On 21 November 2006 the ITER participants signed the ITER Agreement which forsees that ITER will be built at Cadarache, near Aix-en-Provence, France. The ITER Agreement has been signed and ratified and it entered into force on 24 October 2007. The construction period has begun. The site has been cleared and leveled (early 2009) and building should start soon. First plasma is now expected to be achieved in 2020.