Open, except contract series closed for 40 years since the creation of the file.

Gherardo, Bonini

ESA fonds contains basically minutes and correspondence files emanating from the various ESA bodies and departments, plus from an increasing number - during the years - of short-living bodies born for occasional projects.

65 linear metres

English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish

The ESA Headquarters in Paris stored the files arranged by topics and according a related filing system.

ESA Headquarters and ESTEC

Since 1995 onwards, an intermediate work of description and arrangement by serie made by ESA Headquarters run before all the shipments.

"Blue papers" are transferred annually from ESTEC (Noordwijk), instead regarding other files ESA headquarters has to ship when it considers particular series as "terminated".

"Blue papers" are sequentially arranged, instead regarding other files the Historical Archives evaluates the files in homogeneous folders.

Bulletins, annual reports.

See ESRO fonds

The fonds was deposited in the Historical Archives under the terms of a "contrat de dépôt" signed on 12 May 1989.