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	Monday, Oct. 8, afternoon (public session)
	Application for new membership: Greece (Konstantina Mergia - National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”) Greece becomes the 17th member of the European Neutron Scattering Association.
	Status of the publication of the ESF/ENSA user survey (Dr. Patrick Bressler European Science Foundation, Physical and Engineering Sciences Unit, Strasbourg, France) The ENSA survey will be published by the European Science Foundation ESF in December 2007.
	ESS status/ESS-PP project (Peter Allenspach - ENSA Chairman) EU made on 22 December 2006 a call for Preparatory works on projects listed in the ESFRI Roadmap, with deadline 2 May 2007. One proposal on ESS was submitted by the neutron community. Status: - negotation phase - draft contract agreement submitted - signature of contract expected in November - start of project on January 1, 2008. Deliverables: List of site characteristics, Positive presence in the scientific arean (press conferences, web), meeting with industry, analysis of the ESS decommissioning cost and more!
	Work packages for a EU coordination proposal (discussion) - Facilities: Information about Instruments of small European facilities will be included in the common data base "Neutron Pathfinder". Please interested facilities contact to Ana Claver - NMi3 - Communication: ENSA will improve the contact with the users. - Prizes: a new prize to promote publications on neutron scattering will be established. - Training: Looking to career tracks. (Attendance to the Conference INTED 2008 - The International Technology, Education and Development Conference in Valencia (Spain) on the 3rd, 4th and 5th March, 2008.) - Literature: ENSA is considering the development of a Data base for neutron publications.
	ECNS’07 debriefing •Debriefing ECNS: 8 plenary lectures 2 prize lectures 1 Public lecture 4 pararell session on 3 1/2 days = 120 talks 3 Poster sessions= 200 posters each 9 Poster prizes Satellite meetings Exhibition • Other meetings: Swiss Neutron scattering Society and SINQuser meeting NMi3 user meeting Spanish, Sweedish and Danish neutron scattering societies. German Committe for Neutron Scattering Liquid Interfaces Satellite 27th ENSA meeting • 700 participants, almost balanced budget, • ECNS 07 publications: Journal of Phisics Condensed Matter Expected online publication January 2008 Measurement Science and Technology Expected online publication March 2008 (Print version April 2008) only 100 publications to more than 400 originally registered. Abstract of all publications are on www.ecns2007.org
	Business plan of ECNS’11 in Prague (discussion) • The next European Conference on Neutron Scattering , ECNS ’11, will be held in Prague on July 17- 21 either Prague congress centre or Clarion Congress hotel. Fee will be 450/540 euro and 300/360 euro for students.
	Tuesday, Oct. 9, morning
	Closed Session: (Peter Allenspach) • New ENSA statutes establish that: - the chairman can be elected from outside the association.
	• Proposal - weight of votes (proposal Schober/McEwen) The increased number of delegates of ENSA makes necessary to group the member states into bands, considering the weight of voting (3, 2, 1). This would be defined in function of the number of neutron users of each country. These won’t be fixed but revised every second year. Acording with this proposal, the ENSA chairman will present a draft of the changes of Statutes and it will be consider for approval in the next ENSA meeting.
	• Election of a new Vice chairman - Antonio Deriu, Italy (right) and Secretary - Ad Van Well, Netherlands (left)
	• The next ENSA Meeting will be held on April 21-22nd 2008 at Delft.