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IFF Central Board meeting 5/2016 Place: Hotel Radisson Blu Latvija Participants:
Minutes § 1. Opening of the meeting
Appendix 11 - Only orally CB decided: to approve the agenda for the meeting and update the appendixes accordingly
The minutes from the last meeting were scrutinized, approved and put ad acta § 4. Economy The outcome per 30th of November is 15.132 CHF. The forecast of a possible zero result is depending on a good outcome of the marketing and TV income from the WFC. The possible problems could be related to the TV for China and the difficulties to get the signal there. Overall the outcome is quite good and even if the balance is a bit down for November, it is a normal situation. Mr. Liljelund explained the situation and the possible problems, when Latvia went out in the tournament early.
Regarding the situation of Russia, the office has continued to monitor their debts situation. NFFR has not managed to solve their debts but only paid 2000 CHF to IFF by 30 November - despite the signed payment plan by Mr. Chernov stating that the major part of the debts to IFF should be paid in November and the debt to Slovakia in December. Mr. Chernov claims that they are waiting for a promised financial support from their new partners which is needed to solve the debts. The IFF Office has had discussions with the NFFR up until the IFF CB meeting. The NFFR has promised to pay off the debt to the Slovaks by the end of the year and the IFF before the end of January. Mr. Liljelund proposed that the IFF CB will suspend the NFFR if they have not paid the debt to the Slovak federation by the end of the year and the IFF until the 31st of January. The suspension takes effect from the 6th of February 2017, if they have not paid the debts. This decision is to be made to not harm the organiser of the WFCQ tournament. CB decided: To approve the report and decided to suspend the NFFR, if they have not paid the debt to the Slovak federation by the end of the year and the IFF until the 31st of January. The suspensions takes effect from the 6th of February 2017 in the case they have not paid the debts. This decision is made to not harm the organiser of the WFCQ tournament.
The CB approved the final Agenda for the General Assembly (Appendix 5), which will be updated until the CB meeting, concerning the number of participating countries and the CB needs to make a proposal on the voting roll, based on the decision concerning the membership status of Russia. (Appendix 6) The CB is further to approve the proposed voting system and election form for the CB election, to be presented to the IF General Assembly. (Appendix 7) Mr. Eriksson reported that Mr. Heiko Jassmann has confirmed that he is running for the CB elections and the Floorball Deutschland has confirmed this. Each candidate can have a one minute presentation of themselves to the IFF General Assembly. The Floorball Germany representative has the opportunity to present Mr. Jassmann CB decided: To approve the reports and approve the Agenda for the GA, the voting roll and the election form. Mr. Eriksson reported that the following invited persons have registered: During the WFC Mr. Bernardi has cancelled his participation in the WFC, due to an emergency meeting of the WFDF Council. Mr. Eriksson further informed that the Celebration of the IFF 30th Anniversary will take place on Saturday the 10th of December at 15:15 in the WFC Main Venue Riga Arena, between the two semi-finals in the VIP room. The 30th Anniversary is a short celebration with a speech from the IFF President, with a toast and handing out of service awards. A total of seven out of 11 service award receivers have inform to participate. The others have had other obligations which have prevented them from participating. CB decided: To approve the reports
Mr. Kratz gave some additional comments upon the running of the Event, from a broader perspective. The reasons for the problems with Media and VIP is due to the difference expectation of the LOC and the IFF, when it comes to the number of persons. The LOC has tried to adopt to the advised given by the IFF. Mr. Suman felt that we shall high-light that we are organising the event and the spectator records broken shows that we took the right decision to organise the Event in Latvia. The media interest is very big also here. This step is important for the future. Mr. Liljelund reported on the ticketing situation, based on the daily reports from the organiser. The present situation, based on the sales from the 8th of December, shows a total sales of 28.924 for the whole Event and 3.992 tickets for the final day. (Appendix 8). Mr. Liljelund reported on the present situation concerning the TV. The WFC is now being broadcasted into 13 different markets and 23 broadcasters, negotiations are ongoing with some additional 4-6 territories. In addition to that 13 matches will be broadcasted on the Olympic Channel, with English commentary and all matches are streamed on the IFF YouTube channels and the World Games channel. (Appendix 9) Mr. Eriksson informed that the TV production is very good and he has got a lot of positive information. The CB felt that we need look over the whole TV production. Mr. Rantakari additionally informed about the sponsorship situation for the WFC. (Appendix 10) The sales have been good during the November and December and gives IFF a better result than estimated. Mr. Suman felt that the CB needs to discuss the issues that has come up during the WFC. CB decided: To approve the reports.
CB decided: To approve the report CB decided: To approve the report Mr. King expressed that there is a problem, when the countries doesn‘t answer the questions given. Mr. Klabere stressed that you can see how ready the applicants are in the process. Mr. Halonen expressed that we will add and update the questionnaire. Mr. Suman felt that we will need to build a two way bid system, where we will include their promises in the organisers agreement and to motivate them to higher the level through a double bidding system where we will discuss with the organiser after the bid and give them a possible to update it. Mr. Kratz reported that the bidding process for the U19 WFC 2020 is going on with China and will close 31st of December. CB decided: that the U19 WFC 2019 shall be played in Canada and to continue with the process for the U19 WFC 2020 aiming for a CB decision in the first meeting 2017 and to approve the report.
CB decided: To approve the report.
There is a joint agreement that the Champions Cup should be played for a certain time as a Final4 in January. Mr. Suman explained that we are now ending the 2nd version of the Champions Cup and it was a huge improvement in organization from the first version. But the pressure to reach the financial black figures for the events. There are now ideas by the club to finally combining the competition for whole Europe, if they are interested to play home and away basis. This proposal is a great step forward. Mr. Klabere sees a problem in the schedule, as we need to play in the week-days, which could be very problematic. It was discussed that this is a topic which shall be discussed in the future. Mr. Kratz feels that this might be problematic for the EuroFloorball Cup. The idea is to keep the prize money for the EFC. Mr. Suman stressed that the club competition must be in the hands of the clubs. Mr. King feels that this is a really good position being reached and we have the possibility to go forward. It is not a problem that we have a Top4 tournament. Mr. Liljelund feels that this is a really good joint agreement reached. Mr. Rantakari further reported on the CCSG meeting held during the WFC (Appendix 13) CB decided: To approve the report and approve the CCSG proposal for the Champions Cup
Mr. Eriksson further reported on the SportAccord IF Forum and the meetings held in connection to this event in Lausanne in November. The IF Forum concentrated on the Athletes health and IFF made a presentation of our Urban Floorball during one of the panel sessions. (Appendix 14) It was a giant leap forward to be included on a panel in the IF Forum and Floorball was mentioned in a number of other presentations during the IF Forum. This was ones again a great step forward. The IOC President Mr. Tomas Bach has given his personal patronage to the Event by sending a personal greeting to the Event. (Appendix 15) Mr. Liljelund made a short report from the IF Ethics Commission meeting held in Riga, Latvia on the 4th of December. (Appendix 16) It was a really good working meeting, where the EC evaluated the IFF Good Governance operations and found them to be very good. Mr. King reported of the present activities of the AOFC, where development seminar has been held in India and China in the last months. There are a total of nine teams taking part in the Women‘s WFCQ in Wellington, New Zealand which is a really good thing. There will be an AOFC CB meeting during the WFCQ, where both China and Hong Kong will apply for AOFC membership. There are also plans to open the AOFC Office in Thailand and build the idea to play an Asian Cup to promote the sport. There will be a strategic seminar for the AOFC in Wellington, in cooperation with the IFF. There are ongoing discussions for the AOFC Development Officer. It seems that the AOFC will start slowly to work. Mr. Eriksson felt that things are moving forward under the work of Mr. Chaiyapak Siriwat In the absence of Ms. Mikkola there is no report about the activities in the Americas. CB decided: To approve the reports
The CB discussed how the national associations have included the World Games in their WFC preparations. Overall the visibility has been quite good with promotion to athletes and the general and we have achieved quite a lot. Mr. Suman concluded that we need to push in two different ways so that we have the six who plays and then the ones who will not play there. IFF is collecting some media information from the Wroclaw LOC. Mr. Eriksson further reported that the Indonesian federation is in process to negotiate with the organiser of the Asian Games 2018 in Indonesia about the possibility to play some kind of demo-tournament in connection to the Event. The IFF is supporting the initiative on the political level and looking for support for the initiative. Mr. Liljelund informed about the actions taken towards other multi-sport events. Floorball has been in discussion with the International Master Games Association, to include Floorball in the organisation contract in for the Torino European Master Games 2019. Mr. Suman asked if there have been any implications concerning Minsk EuroGames. CB decided: To approve the reports
Mr. Klabere further informed that in the WFC 2016, there will be use a video checking by a jury member in the case of an unclear goal situation, in the playoffs, where all teams then have the same conditions. (Appendix 17b) There has been quite some problems with the system, but it is finally working well showing if the ball is in or not. CB decided: To approve the reports and approve the proposed changes of the regulations and the guidelines for the video checking of goals.
The Playbook was also updated after group works during the seminar. The Playbook will be evaluated and updated annually by the group, which originally created the Playbook. The next step will also be to start the process to unify the rules interpretations globally. That work will be carried out in a close co-operation with the IFF RACC. CB decided: To approve the report Mr. Eriksson reported on the actions taken during the WFC and meetings held in connection to the present situation of the RC. There has been a follow-up and discussions with the concerned parties, which will also continue during the week. The whole process has been handled badly overall, but we now need to solve this and then to move on. CB decided: To approve the report
The main changes are related to the Club teams‘ responsibility to inform if schedule trainings are change, so that there will not be missed test due to these reasons. As the Clubs/National Associations are to pay for the missed tests and it leads to filing failures, it is important to have this under control.
CB decided: To approve the report g) Marketing Ad Hoc group Mr. Eriksson understands that it is not easy to sell Floorball, but we need to be careful in this process towards our stakeholders. Mr. Klabere asked if we have got any income through the sales activities made by IFF. The question is also connected to the sales of the Champions Cup. Mr. Rantakari explained that most activities have been given to secure sales of the WFC, through which IFF got some 18.000 EUR out of which some was done based on the lead by the IFF. So IFF has not gain any own sales. Mr. Rantakari further reported that IFF has started a test in connection to the WFC for a Floorball Fantasy Manager Game. The idea is to see how active the community is and then start a closer cooperation after the WFC. Mr. Suman shortly present the updated presentation of the new IFF logo and Corporate Identity in connection to the IFF Events. (Appendix 19a) The idea is to run with the present IFF logo until the U19 WFC 2017 in Växjö, Sweden, where the new logo and the new Corporate Identity will be launched. The idea is to try to talk with the Slovak WFC 2017 organiser, if they could incorporate the new IFF logo in their version of the WFC 2017 logo, during the process after May 2017. Mr. Liljelund reported that the Women‘s WFC2015 26 minute high-lights program produced and marketed by BroadReach Media to maximise new broadcast partnerships has been well received by the takers, because it is easy to understand, fast-moving and the crowd is good in the spectators stands. Some of the broadcasters have repeated the episode up to 10 times. It has been broadcasted by FoxSport (Pan Europe), Setanta Sports (Ireland), Dubai Sports Channel (Pan Middle East), Fox Sports (Africa) and Eurosport Asia Pacific (Pan Asia). The program has been broadcasted in 134 countries, with a reach of close to 190 million households. (Appendix 19b) CB decided: To approve the reports
Ms. Bakke feels that the document is really good, but there needs to be a mentioning that the target of the assault has the right to raise a legal case. CB decided: To approve the report
CB decided: To approve the report
CB decided: To approve the report
There are several ongoing projects in the EOTO. In Europe for example broad co-operation between Denmark, Germany, Latvia, Norway, Poland and Slovakia and the objective for this process is to create a working tournament mode to be played once a year between these countries. The tournament will also be an educational forum especially in the referee block. The objective is to play the first tournament in November 2017. In Africa related to EOTO it is expected to have some new member applications to be sent to the IFF during the first half of 2017. The existing IFF members in Africa are helping the new ones to apply and to collect the right documents and recognitions for the applying countries. The preparations for the African 3vs.3 will continue in the first half of 2017. In Asia there are joint projects for example between India and Singapore, which will have a coaching and refereeing camp with two Indian teams playing in Singapore. There are also other projects planned between Malaysia and Singapore. The target in Asia is still to activate the members to mainly start new and to complete the existing projects. There are some challenges to make everyone understand the EOTO slogans: “Every Step Counts” and “Keep it Simple”. The Denmark, German, Latvian, Norwegian, Polish and Slovak member associations have signed an agreement to start a yearly tournament for these six countries with the teams in the WFC. CB decided: To approve the reports. b) Information operations CB decided: To approve the report
CB decided: To approve the report.
CB decided: To approve the reports
CB decided: To approve the report
CB decided: To approve the report and change the Ukrainian membership to the Ukrainian Floorball Federation
CB decided: To approve the report.
CB decided: To approve the report
Mr. Suman thanked all the members for a good work, during which we achieved a lot. The President agreed with this. CB decided: To approve the report and decide the time and place for the next CB meeting accordingly.
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