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IFF Central Board meeting 5/2017 Place: Double Tree Hilton Hotel, Excused: § 1. Opening of the meeting CB decided: To approve the report
Appendix 3 - IFF Claims 6.12.2017 CB decided: To approve the report § 3. Minutes from the CB meeting: § 4. Economy The IFF Office has prepared a forecast, which points towards a negative result of 50-70.000 CHF, which is still in line to the CB‘s previous decisions. The main reasons for this is, as informed earlier, the extra investment made for The World Games and the expected lower marketing income, both from the general marketing sales and the WFC. The WFC will also bring less income than expected, as the LOC has not received all of the promised governmental support. There are still quite difficult to know where we will end up in the end. Mr Eriksson explained that we have normally a lot of cost in the end of the year, but now there are some missing income, like the WFC marketing income. Mr. Suman asked for the positive upswing for the material income and Mr. Liljelund answered that it is positive, but more a return to a status qua after a really bad year in 2016. CB decided: To approve the report. b) Information on IFF claims – status December 6th, 2017 The following actions needs to be taken in connection to the registration of the teams for the WFC 2019, as the dead-line for registration is in the end of December 2017, in accordance of the IFF License System 2.0. The Association must be without debts to IFF by the time of the qualification to be guaranteed participation but also Associations following a set up plan to pay off their debts may be given the possibility to participate. From WFC 2020 the Association must be without debts by the time of registration. Mr. Suman stressed that we are now twelve months prior to the final line, that you need to have a clear sheet to participate or register and the members must be reminded about this. Mr. Eriksson concluded that this will be done accordingly. c) Proposal for update of the Budget for 2018 Ms. Reehuis proposed that the Athletes Commission to be included in the WFC and asked if the proposed budget will make it possible. Mr. Eriksson answered that this is the case. CB decided: To approve the report and the updated Budget for 2018. The IFF ExCo has approved the proposal for the Agenda, which has been sent to the members over two weeks before the meeting (Appendix 6). The main topics of the meeting are Mr. Eriksson stressed that there are two overall objectives with the Associations meeting and these are to inform and motivate the members. The Agenda has a lot of activation of the participants and workshops. The CB members that are not on stage will have a role in facilitate the workshops and the activation sessions. Mr. Halonen informed that the smaller floorball associations have a meeting after the Associations Meeting in the meeting hall. Mr. Suman asked what the expectations are for the Association meeting. Mr. Lopez answered that what the worries are of the countries and Mr. Klabere felt that this is the place where the associations can ask questions. § 5. World Championships The IFF Office has asked the Slovak Association to hand in a report by the 1st of December, but due to time restrains there are only reports concerning the ticket sales and sponsorship agreements signed for the Event. (Appendix 7a and 7b). There has so far been a total of 14.500 spectators, with around 2.000 spectators per Slovak games. The present sales of marketing rights have not been as successful as planning, as the total sales is under 12.000 in cash and some 15.000 in barters. The IFF will receive only some 5.000 in commissions from the WFC 2017, which is significantly less than the budgeted income. Mr. Klabere gave a short report on the ongoing event, in his capacity as the IFF Jury Chairman. The Jury and Office has been supporting the LOC and trying to help them, if we would not have done that the organisation might have not been able to survive. There is progress day by day after the volunteers have got the information what to do. Mr. Liljelund reported that after some smaller issues and a lot of discussions the set-up for the TV production has been finalised. The TV production will be made by the Slovak company ArenaSportTV, which will also broadcast all matches in their channels in Slovakia. All the matches from the WFC will be produced with a 6+1 camera TV set-up in both the O.Nepelu and Hant Arenas. At the moment the TV signal is distributed to 12 countries and discussions are still ongoing with a number of countries (Appendix 8). A total of 41 matches will be broadcasted. The takers of the TV signal are In total 120 matches will be broadcasted by the takers at the moment. Discussions are ongoing with some options to stream matches. Unfortunately, IFF has been contacted by TV4, as there has been some important information not provided to them by the LOC. Mr. Eriksson congratulated Mr. Liljelund for an amaizing achievement with this huge number on the broadcasted matches. Mr. Nurminen expressed that the number for TV spectators has been very good in a number of countries. Mr. Ovedal felt that the commentary has been really amazing and received a lot of positive feedback. Mr. Spence asked if IFF was aware of the problems, which Mr. Liljelund expressed that it was a lack of answering of the LOC. Mr. Suman felt that it is good that we have new countries organising new events, but at the same time very problematic for a new country to organise a major event and have no experience of what is means that you have not organise an event like this. We need to look at what could be done on beforehand to avoid all the present issues. Mr. Eriksson felt that there need to a much more clear process of how to deal with the Event. CB decided: To approve the reports. b) WFC 2018 Prague, Czech Republic Mr. Kratz continued reporting that a first draft of the match schedule for the final round has been made, in order to give the LOC the possibility to start ticket sales in December 2017. As the teams are not yet qualified for the event, the match schedule has been built placing the Czech team matches, with the comment that TV could still change the other matches and the Czech opponents. The preparations are ongoing very well, which is a really good for the IFF as we can prepare early. Mr. Suman gave a short report of the preparations from a Czech perspective (Appendix 27). The Czech association has started to build the Event like it should be done. Some negotiations are still ongoing with the Arenas, which takes a lot a time. There is an office of four employees for the WFC and Mr. Suman is sure that it will be well prepared. The discussions with TV has been started by the Czech Floorball, IFF has not yet been included in the discussions, but an initial contact will be taken during the WFC 2017. The Czech TV would most likely act as the Host Broadcaster, but the question if they are able to meet the present price level for IFF to use their production is still open. The target is to close this by in the beginning of 2018. Mr. Suman expressed that the WFC would like to test how far we could go with the involvement of the International fans. There needs to be activation already in the spring, to engage fans to come to Prague. The Czech asks the member associations to support this process. CB decided: To approve the report. c) U19 WFC 2018 St. Gallen, Switzerland Mr. Beer confirms that the communication is very good and the preparations are proceeding very well. d) Upcoming organisers Mr. Liljelund explained how the process for the organisers agreement and how it steers the preparations. Mr. Spence assured that the agreements will be signed and the process fulfilled. CB decided: To approve the report U19 WFC 2020, Harbin, China The implications are still positive and the process has moved forward, even if it still is not finalized. There are indications that the issue with the certification of CFF in the Ice Hockey Federation has been cleared by the new leadership. The CFF is also apparently waiting for the Harbin government final approval of the project, which has for reasons unknown to me been delayed. The CFF will send representatives to the WFC and negotiations will be held with them to clarify the situation. The CFF has now informed that they want to still discuss the financial conditions of the U19 WFC organization. Negotiations will take place in December or January. Mr. Reehuis asked if there are some cultural differences with the LOC. Mr. Liljelund answered that there are some major issues. CB decided: To approve the reports and continue the discussions with the CFF. § 6. EuroFloorball Cup Slevik IBK from Norway won the Men‘s and SK98 Pruske from Slovakia won the Women‘s tournament and received the IFF Victory Cheque of 5.000 CHF, even if they are not in position to participate in the Champions Cup in the future. Mr. Lopez is afraid that the clubs received the information about the accommodation etc. too late from the LOC. Mr. Kratz explained that the problem is that we don‘t have the organisers in time. CB decided: To approve the report. b) EuroFloorball Cup 2018 In addition Mr. Kratz reported on the preparation to find a an organizer for the Event. There will be actions taken to find the organisers. CB decided: To approve the report. c) Champions Cup 2017 The success was built with the fact that there was a good partnership with the LOC and around the Main arena, which had in the same building also two practice venues. The Challenges were more on the financial side. The ticket sales targets were not reached, with less tickets sold in the venue. The problem is that the spectators don‘t know the Champions Cup, so there needs to build the brand of the CC even further. The financial result was some 20.000 – 30.000 EUR better than budgeted, but will still make a loss of around 95.000 – 100.000 EUR, with the pre-investment of the SSBL in previous years of 50.000 EUR. Mr. Kratz reported on the test organised with the use of the teams Media Attaches during the Champions Cup 2017, giving them the opportunity to enter the team dressing rooms. Based on the successful outcome, we are using the same system for the WFC 2017. Mr. Liljelund reported that the stakeholders of the Champions Cup have signed the agreement for the organisation of the Champions Cup 3rd edition 2019 – 2022. (Appendix 10) Mr. Nurminen reported on the Champions Cup Steering group meeting held on the 3rd Outcome of the meeting was that there are quite many options and opinions that still need to be analysed by all parties. The CCSG decided on the next steps Mr. Klabere expressed that based on the feedback of the EuroFloorball Cup and EuroFloorball Challenge teams are not ready to play on a Home & Away basis. Mr Nurminen expressed that the process will take a very long time, as there are so many views on how to solve the issue. CB decided: To approve the report. § 7. Committees and Ad Hoc group reports The ExCo has over email approved the proposal for the 4th IFF Association meeting Agenda, which has been sent out to the members. The Evaluation Report of the TWG 2017 Floorball has been finalised based on the feedback received after the previous CB meeting. The CB is to discuss how to use it for the future preparations of other multi-sport events. (Appendix 12) The IWGA report is still very positive for the IFF, is this will be enough to secure our place at the TWG 2021 is still unclear. The comments concerning the Swiss Timing and Korfball and Floorball is a bit surprising, as all the comments are related to Korfball. Mr. Suman expressed that the Media Evaluation was made only on the World Games title in English and the City of Wroclaw, as there are different key words. This is an issue in the Czech Republic at least. Mr. Liljelund to report that the IFF Ethics Commission (ETC) had its yearly meeting in Bratislava during the WFC 2017. On the Agenda there will be the question related to Match fixing, how to treat complaints to the ETC and discussions on how to organise the ETC work (Appendix 19) CB decided: To approve the reports and approve the TWG 2017 Floorball Evaluation Report. b) CB members responsibilities Mr Lopez reported shortly on the development in Central and Latin America and the plans for the future. There has been some development in some of the countries and IFF would need to organise some kind of meeting and seminar for the countries in 2018. (Appendix 29) As Mr. King has been detained from arriving to the CB meeting for a business meeting, Mr. Liljelund introduced the proposal for the implementation of the IFF Development Officer for the AOFC (Appendix 13) The idea is to conduct a test in 2018 with one country, most likely Korea where an IFF nominated mentor coach will focus on two main things, namely education of the National Team coaches, trying to Close the Gap on the Field of Play and educate the coaches to teach the local coaches. Based on this test, the IFF will then later decide to roll this out with two-three projects for 2019. The proposal has been approved by the AOFC and Mr. King has discussed with Korea. Mr. Eriksson stressed that this will be a more efficient way of executing the support to AOFC countries. Mr. Ovedal asked about the aim and Mr. Liljelund expressed that the idea is to educate the National team coaches and close the gap. Mr. Spence reported on the development in Canada and USA, especially as the preparations for the U19 WFC in Canada has started. The development is quite different between Canada and USA, where Canada is trying to build on the organisation and a structure of the sport. As a part of this the Canadian association has entered into a cooperation with the company Premier Floorball to spread and develop Floorball in North America (Appendix 14), which is actually run by the same persons that are responsible for the organisation of the U19 WFC 2019 in Halifax, Canada. Premier Floorball is now asking if they could based on their MoU with Floorball Canada use the IFF logo in their work. Mr. Suman asked if there is a possibility to run an approach towards Alabama, or does this have to be run by IFF. Mr. Spence answered that presently there are very little activity, but there is a contact in Alabama. Mr. Liljelund informed that discussions are ongoing with USFbA how to start the preparations in Birmingham, Alabama. Mr. Suman shortly presented his report of the ANOC AGM organised in November in Prague, Czech Republic by the Czech NOC (Appendix 28). As it was not possible for IFF to have any accreditation for the ANOC AGM, it was agreed that Mr. Suman would try to seek contact with some NOC representatives, based on a prepared list by Mr. Eriksson and Mr. Liljelund. CB decided: To approve the reports and give the IFF secretary general the right to provide the authorisation for Premier Floorball, after the signature of the organise agreement for the U19 WFC 2019 in Halifax. c) Contacts to International Sports Organisations IFF made a presentation in the IF Forum concerning the EcoCompass process during one of the sessions on Sustainability and received positive feedback from the IOC Sustainability department. (Appendix 15) Mr. Eriksson reported that there has been a letter sent from the IOC defining the process forward for the Additional Events of the Olympic Games 2024 and 2028. The content is that the IF‘s are to wait for the decisions made by the POGOC for the Paris 2024. (Appendix 16) Mr. Liljelund informed that IFF has continued the discussions with the IWGA concerning the possibility to open a sub-office at the IWGA Office in Lausanne. The IFF would have an office in the IWGA Offices in Lausanne and be able to use the IWGA IF employee for meetings in Lausanne and the meeting facilities in the IWGA Office. In addition this would sort out a number of issues related to the official IFF registration in Switzerland. will discuss with the IWGA administration on the possibilities to solve the issues we presently have without any official registration in Switzerland. IFF has also discussed the matter with the Canton du Vaud and they have promised to assist, if it is decided to go ahead with the process. The price of the office would be 1500 CHF/month. (Appendix 17) Mr. Liljelund further reported that the IWGA Executive Council has published its Evaluation Report from The World Games 2017 in Wroclaw. (Appendix 18) Mr. Liljelund informed that the FISU has informed that they have chosen the Slovenian Student Sport Association as the organisers for the World University Championships 2020. The invitation for the World University Championships 2018 has been sent out by FISU for Lodz, Poland from the 26th to the 30th of June. Mr. Liljelund will act as the ISF Representative for the WUC in Poland. Mr. Suman felt that it is really positive to have an organiser where we don‘t usually organise IFF Events. It is important that we have organisers for the WUC. The IWGA Office can solve a number of issue for us. CB decided: To approve the reports d) RACC The EFT countries had originally approached the IFF with a proposal on the 4th of October to make changes concerning the international weekends and jointly agree to the reasons put forward for changes. For the September weekend the proposal is to move it to be one week earlier, which would mean the 1st full weekend of September. The reason is to make it possible to start the national leagues earlier without having to break for Internationals or having Internationals very near the league start. When it concerned the November weekend, now the 1st weekend of November, the proposal is from the EFT countries, in their specific cases to separate the Men‘s and the Women‘s international weekends into two in their case, so that the EFT countries can organize the EFT-tournament for the gender playing the WFC in December the 3rd full weekend of October and the gender not playing the WFC that year shall have the international weekend the 2nd full weekend of November. The reason is that the current November weekend is to near the WFC. The RACC had decided to propose to the CB to decide accordingly to change the September weekend to be the 1st full weekend of September and split the November weekend to be the 3rd full weekend of October and the 2nd full weekend of November. But as the Swiss association was not in position to follow the original proposal due to competition calendar issues they informed that they can‘t follow the EFT-proposal. There was an attempt to reach a compromise with introducing the new timing for September and November in 2018, but there was no compromise reached among the EFT countries in the question and therefore the RACC is forced to withdraw its proposal. After some internal discussions the EFT-countries has re-established the proposal of introduction of the September and November dates from 2018. Mr. Klabere confirms that the RACC is in favor of this proposal. In addition Mr. Klabere informed that using the IFF YouTube livestream for reviewing goals will be tested in the WFCQ in Korea. Both referees and teams shall be able to request checking CB decided: To approve the report and change the dates of the International week-ends for September and split the October-November international week-ends into two week-ends in accordance with the original EFT-country proposal starting from 2018. e) RC However on Wednesday the 15th of November the IFF office received information from the Swedish Federation that Edin/Nilsson have not passed the physical tests and they have been suspended from the Swedish league in October until the tests have been passed. Before that the information regarding this had unfortunately not reached the IFF office, for one or the other reason CB decided: To approve the report. f) Medical committee Mr. Liljelund reported that the IFF has received an Anti-Doping Rule violation allegation which was raised against an national team player by an anonymous source. The allegations (which included screenshots of conversations) were sent from an anonymous email and sent to several people including different federations and organisations. The IFF is not the least pleased with the way the NADO has handled the matters. It has also been brought to IFF‘s attention that the athlete has complained about this. The IFF will also write its own complaint, after having been in contact with the both the WADA Europe office and the FINADA. The NADO in question has provided an explanation, stating that everything has been done in accordance with the WADA Rules. CB decided: To approve the report. g) Athletes Commission In addition Ms. Reehuis reported that the ATC has a strong wish to be more visible at the adult WFC‘s to get a stronger image of the ATC and a stronger connection to the athletes they represent. Mr. Halonen also informed that the ATC member Ms. Josefina Eiremo will participate in the WFC for the last days. Mr. Suman felt that Ms. Reehuis should discuss how to include the ATC with the LOC of the WFC 2018. CB decided: To approve the report. h) Marketing Ad Hoc group The IFF Brand Manager Mr. Milan Rantakari has during the autumn continued the process of opening doors to potential sponsors. IFF has started discussions with the sales agent TMG Oy (and via them also Infront Sports & Media AG has been contacted, and next step in mid December 2017). IFF has also been in contact with the i2 agency, which has approached companies, with two good leads are under process. Further there has still been contact to the following agencies: Malja BTL Fin/Baltics, Antolainen Consulting, Commercial Sports Media (in Sweden), Commercial Sports Media and AdviSport have still been kept in loop. Also 15 Direct contact to companies. Just in the days before the Agenda was sent out Lagardère informed that they are not interested in a cooperation to sell IFF‘s marketing rights, but could look upon the IFF TV rights for a 30 per cent commission. Mr. Beer additionally reported on the situation of the process of requiting a new Sales Coordinator. A total of 21 applicants applied for the position. A first interview was conducted among 9 candidates and then three candidates were selected for a final interview, which wereconducted in the later part of November in Zürich, Switzerland. The IFF Marketing function has made a proposal of the preferred candidate still before the start of the WFC. Mr. Tero Kalsta has agreed to become the new IFF Sales Coordinator, who earlier has worked as a managing and marketing director and a professional B2B specialist. Mr. Liljelund shortly reported on the visibility of the WFC 2016 high-lights program distribution and reached visibility. The high-lights program has been broadcasted in 134 countries and on 7 networks, reaching a total of 190 million households. (Appendix 21) CB decided: To approve the reports. i) Development & Equality Ad Hoc group A local coaching and refereeing seminar was carried out in Indonesia in Bali from the 20th to 22nd of October. The original plan was to have participants from other countries, but due to the danger of a volcanic explosion in the island of Bali, the foreign participants cancelled their participation and the seminar was carried out for Indonesians. There were 25 participants altogether. The IFF Secretary General carried out a Good Governance seminar in conjunction of the 6NFC in Nitra in Slovakia on 2nd of November. The program was meant for the representatives of the 6 nations and the main agenda was to help the six nations to develop a coaching education program in co-operation with other team sports and universities in their own countries based on the examples and experiences mainly from Finland. CB decided: To approve the report. j) International Lobbying Ad Hoc group CB decided: To approve the report and take the topic for the CB workshop. § 8. IFF Office Mr. Suman asked if the federations are aware of these rules and how many express transfers are made. Mr. Halonen explained that the countries are quite aware of this. The Ranking system helped the countries to follow the rules. IFF has been proactive in informing about these changes and some 10 percent of the transfers are CB decided: To approve the report. a) Development operations CB decided: To approve the report. b) Information operations The report in regards of The World Games was published by the IWGA. Though the social media numbers differed a bit from the IFF Report the results were the same: floorball had the most hits and had a lot of visibility compared to other sports. The difference in the numbers is most likely due to different search words. CB decided: To approve the report. k) Material operations The yearly surveillance test has been carried out for 31 products, with some five breaches. CB decided: To approve the report . CB decided: To approve the reports. e) Equality operations Mr. Halonen further informed that IFF will participate in the International Women in Sport Event in Botswana in May 2018, with Ms. Sarah Mitchell and the secretary general. § 9. Member Federations CB decided: To approve the report b) Members under suspension CB decided: To approve the report. c) New Member Applications CB decided: To approve the report. § 10.Next CB meeting CB decided: To approve the report and decide to have the the next CB meeting in Amsterdam 10th to 11th of March 2018. § 11. 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