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official status so far. Experience of the last 20 years has proved the
importance of the international organisation and besides this, the
necessity of intensifying the activity in the field of scientific develop
ment. Each congress shows the necessity of better preparation of dis
cussions, continuous activity between the congresses etc.
Experience, however, has also proved how difficult it is to realize
these aims. Members of the working group in general and representa
tives from those countries who signed the convention in particular
felt that in this respect an official organisation can to a very large
extent support the activities of the ISP. Therefore any idea about
duplication of work or competition between the newly created EOEPR
is completely wrong and the Statutes of the new organisation require
a close collaboration with the ISP. All communications and scientific
reports will, therefore, be published in ,,Photogrammetria" this being
the official organ of the ISP. As first document we publish the Stat
utes of the EOEPR and in the next issue a report about the meeting of
12 and 13 October held in Paris will appear, including a communica
tion about its scientific program composed by the scientific committees.
So far the convention has been signed on 12th October 1953 by
representatives of the governments of Austria, Belgium, Germany,
Italy and the Netherlands. With some other countries, with which
collaboration is highly desirable, discussions are going on. The Steering
Committee which consists of 2 representatives of each member country,
elected Col. Panier, Director of the Belgian Institut Géographique
Militaire, as its President for a period expiring 1955. The Executive
Committee is composed as followsW. Schermerhorn, R. Verlaine,
A. J. van der Weele.
Mr. R. Verlaine, Section 'Cartographique et Cadastre du Ministère
des Colonies, 40, rue de Washington, bruxelles, has been appointed
Secretary-General of the Organisation. In accordance with art. 6 of
the Steering Committee it has been decided to establish the Head
quarters of the Organisation in Delft in close connection with the
International Training Centre for Aerial Survey, Kanaalweg 3, deli-t.
Agreement concerning the formation of a European Organisation
for Experimental Photogrammetric Research.
The undersigned Representatives of the Governments of the Federal
Republic of Germany, of the Kingdom of Belgium, of the Republic
of Italy, and of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, duly authorised
to that affect;
Desirous of co-operating with one another in the development and
improvement of experimental photogrammetric methods, in view of
the Recommendation of the Council of the Organisation for European
Economic Co-operation of 23th July, 1952
HAVE AGREED as follows
Article 1 Organisation.
The Contracting Parties hereby establish a European Organisation
