The practical execution of the resolution to found INTA was left to a work group led by M. Boscher (1922-2008), the initiator of the Paris congress. The secretariat was located temporarily in Boscher’s Paris Préfecture. The work group, which was primarily charged with drawing up the statutes, consisted of 13 members: three British, four French, three American, one Dutch and two representatives from the East Bloc: Hungarian and Polish. Apart from an architect and a scientist, they were primarily government officials and politicians, who were involved with the subject in their official capacity. Roel de Wit, *  Royal Commissioner in the province of Noord-Holland, represented the Netherlands. De Wit was the host at the first work group meeting, which was held on 12 February 1976 in Alkmaar. *  Between then and 29 January 1977 there were four more meetings: the third in Paris and the others in London. * 

The most important aim was setting up statutes. Apgar and the French and British delegations had handed in discussion papers beforehand. France and the UK turned out to fundamentally differ about the aim of the organization. France wanted an active research institute with its own research programme. The British wanted a much more modest information and documentation centre, wary as they were of French expansionism. Apgar played an important leading and mediating role. He had contacted related organizations: ULI (USA), the International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP, The Hague) and the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA, UK). He agreed with the British that an independent research institute was not only unfeasible but also undesirable: enough research was being carried out already. Contact and exchange of informationbetween members should be central. A core of active institutional professionals, the ‘voting members’, who also took care of the financing, would determine the intrinsic course. Apgar strongly resisted the suggested collaboration with IFHP with regard to content and administration, because the organization was far too cumbersome and bureaucratic, in his opinion. However, this problem went away of its own accord because IFHP decided to set up its own new towns programme in the course of 1976, jolted awake by the INTA initiative. *