ACHIEVEMENTS IN REPORTING PERIOD:

Accumulated hours/observations/etc. in 2009-11 through 8 August 2011
(per year, columns = TNA eligible, then total EVN):

                              2009              2010             2011
   Nr. hours              598.5  923.5      747.5  999         377  483
   Nr. observations        66     94         85    113          40   58
   from Nr. proposals      38     56         47     65          29   43

The 2010 eligible and total hours continue the trend from 2009 in which
the demand well exceeds that from FP6 years, although 2011 seems to be
falling back to the trend circa 2008:

               2004    2005    2006    2007    2008   .   2009    2010    2011
   elig. hrs   338.0   253.5   368.0   492.0   489.5  .   598.5   747.5   337.0
   total hrs   667.5   646.0   541.5   670.5   746.0  .   923.5   999.0   483.0

where, at the time of writing this report, 2011 is essentially two-thirds of 
the way complete.  The growing maturation of the e-VLBI observing capabilities 
accounts for a large amount of the increase in EVN hours over the past couple 
years.  The contracted value per year in FP7 is 112, which we have easily met.

   There were 6 data-reduction visits in 2009 (3 to JIVE, 1 to each of IRA,
MPIfR, JBO) for a total of 46 days.  In 2010, there were 7 data-reduction 
visits (5 to JIVE, 1 to each of IRA, MPIfR), for a total of 51 days.  So far
in 2011, there have been 6 data-reduction visits (5 to JIVE, 1 to IRA),
for a total of 47 days.

   We now have 268.5 hours' worth of project summaries in from 2009 (from
15 proposals), 185.5 hours' worth from 2010 (12 proposals), and 46.5 hours'
worth from 2011 (4 proposals).  The total of 500.5 hours is well above the 
EVN TNA's number of reimbursable access hours of 336 for the whole programme.


PROBLEMS/ISSUES:  The issue of the distinction between EVN access hours
being accounted for as a "communal" good rather than individually by
each station has not come up recently, but may once institutes start
to fill out their form C's at the end of the programme.  I continue
to treat the EVN access-hour is something the network as a whole observes, 
which may not entail all stations in every observation because of various 
limitations (frequency, mutual sky-visibility,  PI network-design choice). 
If an observation appears on an EVN block-schedule of any kind, or runs 
as a target-of-opportunity observation, then EVN access hours accrue for 
eligible projects regardless of the explicit array composition per experiment.
However, the knife can cut both ways -- if attaining the scientific goals of 
an observation is prevented by a sub-set of stations, then the access hours
may be lost to the EVN as a whole.  In session 2/2011, we had such a case 
where the PI abandoned 2 cross-pol observations because Ef recorded RCP into 
both polarizations, removing 28 eligible access hours from the running total.


FORWARD LOOK:  The EVN TNA has easily made its contracted hours each
year.  Collection of further project summaries is expected (some new
data-reduction visits are being planned), although the current set of
project summaries already received is about 50% higher than the total
number of contracted access hours.