Council Meetings

The 53rd Council Session convened online on 20 August 2024; minutes will become available shortly.
The next Council Session will be held in Paris in late March/early April 2025.

• 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

• 52nd Council Session, 26 & 27 March 2024, Reading, UK
• 51st Council Session, 29 August 2023, virtual 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, virtual meeting
• 47th Council Session, 26 August 2021, virtual meeting
• 46th Council Session, 22&23 March 2021, virtual meeting
• 45th Council Session, 3 February 2021, virtual meeting
• 44th Council Session, 3 September 2020, virtual meeting
• 43rd Council Session, 12 May 2020, virtual meeting
• 42nd Council Session, 24 March 2020, virtual 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