* There is no clarity yet about how the proposed environmental audit commission will look like. A pro-nuclear biased commission would keep Temelin subject of power politics rather than look at the arguments.

* The commission will only look to documents. GREENPEACE is still involved in complaints on the basis of information from employees from Temelin, alleging fraud with papers. The Czech authorities still did not conclude a serious investigation into these allegations. A environmental audit will have to include the problems indicated by dissident Temelin staff, as well as a broader catalogue of design related problems than addressed so far in Czech - Austrian and Czech - German expert contacts.

* Temelin will not be switched off for the time of the audit, which means that a possibly unsafe reactor will continue to operate without all questions cleared.

* Where safety is still a major problem, Temelin also faces still a very bleak economic future: its electricity will have to be dumped under price on the European market. If the in the agreement mentioned "free traffic of people and goods" includes opening the Austrian market for CEZ electricity, Austria takes shared responsibility for the failing and dangerous energy policy of the Czech Republic.

Still, GREENPEACE sees that this agreement could later become a positive breakthrough towards closure of Temelin. GREENPEACE nuclear campaigner Jan Haverkamp: "Although much will depend on the detail text of the agreement, if the first signs prove true, there is a chance that it will force the Czech government and CEZ to face the facts. GREENPEACE will continue do its share to see to it that the facts come and remain on the table." He reminds that there are still serious doubts about Temelin's safety, Temelin is an expensive source of electricity, Temelin runs on fuel mined under environmentally devastating circumstances, Temelin faces a lot of open questions around its final decommissioning and there is no solution for environmentally acceptable processing of its radioactive waste.