The scientific program will feature invited keynote speakers, selected submitted lectures and poster presentations. Contributions are invited from all areas of thin-layer chromatography, but especially from colleagues working in the pharmaceutical, food, environmental and medical fields.

Papers on theory, method development, validation, instrumental methods, hyphenated techniques, and quantitative applications in all areas of chemistry would be most welcome.

Colleagues wishing to participate in the scientific program should submit a brief abstract to Mr. P. Bernard-Savary at :

Symposium 2003

L'Ancienne Eglise

F-38340 Pommiers-La-Placette

France

or info@hptlc.com

By Tuesday,15 th., July 2003 stating whether they wish to present an oral or poster paper. Abstract should be no more than 250 words and 2 pictures in a MS Word file (presentation in arial, 12, justified). The abstract should indicate the title, the authors names (with the presenting author underlined), affiliation (with e-mail address) and a brief description of the work to be presented. All submissions will be reviewed by the scientific organizing committee and authors informed of their decision by Thursday, 14 th. August.

All accepted papers will be published in the symposium proceedings booklet. Papers presented at the symposium will be also published after review, in a special issue of an analytical journal (which is not definitely fixed). Complete manuscripts must be delivered to the publishers' representative at the time of the symposium. Further details on the format for manuscripts will be obtained from the editorial office of this journal.