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is at the front line of research, equivalent and sometimes superior to the parallel 

 U.S. institutions, both in respect to the scientific research and in respect to the 

 technological inventiveness of its engineers and instrument builders. 



A few years ago the Council approved an ambitious project of an electron- 

 storage ring for colliding electron beams up to lOOGeV. The length of the tunnel 

 containing the beams is 27 kilometres and the cost is about 400 Mill $. The first 

 phase will be ready in 19SS. This facility did not get separate funding. It will be 

 built within the present budget by cutting out other activities, such as the ISR. 

 There is no doubt that CERN will remain at the forefront of particle physics for 

 some time to come. 



Not all European High Energ>- Physics is done at CERN. In the last decade the 

 European countries have sharply reduced their facilities in order to fully support and 

 work at CERN. They have kept running only some minor activities. There is cue 

 important exception: West Germany. They built a major national facility in Ham- 

 burg, called DESY (German electron synchrotron). This institution grew steadily 

 by adding new facilities devoted to electron acceleration and colliding beams up 

 to 40GeV. It is nationally administered but many European and American groups 

 are using this facility with great success. It is generally considered as an excellent 

 laboratory. Recently construction of a very large proton-electron colliding facility 

 (HERA) was approved and is under construction at DESY. It will be the largest of 

 its tj'pe in the world. 



