Committee Members Attending

Dave Watterson (President)
Jeanne Glass (Vice-President)
Bernhard Lindner (Vice-President)
Jacqueline Pante (Secretary General)
Thomas Kräuchi (Treasurer)

Advisers:

Tatyana Alahverdzhieva
Mitze Chapovski
Wolfgang Freier
Franka Stas

Also Present

Eric Jaeger (President of the Congress)
Max Hänsli (Honorary President)
Tatyana Alahverdzhieva (Friends of UNICA)
Wolfgang Freier (UNICA Patronage)
Serge Michel (IFTC Liaison)
Claire Auda (Translations)
Odilon Dubost (Translations)
Romy Van Krieken (Translations)

Not Present

Zeljko Balog (Adviser)
Paweł Łęski  (Adviser)
Rolf Mandolesi (Adviser)

Members Present

Andorra
Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Croatia
Czech Republic
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Italy
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Netherlands
Norway
Romania
Russia
Slovakia
South Korea
Spain
Switzerland
United Kingdom

1. Opening address by the President of the Congress

Welcome by the Chairman of the Congress Erik Jaeger.

Claire Auda, Odilon Dubost, and Romy Van Krieken translate the meeting simultaneously into French, German and English.

2. Verification of the delegates’ authorities

Georgia
Hungary
Poland
Slovenia
Sweden
Tunisia
Ukraine

Part 2

• Patronage Report
• Film Librarian's Report
• "Friends of UNICA" Report
• Admission of new members

• Modification of the UNICA Statutes
• Proposals by FFCV
• Congress plans for the next three years
• Miscellaneous without a vote
  

Papers

• President's Report
• Committee Report by the General Secretary
• Treasurer's Report as a pdf
• Auditors' Report as pdf
• Patronage Report
• ICFT/CICT Liaison Report
• Report of the Friends of UNICA
• Proposals for change by FFCV (pdf)

3. AGM Organisation

Proposals by the Committee:

Chairman of the General Assembly - Dave Watterson
Secretary - Jacqueline Pante
Vote counters - Margreet Dyjk (NLD) and Rolf Leuenberger (CHE)

Approved unanimously.

4. Confirmation of the agenda

The agenda had been sent out by the General Secretary early in spring.  The Netherlands said they did not receive anything and therefore were not able to vote on the proposal of the FFCV. The proposal had been sent out in Spring to the National Organisations along with agenda. A printed copy was passed to  the Netherlands delegates.

Confimed unanimously.

5. Confirmation of the Secretary-General

Proposal by the committee to approve the appointment of Jacqueline Pante as Secretary-General.  (Statute 4.4.5 In the event of a member resigning, passing away or being relieved of his/her office during his/her term, the Committee has a right to co-opt new members to ensure continuation of activities. Such coopted members must be submitted for approval at the next General Assembly).

Approved unanimously

6. Minutes of the General Assembly
UNICA 2016 in Suceava (ROU)

The President proposed that Georg Schörner’s Minutes of the meeting should be approved. The minutes had been sent out in December 2016.

Approved: unanimously.

7 Address by the President of UNICA

At the request of the General Assembly, the address by the President is not dispatched beforehand, but presented personally by the President during the meeting. A summary is available here.

The President invited Ms. Doina Ieremie and Mr. Bushevski (deputy mayor of Suceava) to the stage. Both expressed appreciation and thanks for UNICA coming to Suceava in 2016 . In return the President stated UNICA’s appreciation for being the guests of the city in 2016.

The President explained, that it is very difficult to control all we do at UNICA, as we are from different cultures and countries. The best way was to take it as it came. The President reported several trips to festivals in the name of UNICA, giving the preference to those events, which have UNICA patronage. The vice presidents had also travelled to represent UNICA.

The committee had introduced some procedural changes this year, so on Saturday morning there would no longer be the public jury vote, but a workshop about plagiarism. The committee had started to think about shortening the UNICA congress.

He reminded delegates that if any of the National Organisations did not like the changes made, they should write to the General Secretary and their comments would be considered at the next committee meeting.

Austria - Georg Schörner : [While a microphone was being taken to him, the President called for applause for our former secretary general.]

Dr. Schörner said that the Austrian board had asked him to present some thoughts about the changes. Not having a public vote reduces the suspense for the audience, there is no way to trace back how the jury members voted. Furthermore they thought that the secret jury voting carries a risk of promoting certain countries, consciously or not. The Austrians thought, that this leads to huge disadvantages. However they were fair enough to see how it would work this year.