EGF AGM - Held 20th July at Villach 2007 EGC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1) Opening ~~~~~~~~~~ Tony Atkins opened the meeting at 6:15 pm 2) Guest Speaker ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mrs Taki from the new World Pair Go Association gave a presentation on the history and development of Pair Go 3) Present ~~~~~~~~~~ Executive: Tony Atkins, John Gibson, Hans Kostka, Martin Stiassny, Oleg Gavrilov, Matti Siivola, Ales Cieply; Auditors: Peter Zandveld, Arnaud Knippel; Representatives from 32 countries were accorded voting rights 4) Agenda ~~~~~~~~~ The agenda was accepted with addition of an item reappointing IGF officials 5) Minutes ~~~~~~~~~~ The minutes of the previous year were accepted 6) New Members ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Five countries are still working on becoming members of EGF 7) Reports ~~~~~~~~~~ 7a The President's Report: Tony Atkins mentioned two important anniversaries; the 50th congress and his 30th year as a player. Also strong player's commission and Mind Game Olympics were discussed 7b The Secretary had started work in September and had little to report 7c The Treasurer reported on the state of our finances which are healthy but was disappointed with late payers. A number of ways of improving this were discussed. It was agreed interest should be charged on late payments 8) Auditors' Report ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Auditors reported that the accounts were OK. They were passed. They also felt that some countries did not pay their full fees 9) IGF ~~~~~~ Martin Stiassny's report mentioned the IMSA event in Beijing in October 2008. The KPMC dates were 9-16 October in Suwon with 70 countries expected. 10) Commission Reports ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ No written reports were received from any commissions. Rules reported their continuing activities. Youth events ran as normal. Ratings continued successfully 11) Elections ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ All the existing executive and Auditors were re-elected 12) Budget ~~~~~~~~~~ The budgets were presented for 2007/8 and 2008/9 13) Commissions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The proposal for a Strong Players' Commission (defined as 6 dan or stronger) was passed by 18 votes to 6 14) EGCs ~~~~~~~~ a Italy 2006: Good parties, no full financial feedback, equipment hard to get back, invites for visas slow resulting in some non-arrivals b Austria 2007: 70-80 visas organised, good pro programme, good scheme to cater for 47 Lithuanian players, lack of Chinese pros discussed (Simon Gemel negotiated but could not fix a deal in time, due to slow Chinese response) c Sweden 2008: 150 entries already for Leksand, website up, 450 beds booked locally d Netherlands 2009: Groningen is the venue. 250 beds booked in Congress centre, website up e Finland 2010: Venue city still to be decided f 2011: France (Nice) and Poland (Krakow) proposed. France won the vote 20-5 g Germany (75th anniversary) 2012, Cyprus & Luxemburg 2013 and Russia (Sochi) 2014, expressed interest in future Congresses 15) European Tournament Calendar ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ a EYGC 2009: Bosnia b Student 2008: France (Cannes) 2009: Poland (Krakow) proposed c Pairs 2009: Czechia (Prague or Brno) proposed d Ing 2009: EGCC e Women 2009: Provisionally Czechia with Pair go above f Teams 2008: France (Cannes) maybe with Student above Teams 2009: Romania proposed 16) Rules Changes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ a Proposal to accept EGF General Tournament rules passed 13-0 after 2 amendments b EGF System rules passed 7-1 f Swedish proposal withdrawn c,d,e Much discussion on these complex matters. It was agreed not to change anything this year 17) Team Captains ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ World Pair Go: NO CZ AT DE FI PL FR RU ES to play. Captain not decided WAGC: IGF Director selected 18) Member proposals ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ a Romania proposed a Promotion and Marketing Commission 19) AOB ~~~~~~~ a Czechia proposed that documentation be circulated earlier The meeting closed at 10:40 pm John Gibson Honorary Secretary