STRUCTURE AND PARTICIPANTS

Organisation

The implementation of a COST Action is supervised and coordinated by a Management Committee (MC). The MC is composed of no more than two representatives of each signatory country. National delegates are representatives of their country, not of their institution.

The Science Officer at COST Secretariat is Ms. Melae Langbein.

The Steering Committee consists of the Management Committee chairperson (Prof. Erkki Tomppo) and Vice-Chairperson (Dr. Klemens Schadauer) together with the Workgroup leaders and deputy leaders (Dr. Emil Cienciala, Prof. Gherardo Chirici, Dr. Adrian Lanz, Prof. Göran Ståhl, Dr. Claude Vidal, Dr. Susanne Winter).

Three Workgroups have been established to work on different aspects of the action.

Signatories and date of signature (intention):

Country	Date
Austria	15/06/2004
Belgium	24/09/2004
Croatia	10/12/2004
Cyprus	11/06/2004
Czech Republic	07/07/2004
Denmark	10/06/2004
Estonia	10/06/2004
Finland	10/06/2004
France	10/06/2004
Germany	22/06/2004
Greece	27/06/2004
Hungary	07/07/2004
Iceland	09/11/2004
Ireland	28/06/2004
Italy	15/06/2004
Latvia	07/07/2004
Lithuania	29/07/2004
Netherlands	10/06/2004
Norway	03/09/2004
Portugal	05/10/2005
Romania	11/06/2004
Slovakia	28/07/2004
Slovenia	26/08/2004
Spain	13/07/2004
Sweden	22/05/2004
Switzerland	24/08/2004
United Kingdom	10/06/2004

Participating institutions from Non-COST countries:

Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability.
Scion, New Zealand Forest Research Institute, New Zealand.
USDA Forest Service, Forest Inventory and Analysis National Program (FIA), USA.