European Optics Prize 1999 awarded by EOS The European Optical Society awarded its prestigious EOS Prize, on the occasion of the EOS General Meeting on June 7, 2000 in Uppsala, Sweden. The winner was selected by the EOS Prize committee, consisting of Prof. M. Hutley (UK), S. Huard (F) and H.A. Ferwerda (NL), based on the selection criteria of high professionality, academic and technical quality. Following the EOS Prize rules, the conditions for eligibility are that the work was performed in Europe and that it is published under the auspices of the EOS.   The winner of the European Optics Prize 1999 is the research group consisting of Jes Broengi, Thomas Sondergaard, Stig E Barkou, Pablo M Barbeito and Andres Bjarklev from the Center for Communications, Optics and Materials (COM) of the Technical University of Denmark at Lingby for their joint paper "Waveguidance by the photonic bandgap effect in optical fibres", published in the Journal of the European Optical Society, Part A Pure and Applied Optics number 4, July 1999, a Special issue on electromagnetic optics based on selected papers presented at the EOS Topical Meeting on Electromagnetic Optics, held in Hyères, France, 7-9 September 1998. The representative of EOS, Mike Hutley had the great pleasure to welcome Andres Bjarklev, who accepted the prize on behalf of all the co-authors. In the name of his colleagues, Andres Bjarklev gave the audience an excellent review of the work done in this collaboration. The EOS Prize 1999 consists of a sum of 1000 ECU and the following certificate: The EUROPEAN OPTICAL SOCIETY presents the EUROPEAN OPTICS PRIZE 1999 to Jes Broeng, Thomas Sondergaard, Stig E Barkou, Pablo M Barbeito and Anders Bjarklev, Center for Communications, Optics and Materials (COM) Techincal University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark for their outstanding contribution on "Waveguidance by the photonic bandgap effect in optical fibres" published in the JEOS Part A, Pure and Applied Optics 1999   Delivered at Uppsala, June 2000   M. Papuchon                                                     M. Hutley        The EOS president                                        The EOS Past President