Seven years have elapsed

Dear ECCO friends and readers, This is the last issue of the Journal of Crohn's and Colitis edited in this Editorial Office. In this short editorial comment we want to, first, thank you for all the confidence, help, support and ideas given to the Editorial Office during the first seven years of life of the JCC and second, to inform you about some of the data related to the evolution of the ECCO's scientific journal. Although time is an objective measure, we feel that these years have elapsed very quickly, probably because many good events have continuously taken place both in JCC and ECCO. JCC is a young journal. It was born when the second ECCO congress (the first in the current format) was organized in Innsbruck. Both events produced some uncertainty to the members of the Governing Board and those of the scientific and educational Committees of ECCO at that time, especially the decision of launching an official scientific ECCO journal. Many members of them were not convinced that there was room for a journal devoted to IBD … * Corresponding author at: Health Sciences Research Institute 'Germans Trias i Pujol' Foundation, 08916 Badalona, Spain. E-mail address: magassull{at}igtp.cat