The eleventh meeting (End of Phase) is planned to be held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina on 2-5 September 2008.
Click on background documents to find the material being prepared for the meeting.

The most recent meeting (tenth, Mid-Term of Phase VII) of the Steering Committee was held in Riga, Latvia, on 5-8 September 2006.
All presentations made at the meeting are available upon request from the ECPGR Secretariat.

Steering Committee

The Programme is overseen by a Steering Committee, consisting of the Coordinators of National Programmes of all participating countries. The European Commission (EC) has been invited to nominate a representative as full member of this Committee. Bioversity International, the EuroMAB Programme (Man and Biosphere) of UNESCO, the European Association for Research on Plant Breeding (EUCARPIA), the European Seed Association (ESA), FAO, NordGen (formerly the Nordic Gene Bank, NGB) and a Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) representative are invited as observers (see: Observers in the SC).
An organigram of the interaction of National Programmes with the Networks and the Steering Committee can be found [here].

The Steering Committee has the overall responsibility for the Programme. It makes decisions regarding the general scope of the Networks and the establishment or continuation of Working Groups and approves the Programme's budget. The Steering Committee periodically reviews the overall Programme and progress made by the Networks. On the basis of such reviews, the Steering Committee defines the priority activities to be funded through its core budget and the complementary activities for which additional funding has to be sought outside the core budget. The Steering Committee mandates the Coordinating Secretariat to carry out its decisions.