Minutes of the Member’s General Assembly of AMBA held on 30.3.2022 via video conference
- The AMBA Secretary General, Mr. Manolis Papastefanou, opened the assembly at 15:30. It was established that at least 56 members were participating at the video conference, so that the necessary quorum had been reached, since on 30.3.2022 AMBA had 166 Ordinary Members (Article 8 AMBA statute).
- The agenda for the assembly was unanimously approved with an amendment allowing Mr. Gary Flyng to give an update on the status of the appeals regarding the career system.
- The minutes of the last assembly were also approved unanimously.
- The Secretary General referred to the annual report, which covered the year 2021, and had been distributed to the members in advance. There were no comments from the Assembly.
- The Secretary General referred to the financial report, which was also distributed to the members in advance. The finances of the Association were healthy. The financial reserves of the Association on the 31.12.2021 amounted to 40 577,61 Euro. There were no comments nor questions from the Assembly.
- The Auditor, Mr. Beat Stoltz presented the report from the Auditors, Ms. Dorothea Prietzel-Funk and Mr. Beat Stoltz, which had been distributed to the members in advance. The Auditor confirmed that all expenditures were authorised and accounted for. No questions or comments were made from the Assembly. The Auditor suggested that the Committee should be discharged.
- The Assembly discharged unanimously the Committee and the Auditors for the year 2021.
- The Board proposed not to levy any membership fee for 2022 and Mr. Oskar Lechner proposed to donate the fee to the EPO for Ukraine initiative of the Amicale. After discussion, it was decided not to levy the membership and the members were invited to contribute individually to the fundraising initiative mentioned above.
- Ms. Dorothea Prietzel-Funk and Mr. Christof Schmidt presented themselves as candidates for Auditors in 2022. They were elected unanimously.
- Ms. Eleni Kossonakou and Mr. Richard Winkelhofer were unanimously elected to form the Electoral Committee for the elections of the Committee members
- Regarding the elections of the Committee members, it was explained that, according to the statute, the members of the Committee were elected by the members present at the Assembly.
The elections would last for the whole of the following day (31.3.2022). The results would be generated automatically by the POLYAS system and sent to the Electoral Committee for a check and announcement (see annex).
The Assembly agreed to this way of holding the elections. The list of participants in the General Assembly was established.
Five candidates for the Committee briefly presented themselves: Ms. Corinne Barel‑Faucheux, Mr. Pedro Cipriano, Mr. Paul de Heij, Mr. Thomas Zinke and Mr. Manolis Papastefanou.
- Mr. Gary Flyng gave an update on the status of the appeals regarding the career system.
- The Secretary General thanked the members attending and closed the Assembly.
- Announcement of the Results of the Elections
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