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Report of IUPAC Activities 1998
1998 was an active year for IUPAC. The major events were the adoption of a Strategic Plan and the approval by the Bureau at its meeting in September of the recommendations from the Executive Committee regarding the reorganization of the Union's scientific work. This will change the management of the Union's scientific work from one based on permanent commissions to one based on projects. Details can be found on the IUPAC Web Site, http://www.iupac.org/. The Union's regular activities continued with the publication of 23 recommendations and reports in its official journal, Pure and Applied Chemistry, sponsorship of 27 Symposia and Conferences in 1998, publication of 6 books, and the publication of six issues of the Union's news magazine,Chemistry International. High lights are noted below.
- IUPAC adopted a Strategic Plan.
- The Strategy Development and Implementation Committee issued a report on the future management of the Union's scientific work.
- A joint meeting was held with the African Association of Pure and Applied Chemistry in Durban, South Africa. The report of this meeting was printed and distributed by IUPAC to interested parties.
- A report on Chemistry in Africa was written under IUPAC-UNESCO sponsorship, and printed and distributed by IUPAC.
- A special issue of Pure and Applied Chemistry was produced on the topic of Environmental Oestrogens.
- CHEMRAWN IX was held on 15 - 20 March 1998 in Montevideo, Uruguay. The subject of the conference was "Latin American Symposium on Environmental Analytical Chemistry".
- A Workshop on Environmental Analytical Chemistry was held in conjunction with CHEMRAWN IX. The Workshop was organized by the IOCD and partly funded by an ICSU grant to IUPAC. (see IOCD update, March 98 or IOCD Annual Report, Chem. Int. 20(4), 1998, News section)
- The IUPAC web site was greatly expanded. The web site not only contains all the material in the IUPAC Handbook but also a list and description of the current projects being worked on by IUPAC Commissions and Committees, current contact information for members of IUPAC bodies, a complete list of IUPAC publications, title pages of recent issues of Pure and Applied Chemistry and the complete text of recent issues of Chemistry International.
- Mailing lists have been set up to allow communication by e-mail with members of IUPAC bodies, National Adhering Organizations and other groups affiliated with IUPAC.
- Twenty-three reports and recommendations were published in Pure and Applied Chemistry.
- Twenty-seven Sponsored Symposia and Conferences were held in 1998.
- New editions of the Compendium of Chemical Terminology and theCompendium of the Terminology of Analytical Chemistry were published.
- Six books were published in 1998.
- The proceedings of 16 IUPAC sponsored symposia and conferences were published in Pure and Applied Chemistry.
- The proceedings of six symposia were published inMacromolecular Chemistry and Physics.
- A project approval process was developed and approved and is being implemented in 1999.
- Chemistry International continues to be supplied at no charge to 395 chemists in 21 developing countries. View list of countries participating in this program.
- IUPAC added three new National Adhering Organizations in 1998: the Chemical Society of Pakistan, the Colegio de Químicos de Puerto Rico and the Union of Yugoslav Chemical Societies.
- IUPAC added two new Observer organizations in 1998: theSociedad Cubana de Quimica and the Pancyprian Union of Chemists.
John W. Jost
IUPAC Excecutive Director
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A 4-page annex with the lists of published recommendations and reports, sponsored conferences and published conference proceedings is attached to this report.