Tuesday, October 24, 1995 BRUSSELS, Oct 24 (Reuter) -- The European Commission will not take France to the European court over its South Pacific nuclear test programme, a Commission official told Reuters on Tuesday. The official said the decision taken at a meeting of the EU executive on Monday evening would offer "no surprises." Commission President Jacques Santer was due to announce the outcome of the meeting to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France at 11.30 a.m. (1030 GMT). The official said Monday's meeting had concluded French nuclear tests were not "particularly dangerous experiments" under EU law and so the Commission could shortly close its file on them. He explained his comment by saying: "No surprises in the sense that there's been a fairly strict legal line which has been taken." During recent weeks, the Commission has repeatedly asked Paris to supply data on its nuclear tests to allow the executive to assess how dangerous they are in order to decide what action, if any, it should take. "All of the data which has been produced by the French over the last weeks and months has been looked at by the Commission services concerned and it seems that mainly speaking, the data which they have do not point to any alarming circumstances," the official said. Santer imposed a news blackout on the Monday meeting's outcome until his European Parliament speech, mindful of the elected assembly's strong anti-nulcear line and criticism of the Commission for what some deputies have said is inaction. "I think what the Commission will be keen to do is to put forward something which will be interpreted as an additional burden on France, something like long-term monitoring of the test site," the official said, adding: "Clearly there's a need for a certain amount of window dressing." The executive's decision comes the day after French President Jacques Chirac said in New York his country would probably carry out four more nuclear weapons tests, fewer than he had initially planned. Asked on CNN television how many more underground tests Paris planned to conduct, Chirac said: "Probably four, and it will be ended next spring."