UV opportunities at ESO

After summarizing the UV capabilities available at the Paranal observatory, the perspectives for additional UV instruments are discussed. When considering that most likely the E-ELT will not be optimized for UV, and that HST operations will be soon discontinued, UV instruments at the VLT may represent the best capabilities for the ESO community for a few years. In particular the cases of spectroscopy close to the atmospheric cutoff and Blue diffraction limited imaging show a great scientific potential.