Connected: Richard Brenner, Ulf Danielsson, Vincent Hedberg, Sten Hellman, Leif Lönnblad and Mark Pearce.

Apologies: Måns Henningson and Bo Sundborg.

§1

Formalities.

The agenda was approved by all present.

Mark Pearce and Sten Hellman were appointed secretary and ‘justerare’ for the meeting, respectively.

The minutes of the last meeting were approved by all present.

§2

ECFA Working Group on the Future of Particle Physics in Europe

The discussion centred around two main themes:

1. The choice of a Swedish candidate for the position of Nordic ECFA delegate

There was a long discussion after board members reported the views from their respective groups. It was generally felt that the candidate should be an experimentalist, be enthuiastic towards the task and be likely to be acceptable to Nordic colleagues. A shortlist of three candidates was drawn up in the following order of preference : Sven-Olof Holmgren, Torbjörn Sjöstrand and Torsten Åkesson. Sten was charged with working down the list until a willing candidate was found.

(b) How best to organise ourselves on a national level so opinions are fed to the ECFA delegate and feedback efficiently channeled back from the ECFA meetings.

It was agreed that this discussion should be postponed as it is difficult to define a strategy until the Nordic delegate is appointed and it becomes clear whether an ECFA discussion forum is set up as a matter of course between the ECFA delegates.

§3

Application the NFR for ACCU, (R)ECFA Travel Costs.

Sten asked for comments (by e-mail) on the draft of the funding application which he had circulated to the board members previously. No major comments were voiced about the contents of the application.

§4

A.O.B.

No points were raised.

§5

Next meeting.

The time of the next telephone meeting was fixed to Tuesday 13^th June, starting at 1000.