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IGUS : meetings
Upcoming meetings
For information about the next meeting of the EOS and
EPP working groups and the next IGUS plenary meeting, please click here.
Minutes and presentations
Minutes and presentations of the open sessions of
working group meetings are available for participants only, please click
here.
Structure of meetings
The IGUS working groups meet as required, usually
annually. These meetings are structured into a 'closed' session,
dealing with topics confidential to the national bodies present,
and an 'open' session to which industry representatives can be
invited by agreement of the chairman.
At IGUS meetings, papers and information are presented in an
informal atmosphere covering a wide variety of relevant topics
including, among others: reports of experimental investigations,
accidents and incidents, description of methods, anticipation of
problems of regulation and legislation, critiques of laboratory
tests, results of collaborative trials, statistical appraisals of
methods and results, compilation of test data on classes of
energetic materials. Records are kept through agreed minutes of
the meetings. More than 1,000 papers have been circulated in IGUS
to date and some of the studies are reported in scientific
literature.
The plenary meeting, to which only members of IGUS are invited,
is held once in every four years.
See also the Terms of Reference.
Meeting attendees
The members are invited to attend the meetings of their
respective working groups. They can attend both the open and the
closed sessions of their working groups. Experts who are not
members of the working groups (e.g. colleagues from industry) can
attend the open sessions, but only after being invited by the
chairman. Usually, more than 90% of the meeting time is 'open'.
Only the members are invited to attend the plenary meeting, which
meeting thus brings together members of both working groups. The
plenary meeting is usually held in conjunction with a regular
meeting of one of the working groups. In the plenary meeting,
only the national representatives can vote.
Ad-hoc working groups
To deal with specific issues that need detailed attention, the
working groups can decide to form ad-hoc working groups. These
ad-hoc groups usually comprise a limited number of experts. They
meet for a limited number of times, or sometimes even only once,
depending on the agenda and the issue being discussed. Nowadays,
even 'virtual' working groups exist. Usually, the remit of ad-hoc
working groups is defined by (the chairman of the) working group.
Past plenary meetings
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April
26 April 15 April 13 May 9 * June 12 May 11 June 15 March 20 June 15 May 19 ** March 14 June 16 June 18 October 4 June 19 September 4 September 11-12 August 17-18 August 28-29 June 8-9 May 4-5 May 31-June 1 November 11-12 November 17-19 May 10-11 May 2-4 October 7-8 May 8-9 |
Manchester,
United Kingdom online Basel, Switzerland Berlin, Germany St. Petersburg, Russia Rijswijk, The Netherlands Buxton, United Kingdom Frankfurt, Germany Berlin, Germany Stockholm, Sweden Socorro, USA Tønsberg, Norway Verneuil-en-Halatte, France Buxton, United Kingdom Oslo, Norway Berlin, Germany Berlin, Germany Rijswijk, The Netherlands Pittsburgh, USA Verneuil-en-Halatte, France Borehamwood, United Kingdom Rijswijk, The Netherlands Berlin, Germany London, United Kingdom Brussels, Belgium Paris, France Paris, France Paris, France |
* Combined with a Joint Meeting of
EOS and EPP Working Groups and the celebration of IGUS' 50th
anniversary.
** Combined with a Joint Meeting of EOS and EPP Working Groups.