Council Meetings
The EMS Council met for its 56th Session on 5 & 6 March 2026 in Ingolstadt, Germany. The session was organised as a hybrid meeting. A summary highlighting important Council decisions is available here.
The minutes of this meeting are now available.
The 57th Session will take place as an oline event on 26 August 2026.
The EMS General Assembly 2025 convened in Ljubljana on 7 September 2025, ahead of the EMS Annual Meeting 2025; minutes of the GA are available from the General Assemblies page. The next General Assembly will take place on 6 September 2026 in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Invitations will be sent in early July 2026.
- EMS Rules of Procedure for Council Sessions [pdf] (last revised 2023)
- EMS Rules of Procedure for Council Sessions (link to website)
Past Council Meetings – minutes
- 56th Council Session, 5 & 6 March 2026, Ingolstadt, Germany (hybrid)
- 55th Council Session, 08 July 2025, online meeting
- 54th Council Session, 27 & 28 March 2025, Paris, France (hybrid)
- 53rd Council Session, 20 August 2024, online meeting
- 52nd Council Session, 26 & 27 March 2024, Reading, UK (hybrid)
- 51st Council Session, 29 August 2023, online meeting
- 50th Council Session, 28 & 29 March 2023, Wageningen, The Netherlands (hybrid)
- 49th Council Session, 3 September 2022, Bonn, Germany
- 48th Council Session, 29 & 30 March 2022, online meeting
- 47th Council Session, 26 August 2021, online meeting
- 46th Council Session, 22 & 23 March 2021, online meeting
- 45th Council Session, 3 February 2021, online meeting
- 44th Council Session, 3 September 2020, online meeting
- 43rd Council Session, 12 May 2020, online meeting
- 42nd Council Session, 24 March 2020, online meeting
- 41st Council Session, 8 September 2019, Lyngby, Denmark
- 40th Council Session, 27 & 28 March 2019, Lyngby, Denmark
- 39th Council Session, 2 September 2018, Budapest, Hungary
- 38th Council Session, 10 & 11 April 2018, Norrköping, Sweden
- 37th Council Session, 3 September 2017, Dublin, Ireland
- 36th Council Session, 16 & 17 March 2017, Paris, France
- 35th Council Session, 11 September 2016, Trieste, Italy
- 34th Council Session, 17 & 18 March 2016, Berlin, Germany
- 33rd Council Meeting, 6 September 2015, Sofia, Bulgaria
- 32nd Council Meeting, 5 & 6 March 2015, Lisbon, Portugal
- 31st Council Meeting, 5 October 2014, Prague, Czech Republic
- 30th Council Meeting, 13 & 14 March 2014, Göttingen, Germany
- 29th Council Meeting, 8 September 2013, Reading, UK
- 28th Council Meeting, 14 & 15 March 2013, Risø/Roskilde, Denmark
- 27th Council Meeting, 9 September 2012, Łódź, Poland
- 26th Council Meeting, 15 & 16 March 2012, Brussels, Belgium
- 25th Council Meeting, 11 September 2011, Berlin, Germany
- 24th Council Meeting, 17 & 18 March 2011, Bratislava, Slovakia
- 23rd Council Meeting, 12 September 2010, Zürich, Switzerland
- 22nd Council Meeting, 18 & 19 March 2010, Budapest, Hungary
- 21st Council Meeting, 27 September 2009, Toulouse, France
- 20th Council Meeting, 12 & 13 March 2009, Vienna, Austria
- 19th Council Meeting, 28 September 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 18th Council Meeting, 6 & 7 March 2008, Reading, UK
- 17th Council Meeting, 30 September 2007, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain
- 16th Council Meeting, 17 & 18 April 2007, Belgrade, Serbia
- 15th Council Meeting, 2 & 3 September 2006, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- 14th Council Meeting, 8 & 9 March 2006, Helsinki, Finland
- 13th Council Meeting, 11 September 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- 12th Council Meeting, 21 & 22 April 2005, Athens, Greece
- 11th Council Meeting, 26 September 2004, Nice, France
- 10th Council Meeting, 22 March 2004, Bucharest, Romania
- 9th Council Meeting, 17 September 2003, Rome, Italy
- 8th Council Meeting, 28 & 29 March 2003, Berlin, Germany
- 7th Council Meeting, 12 November 2002, Brussels, Belgium
- 6th Council Meeting, 26 & 27 April 2002, Paris, France
- 5th Council Meeting, 27 September 2001, Budapest, Hungary
- 4th Council Meeting, 16 & 17 March 2001, Prague, Czech Republic
- 3rd Council Meeting, 10 July 2000, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- 2nd Council Meeting, 3 March 2000, Vienna, Austria
- First Council Meeting, 14 September 1999, Norrköping, Sweden