Prof. Stefano Beretta briefly outlined the long-term problem with the Technical Committee on Micromechanisms (TC2), ESIS. According to the decision of ESIS Officers the TC2 should be restored to become more active.  Prof. Pokluda, as a designated chairman of TC2, was asked to start the process within the frame of the symposium on Micromechanisms during the ECF 16. Therefore, the chairmen of this symposium, Prof. Pokluda and Prof. Pippan, decided to address some European scientists to take a part in a short meeting concerning that matter. The ESIS council in Alexandroupolis (Wednesday, July 5) should confirm the re-establishment of TC2 following the results of the first TC2 meeting.
Prof. Pokluda presented some suggestions concerning the future work of TC2. The members should meat at least once in a year at seminars devoted to micromechanisms in Fracture and Fatigue. The meetings should be organized by TC2 members in various European countries. All future ECF conferences are to be considered to be natural venues of TC2 meetings. Special issues of Int. J. Fract., Engng. Fract. Mechanics and Engng. Fail. Analysis could appear as proceedings of individual meetings. The first meeting should be related to the MSMF 5 conference in Brno, June 27.-29, 2007.

Prof. Kolednik emphasized that TC2 meetings should be devoted to limited special problems in the field of micromechanisms to achieve sufficiently rich and competent discussions. He expressed a willingness to organize the TC2 meeting in Leoben in spring 2008. Both suggestions were found to be very constructive and were accepted by all participants. According to Prof. Shaniavskiy, Moscow could host one of the next TC2 meetings as well (accepted with pleasure). Prof. Beretta confirmed the possibility to transfer as much as a half of financial resources coming from Elsewier (grants for production of special issues) to organizers of the TC2 meetings in order to support attendance of PhD students and young scientists.

The participants unanimously agreed with the following conclusions of the first TC2 meeting:
(i) The TC2 was successfully re-established (chairman Prof. J. Pokluda).
(ii) The next meetings of TC2 will be held in Brno (June 2007), Leoben (spring 2008) and again in Brno (ECF 17, September 2008). The organizers will attempt to produce special issues of IJF, EFM or EFA devoted to TC2 meetings.