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±¬×ߺÚÁÏ (IO) is responsible for the design of the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ tokamak and its auxiliary systems. The ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ 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 ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ was established by international treaty. On 21 November 2006 in Paris, France, the seven ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ Members signed the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ Agreement. On site in Saint Paul-lez-Durance, ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ directly employs approximately 500 staff members representing 30 nationalities.

Domestic Agencies (DAs) were created by each ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ Member. There is thus an ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ 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 ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ components, systems or buildings that fall under each Member's procurement responsibilities to ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ. 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 ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ 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 ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ, it supervised the clearing and levelling activities for the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ site (2007-2009) and the public works on the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ Itinerary. It collects the contributions pledged to ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ by local governments and plays a role in welcoming international ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ staff members and their families. Agence Iter France is the interface between the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ project and French authorities and in this capacity oversees, for example, the organization of ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ component transport. It has also organized land acquisition measures to compensate for the clearing of the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ site. When the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ 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.