The European Union Control Association has among its objectives to promote the development of the discipline. Apart from the European Control Conferences the European Journal of Control is the Association's main channel for the dissemination of important contributions in the field. The aim of the journal is to publish high quality papers on the theory and practice of control and system engineering. The scope of the journal will be wide and cover all aspects of the discipline including methodologies techniques and applications. Research in control and systems engineering is necessary to develop new concepts and tools which enhance our understanding and improve our ability to design and implement high performance control systems. Submitted papers should stress the practical motivations and relevance of their results. The design and implementations of a successful control system requires the use of a range of techniques: -Modelling -Robustness Analysis -Identification -Optimisation -Control Law Design -Numerical Analysis -Fault Detection and so on. Papers dealing with the interplay between such techniques will be particularly welcome. Applications papers which emphasise methodology used implementations and commissioning issues are strongly encouraged. The journal will also publish tutorial expositions and state of the art reviews. Interested authors for this type of paper should first contact the Editor-in-Chief and submit an extended summary of approximately 2000 words. Papers from any country in the world are welcome. All submitted papers should be written in English.