Agreement between
the Institute of Physics and the Polish Physical Society
for the Polish Physical Society to become a Companion Society
of the Institute of Physics

To enhance scientific relations and improve communications between physicists in Poland and in Britain and Ireland and to extend benefits of membership of the Institute of Physics to members of the Polish Physical Society, the Institute of Physics and the Polish Physical Society hereby agree that the Polish Physical Society shall become a Companion Society of the Institute of Physics.

To this effect:
a) All members of the Polish Physical Society may attend Institute of Physics conferences at Institute member rates.
b) All members of the Polish Physical Society may have access to the Institute of Physics' London headquarters during normal office hours, including access to the Members' Room and Library and facilities available within them.
c) Members of the Polish Physical Society who pay an Affiliation Fee will also:
i. receive copies of the Institute of Physics' membership magazine Physics World;
ii. have access to any three of the Institute of Physics' electronic journals for their own personal use, with the same number of permitted downloads as allowed for Institute members (currently restricted to six full-text downloads per month from the current year's electronic journals);
iii. be able to purchase books published by the Institute of Physics at Institute member rates.

The Affiliation Fees will be collected by the Polish Physical Society and sent to the Institute of Physics together with the names, addresses and email addresses of those that have paid the Affiliation Fee. The Affiliation Fee is set at an introductory rate of £10 per person per year in 2002, but will be £15 per person per year from 2003 to 2005 inclusive, after which it may be revised by the Institute of Physics. The Institute of Physics will notify the Polish Physical Society of any change in the Affiliation Fee at least 12 months in advance of the implementation of the change.

This agreement shall come into immediate effect on signature by both the President of the Institute of Physics and the President of the Polish Physical Society and shall remain in force until either the Institute of Physics or the Polish Physical Society gives 12 months written notice of termination or a wish to renegotiate the agreement.

This agreement does not change the cooperation agreement between the Institute of Physics and the Polish Physical Society, which came into force on 1 January 1995 and remains in force until 12 months notice by either the Institute of Physics or the Polish Physical Society. Neither does it affect the arrangements which have been made by the Institute of Physics to provide Fellowship of the Institute free to 20 eminent Polish physicists and to provide £2000 per year for Polish physicists to visit Britain or Ireland, and which remain in force until 31 December 2004.

Signed for the Institute of Physics       Sir Peter Williams President, Institute of Physics Date: March 9, 2002

Signed for the Polish Physical Society       Professor Maciej Kolwas President, Polish Physical Society Date: February 26, 2002

Peter Williams has received the logo of PPS from Maciej Kolwas