IEA, ETDE Executive Committee

The common database ETDE World Energy Base is available at www.etde.org/etdeweb. ETDEWEB is free of charge for Danish users. The tasks of the executive committee also include planning of the common marketing activities. The decisions of the executive committee are binding for the member countries and the Operating Agent (US Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information). In 1999 Ms. Birgit Pedersen was elected as vice chair of the committee. In 2002 the executive committee meeting is held in Mexico and the technical working group meeting in the US. Danish participation in the ETDE cooperation is essential for two reasons: 1) For Denmark it is important that information about Danish research results is made available internationally. Electronic information systems are one of the instruments for distributing information about Danish energy research and ETDE World Energy Base has the best coverage of citations to energy literature. 2) The ETDE agreement is essential to secure the access of Danish research institutions and Danish industry to international research results through the ETDE World Energy Base. Without the agreement Denmark would not have access to the database