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2018 UPDATE: The ILL between 2005 and 2018
Sweden. Thus the CRG instruments provide a very significant part of ILL’s total beamtime and represent an important support for national scientific communities.
An important element of the CRG programme was the recognition that these instruments should be competitive at world-class
level; they were in no way “second-class” instruments. To help maintain this high level of scientific quality, all CRG instruments were reviewed regularly, as were the public instruments. The investment required to maintain world-class operation was the responsibility of the CRG partners while the ILL looked after the neutron delivery system (beam and guide tubes, etc).
11.4.2 Funding infrastructure
While the improvement programmes described above were financed from the ILL’s “normal” budget, with additional funding supplied by the Associates and Scientific Member countries, it was always difficult to find funds to cover necessary infrastructure projects; instrument and source developments were considered to have a higher priority.
A (partial) solution to this difficulty was identified when, in 2005, the ILL led a joint action (on behalf of the European institutes on the common site, ESRF, EMBL and ILL) to
be recognised as a partner by the French local authorities
when defining infrastructure policies. As a result, significant infrastructure projects (in particular, a new joint laboratory building and a new site entrance, but also new instrumentation),
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