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 2012

Council Cou 125: 11-12 Jun
 Cou 126: 4-5 Dec
Committee of Council CC 80:  6-7 Mar CC 81: 10-11 Oct  
Finance Committee FC 133: 8-9 May FC 134: 6-7 Nov
  
Scientific Technical Committee STC 78:  17 -18 Apr STC 79: 23-24 Oct
  
   European Science Advisory Committee ESAC: 16 April  
   E-ELT Science and Engineering Committee    
   La Silla Paranal Committee LSP: 16 April  
Observing Programmes Committee OPC 90: 21 - 25 May
 OPC 91: 19-23 Nov
  
Users Committee UC 36: 23-24 Apr  

Council and Committee Meetings in 2011

Council Cou 121: 2 Mar
 Cou 122: 7- 8 Jun
 Cou 123: 6 Oct Cou-124: 7-8 Dec
Committee of Council CC 78:  1 - 2 Mar CC 79: 5 - 6 Oct  
Finance Committee FC 130: 3 - 4 May FC 131: 27 Sep
 FC 132: 8 - 9 Nov
Scientific Technical Committee STC 75:  12 -14 Apr STC 76: 23 Sep
 STC 77: 18 - 19 Oct
   European Science Advisory Committee ESAC: 11 April ESAC: 22 September
   E-ELT Science and Engineering Committee ESE: 22-23 March
 ESE: 22 September
   La Silla Paranal Committee LSP: 8 April LSP: 11 October
Observing Programmes Committee OPC 88: 23 - 27 May
 OPC 89: 21 - 25 Nov
  
Users Committee UC 35: 14 - 15 Apr  

Overview of Previous Meetings

Council Cou105, Cou 107, Cou108, Cou 109, Cou 110, Cou 111, Cou112, Cou 113, Cou114, Cou 115, Cou 116, Cou117, cou-118, Cou 119, Cou 120
Committee of Council  
Finance Committee FC 119, FC 120, FC121, FC 122, FC 123, FC 124, FC 125th, fc-126, fc-127th, FC 128th, FC 129
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, STC 70, STC 71, STC 72, STC 73, STC 74
Observing Programmes Committee OPC 74, OPC 75, OPC 76, OPC 77, OPC 78, OPC 79, OPC 80, OPC 81, OPC 82, OPC 83, OPC 84, OPC 85, OPC 86, OPC 87
Users Committee UC 26, UC27, UC 28, UC29, UC 30, UC31, UC32, UC 33, UC 34