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RefNo	CMB/113/5/20
Level	File
Title	Minutes of a meeting of the British National Committee for Geology: Geology in Spain
Date	14 November 1983
Description	Present: Mr F W Dunning, Acting Chairman; Senor J A Comba; Professor D L Dineley In attendance: Dr P T Warren; Mr C R Argent 1. After the Deputy Executive Secretary had welcombed Snr Comba, representing the Comision Nacional de Geologia de Espana (CNG), to the UK and to the Royal Society, Mr dunning summarized the current stte of the negotiations between the CNG and the Royal Society explaining that the proposed Hispano-British (Anglo-Spanish) Working Party was likely to be the best possible and probably the only feasible framework for enhancing collaboration and ensuring communication between geologists in the two countries. He indicted that the Royal Society was prepared to give the proposed working party its official backing but could not act as the primary agency for communication, which role could best be effected by the geological societies in the UK, particularly the Geological Society of London, the Institution of Geologists, the Committee of Heads of University Geology Departments (CHUGD) and its poytechnic equivalent. Snr Comba welcomed the proposal which would match arrangements already made by the CNG with France, Geremany and the Netherlands (the latter through the Royl Netherlands Academy of Science and Letters). 2. Snr Comba reported that the outline of the proposed mechanism, namely that of Anglo-Spanish Working Party with about four members from each side, meeting annually, alternately in Spain and the UK, would have to be submitted to the CNG for approval at its Plenary Meeting on 2 December 1983; likewise, the Deputy Executive Secretary advised that approval for the proposal would be required from Council of the Royal Society and could be sought at its next meeting on 30 November 1983. Snr Comba hoped that, given the approval of the Royal Society, the CNG could be qdvised before 2 December of the names proposed for the British side of the joint Working Party, and undertook to reciprocate with the names of the Spanish representatives shortly thereafter, with a view to an earlty meeting of the Joint Working Party. 3. It was agreed that: a. The stnding agenda for the annual meeting of the Working Party would be the list of 12 points enumeratied int he Deputy Executive Secretary's letter to Snr Comba of 21 September 1983 [NGL/52 (83)]; b. Foll9owing approval by both sides of the proposed mechanism, notice of the arrangement coulc be disseminated widely throughout the UK through the Newsletter of the Geological Society for London and through CHUGD (as well as by the Royal Society to all those who had participated iin the 1982 consultative meeting on 10 November 1982, and through its Newsletter); c. The initial meeting be held in Madrid in Februry 1984, when UK members of the Joint Working Party cold take the opportunity to visit Spanish geologists in and around Madrid; d. Professor D L Dineley (Bristol) be appointed a member of the Working Party as convenor of the UK side and as the focus for communication between institutions and individuals in theUK and Spain. 4. Given the accord ont he optimal procedure for rationalizing relations between Spain and the Uk in the conduct of geological reserch in the two countries, a protocol [annexed] on geological collaboration between the United KIngdom and Spain was duly signed by Snr Comba on behalf of the Comision Nacional de Geologia, and the Deputy Executive Secretary on behalf of the Royal Society.
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Format	Typescript
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