Members are invited to attend an extraordinary general assembly of API-IPA on Friday 26 February 2016, at 13.00h at the Residence Palace, Maelbeek Room.
Only topic on the agenda is the approval of new, updated statutes for the Association. The current statutes were made at the ‘birth’ of API in 1975, and were modified in 1993 and 2005. The API Council ruled last year that it is time to update, modernise and streamline the statutes again. According to the current statutes, this has to be approved by an extraordinary general assembly.
In attachment you will find the old and the proposed new statutes, to be decided. The proposed new statutes have been sent to all members by e-mail. (including an English summary).
This extraordinary assembly will be immediately followed (same time, location) by the
ANNUAL GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2016
In recent years, the annual general assembly (AGA) was repeatedly held in early December. However, according to the statutes (the old, as well as the proposed new ones), the AGA should – if possible – be held in the first semester of the year. As already announced in the annual general assembly 2015, in december last year, the API Council has decided to return to this statutory practice. This means that the annual general assembly 2016 will only this time be held shortly after the preceding one.
AGENDA
(The assembly is for API-members only. Voting at the assembly is only open to members who have paid their 2015 or 2016 membership fee. Members unable to attend may give a proxy vote, in the form of a hand written and signed note, to one other member, to be presented to the API secretariat at least 24 hrs. before the meeting).
- Presentation and approval of the annual accounts for the year 2015, report of commissioners; discharge of the API Board and auditors.
- Confirmation of the nomination of two new members for the API Council, representing the French and German national groups within API.
- The API Council proposes to re-elect Thomas Friedrich (GER) and György Föris (HUN) as ‘free elected members’ of the Council.
- Discussion about correspondent’s experiences with the European
- Commission’s Spokespersons Service, ahead of evaluation talks between the SPP-team and the API Bureau.
- Any other business.
* Participation at the meeting is dependent on having paid the API membership fee.
