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Viewing cable 09ROME878, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MINISTER SCAJOLA'S U.S. VISIT
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09ROME878 | 2009-07-30 15:03 | 2011-03-21 11:11 | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | Embassy Rome |
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C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 03 ROME 000878
NOFORN
SIPDIS
DOE FOR INTERNATIONAL ENERGY COOPERATION DAS YOSHIDA
DOE FOR OFFICE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY DAS MCGINNIS
DOC FOR ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL INDUSTRIES OFFICE SARAH
LOPP
USTR FOR A...
SUBJECT: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MINISTER SCAJOLA'S U.S. VISIT
TO STRESS NUCLEAR ENERGY AND OTHER COMMERCIAL COLLABORATION
REF: A. ROME 815
¶B. ROME 283
¶C. ROME 207
¶D. 08 ROME 1577
¶E. 08 ROME 1191
ROME 00000878 001.2 OF 003
Classified By: CDA Elizabeth Dibble for reasons 1.4 b and d
¶1. (C/NF) Summary: Economic Development Minister Claudio
Scajola plans to visit the U.S. September 27 to October 3.
He is keen to sign a nuclear energy agreement with DOE
Secretary Chu focusing on both nuclear energy R&D, as well
as nuclear industrial cooperation. A nuclear energy
cooperation agreement has been under discussion between DOE
and the Ministry for some time. The Italian desire to expand
its reach, or to accompany an R&D agreement with a joint
statement on industrial cooperation, marks a potentially
important development in U.S.-Italian cooperation in the
nuclear power sector. U.S. nuclear suppliers are supportive
of the approach in order to match recent Frano-Italian
nuclear industrial cooperation agreements. (See para 9 for
guidance request.) Scajola also intends to showcase Italian
exports, visit the Finnmecanica helicopter production
facility near Philadelphia and a Westinghouse nuclear plant
in Western Pennsylvania. In reaction to the Embassy's very
active program on innovative entrepreneurship, Scajola will
also visit Silicon Valley to investigate opportunities
created by high-tech innovators and firms. Post views the
visit as a critical opportunity for the U.S. to counteract a
decided Italian tilt toward French nuclear technology and to
open the door to lucrative contracts for U.S. firms as
Italy's nuclear restart gets underway. End Summary.
MINISTER SCAJOLA SEPTEMBER 27 TO OCTOBER 3 U.S. VISIT
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¶2. (C/NF) During a July 17 meeting with EcMin and FCS
Counselor, the Ministry of Economic Development's Diplomatic
Advisor Daniele Mancini confirmed Economic Development
Minister Scajola's plans to visit the U.S. from September 27
to October 3. (See para 6 for a notional schedule already
developed by the Italian Embassy in Washington.) According
to Mancini, Minister Scajola sees this as an important visit
due to his desire to demonstrate that the Italian nuclear
sector is open to U.S. companies, despite French domination
of the nuclear power agenda in recent months. Mancini added
that other objectives of the visit will be to promote Italian
products, stress the importance of innovation using U.S.
centers of business excellence as examples, and encourage
U.S. - Italian industrial/business cooperation.
ITALY WANTS A MODIFIED NUCLEAR ENERGY AGREEMENT
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¶3. (C/NF) Mancini emphasized Minister Scajola's keen interest
in following up on discussions he had with Energy Secretary
Chu during the G8 Energy Ministerial in May in Rome. Scajola
wants to sign a nuclear energy cooperation agreement with DOE
during a September 29 Washington call on Secretary Chu.
However, Mancini stated that beyond a limited focus on
scientific research cooperation (i.e. the exchange of staff
and research information), Minister Scajola would like a
somewhat broader agreement in order to facilitate U.S. -
Italian industrial cooperation on nuclear energy sector
development. Mancini said that what Scajola has in mind is
something similar to the nuclear energy cooperation agreement
signed by Italy and France (ref B and separate cable to
follow) last February. In addition, Mancini said that
Minister Scajola is not interested in linking the proposed
nuclear cooperation agreement to past agreements signed by
previous governments. (Note: in an earlier meeting, Mancini
told us that Minister Scajola wants to present this agreement
to the GOI as a brand new agreement between the current
Italian and U.S. governments. end note)
¶4. (C/NF) Scajola's Energy Security Director General
ROME 00000878 002.2 OF 003
subsequently told us that he would recommend to Scajola that
he sign the current scientific R&D based nuclear energy
cooperation agreement, as there may not be enough time to
make the substantial changes that Scajola envisions before he
visits Washington. In order to meet Scajola's desire for a
more expansive agreement, the DG favors a joint statement of
intent, or a similar formula, that would serve as the basis
for the conclusion of a more formal agreement in the future.
Our sources rather confidently predict that Scajola will
endorse this option. Post will follow up to determine what
option Scajola embraces.
¶5. (C/NF) U.S.-based nuclear energy technology companies GE
and Westinghouse have told us that a more specific
nuclear energy industrial cooperation agreement (akin to what
Scajola has in mind) might be crucial to opening the
Italian nuclear energy market to U.S. companies. GE and
Westinghouse have expressed concerns that the current form
of the nuclear energy cooperation agreement is limited to
fostering USG - GOI scientific cooperation but does not
provide for GOI commitments towards facilitating U.S. -
Italian private sector cooperation. These companies see
such an accord as an important counterweight to the
Italian-French nuclear energy cooperation agreement signed
last February between PM Berlusconi and President Sarkozy.
The Franco-Italian agreement provided the political base of
support for the Italian and French parastatals ENEL and EdF's
agreement to build four Areva nuclear plants in
Italy. According to GE and Westinghouse, the French
government and companies have used these agreements as an
effective platform with which to continue their aggressive
lobbing of the GOI to keep competitors out of the Italian
nuclear market. Without a similar agreement from the U.S.
side, both GE and Westinghouse fear that French nuclear
technology and services will become the de-facto choice for
Italy, locking U.S. companies out of a lucrative market
potentially worth billions of dollars. Reliable Italian
energy industry contacts who want Italy to have its options
open to chose the best nuclear technology available have
expressed the same concerns to Post. They further tell us
that a U.S.-Italy agreement whereby both countries agree to
work towards facilitating private sector nuclear energy
development cooperation will create crucial Italian political
buy-in for U.S. nuclear technology.
NOTIONAL SCHEDULE FOR SCAJOLA VISIT
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¶6. (SBU) Minister Scajola's full U.S. schedule accents some
familiar themes, but the stress on nuclear energy, aerospace
cooperation, and innovative entrepreneurship are highlights.
September 27 - New York City arrival and participation at a
National Italian American Foundation sponsored event;
September 28 - a ""Made in Italy"" commercial promotion
organized by the Italian Institute for Foreign Trade (ICE),
followed by a meeting with Italian entrepreneurs;
September 29 - separate meetings in Washington with
Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Chu, including the
signing of the nuclear energy cooperation agreement, and with
the U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk (Note: topics
of discussion with Ambassador Kirk TBD, but IPR may be a
topic);
September 30/October 1 - visits to the 1) Augusta-Westland
helicopter production plant near Philadelphia, 2) Beaver
Valley nuclear power station in Pennsylvania (Note: Minister
Scajola has accepted Westinghouse's invitation to
tour this plant and Westinghouse is presumably working with
the Italian Embassy in Washington on the arrangements, and 3)
a Pittsburgh manufacturing plant owned by Italian company
Ansaldo;
October 2 and 3 - tour of Silicon Valley in the San Francisco
ROME 00000878 003.2 OF 003
Bay area, including meetings with high-tech
entrepreneurs and institutions, to explore innovation
opportunities of potential benefit to Italian companies.
COMMENT
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¶7. (C/NF) Scajola's desire for a more specific U.S.-Italian
nuclear energy cooperation agreement that can lay the
groundwork for market access by U.S. companies is a welcome
development. We had previously voiced skepticism
to the Italians about such an agreement, but the positive
views offered by Westinghouse and GE have caused us to
rethink this issue. Given the in-roads made by French
competitors, and with more than just a whiff of unsavory
business practices in the air, Post has repeatedly engaged
the GOI to urge a level-playing field for U.S. nuclear
technology and services companies. We are glad to see this
as the first concrete sign that the Italians have come around
to our view that instead of locking themselves into French
technology, Italy would benefit from opening up its future
nuclear sector to competition. As a result of our engagement,
likely combined with a pragmatic realization of the
technology advantages that U.S. nuclear technology companies
offer, the GOI appears to want to keep its options open.
During our July 17 meeting, for example, Mancini stressed
that that the GOI has not locked Italy into French nuclear
technology despite the (politically-arranged) ENEL-EdF deal.
Quoting Scajola, Mancini told us that, ""We have not promised
anything to anyone,"" and that ""Italy will have more than one
nuclear technology."" If the Italians want a more fine-tuned
nuclear energy cooperation agreement for U.S. nuclear
technology companies to provide them with other options, we
should do what we can to provide them with one. U.S. nuclear
energy technology companies could also not agree more.
¶8. (C/NF) Based on this, we suggest that any U.S. - Italian
nuclear energy cooperation statement or agreement that
Washington considers include at least the following elements:
A) a declaration of intent about the willingness of the U.S.
and Italy to eliminate any obstacle toward bilateral
industrial and commercial cooperation; B) cooperation in the
field of nuclear safety, specifically in harmonization of
regulations and standards which would be accepted in both
countries; C) cooperation in safety-related research; D)
support for the development of industrial partnerships
concerning design and engineering, supply of components and
systems, joint ventures in third countries, and cooperation
in decommissioning of nuclear power plants.
REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE
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¶9. (C/NF) Post requests guidance to respond to questions by
the Ministry of Economic Development inquiry on: 1) whether
changes can be made to the current nuclear energy cooperation
draft agreement to reflect Minister Scajola's preference for
specific language on working to facilitate U.S.-Italian
private sector cooperation in nuclear energy sector
development; or 2) if Washington Agencies see time as too
short before Minister Scajola's visit in late September, what
alternate scenarios might be possible? We would specifically
be interested in knowing whether Secretary Chu and Minister
Scajola might sign a joint declaration of intent to work
together in the area of nuclear industrial policy.
DIBBLE
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