Table 2

Geographical distribution of submissions

	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002
UK	320	303	265	326	348	323	325
Western Europe	264	236	242	230	268	345	298
Spain	42	45	44	37	38	46	50
The Netherlands	44	49	41	40	51	50	49
Italy	48	19	38	40	36	65	55
France	28	24	27	26	34	33	20
Turkey	14	22	20	17	27	36	27
Israel	17	15	10	13	8	16	12
Eire	8	7	5	2	5	2	12
Switzerland	13	9	5	5	9	18	9
Germany	26	23	20	29	31	37	43
Belgium	12	11	10	10	5	14	8
Greece	7	6	15	6	12	13	11
Austria	5	5	3	4	10	7	2
Portugal	0	0	2	0	0	0	0
Malta	0	0	2	1	1	0	0
Andorra	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
USA and Canada	71	84	76	81	87	68	74
Japan	53	64	46	54	56	69	74
Australasia	31	60	48	38	60	57	45
Scandinavia	32	39	36	38	41	49	41
Asia	26	26	35	30	39	26	41
Eastern Europe	10	3	6	4	9	16	2
South America	10	3	3	1	5	7	6
Africa	4	4	3	3	4	5	1
Middle East	5	9	5	7	5	8	9