| Congress IFF Congress 24.05 2002 Place:
Hartwall Areena, Helsinki, Finland Participants:
According to enclosure
1.
Mr. Tomas Eriksson stated in particular the fact that the Assembly of GAISF in October 2000 granted floorball provisional membership of the General Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF). During the period from the last IFF Congress in Oslo in Norway the IFF has worked with strengthening the IFF administration and the plans, e.g. in order to ask for organisers of IFF events and appointing them four years in advance. The objective is not yet meet but is well on its way. Good planning will enable IFF to speed up the Education and Development work. Present Associations were approved according to enclosure 1. 2/3 majority is six votes. § 2
Election of Chairman of the Congress Tomas Eriksson
was elected as chairman of the Congress. § 3
Approval of the Agenda § 4
Election of Secretary of the Congress Stefan Kratz
was elected secretary of the Congress. § 5
Election of two person for counting of votes §
6 Approval of the protocol
of the last Congress in the case of article 34.2 and 34.3 §
7 Approval of the CB
reports (enclosure
2) The Congress decided
to approve the Annual Report for 2000-2002. §
8 Approval of the
financial report and the auditors report
(enclosure 3-8) Mikael Brandstam presented the Auditors report for 2000. The Congress
decided to approve the Financial report
for 2000
(enclosure 3-5). b)
2001 Mikael Brandstam presented the Auditors report for 2001. The Congress decided
to approve the Financial report for
2001
(enclosure 6-8). §
9 Decision on freedom of
responsibility for the CB The
Congress decided to grant the Central
Board freedom of
responsibility for 2000 and 2001. It was noted that that none were against. §
10 Decision on membership fee NEFUB has handed in a motion that the club-based fee for the first 100 Clubs should be raised to 30 CHF instead of a raise of the basic fee. 4 associations were in favour and 4 associations were against the CB proposal. 4 in favour 2 against NEFUB proposal. The Congress
decided not to change the membership fee. §
11 Approval of the budget and
working plan for the next two years
(enclosure 9-10) Mr. Peltola, Danish Floorball Federation, stated the Danish point-of-view of how to get more organizers etc. The Congress decided
to approve the Plan of Action for
2002-2004
(enclosure 9), taking into account the
point-of-view from Mr. Peltola. b)
Budget 2003-2004 The Congress decided
to approve the Budget for 2003-2004
(enclosure 10) according to the proposal, with
the correction concerning the income from membership fees (to CB to
carry out). §
12 Elections
(enclosure 11) The Congress decided,
unanimously, to elect Tomas Eriksson as IFF President for two years. b)
Six to nine CB members for two years The Congress decided,
unanimously, to elect eight CB members for two years as follows: Thomas Gilardi, Switzerland
(re-election) c)
Chairman and two members of the Disciplinary Committee Furthermore the Congress decided to put forward to the Central Board to ask for further nominations and to appoint an additional member and two substitutes of the Committee. d)
Chairman and two members of the Appeal Committee Furthermore the Congress decided to put forward to the Central Board to ask for further nominations and to appoint two substitutes of the Committee. § 13 Appointment
of a chartered auditor The Congress decided
to elect Mikael Brandstam as auditor of IFF for two years. §
14 Examinations and decisions on
proposals and motions of the members
(enclosure 12) The IFF CB has decided to be in favour of the proposal. The Congress decided,
unanimously, according to the proposal 2) SUHV has proposed to the Congress to decide all member associations may participate at the election of the members of the Central Board and the Disciplinary Bodies and the voting of all other business according to the statutes at the General Assembly (whether they are full members or provisional members) The IFF CB has decided to be against the proposal
since this would counteract to the general idea of urging provisional
members to become ordinary members. The Swiss FA was in favour of the CB´s standpoint. The Congress decided
to reject the proposal. § 15 Examinations and decisions on proposals from the CB (enclosure 13) 1)
Proposed
Vision of IFF “To become the true efficient governing body of an internationally recognised sport, played on five continents with over 50 members before year 2012 and have participated in one or more international multi-sport events (IWGA - World Games, FISU - Universiade). To be recognised by the IOC before the year 2006 and to be an Olympic sport before year 2020.” The Congress decided
according to the proposal and set the IFF Vision. 2)
Proposed changes of statutes for IFF a)
Article
34.2 The Bodies of the Central Board are: The CB has come to the conclusion that the handling of material issues is more of a function than a work of a Committee. Due to this the CB is of the opinion that there is no need of a separate committee to handle the material issues. The CB therefore proposes the Congress to decide to delete point f) Material Committee (MC) and to put forward to the IFF CB to make the editorial changes that follows on the decision. The Congress decided,
unanimously, according to the proposal. b) Article 13.4: Change
provisional membership from two year cycles to four year cycles
The IFF
has two kinds of memberships for Associations – provisional
membership and ordinary membership. The last
years has showed that the development required to change status from
provisional to ordinary member is a process that requires a longer
time than assumed in the statutes. Due to this the CB is of the
opinion that there is a need to change the statutes in that respect. The CB proposes the Congress to decide to change the provisional membership from two year cycles to four year cycles by changing article 13.4 to be “The provisional membership has to be recalled by the CB every four years. Otherwise it gets lost.” The Congress decided,
unanimously, according to the proposal. c)
Article 23.2: Change provisional membership fee To implement a certain amount of pressure for the provisional members to fasten the process to become ordinary members the CB opinion is that the size of the membership fee could be one way to go. The CB proposes the Congress to change the membership fee for provisional members concerning the Associations having been provisional members for four years by adding the following text to article 23.2: “After four years as a provisional member an ordinary members full fee shall be paid regardless of having applied for ordinary membership or not.“ The Congress decided,
with 8 in favour, none against, according to the proposal. d)
Article 35.1: Change the composition of the Central Board “The CB, elected by the Congress, shall consist of a President and six members. Not more than one person per Nation may be elected as member of the Central Board. In case of a draw in a CB voting the President’s vote is decisive.” The Congress decided
, 4 in favour, 2 against, to reject the proposal. 3)
Material Regulations In co-operation with the Swedish Testing and Research Institute – SP and the manufacturers of floorball equipment a new version of the Material Regulations has been worked out. The CB proposes the Congress to approve the Material Regulations Edition 2002 to be in force from 01.07.2002. The Congress decided
according to the proposal. §
16 Approval of Regulations within
the meaning of article 14 paragraph 2 littera c) §
17 Decision on all affairs being
reserved for the Congress by the statutes or by law §
18 Appointment to be honorary
member §
19 Dissolution of the IFF § 20 Admission or expulsion of
official member Associations §
21 Decision on the meeting place
for the next Congress The Congress decided
according to the CB proposal. §
22 Closing of the Congress
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