On 1 December 2012, the Republic of Slovenia became ECMWF’s 20th Member State. This week, Slovenia was represented at the ECMWF Council session for the first time in its history.
As a Member State, Slovenia became a member of the pan-European partnership in numerical weather prediction at ECMWF. It has full voting rights at the Council, which is the top-level governing body of ECMWF. Also, a portion of the Centre’s supercomputer and data archive resources will be allocated to Slovenia for its own use and Slovenia will have access to all ECMWF products and tools.
The meeting of the ECMWF Council earlier this week provided a fitting occasion to raise the flag of the Republic of Slovenia at the Centre.
Francois Jacq, President of the ECMWF Council, said: "I am pleased to welcome the Republic of Slovenia as a new Member State and I am looking forward to working together with representatives from Slovenia in future."
Francois Jacq, Klemen Bergant
Klemen Bergant, Director of Slovenian Meteorological Office and Permanent Representative of Slovenia with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), said: "I would like to thank the ECMWF Council for having unanimously agreed on the accession of Slovenia to the ECMWF Convention. Being represented at this Council session for the first time is an important milestone for the Republic of Slovenia. Establishing closer links to European centres of excellence, such as ECMWF, is one of the key strategic goals of the government of the Republic of Slovenia."
(Alan Thorpe, Klemen Bergant, Jozef Roskar)
Alan Thorpe, Director-General of ECMWF, said: "I am proud that the Republic of Slovenia became ECMWF's twentieth Member State. The Centre will continue and even intensify the already existing close collaboration with our colleagues in Slovenia."