PIANC
The World Association for
Brussels, April 28, 2017.
Waterborne Transport Infrastructure
To The ExCom members
To The Honorary Members
To The Honorary Vice-Presidents
To The First Delegates
To The Chairpersons
Subject: Agenda AGA 17.
Dear Colleagues,
We have the pleasure of sending you attached the preliminary agenda of the Annual General Assembly –
AGA, which will be held on June 19, at the Hilton Hotel in Cairns, Australia.
As you know, all working documents can be found in due time on the hidden page of the AGA:
http://www.pianc.org/calendaraga.php (login: AGA, password: water).
As you know, during this year’s AGA, Mr Van Schel will step down as Secretary-General and his successor, Mr
Geert Van Cappellen, will be inaugurated.
Following article 36 of the Rules & Regulations and in accordance with article 16 of the Statutes, this will be
done by a consensus agreement or by a simple majority of votes. To have a legal appointment, we kindly ask
the First Delegates, in case they are not able to attend the AGA themselves, to give proxy to their alternate
or in case nobody is representing their Qualifying Membership, to give proxy to one of the other Qualifying
Members.
Please find attached the necessary document. May we kindly ask to forward all proxies HQ before June 10,
2017.
We thank you beforehand for your kind collaboration and we are looking forward to seeing you in Cairns,
Yours sincerely,
Eng. Geoffroy Caude, Eng. Louis Van Schel,
President. Secretary-General.
-556895 -648335 ANNUAL GENERAL ASSEMBLY Cairns – Australia June 19, 2017 PROXY I , undersigned First D elegate of (name of your country/organisation) 󠄀 will be substituted by: Name : Function : Organisation : Address: … ………………………………………………………………………… 󠄀 n o representative of my country/ organis ation will participate in the meeting and I hereby declare to give proxy to : Name : First Delegate/representative of t o represent my country /organisation at the Annual General Assembly, June 19, 2017 in Cairns – Australia D ate … ….. /………./………. S ignature (preceded by the handwritten ‘ good for proxy ’ ) Please send this form before June 10, 2017 to Miss An Van Schel Fax: +32-2-553-71-55 or email:
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PIANC
The World Association for
Agenda AGA ‘17
Waterborne Transport Infrastructure June 19, 2017
Hotel Hilton – room?
Cairns - Australia
09.00-09.05 1. Welcome and approval of the agenda
09.05-09.15 2. Approval of the minutes of the AGA’16 of May 18, 2016 (doc AGA 17/2)
09.15-09.45 3. Report of activities by the President and Secretary-General
3.1. Report by the President
3.2. Report by the Secretary-General
09.45-10.05 4. Finances
4.1. Report by the Chairman of FinCom and approval of the balance
and income statement 2016
4.2. Audit report (doc AGA 17/4.2.a-b)
4.3. Discharge of the Council and FinCom members
4.4. Budget 2017 (doc AGA 17/4.4)
4.5. Business Plan 2018-2020 (doc AGA 17/4.4)
10.05-10.35 5. Matters of approval
5.1. Appointment of a new Vice-President
5.2. Appointment of a new Secretary-General
5.3. Changes to Rules & Regulations (doc AGA 17/5.3.a)
5.4. Honorary Memberships (doc AGA 17/5.4)
5.5. Resolution ’17 on Climate Change in Australasia
10.35-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-12.10 6. Overview of the 2016-2017 activities of the Technical Commissions by the Chairpersons
12.10-12.40 7. International Activities
7.1. PIANC-SMART Rivers 2017
7.2. NORD-PIANC 2017
7.3. 34th PIANC World Congress – Panama
7.4 New Mediterranean Days 2018
7.5. Candidacies organising future events (doc AGA 17/7.5)
12.40-14.10 Lunch break
14.10-14.50 8. Handing over PIANC-DPWA & Presentation
14.50-15.50 9. Task force 181 on the State and Perspectives of Waterborne Transport Infrastructure Worldwide
(doc AGA 17/9)
15.50-17.00 10. Re-shaping, planning/scheduling future PIANC events (World Congress, COPEDEC, SMART Rivers)
(doc AGA 17/10)
17.00-17.15 11. Any other business
Version April 28, 2017