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 2009

Council 3 - 4 June (Vienna) 9 - 10 December
Committee of Council 2 - 3 March 5 - 6 October (Chile)
Finance Committee 3 - 4 November
Scientific Technical Committee 22 - 23 April 21 - 22 October
Observing Programmes Committee OPC 84: 25 - 29 May OPC 85: 23 - 27 November
Users Committee 27 - 28 April  

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  

Overview of Meetings

Council cou-105, cou-107, cou-108, cou-109 cou-110, cou-111, cou-112, cou-113
Committee of Council FP7 E-ELT
Finance Committee fc-119, fc-120, fc-121, fc-122, fc-123
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, stc-68, stc-69
Observing Programmes Committee opc-74min, opc-75min, opc-76min, opc-77min, opc-78min, opc-79min, opc-80agenda, opc-81agenda, opc-82agenda
Users Committee uc-26, uc-27, uc-28, uc-29, uc-30, uc-31, uc-32