ESO's Governing Bodies

ESO's ruling body is its Council, which delegates day to day responsibility to the Executive under ESO's Director General. Other governing bodies of ESO are: the Finance Committee (FC), the Scientific Technical Committee (STC), the Observing Programmes Committee (OPC) and the Users Committee (UC).

Information about the meeting dates of the various committees is available via the meetings calender below. Please note that in most cases committees documents have restricted access and are password protected.

Council and Committee Meetings in 2008

Council 3 - 4 June (in Prague) 2 - 3 December
Committee of Council 3 - 4 March (in Stockholm) 6-7 October (in Copenhagen)
Finance Committee 19 February 6 - 7 May 4 - 5 November
Scientific Technical Committee 16 - 17 April 21 - 22 October
Observing Programmes Committee OPC 82: 26 - 30 May OPC 83: 17 - 21 November
Users Committee 14 - 15 April  

Council and Committee Meetings in 2007

Council 5 - 6 June (Barcelona) 4 - 5 December
Committee of Council 19 - 20 March (Potsdam) 1 - 2 October (UK)
Finance Committee 9 - 10 May 25 September 5 - 6 November
Scientific Technical Committee 18 - 19 April 23 - 24 October
Observing Programmes Committee OPC 80: 21 - 25 May OPC 80c: 23 - 24 August OPC 81: 19 - 23 November
Users Committee 16 - 17 April  

Overview of Previous Meetings

Council cou-105, cou-107, cou-108, cou-109 cou-110, cou-111
Committee of Council FP7 E-ELT
Finance Committee No on-line documents available
Scientific Technical Committee stc-56, stc-57, stc-58, stc-59, stc-60, stc-61, stc-62, stc-63, stc-64, stc-65, stc-66, stc-67
Observing Programmes Committee opc-74min, opc-75min, opc-76min, opc-77min, opc-78min, opc-79min
Users Committee uc-26, uc-27, uc-28, uc-29, uc-30