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MEETING OF THE MEDITERRANEAN LEATHER CHEMISTS SOCIETIES. CANCUN, MEXICO, MAY 31ST 2003
The above mentioned members agreed in this meeting on the following proposal:
Mandate as Mediterranean representative at the I.U.L.T.C.S. council :
France will continue it's mandate till 2005. Italy
will participate as aggregate member ti[¡ 2005, and will became
representative in the period 2005 - 2009. Spain's mandate will be
for the period 2009 - 2013, and Turkey will cover the period 2013
- 2017.
The mandate of the Mediterranean representative at
the LU.L.T.C.S. council will rotate between the member countries every
four years and in the following order: France, Italy, Spain and Turkey
and will be reviewed with the incorporation of new countries members
of our region. Gustavo Defeo - Italy F.L.A.Q.T.I.C RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS In the city of Buenos Aires, on 9th. October, 2004 the following people are gathered at the Argentine Association of Chemists and Technicians for the Leather Industry to celebrate the XVI LATIN AMERICAN CONGRESS OF QUEMISTS AND TECHNICIANS FOR THE LEATHER INDUSTRY, the F.L.A.Q.T.I.C. delegates: Regina Cánovas Texeira (Brazil), Patricia Casey de Polzinetti (Argentine Republic), Evelise de Oliveira (Brazil), Ricardo Echezuri (Argentine Republic), Roberto Escobar (Argentine Republic), Miguel Espinoza Fello (Paraguay), Gustavo Ferrel ((Bolivia), Jorge Ghiglione (Argentine republic), Hans Grundner (Bolivia), Freddy Juro Pinto (Peru), Carlos Ghillerme Kiefer (Brazil), Enrique Kruk (Argentine Republic), Jorge Larreinegable (Paraguay), Ignacio Pérez (Uruguay), José Pérez Castañón (Chile), Jorge Schroer (Brasil), Jaime Vargas Pinto (Bolivia) y José Antonio Vivanco (Peru) to deal with the following agenda: 1. Quorum Verification. Item 1. The attendance roll is checked. Item 4. It is informed to the assistants that a report from ACOLCUR has arrived, signed by Juan Manuel Salazar A. and Carlos Ricaurte D, president and vice-president respectively, of this entity; the report is summarized herein. It refers to the difficult financial situation the Colombian tanning industry is going through as a consequence of the loss of value of the dollar, the price increase of local crust leather, the transformation of the industry in Wet Blue exporter and the decline of finishing plants caused by the massive importation of footwear from Eastern countries. In spite of that, ACOLCUR participated actively in the national context in the Normalization Committees, the environmental discussion Committees, the organization of local congresses and the planning of training meetings; at the I.U.L.T.C.S. (where they are up to date with payments) it keeps an active membership. Furthermore, the publication of the ACOLCUR magazine was kept. The report finishes wishing success on the celebration of the XVI F.L.A.Q.T.I.C Congress. Item 5. Mrs. Regina Cánovas Texeira, delegate from Latin America at the I.U.L.T.C.S., explains that the tasks of this organization are centered on the “standardization” of regulations. Any entity can be a member of the I.U.L.T.C.S by paying the installments and defines its function as that of a treasury and secretarial office, being responsible for making a report of the F.L.A.Q.T.I.C activities. She explains that apart from technical and regulation activities, every country member of I.U.L.T.C.S. can appoint representatives for other areas: physics, chemistry, environment. She has to present the next report to the Executive Committee before October 20th. She talks about the problem of not being able to be present in all meetings because of the cost, so she communicates by mail but many times does not receive feedback. Nevertheless she believes the place of Latin America is being revalued. To a question about the management of power within the International Union, Cánovas T. answers that there are authorities and delegates assigned by the member Associations, referring to the bylaws. The composition is the following: Executive Committee and delegates (one for North America, one for North Europe, one for Central Europe, one for Eastern Europe, one for Mediterranean Europe, one for Southeast Asia, one for India and China, one for Africa and one for Latin America). She emphasizes that the main objectives are technical ones, trying to unify specification methods for the leather industry to get to the ISO. Item 6. Eng. Escobar says that there
is a power game that he is not familiar with and states that we, Latin
American countries have to solve our problems, independently from
the decisions taken by central countries and he asks: How can we get
more participation at the I.U.L.T.C.S.? Canovas affirms that favorable
changes have been noticed since the moment Eng. Salazar Arango is
managing, for example: the figures are clear, we get the receipts
and the amount of information has increased. He suggests working with
a more fluent communication and with more than one representative
for Latin America, this will be proposed in the next meeting in Italy.
Mr. Hans Grundner states the need of a structural reform, a bigger
one and Mr. Kiefer thinks that in that organization the English people
are the ones in control and he asks himself Why can´t we have
three delegates? The Argentine president says that since Latin America
has a representative in the Executive Committee, two more delegates
for the region could be proposed, having then, three as a result.
Lic. Patricia de Polzinetti says that she participated in the Naples
meeting and subscribes to Mr. Kiefer´s words as regards the
English control, attributing it to the fact that they have many investigation
institutes which are very strong but in Latin America, she adds, there
is a lot of leather, there are many people working in the area and
these people work really well. As regards this, Canovas adds that article 8 from the bylaws is being reviewed to make all members of the F.L.A.Q.T.I.C. receive information - even if they are not members of the International Union - through the Latin-American organization. José Pérez Castañón adds that it is important to strengthen it avoiding the associations to leave it. There is a doubt as regards the duration of Regina Canovas’ mandate as delegate of the I.U.L.T.C.S and she clarifies that it is until 2007, according to the new revision approved in Cancun. Eng. Escobar suggests Regina to remain in her position and Salazar to enter as Vice-president. The delegate from Chile suggests that Argentina should add one more delegate and with Chile’s support, the president of the Argentine Association proposes Lic. Patricia Casey de Polzinetti for that position, due to her broad experience and her knowledge of the regulations, this is voted and approved unanimously. In this way, with the representatives from Brazil and Argentina and a member in the Executive Committee, three people would represent Latin America. Item 7. As regards the election of a new site for the next Latin American Congress, they start by evaluating the preparation conditions of an event of such a magnitude, in this sense Eng. Escobar says that it is very difficult to get unpublished works when international congresses are organized so often, suggesting as a possibility making regulations flexible with the acceptance of already edited works or to create new participation methods, as for example round tables. Regina Canovas suggests inviting somebody who having presented works in some other congresses, can participate as a panel member or present posters. To accomplish this she suggests, as an activity, reviewing the F.L.A.Q.T.I.C bylaws. Gustavo Ferrel, from Bolivia, suggests giving more decision power to the scientific commission and thinks that the acceptance limit for works should not be established by the condition of unpublished. The president of Brazil emphasizes that it is necessary the formation of new technicians and the president of Argentina, that it is the task of the organizers of a congress to get new works, being conscious of the difficulties. The representative from Chile suggests gathering efforts and asking the governments, based on the experience of his country, where they only got attention when the groups from leather and footwear got together, to which Eng. Escobar added that in Argentina the topics dealt with are only technical ones without showing the interests of the area. Mr. Vivanco tells that in Peru they do not have investigation centers and suggests that the associations should contribute with at least one work each. It is commented on that a pending activity is to call for the presentation of the most quantity of works but results are not always reached. Lic. Patricia de Polzinetti comments that not even for Florence are there works from Latin America and one of the problems which appear is the calculation of time, so more flexibility should be contemplated to compensate for that failure. Mr. Vivanco insists on the fact that if the effort is made on making sure that one work per association is presented, not only would the problem be solved but also it would rescue new local realities. Mr. Ricardo Echezuri says that they should not demand the works to be scientific, since if they are technical they are representative enough of the work performed daily. The delegate from Bolivia gives practical examples of solutions for problems they had in their country, which could be interesting to show. Eng. Escobar says that congresses show people’s training, and this should be also searched in small companies and he poses the debate on the new site for the Latin American Congress. The representative of Paraguay, Miguel Espinosa, summarizes his country’s situation, where in spite of the efforts made, the association is almost disintegrated, stating that the economic situation is demoralizing (80 % of the hides leave as wet blue) and they cannot count on businessmen or technicians motivation to have participation. Escobar says that in Argentina we considered as an achievement to have the support of six big tanning companies for the welcome cocktail. Mr. Mauricio Herzovich, specialized journalist, offers his space on the web for the associations to communicate among themselves free of charge. Uruguay and Brazil are proposed. Uruguay’s representative says that they are coming out from a dispersion time, that they are remaking the association and he believes they are not capable of organizing an event of such a magnitude yet, but he promises to get involved in the next one in 2007. Brazil is proposed to be the country for the XVII Latin American Congress of Chemists and Technicians for the Leather Industry, which is voted by most of the attendants. After that, Eng. Escobar hands over the folder with the F.L.A.Q.T.I.C. documentation to Mr. Carlos Kiefer, on assuming as the new president, according to the bylaws in force. Being that all, the meeting is closed at 9 pm. . Mr. Jaime Cot cospe and Mr. Marsal attended as guests
once the Meeting was over to deal with some topics related to the
I.U.L.T.C.S. The first person explained that a professional association
directs the Union where he is the president, Juan Manuel Salazar is
the vice-president and John Williams occupies the position of secretary
- treasurer (positions which were unified). The representatives represent
the different areas, which are nine as a whole (two for Asia; four
for Europe; one for Africa; one for the United States and one for
Latin America). He proposed that because of the importance of Latin
America, it would be convenient for this region to have two representatives.
The F.L.A.Q.T.I.C. delegates replied that the assembly had voted two
more delegates plus Juan Manuel Salazar, who is vice-president. For
this reason, they evaluated whether a change of bylaws was necessary
and whether it was convenient to divide Latin America in two regions,
in the same way that Europe is divided in four. As regards the financial aspect, Mr. Cot says that there are associations which owe some installments, that the Union has expenses to cover – although many positions are covered without receiving salaries or fees – and added that he has to charge 10 % over the money collected in concept of enrollment installments for the Congresses their members organize. Going back to the Latin America representation at the I.U.L.T.C.S the president of the Argentine Association suggested the incorporation of two delegates, that would at this moment be incorporated to the position of Jun M. Salazar as vice-president, therefore, confirming the decision from the assembly of Latin American delegates, being proposed: Regina Cánovas Texeira as delegate for the first region of Latin America and Patricia Casey de Polzinetti as delegate for the second region. The areas will be divided as follows: Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, as one area, and Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay, Bolivia and Argentina, as another. Eng. Escobar proposed the American associations that do not belong to the International Union to be in touch through the F.L.A.Q.T.I.C. The specialized editor Mauricio Herzovich also offered his help so that the Latin American associations had the possibility of communicating through the web page he manages.
MAIN AGREEMENTS FLAQTIC / IULTCS The last day of the Congress, there was a meeting and the following people participated: Regina Canovas Texeira (representative of FLAQTIC at IULTCS), Patricia Casey de Polzinetti (representative of FLAQTIC at IULTCS), Carlos Kiefer (president of ABQTIC), Roberto Escobar (president of AAQTIC), Hans Grundner (Vice-president of ABOQUITEC), Jorge Larreinegable (president of APQTIC), Ignacio Pérez (representative of AUQTIC), José Pérez Castañón (president of ACHIQTEC), Freddy Juro Pinto (representative of APEQTIC) and Jaume Cot (president of IULTCS). The attendants performed a written agreement, where they agreed on the following:“The topics agreed on among FLAQTIC attendants and Dr. Jaime Cot, president of IULTCS, were: 1) To support the importance of the FLAQTIC associations in unifying and making uniform the regulations and technical specifications for the leather industry, by actively participating in the international normative committees and revealing the materials for its associates. 2) The FLAQTIC Associations will be able to buy at low cost a set of the ISO/IU Leather Standards from the IULTCS. The FLAQTIC Associations may publish in their journals /web page the abstracts of the ISO Leather Standards of the IULTCS, and eventually could translate them into spanish language in a combine role with the correspondent ISO National Members Body of Latinoamerica. 3) IULTCS will participate on future
Latinoamerican Congresses with the presence of its President, Vicepresident,
and/or other Members of the Executive Committee; in addition IULTCS
will supply all its infraestructure, knowledge and will ensure that
an advert is placed in all main Journals, such as : Leather, World
Leather, JSLTC, JALCA, etc announcing broad details of the FLAQTIC
Congress. 4) The FLAQTIC Associations will select "Two Regional Representatives” for the Executive Committee of the IULTCS, working together according to the following criteria, dividing in two regions respectively: North of Latin America (L.A. North) Countries: South of Latin America (L.A. South) Countries: A third Regional Representative will be included in a block chaired by Mexico with straight contact with the National Leather Societies from Central America; in order to encourage them to become new Members of IULTCS.The Mexican Associations will be consulted later as regards their participation in FLAQTIC and in IULTCS in that sense.
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