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those adjacent (main building, and guide halls). The cost of this was estimated at €20M towards which the partners contributed an extra contribution of €9M. The remainder was from the normal operating budget of the ILL. This required making the additional economies, reducing the annual number of cycles to 3 (150 days) instead of 4 to 5.
Becoming mature there were some changes made to the statutes of the ILL. One change is that several countries have joined the three partners as scientific members which guarantees access to the instruments. These include Spain (1987, 4% participation), Switzerland (1988, 3%), Russia (1996-2005, 2.2%) and a central Europe consortium (1990, Austria and 1999, the Czech Republic) for 2%, and Italy (1997, 4%): in total about 15% of the operating budget in 2004. These countries each have a representative on
the Steering Committee as well as the Scientific Council. [2018 addition: The list of scientific members has been extended since 2005 with Sweden (2005), Belgium (2006), Hungary (2006- 2016), Poland (2006), Denmark (2009), Slovakia (2009) and India (2011-2014). In 2015, the 10 scientific members contributed 21% of the operating budget.]
In January 1996 the Forschungszentrum Jülich replaced GfK Karlsruhe as the German partner at ILL, as it was already at the ESRF. The main reason was that neutron scattering activities were more developed in Jülich, while diminishing at Karlsruhe. Again there was an advantage in having the same German partner at the neighbouring ESRF and ILL institutes.
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