Parties to the Treaty in a position to do
so shall also co-operate in contributing alone or together with other States or international
organizations to the further development of the applications of nuclear energy for
peaceful purposes, especially in the territories of non-nuclear-weapon States Party to
the Treaty, with due consideration for the needs of the developing areas of the world.