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11.THE IUVSTA NEWS BULLETIN

The Union has published a News Bulletin since January 1965.

Its primary purpose is to inform its readers of the activities

of the IUVSTA and to publicise meetings held throughout the

world on vacuum and its applications. The Bulletin is in the

form of a non-commercial newsletter.It contains reports of

the Executive Council meetings and the General Meetings.

It often contains news articles about the National Vacuum

Societies that make up the Union membership. An article

entitled the “President’s Message” is frequently included in

which the President keeps the membership informed about

important Union matters and invites comments concerning

critical decisions to be made by the EC.

IUVSTA NEWS BULLETIN

Number:176 May 2017

Union InternationalePourLaScience,LaTechnique etLesApplicationsduVide

InternationalUnion forVacuumScience,Technique andApplications

InternationaleUnion fürVakuumForschung,TechnikundAnwendung

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The SecretaryGeneral reportedon the statusofnegotiationswith tentativenewmember societies.AtGM19 twonew 

member societieswereadmitted to theUnionunanimously:TheBulgarianUnionofPhysicistsand theVacuumSociety 

of the Philippines. Both newmembers arewilling to contribute 1 share to the finances of the Union. The emerging 

SocietiesCommittee iskeeping trackonpotentialnewmembers,among themTurkeyandRomania.At this timenonew 

developmentsare known.  

Concerning futureECMs itwasclarified thatatECM125nocall forbids for futureExecutiveCouncilMeetingswas issued. 

A tentative schedulewithoptimummeetingdates forECM's127–129was sent to thedelegates recently.This schedule 

adapts to the relativelyearly IVC21, July1

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 –5

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,2019 inMalmö, Sweden.Before the conferenceECM130willbeheld 

form June28

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,2019.Bids forECM127and128willbe solicitedatECM126,Sept.29

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 in Sofia,Bulgaria. 

Presentsexchangebetween the IUVSTAPresidentandthehosts

Midnight torchwalk in the forest 

Following the Secretary General's report the Treasurer presented the validated budget for 2016 and the proposed 

budget for2017.After thispresentationandabriefdiscussionof the financialdata,ECM125wasadjournedand the4

th

AnnualGeneralMeetingof theUnion (AGM4)wasopened.Within thismeetingbothbudget itemswereunanimously 

approved by the present delegations. Thereafter ECM 125was resumed and itwas generally agreed that this form of 

holding theAnnualGeneralMeetingwasmuchmoreefficient thathaving itafterECM.  

In the followingcommittee reports theworkof theprecedingcommitteemeetingswas recaptured.An importantaction 

was taken during the report of PublicationsCommittee: The chair of this committee, Ivan Petrov proposed to rename 

the Committee to "Communications Committee" because this namewould better reflect themain futurework of the 

committee. The President agreed to this proposal and suggested this name change to ECM which unanimously 

approved. 

N!B! The ECM126web-site is open for registration:

http://www.veit.dir.bg/iuvista/iuvista_ecm.htm

Traditionally, the Bulletin has been distributed

to members of the EC and to key personnel

in the national vacuum organisations. A limited

quantity was sent to the National Vacuum

Societies of IUVSTA for local distribution to

their officers and members. Since 1997, it has

been published in an electronic format and

appears on the IUVSTA website.

The first 33 issues of the News Bulletin were

published on a bimonthly basis, during a seven

year period, by E. Thomas, Secretary General,

from the Secretariat office in Brussels. In

1972, when the Secretariat was transferred to

London, N. A. Walter assumed editorship of the

Bulletin and it was published there. In 1974, it

was proposed that advertising be introduced in

the Bulletin to provide a source of income that

could be used to improve its appearance and

content, and that it be distributed to all members

of the national societies. This suggestion never

came to fruition.