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<div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The 44th ESO Users Committee meeting has just ended last night. We are still working on our recommendations, but I will send an update
in due time (recommendations usually become public around August). In the meantime, the committee drafted the following email to communicate to our community of users.</span></div>
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<div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Dear ESO User,</span></div>
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<div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The
ESO Users Committee is well aware of how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting us all. We would like to remind all users that, according to the ESO rules (as stated in the Call for Proposals P106, page 31):</span></div>
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The extension of the proprietary period or restrictions to the access to header information, may be granted in special cases. The corresponding requests have to be justified in detail and submitted to the Director General of ESO for approval.”</span></div>
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<div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If
the current pandemic is indeed jeopardising your ability to complete your data reduction/data analysis you may contact ESO Users Support Department "<a href="mailto:usd-help@eso.org" class="">usd-help@eso.org</a>” well before the end of your data’s proprietary
period stating your circumstances and the reasons for requesting an extension. </span></div>
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that users may also request extensions to the proprietary time for other reasons such as maternity leave or long-term illness. </span></div>
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<div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Clear
skies!</span></div>
<div class=""><span class="">Caroline Foster</span></div>
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behalf of the ESO User’s Committee.</span></div>
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Dr Caroline Foster<br class="">
ASTRO3D Fellow & ESO Users Committee Representative</div>
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