Seventeenth General Assembly and International Congress of Crystallography, Seattle, Washington, USA, 8-17 August 1996

• Introduction and Opening Ceremony
• Seventeenth International Congress

Minutes of the Seventeenth General Assembly

These Minutes have been prepared by M. H. Dacombe, Secretary, under the authority of S. Larsen, General Secretary and Treasurer of the IUCr and Secretary of the General Assembly. Words importing the male sex in these Minutes shall include the female sex.

• Introduction and list of delegates

First Session, Saturday 10 August 1996, 7.05 p.m. - 8.55 p.m.

• (1) Introductory remarks by the President
• (2) Procedural matters
• (3) Approval of agenda
• (4) Amendments to Statutes and By-Laws affecting adherence to the Union
• (5) Applications for membership of the Union
• (6) Changes in names of Adhering Bodies
• (7) Approval of Minutes of Sixteenth General Assembly
• (8) Amendments to Statutes and By-Laws not affecting adherence to the Union
• (9) Report of Executive Committee
• (10) Financial Report
• (11) Ewald Prize
• (12) Commission on Journals. Report by Chairmen and review of activities
• (13) Commission on International Tables. Report by Chairman and review of activities
• (14) Committee on Electronic Publishing, Dissemination and Storage of Information.
• (15) Non-publishing Commissions. Reports by Chairmen and review of activities
• (16) Proposals for new Commissions
• (17) Review of existing Commissions
• (18) Determination of number of elected members of each Commission
• (19) Proposal to change name of Commission on Small Molecules
• (20) Sponsorship of meetings: Sub-committee on the Union Calendar
• (21) IUCr/Oxford University Press Book Series

Second Session, Sunday 11 August 1996, 7.05 p.m. - 9.35 p.m.

• (22) Confirmation of date and place of Eighteenth General Assembly
• (23) Preliminary consideration of date and place of Nineteenth General Assembly
• (24) Reports of Representatives on Regional and Scientific Associates
• (25) Reports of Representatives on bodies not belonging to the Union

Third Session, Wednesday 14 August 1996, 7.05 p.m. - 9.30 p.m.

• (26) Amendments to Statutes and By-Laws not affecting adherence to the Union (continued)
• (27) Preliminary consideration of date and place of Nineteenth General Assembly (continued)
• (28) Determination of general policy and timetable for period to Eighteenth General Assembly
• (29) Preliminary consideration of activities for period 1999-2002
• (30) Budget estimates for period to Eighteenth General Assembly: determination of unit contribution
• (31) Confirmation of appointments of Editors of publications of the Union
• (32) Election of Chairmen and members of Commissions
• (33) Election of Representatives on bodies not belonging to the Union and on Regional and Scientific Associates
• (34) Election of Officers of the Union
• (35)Any other business

Closing Ceremony, Saturday 17 August 1996

Annex I: Appendices to the Agenda of the Seventeenth General Assembly

• (A) Report of the Executive Committee
  • Executive Committee and Finance Committee meetings
  • Publications
  • Sponsorship of meetings
  • Commissions of the IUCr
  • Regional Associates, Scientific Associates, and other bodies
  • IUCr staff
  • Acknowledgements
• (B) Financial Report. (Tables 1 to 13 of the financial report are printed in Acta Cryst. (1997). A53, xxx-xxx.
  • The Funds' Structure
  • General Financial Development
  • General Fund
  • President's Fund
  • The Journals Funds
  • Structure Reports
  • International Tables
  • The Book Fund
  • Publications and Journals Development Fund
  • Research and Education Fund
  • Ewald Fund
  • Newsletter Fund
• (C) Ewald Prize
• (D) Reports of Commissions of the Union
  • Commission on Journals
  • Commission on International Tables
    • Volume A. Space-Group Symmetry
    • Volume B. Reciprocal Space
    • Volume C. Mathematical, Physical and Chemical Tables
    • Volume D. Physical Properties of Crystals
    • Volume E. Subperiodic Symmetry Groups
    • Volume A1 (subsequently Volume H). Maximal Subgroups of Space and Plane Groups
    • New Volumes
  • Commission on Aperiodic Crystals
  • Commission on Biological Macromolecules
  • Commission on Charge, Spin and Momentum Densities
  • Commission on Crystal Growth and Characterization of Materials
  • Commission on Crystallographic Apparatus
  • Commission on Crystallographic Computing
  • Commission on Crystallographic Data
  • Commission on Crystallographic Nomenclature
  • Commission on Crystallographic Teaching
  • Commission on Electron Diffraction
  • Commission on Neutron Scattering
  • Commission on Powder Diffraction
  • Commission on Small Molecules
  • Commission on Synchrotron Radiation
• (E) Committee on Electronic Publishing, Dissemination and Storage of Information
• (F) Reports of Representatives on Regional and Scientific Associates
  • American Crystallographic Association (ACA)
  • Asian Crystallographic Association (AsCA)
  • European Crystallographic Committee (ECC)
  • International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD)
  • International Organization of Crystal Growth (IOCG)
• (G) Reports of Representatives on bodies not belonging to the Union
  • IUPAC Interdivisional Committee on Nomenclature and Symbols (IDCNS)
  • International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI)
  • International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU)
  • ICSU Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA)
  • ICSU Committee on Science and Technology in Developing Countries (COSTED)
  • ICSU Committee on Space Research (COSPAR)
  • ICSU Committee on Capacity Building in Science (CCBS)
• (H) Sponsorship of meetings: Sub-committee on the Union Calendar
• (I) IUCr/Oxford University Press Book Series
• (J) Budget estimates for period to Eighteenth General Assembly: determination of unit contribution

Annex II: Statutes and By-Laws of the International Union of Crystallography

See Acta Cryst. (1997). A53, 731-739. Current hypertext version

Annex III: Committees, Commissions and representatives on Regional and Scientific Associates and bodies not belonging to the Union

See Acta Cryst. (1997). A53, 740-744. Current hypertext version

Annex IV: Adhering Bodies and National Committees for Crystallography

See Acta Cryst. (1997). A53, 745-748. Current hypertext version

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