THE FIRST MEETING OF THE COST ACTION G7 MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE ON "ARTWORK CONSERVATION BY LASER"".

25 SEPTEMBER 2000 EC Brussels (B)

PARTICIPATION

AUSTRIA	M. SCHREINER H. WALLNER
BELGIUM	E.DE WITTE M. VAN BOS
FRANCE	V.VERGES-BELMIN C.DEGRIGNY
ITALY	A.ANDREONI
GERMANY	B.FITZNER W.KAUTEK
GREECE	V.ZAFIROPOULOS S.RAPSOMANIKIS
NORWAY	G.ABERG
THE NETHERLANDS	R.TEULE
SPAIN	A.RUBIO M.CASTILLEJO
UNITED KINGDOM	R.AHMAD
EUROPEAN COMMISSION	A. DANTI

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STATUS OF THE COST G7 ACTION

 

The Action officially started on 7 June 2000 and will be effective for five years until 6 June 2005. The Action will be open for signature from other COST countries for six months after its start (up to 7 December 2000). After that period the approval of the MC is required for any new COST country to be able to join the Action.

So far 10 countries have already signed the Memorandum of Understanding of the Action: Austria; Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, France; Germany; Greece, Romania, Spain and United Kingdom. (The Netherlands, Norway and Italy will sign soon)

 

AGREEMENT ON THE INTERNAL RULES OF PROCEDURES FOR THE COST G7 MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE-DECISION ON SECRETARIAT

 

The Scientific Secretary explained the responsibilities of the MC as these are described in the document: “Rules of Procedure for the MC of the Action COST G7 Artwork Conservation by Laser- Draft”. The draft rules of procedures for the MC were approved. The working language of the Action is English.

 

ELECTION OF THE CHAIRPERSON AND VICE-CHAIRPERSON

The election of the Chairperson and Vice-chairperson was postponed to the next meeting in order to give the opportunity to Delegates from new signatory countries to be candidates.

Dr. V. Zafiropulos was elected Acting Chairperson of the Action and Dr. R. Radvan was elected Acting Vice-Chairperson in her absence.

 

WORKING PLAN FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE COST ACTION G7

- DRAFT MEMORANDUM OF UNDERST. - DOC COST 243/00

Information from research Institutes that was not included in the technical annex of the MoU is annexed to the Minutes.

 

- OBJECTIVES AND WORKING PROGRAMME

 

Dr. Ahmad (UK) and Dr. Zafiropulos (GR) gave presentations on the objectives, the working groups brake-down and the work programme.

The work will be done within three working groups :

1/ WG1 – Materials divided into two sub-sections on organic and inorganic materials

2/ WG2 – Methods divided into two sub-sections on diagnostics and analysis

3/ WG3 - Monitoring divided into two sub-sections on environment and artwork

- DISTRIBUTION OF TASKS

The following members have been elected Acting WGs "rapporteurs"

 

 

WG1 – Materials

 

Coordinator Inorganic: Ms. V. Verges-Belmin (FR) (rapporteur)

Coordinator Organic: Mr. W. Kautek (DE)

 

WG2 - Methods

 

Coordinator Diagnostics Ms. A. Andreoni (IT)(rapporteur)

Coordinator Analysis Mr. G. Aberg (NO)

 

WG3 - Monitoring

 

Coordinator Environment Mr. R. Ahmad (UK)

Coordinator Artwork -------------------------

 

PLACE AND DATE OF NEXT MEETING

 

The next meeting will be held on 12-13 January 2001 in Bucharest, Romania.