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IFF Central Board meeting 4/2018
Excused: Stefan Kratz, Competition Manager Minutes § 1. Opening of the meeting CB decided: To approve the report
Appendix 2b - IFF Financial Report 2018, sent on 26.10.2018 § 3. Minutes from the CB meeting: § 4. Economy CB decided: To approve the report. b) Information on IFF claims – status October 25th, 2018 The reduction of debts has continued to be slow during autumn and Latvia is still the Association to have the most difficulties to reduce their debt. The Latvian President has stated that they aim to pay about 10000-15000 CHF before the end of this year, to keep to their payment plan. Slovakia made a large payment near the last CB meeting and still aims to pay the remaining part of their debt before the last of December this year. Mr. Kratz has been in contact with the member associations in debt and been very clear about the fact that the updated license system will be in full force from the registrations to the WFC 2020 and U19 2020 in the end of this year. The following actions needs to be taken in connection to the registration of the teams for the WFC 2020, as the dead-line for registration is in the end of December 2018, in accordance of the IFF License System 2.0. The association must be without debts to IFF by the time of the registration to be guaranteed participation but also associations following a set up plan to pay off their debts may be given the possibility to participate. For the WFC 2019 the association must be without debts by the end of year 2018, to be able to participate in the qualifications. Mr. Suman asked if there is a plan how to implement the IFF License System for the countries that have registered. Mr. Liljelund answered that only those who have no debts, following a payment plan or the countries which have now handed in a new payment plan it has to be followed and debts cleared within the year after registration until the start of the WFC qualification. Mr. Lopez asked about the increasing debt of Slovenia and Mr. Klabere expressed his concern about the Latvian situation. Mr. Eriksson explained that the number of countries in debt is decreasing, but there are some which have not been able to clear their debts. The suggestion to the CB is to write off all claims before 2013 and, in addition, the claims on Jamaica for the non-participation 2014, all in all 155.866:58 CHF which then will be booked as a loss on claims in the Final Report for 2018. The issue will be informed to the General Assembly. Mrs. Birdal proposes to take this action for the result for the financial year 2018. Mr. Eriksson pointed out that this will be done for the financial year 2018. c) IFF General Assembly 2018, Prague, Czech Republic The invitation has been sent out 90 full days prior to the GA, which was on the 7th of September 2018. The member associations have only sent in one motion to the IFF GA the required 60 full days prior to the IFF GA, which was the 7th of October 2018, namely the EFT countries motion of the Euro Floorball Championships. The IFF CB shall send out all proposals and materials of the GA 30 full days before the meeting, latest on the 7th of November 2018. The CB is to approve the following documents for the IFF GA and shall be sent out until the 7th of November. The normal documents are: The Agenda for the IFF GA (Appendix 6) Mrs. Birdal asked if we in the future have a system for checking the students playing abroad. Mr. Halonen explained that we have already created a special system for student transfers, were today you can have a student transfer for 60 days twice during the season. The Special Topics are for this GA are the following: The proposed Statutes change, updated with Ethics Commission additions Art 42 (Appendix 10) The proposed new Playing System of the IFF Major Events (Appendix 11) Mr. Beer felt that we only have to communicate why we are wanting to test these changes. Mr. Ovedal felt that we need to explain the different aspects of why we are wanting to conduct this test. Mr. King felt that the whole process started from the experience of The World Games and the process in the Association Meeting. Mr. Eriksson concluded that the IFF will publish the CB news on Monday the 29th of October, the minutes on the 31st of October as usually. Then we need to support the proposal with arguments in the press. The motion of the EFT Countries to create an Euro Floorball Championships (Appendix 12a) and the IFF CB recommendation to this motion (Appendix 12b) was discussed next. The CB discussed the motion from the EFT Countries of a Euro Floorball Championships. Mrs. Birdal asked if there will be enough organisers, to which Mr. Liljelund answered that the EFT countries have actually started with the assumption that they will have to organise the event in the beginning. The CB approved the RACC proposal with a small technical change. The IFF invited a number of central persons in the International Sports movement and the Mr. Eriksson felt that it is very important that almost all have answered the invitation. IFF has applied for the IOC Patronage for the WFC2018 and invited IOC President Thomas Bach. The IOC has decided to grant an IOC patronage for our upcoming Men‘s World Championships in Prague, which was informed by the IOC Sports Department. Due to the amount of work on the IOC side with the IOC Executive Board meeting, IOC session, Olympism in Action Forum and YOG taking place in the coming weeks, the IOC will be able to deliver a message on behalf of President Bach by the end of October. CB decided: To approve the reports and the Agenda and documents for the IFF General Assembly 2018 to be sent out to the member associations, in accordance with the stipulated dead lines. Concerning the financials, on the income side will be on balance, but the investment of the Czech Floorball is going to be very huge and there are still challenges with the financial out come. The aim is still to have an WFC which will create enough income to make it possible to develop the position of floorball in Czech Republic. The CF is planning to publish a book after the WFC. One of the key success points is the number of spectators, where the forecast is to be able to break the overall record. The last thirty days are key to attract the local audience and it is important to remind the local sport audience when the WFC has started. There will be a really good opening day and the final week-end will be close to sold-out. There are some issues with some of the days. CF will run the biggest guest operation ever and there can be some 1.500 guests on the opening day. The biggest addition to the Event will be the twelve Floorball festivals in the district capitals. There have also been new contacts created to the participating countries ambassadors. Further Mr. Liljelund reported on the TV situation. The final agreements with Czech TV have been made and Czech TV will produce all matches and transfer the signal to satellite of IFF‘s, from where IFF will distribute the signal. (Appendix 14) IFF has secured a satellite for the broadcasts and is working on securing the 2nd signal for the matches played in the Sparta Arena. CB decided: To approve the reports b) U19 WFC 2019, Halifax, Canada The U19 WFC 2019 LOC are running the preparations of the Event in accordance with plans and have started marketing locally and sponsor sales. IFF has had a meeting with the TV/Stream production company and all seems to be in order. CB decided: To approve the report c) WFC 2019 On behalf of Mr. Kratz, Mr. Halonen reported on that the schedules of the qualifications have since the last CB been finalised and published. In Europe there will be two groups in Gdansk, Poland and Trencin, Slovakia and the groups are played at the same time. The AOFC will be played with two groups in Bangkok, Thailand and the Americas in beginning of February in Detroit. Mr. Liljelund reported that the negotiations with Polar HD for the production of the TV-signal/stream is ongoing. The Swiss TV SRF will show Swiss games on web-TV from the groups stage and in TV in the play-off face. CB decided: To approve the report d) Upcoming organisers On behalf of Mr. Kratz, Mr. Halonen reported that the invitation to the WFC 2020, with 31st IFF will contract PolarHD as the production company and do the production for YLE. YLE will still act as Host Broadcaster. CB decided: To approve the reports
CB decided: To approve the report.
CB decided: To approve the report. § 6. EuroFloorball Cup CB decided: To approve the report. b) EuroFloorball Challenge 2018 CB decided: To approve the report. c) Champions Cup 2019 Mr. Klabere further report on the preparations of the Champions Cup 2019 – Final Four, to be played in Gävle, Sweden on the 3rd and 4th of January 2019. The tournament is played in connection to the Swedish Association Youth tournament and the preparations are ongoing CB decided: To approve the report § 7. Committees and Ad Hoc group reports The IFF has through the President and secretary general conveyed the IFF condolences to the family and friends of the deceased GAISF President Mr. Patrick Baumann, after his unexpected death during the Buenos Aires Youth Olympic Games 2018. Mr. Liljelund reported that the IFF Ethics Commission (ETC) has proposed some changes to the IFF Statutes, which has been included in the CB proposal and has started the creation of the IFF Ethics Commission working guidelines, which will be brought to the IFF CB for the December meeting. Mr. Liljelund reported that Mr. Kalsta has prepared and collected the necessary documents for the IFF registration and there will be a visit to the Vaud Commercial Registry with Mr Eriksson and Mr Liljelund in November to verify some signatures As the registration process will also entail changes to the IFF Statutes this is also being prepared in order to have the suggested changes ready when the Material for the General Assembly is due. If everything runs smoothly the registration can be finalized once the appeal period for the GA Minutes has closed and everything is duly signed. CB decided: To approve the reports b) CB members responsibilities Mr Lopez has handed in a written report about the on the development in Central and Latin America and the plans for the future. (Appendix 20) There are good news from Colombia, where there is good development. There has been some development also in Ecuador, based on the Floorball4all operations. Brazil is coming to the GA 2018 and there are persons coming from Argentia to Spain. All are asking for help, so there needs to be discussions on how to work with such a big area and how to work with Special Olympics. Mr. Eriksson thanked Mr. Lopez for the good and clear report. Mr. King reported on the on the status of the proposal for the implementation of the IFF Development Officer for the AOFC, as it didn‘t work out exactly as planned with Korea. Now a new proposal has been built with New Zealand to work with the Men‘s U19 team for the U19 WFC in Halifax, Canada. The IFF pays for the coach and his travels and the New Zealand is responsible for the food and lodging of the coach during the educations. The coach is Mr. Juerg Kihm, who has been the head coach of the Australian Women‘s national team in a number of WFC‘s (Appendix 21a and 21b) New Zealand is very keen to run the project and is willing to put internal funding to the widen the project. The idea is to run development and coaching programs and create a coaching structure for New Zealand Floorball. Mr. Klabere and Beer wanted to ask if the costs are included in the 2019 budget, to which Mr. Liljelund asked that they are included in the 2019 budget proposal. CB decided: To approve the reports c) Contacts to International Sports Organisations Mr. Liljelund informed that IFF participated in the 1st IWGA TWG 2021 Competition Managers meeting in Birmingham in beginning of October. Floorball has five competition days and starts the day after the opening. The venue and the accommodation was originally planned for the Samford University campus, but as Floorball and korfball would be the only sports at the venue, the BOC is investigating if the accommodation can be changed to the more central campuses, where all other sports are located. The venue is very good, but a little outside in the City, there is however a slight issue with it as it is a Baptist University, no alcohol or tobacco products are allowed on campus. The BOC will investigate this further. (Appendix 22) Mr. Suman asked when we need to start the discussions of what the IFF and the countries can do to help. Mr. Liljelund answered that the USFbA has started to make their plan for preparation, which should be ready by the end of the year. IFF should in the first CB meeting of 2019 start the planning process also from an international point of view. The ARISF Council has not met after the SportAccord and no new information has been circulated from ARISF. IFF has forwarded the information concerning the IOC Women in Sport 2017 Award Ms. Birgitta Kervinen project New Leaders in Sport to the ARISF to be sent to the members. Mr. Suman asked what the ARISF Council is planning to do for the Recognised IFs and Mr. Liljelund answered that there are not to much action from ARISF, as the discussions on the axis IOC and GAISF is still ongoing. The preparations of the IMGA European Master Games in Torino, Italy next year are still ongoing, and the Italian association has started cooperating with the LOC. The LOC is looking to have three playing fields and at least some 30-40 teams. The CB discussed the new forms of promotion of the Event in the CB Workshop in Prague and actions will be taken based on this by the Office. (Appendix 23a) Mr. Eriksson reported that no news concerning Floorball‘s status in the Urban and no information or additional questions have been raised by GAISF. Mr. Liljelund informed that IFF participated in the Olympism in Action forum in Buenos Aires, Argentina and in the first days of the Youth Olympic Games. (Appendix 24) Mr. Eriksson reported that the Paris OCOG has confirmed the process for inclusion of new sports on the program of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Mr. Suman stressed that the IFF needs to remember the fact that there are a lot of lobbying going on towards the OCOG and we need to be active here. Mr. Eriksson reported on the present situation concerning the SEA Games 2019, to be organised in Manilla, the Philippines in 2019. It has been informed by the AOFC president Mr. Siriwat and the PFA President Mr. Ramos that Floorball would be on the program of the SEA Games 2019, but the final confirmation will only take place in November. IFF has been asked to nominate a Competition Manager and Mr. Kratz is discussing this with the AOFC President. Mr. Eriksson stressed that it will also be easier to be included in the upcoming SEA Games in Vietnam 2021, Cambodia 2023 and in Thailand in 2025. Mr. Eriksson is further informed that the process for settling the organiser of the 2021 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games is still ongoing, and Thailand has not yet applied for them, but it is likely to do so. Apparently Thailand is lobbying for the 2026 Youth Olympic Games. CB decided: To approve the reports d) RACC Further Mr. Klabere is to report about the outcome of the questionnaire regarding U19 WFC dates which has been sent to all members Associations. (Appendix 39) Based on the result of the questionnaire the term for the U19 WFC should stay the same, as there is no better week than the present. The majority of the countries were not in favour of lowering the age groups for the U19 WFC. Regarding updating of competition regulations, the RACC is returning with a proposal on changing the handling of team lists where teams would submit one team list 30 days prior to the event (instead of a first list and a final list). (Appendix 26) Mr. Klabere expressed that there is more and more tasks for the IFF and LOC organizer to fulfil before the Event, therefore the 30 days. On behalf of Mr. Kratz, Mr. Halonen reported that the office has approved an exemption for 2018/2019 regarding the handling of penalty shots in Finland (Appendix 27) and an exemption for shirt colours in Latvia (Appendix 28). CB decided: To approve the reports and decide upon updating the competition regulations with the new handling of team lists. e) RC The IFF Referee Committee has handled the proposals from the IFF member associations for the international referees and international observers for the period from 2019-2020 in a skype meeting on the 16th of October 2018. The RC proposes to nominate the following international referees and observes. There are 138 referees (increase of 11 %) and 24 observers from 29 different IFF member associations, which is an increase of three countries. (Appendix 34) The number of referees and observers is adequate, but in the future the RC needs to work even harder to get referees from more countries since it‘s also a requirement based on the IFF License System 2.0. Also the number of female referees is not big enough, only five female referees pairs. It however seems that there fortunately are more female referees on their way to international level in the time frame of two to four years. CB decided: To approve the report, appoint Mr. Carlos Lopez as the RC chair and approve the nomination of the International Referees and Observers for the period of 2019 - 2020 f) Medical committee - IFF Test Planning & Intelligence and Investigations document, In addition, WADA has recommended to increase the amount of out-of-competition testing during the season in the future, which has been planned for 2019. The WADA has asked for a presentation of the IFF Anti-Doping Education Program during the WADA Education Conference in Beijing (October 23-25), to which Ms. Merita Bruun participates from IFF. IFF has sent in the nomination of the ATC member Ms. Agata Plechan as a member of the WADA Athletes Committee and we are awaiting for an answer until first part of November. CB decided: To approve the report and confirm the documents made for the WADA Corrective Actions. g) Athletes Commission The IFF Office proposes that the IFF CB accepts the resignation of Mr. Samuelsson and thank him for his contribution, as we must be aware of the multiple requirement our athletes have. The IFF Office proposes to install Mr. Ole Mossin Olesen (Norway), based on the fact that IFF can appoint one of the four ATC members. CB decided: To approve the report and install Mr. Ole Mossin Olessen as a IFF Athletes Commission member. i) Marketing function Mr. Eriksson felt that it is amazing that Mr. Kalsta has been able to make so many contacts to companies. Mr Kalsta has been restructuring the sales presentation to make it more compact and fluent. A separate fact sheet for figures (Social Media, YouTube, TV) has been prepared (Appendix 31 and 31a) The details for producing reference videos from existing sponsors are being prepared. The footage for the video will be shot at the WFC 2018 in Prague with the help of the IFF video crew. The Fan Value-Based survey for Floorball has been kicked-off in September. The goal is to investigate what values our fans represent and to identify brands with the best possible match. Currently to questionnaire is being constructed in accordance with the theoretical frame work. The final report will be available in January 2019. The CCMNG convened on the 18th of October in Stockholm. There was an external presentation by Pernilla Dahlborg from Brynäs IF about their successful change of partnership model from ad / visibility-oriented to a value-based model. Two of the main topics for discussion were the support of national federations to increase WFC awareness and visibility and the monetization of the tv/internet-streaming rights. (Appendix 32) CB decided: To approve the reports j) Development & Equality Ad Hoc group An introductory coaching seminar was organized in Laos in the National University of Laos in Vientiane from the 10th 12th of October 2018 with 38 participants from Laos. The seminar was organized in cooperation with the Lao NOC, the Ministry of Education and Sport, the University and the development NGO Fida International. The aim is to have the Lao NOC form a national association in the near future. (Appendix 33) A Coaching, Good Governance and referee seminar was organized in Delhi in India from the 10th to 13th of October 2018 with 44 participants from 22 states from India. The Good Governance was one day workshop for the administration of the Indian Floorball Federation and the coaching and refereeing seminars were built on the IFF standard three-day seminar structure. (Appendix 38) The only planned seminar for now is the Special Olympics Floorball seminar 24.-25.11. in Dublin, Ireland, for Coaching and refereeing. k) International Lobbying Ad Hoc group CB decided: To approve the report § 8. IFF Office Mr. Halonen further informed that the IFF office has prepared the survey concerning the IFF License System 2.0, which will be sent to all IFF member associations, after the CB meeting. The purpose of the survey is to make it easier to categorize the IFF member associations to the tier system of the License system and also make it easier for the IFF member associations to know, which criteria they need to fulfil to achieve certain tier levels. The survey is a web-based survey with 18 different questions and the IFF member associations will reply to the survey by the 23 of November. The intention is that during the IFF General Assembly in Prague in conjunction of the WFC 2018, the member associations can still discuss the topic with the IFF CB members, if they have anything to add. (Appendix 35) CB decided: To approve the report a) Development operations The playing arena was Palais des sports de Treichville and the arena was suitable for the tournament with proper amount of locker for the teams. The tournament was played with the Street Floorball concept, 4 vs 4 field players and goalkeepers, which was the wish from the participating countries even though the IFF suggested to play 3 vs 3 due to the fact that there were many games per team per day and some teams had relatively small teams. The Floorball Cote d‘Ivoire took care of the arrangements for the teams and the venue, but there were still a number of small issues, which needed to be fixed by the IFF delegates present. The games were anyhow played, and all the teams were happy about the tournament and there‘s a big need to organize the tournament also next year. The decision however needs to be taken, if the tournament takes place in East or West Africa, because the teams can‘t afford to fly inside Africa, since it‘s extremely expensive. This year all the teams came to Abidjan by cars due to the fact that the roads are very good in that region of Africa. CB decided: To approve the report b) Communications operations The preparations for the WFC 2018 and the Champions Cup are presently taking most of the time for the IFF Communications team. CB decided: To approve the report c) Material operations CB decided: To approve the report The IPCH expressed for the first time that they are more open to the possibility of choosing sport belongingness during the next four-year period (instead of being member of IWAS). But a new executive committee was elected at the Congress in connection with the World Championships, consisting of both old but also new members, so this will have to be discussed in more detail once the committee is in contact to the IFF (should be by end of October). CB decided: To approve the reports e) Equality operations CB decided: To approve the report and the update of the documents. § 9. Member Federations There have already been two sessions in the court of law in India and the third one taking place in the end of October, but the decisions of the court has been in favour for the present administration of the InFF. Out of 24 states in India where Floorball is played, 22 stands behind the present leadership ran by the President Mr. Harindar Kumar. Mr. Liljelund informed that the InFF through Mr. Atul Gupta has asked for a meeting with the IFF during the WFC. CB decided: To approve the report b) Members under suspension CB decided: To approve the report. c) New Member Applications The IFF office proposes to the IFF CB that ORF in Rwanda would be approved as a provisional member of the IFF as a member number 69. There are also other five African countries, Burkina Faso, Chad, Central African Republic, Mali and Togo, which have started the process to apply for the membership in the IFF. IFF has also sent the letter of recommendations to the Floorball associations of these mentioned countries. The Africa Cup gave a lot of new motivation to the associations especially in West Africa and Cameroon Floorball Association has acted as EOTO mentor in this membership issues in West Africa. CB decided: To approve the report and approve the Organisation Rwandaise de Floorball (ORF), as the provisional member of IFF, with nr. 69. § 10. Next CB meeting CB decided: To approve the report and decide the time and place for the next CB meeting § 11. 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