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 2013

Council Cou 127: 5-6 Jun Cou 128: 4-5 Dec    
Committee of Council CC 82: 11-12 Mar CC 83: 9-10 Oct  
Finance Committee FC 135: 7-8 May FC 136: 6-7 Nov  
Scientific Technical Committee STC 80: 23-24 Apr STC 81: 22-23 Oct  
   European Science Advisory Committee    
   La Silla Paranal Committee    
Observing Programmes Committee OPC 92: 21-24 May OPC 93: 18-21 Nov
 
Users Committee UC 37: 25-26 Apr  

Council and Committee Meetings in 2012

Overview of Previous Meetings