The Executive Committee met in Beijing, China, in August 1993 before and during the General Assembly, in Chester, England, in June 1994 and in Lund, Sweden, in August 1995 at the time of the European Crystallographic Committee annual meeting. The Finance Committee met in March 1993, August 1993, March 1994, April 1995 and August 1995, to prepare its advice and recommendations on finances, establishment and staff matters.

The most important items of business dealt with by the Executive Committee during the triennium at these meetings, and in postal ballots between meetings, were:

• Editorial policy, pricing policy and subscription rates, approval of appointments of Co-editors, separate editorial boards for Sections A, B, C and D of Acta Crystallographica, electronic publishing, Special Issues, and other matters concerning the IUCr journals
• Appointment of new staff in the IUCr office in Chester.
• Upgrading of office technology in the IUCr office in Chester and expansion of this office; provision of an IUCr home page on the World-Wide Web.
• Publication of the new Section D of Acta Crystallographica.
• Publication of the new Journal of Synchrotron Radiation.
• Cooperation with databases, including relations between the IUCr and the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, between the IUCr and the International Centre for Diffraction Data and between the IUCr and the Gmelin Institut/Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe.
• The implementation of the Crystallographic Information File (CIF) for Acta Crystallographica papers and other uses of CIF, patent application and adoption of the STAR file and CIF by other bodies.
• Progress with Volumes B, C, D and E of International Tables for Crystallography and consideration of possible further volumes.
• Establishment of an international crystallographic newsletter, the IUCr Newsletter.
• Approval of publications, jointly with the Oxford University Press, in the IUCr/OUP Book Series.
• World Directory of Crystallographers.
• Approval of the audited accounts.
• The General Fund estimates and the level of the unit contribution.
• Investment policy.
• UK taxation considerations.
• Funding and uses of the Publications and Journals Development Fund and the Research and Education Fund.
• Consolidation of the Ewald Fund and appointment of the Selection Committee for the fourth Ewald Prize.
• Sponsorship of meetings and possible financial support for meetings.
• Young scientists' support to meetings.
• Free circulation of scientists.
• Report of the Sub-committee on the IUCr Statutes and By-Laws.
• Applications for membership of the IUCr.
• Approval of the membership of the Programme Committee for the Seattle Congress.
• Discussion of the arrangements for the Seattle General Assembly and Congress.
• Level of financial support for the Seattle Congress and its satellite meetings.
• Review of the activities of the Commissions.
• Proposals to establish new Commissions. Nominations for Officers of the IUCr and for Chairmen and members of Commissions, and proposals from the National Committees for these positions.

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