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2. Minutes of the Council of Delegates Meeting:
11 March 2005, Florence, Italy. 3. President’s Report I represented the Union at the 7th Asian Leather Conference in Chengdu (Sichuan China). It was a success and the level of the given lectures represents the level of the research activity for the leather industry in this area of the world. With the help of Dr Rajamani we suggested that the next Asian Leather Conference should be considered as an IULTCS Regional Congress. Normally the next one should be organised in India and Dr Rajamani said that we have to negotiate at that time with the organisers. Taking into account that the next IULTCS International Congress will take place in Beijing (China) in 2009, the 8th Asian Leather Conference should be organised in 2010. It took me also a lot of time to find the sponsors to balance the budget for the organisation of the International Leather Forum in Paris next fall. I would like on behalf of the EC members to express my thanks to the boards of CNC, CIDIC and CTC that allowed us to reach the 95K€ needed. Following the email exchanges you could have see the difficulties we had to identify the 100 VIPs for the list. To me it is a demonstration of the usefulness of the ILF for we discovered through the answers that people are unaware of the main personalities of the leather world outside the close circle of their acquaintances. It is only a few weeks ago that we succeeded in finalising the list of some 130 people and to obtain their postal addresses. With the help of a Press Agency we prepared the Invitation letter, the agenda and program, the registration form and a list of hotels. Now everybody should have received the documents and we will see how many positives answers will be returned. Depending on that number we will ask for your help to complete the invitations taking into account the representativeness of the continents and of the professions. I would like to thank now Geoff and Volkan, the chairmen of our two new commissions for the huge job they did for the preparation of the questionnaires needed to introduce the first two round tables. May I ask you to promote these questionnaires in your countries in order to obtain a maximum of answers. It is possible to download them from the IULTCS website. According to the agreement we have with Leather International, World Leather and IDC/Leer und Häutemarkt, the journals should publish information on the ILF and mainly on the questionnaires I sent to them, but they are to big to be incorporated in the journals. Concerning other relationships we decided to reactivate our contacts with ICHSLTA, ICT and COTANCE. I had at least one meeting with the Presidents and Secretaries of the three Federations. They are still interested in better relationships and I should say that our initiative to organise the ILF is one of the major items they wanted to discuss. If I did not succeed to convince them to attend the Washington Congress, all of them promised me to be in Paris. I had a further meeting with the President and the Secretary of COTANCE following some problems that occurred for the nominations of WG chairs in TC 289. My only objective during that meeting was to explain the history of the IULTCS commissions and the rules we have for the nominations. As Campbell expressed it very well “What is needed are WG Chairpersons who are technically competent in the area of the WG and with sufficient ability to understand and communicate in English.” IULTCS activity generally speaking, and IU commissions joint working meetings with TC 289 WG, must not be polluted by political issues. However as nomination of WG convenors follows a specific procedure (candidates are proposed by national standardisation bodies) we “may be” have to communicate before for better co-ordination. To finish with my activity during the last months and weeks, I was also in Gramado Brazil attending the 16th UNIDO Leather Panel. It gave me the opportunity to talk about the IULTCS activities and to suggest that it was not too late for the registration to the Washington congress. I promoted also the ILF, asking mainly everybody to fill the questionnaires I distributed. I had a lunch with the past and present Presidents of ABQTIC. I took the opportunity of this meeting to thank them again as they accepted to postpone the FLAQTIC Congress in Rio de Janeiro in 2008 to respect the IULTCS guidelines. They were preparing a CD to promote the Congress and they asked me to read a speech in front of a Camera to add the IULTCS President message at the beginning of the CD. Coming back to the IU commissions I would like to express my thanks to the outgoing chairmen for the job they performed and also a special thank to Campbell Page who had agreed to continue. During this Congress the IULTCS will give the first Award of its history. I am really pleased and honoured to be the President at that particular time and also because this first Award is given to a famous leather chemist who was our President 20 years ago: Dr R.L. Sykes. At the end of this report I suggest to have particular thought for John Williams. As you know, for well-founded personal reasons, John had to cancel his participation to the Washington Congress and therefore to this Delegates meeting. I think that on behalf of all of you, I’ll send a message to John saying very simply that we will be thinking of him during this period of time and asking him to transmit to his wife our best wishes for a speedy recovery. With his usual efficiency he prepared everything perfectly from accounts to President speeches. Fortunately we will have a further opportunity to meet him in Paris in September. Personally and according to Campbell wishes I ask him to remain our Secretary/Treasurer till the end of the year, in order we transmit our two mandates simultaneously to Elton and Campbell. In conclusion the re-invigoration of the IULTCS is clearly shown by the next three Congress presentations we will be seeing later this week. It is a pleasure to for the IULTCS to be in so healthy a state. a). Election of Vice-President b). Election of Secretary/Treasurer c). Election of Regional Representatives
d). Election of new Members and Associated
members e). Transfer to new President 4. Secretary/Treasurers Report Adoption of Audited Accounts for 2005-6 The Accountants report shows a working surplus for the period of USD 754.81. We believe that this is very satisfactory considering the considerable but worthwhile expenses in 2005 for publicity materials. The improvement in the IULTCS website and other promotional activities has had a very positive effect of the profile of the IULTCS. The break-even results for the two year period have been achieved without touching any of our capital investments with UBS Bank and Bristol and West International. Income from Subscriptions has been augmented by fees raised from the posting of Companies' banners on to our website. We are very grateful to these "Supporting Members" for their assistance in sustaining the IULTCS financially. Additional income came from the Delegates fees from the International Congress in Florence, Italy in 2005 and the Regional Congress in Istanbul, Turkey in 2006. During this two year period it was decided that Executive Committee meetings should be held at more diverse locations to make Members feel more inclusive. This will involve increased travel costs for the Secretary/Treasurer and it was agreed to show the travel expenses of the Secretary/Treasurer separated from other administrative expenses. Consequently it is difficult to draw direct comparisons between the figures for "Office Fees" and "Travel and Subsistence" for the two years to 2004 and the two years to 2006. Adding the two figures together for each of the periods will give a rough comparison. (USD 8,386 for 2004 and USD 7,205 for the 2006 period). BUDGET FOR 2007
Subscriptions Advertising • EXPENSES Secretary Travel IULTCS Award We anticipate a small excess of income over expenditure during 2007, and it is hoped that we will at least cover our costs for the year. IULTCS Assets:
Provided we can generate sufficient income from Banners etc. to cover the increasing travel costs of the Secretariat then we should remain in a healthy financial situation. We continue to keep the IULTCS website up to date, but if there any errors or alterations that need to be made, please let us know. A proposal to accept the two year accounts was made by the Mr Elton Hurlow, seconded by Prof Jaume Cot, and the meeting voted in favour by a unanimous card vote. 5. Adoption of Revised Statutes Comments were sought from the floor of the meeting and, as there were no comments, a motion was put to the meeting that the revised Statutes should be adopted. This motion was proposed by Spain and seconded by Germany and was accepted by a unanimous card vote. 6. Report on amended Congress Guidelines 7. IULTCS Commission Chairman Reports a). IUC/IUF/IUP Commissions - Report by Dr
Campbell T Page, Chair of the IUF Commission. Chairpersons At the plenary meeting of CEN TC 289 in March 2007, Dr Xavier Marginet was selected to chair the Chemical Testing Working group (WG1) and Mr Mike Wilson was selected to chair the Physical Testing Working group (WG2). Subsequently these 2 experts have been nominated to be appointed as the Chairmen of the IUC and IUP respectively. The IUC and IUP Commission members had been circulated
with the proposed nominations and, by the deadline date (18th June
2007), no further nominations had been received. Consequently, Dr
Page advised that Dr Xavier Marginet is the new IUC Chair and that
Mr Mike Wilson is the new IUP Chair. The meeting voted unanimously
in favour. The Commission members acknowledge the excellent work carried out by Dr Hudson (3 years as IUP Chair) and especially by Dr Long (7 years as IUC Chair). We sincerely thank them and wish them both much success in their careers. General comments The combined IUC, IUF and IUP meetings are held together with the CEN TC 289 WG1, WG2 and WG3 meetings as for the leather industry many of the CEN and IU experts are the same people. Typically 15 – 20 people attend these technical meetings. Minutes of the meetings are circulated worldwide to any experts who cannot attend. If anyone wishes to be added to the circulation they are most welcome. All comments received are tabled at the meetings and discussed. The co-ordination between IULTCS, ISO and CEN has developed very positively over the last years, thanks to the efforts of Dr Amanda Long. We now have a good situation where we are able to jointly progress leather test methods as IU, ISO and EN Standards. This avoids any conflict over how to test leather. Further, for an industry the size of the leather industry, it is essential that the limited technical expert resources we have are focused on a single test procedure. Details of the individual work items are given in the minutes of the IUC, IUF and IUP meeting which are available on the IULTCS website. b). IUE Commission - Report by Dr S Rajamani,
Chair IUE Commission The 2005 IUE meeting was held on 09 March 2005 at Florence, along with IULTCS Congress Italy. IUE Commission has developed an IUE document with all relevant technical input. The updated IUE document consists of 11 chapters starting from “IUE Recommendations on Cleaner Technologies for Leather Production” and ending with “IUE Recommendations for Occupational Health and Safety in the use of Chemicals in Tanneries”. The IUE 10 document for "Restricted Products in Leather” will be released shortly. Action has been initiated to draft new chapters such as sludge and unutilised solid waste management, world environmental update in the IUE document. The 2006 meeting of IUE Commission was held at Istanbul, Turkey during 23 & 24 May 2006 linking the II EURO Congress. A field visit to the Environmental facilities operating at Tusla Leather Complex has been organised during the Istanbul meeting. The IUE documents are widely disseminated through IULTCS website and the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) document, translation in other languages and publication through country associations etc. The 2007 meeting of IUE Commission is scheduled on 20 June 2007 at Washington DC along with IULTCS Congress. IUE World Environmental update is scheduled for presentation on 21 June 07 in the IULTCS Congress. The IUE Chairman interacts closely with China Leather Industry Association and other Asian Associations to include more members from Asian Region to IULTCS. The Chairman interacted with Mr. Ivan Kral, UNIDO to disseminate IUE documents as the UNIDO recognised publication with due reorganisation to IUE / IULTCS contribution. c). IUT Commission - Report by Prof Geoff
Attenburrow, Chair of the IUT Commission. • To compare and benchmark the various programmes on offer. • To better understand what type of training of human resource is needed to achieve the successful commercial exploitation of leather. • To formulate new cooperative developments between training providers • To promote the exchange of students/teachers between institutions IUT seeks to have a global membership and currently Spain, Germany, Italy, India, France, USA and UK are represented. A list of courses and syllabus details of are being assembled. A questionnaire seeking views on the training and education of leather professionals has been developed and distributed to a wide range of individuals. The results of the questionnaire will be made available on the IULTCS website. A second IUT meeting was held on 20 June in Washington DC and discussed the forthcoming IUT workshop at the International Leather Forum in Paris in September 2007. The next IUT meeting will be held at the Conseil National du Cuir in Paris on 21 August 2007. d) IUR Commission - Report by Dr Volkan Candar,
Chair of the IUR Commission Dr Candar was seeking assistance in the preparation of two documents for the ILF meting. The first would be a list of research centres around the world and the second would be a survey of research topics which had been investigated in recent years. All members of the IULTCS had been circulated asking them to assist in the collection of this information. 8. Any other business 9. Location and date of the next Council
of Delegates meeting.
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO 2005 IULTCS STATUTES A). ARTICLE 4 - Structure of the Union i). With the introduction of the two new Commissions (IUR and IUT) we need to amend the number of IU Chairpersons from 4 to 6. ii). It is proposed to add an additional paragraph at the end of Article 4 to allow Representatives of host nations who are organising a Regional Congress, under the auspices of the IULTCS, to have seats and voting rights on the Executive Committee. Article 4 is set out in full below with the proposed alterations and additional paragraph in italics. Article 4: The Union shall function through: The Council of Delegates consisting of: - The current President of each Member Society The Executive Committee consisting of: Four Officers: Regional Representatives: IU Chairpersons: IULTCS Congress Representatives: B). ARTICLE 17 - Union Congresses As you know, details of the IULTCS logo, flag and anthem have now been included in the Internal Regulations of the IULTCS. It is felt that there should be a reference to these items and the flag ceremony in the Statutes and it is suggested that the following addition should be included as a final paragraph in Article 17 of the IULTCS Statutes: "IULTCS Flag, IULTCS Anthem and IULTCS Logo A flag ceremony, accompanied by the adopted IULTCS anthem, should take place at the opening and closing ceremonies of the IULTCS Congress. At the closing ceremony the President of the host Association should hand the IULTCS flags over to the President of the host Association for the next IULTCS Congress. During both the opening and closing ceremony the anthem of the IULTCS, the "Air" from Suite No 1of Handel's Water Music in F Major, should be played. Full details of the IULTCS Logo, IULTCS Flag and IULTCS Anthem are listed in Article 22 of the IULTCS Internal Regulations." |
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