Chair Report

This task was accomplished by Poland – A. Glowacka, E. Aszewska and M. Paradowski.
By end of July 2002, the questionnaires were completed and sent to the members of the
Cost Action 722, in accordance with the 2 nd MC meeting decision taken in Barcelona.
The questionnaire will be placed on the Web site.
3.4 Task 4. Processing and compilation of results of Questionnaire for Customers.
This task was accomplished by France - Michele Champagne and by end of October 2002
the results were available, as planned. A total of 24 questionnaires were processed and
the results of the analysis were presented by Ms Champagne. The results will be put on
the Web site, also.
3.5 Task 5 Formulation of Questionnaire for Forecasters and dissemination to
countries.
The task was undertaken by Finland – J. Julkunen and J.Kotro. By end of July 2002 the
questionnaires were completed and sent to the members of the Cost Action 722, in
accordance with the 2 nd MC meeting decision taken in Barcelona. The questionnaire will
be placed on the Web site.
3.6 Processing and compilation of results of Questionnaire for Forecasters.
This task was accomplished by Switzerland – U. Sutter and by end of October 2002 the
results were available, as planned. A total of 102 questionnaires were processed and the
results of the analysis were presented by Mr Sutter. The results will be put on the Web
site, also.
Closing the session on the 13/11/2002, the Chairman of the Working Group has stressed
his impression that the working group members functioned in a highly professional
manner and the prompt accomplishment of all the tasks was the result of the individual
members’ efforts but also of the entire group’s collaborative hard work.
The countries which responded to the questionnaires are tabulated in Appendix 1.
4. Meeting on 14/11/2002
4.1 Draft of the Recommendations
The results from the two questionnaires were evaluated during the meeting on
14/11/2002. Ms Champagne and Mr Sutter led the discussion on their respective findings.
The members discussed the findings and finalized their recommendations on the
Forecasters’ and on the Customers’ requirements. The recommendations are shown
separately in Appendices 2 and 3, respectively.
4.2 Web site issues
A number of issues with regard to the WGii contribution to the Web site were raised by
Mr Michaelides and discussed in detail. Because the working group realized that
technical advice was needed on this issue, the group invited Mr J.Bendix to help the
members in getting a more clear idea on this matter.
4.3 Future work - Assignment of tasks
With regard to future work for the WGii members, the plan agreed was largely based on
the forthcoming Workshop to be held in Leipzig in June 2003. It was decided to present 5
papers to the Workshop. Also, it was decided that the view on Forecasters’ and
Customers’ requirements should be supplemented by a survey of any existing literature