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A Royal Commission, from the Committee of Inquiry into the Engineering Profession, chaired by Sir Monty Finniston, was set up in 1977. It looked at the formation and registration of engineers, producing the 'Finniston Report - engineering our future' in 1980. From its recommendations, the Engineering Council was established in 1981, which eventually took over many of the funtions of the Council of Engineering Institiutions (CEI) - see IET/ACT/8. The Engineering Council gained a Royal Charter on 27 November 1981. This series of correspondence comes from the period between the publication of the Finniston report in 1980 and the award of the Royal Charter to the Engineering Council in late 1981. It is primarily concerned with the drafting of the charter for the Enginering Council and includes correspondence between the IEE, CEI, government and other engineering institutions.