73rd FIDE Congress: 2002 FIDE General Assembly Agenda
FIDE publishes the Agenda of the FIDE General Assembly meeting that was held from 8 to 10 November 2002 in Bled, Slovenia. General Assembly Agenda 0.1. Constitution of the Committee tasked to establish the legality of the meeting (A.01. – 4.16) 0.2. Obituary We mourn the transition in the preceding year of friends of FIDE among whom we remember: Anthony Miles, GM (ENG) Edmar Mednis, GM (USA) Eugene Martinovsky, FM (USA) Hank G. Mostert, ICCF Honorary President, (NED) Akylbek Muratbekov, IA (KGZ) Marcel Caruana (MNC) Eduard Gufeld, GM (USA) 0.3. Report of the committee for legality of the meeting and closing of the register of proxies (A.01. – 4.16) FIRST DAY AGENDA (A.01. – 12.3 and 12.4) Items 1, 2 and 3 1. Report of the President President Kirsan N. Ilyumzhinov shall deliver his annual report. 2. Financial Report 2.1. Report of the Auditors Annex 1 is the Report of the FIDE External Auditors, Messrs Ernst & Young on the financial statement of FIDE for the period 1st January to 31st December 2001. 2.2. Treasurer David Jarrett to report. Annex 2 is the supplementary notes to the accounts. 2.3. Permanent Fund Report Annex 3 is the Report on the FIDE Permanent fund, by J. Bricola. Permanent Fund Administrator J. Bricola of Switzerland has submitted his letter of resignation to the President. Swiss Chess Federation as one of the three trustees of FIDE has been requested to appoint someone to replace him. 2.4. Report of Verification Commission Annex 4 is the Verification Commission report. 2.5. Discharge of the Treasurer General Assembly approves Treasurer`s report and discharges the Treasurer from his obligations. 3. Electoral Matters 3.1 Roll-Call 3.2 Appointment of three scrutineers 3.3 The list of candidates for elections into various FIDE offices are as follows : 3.3.1 Presidential tickets President : Mr. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov (Russia) Deputy President : Mr. Georgios Makropoulos (Greece) Vice President : Mr. P.T. Ummer Koya (India) General Secretary : Mr. Noureddine Tabbane (Tunisia) Treasurer : Mr. David Jarrett (England) * President: Mr. Ignatius Leong (Singapore) * Deputy President: Mr. Morten Sand (Norway) * Vice President : Mr. Lin Feng (China) * General Secretary : Mr. Jean-Claude Loubatiere (FRA) * Treasurer : Mr. Uvencio Blanco (Venezuela) * Under and by virtue of the agreement (Annex 6) made between representatives of the two Presidential tickets dated 21 September 2002, Mr. Ignatius Leong has withdrawn his Presidential ticket. 3.3.2 Continental Presidents (and other Continental Officials) to be decided at Continental Assembly Africa Mr. Slim Bouaziz (Tunisia) Mr. Nizar Eli Elhaj (Lybia) Mr. Lewis Ncube (Zambia) Mr. Lincoln Njenga (Kenya) Americas Mr. Jorge Vega (Mexico) Asia Mr. Khalifa Mohammed Al Hitmi (Qatar) Europe Mr. Boris Kutin (Slovenia) Mr. Javier Ochoa de Echaguen Estibalez (Spain) Mr. Jaan Ehlvest (Estonia) 3.4 Elections for membership of the Executive Board. 3.5 Elections for Zonal Presidents. 3.6 Elections for Commissions and Committees Ethics Commission Verification Commission Constitutional Committee Players` Council SECOND AND FOLLOWING DAYS AGENDA 4. Reopening of the register of proxies. Additional report of committee for legality of the meeting. Section A : Administrative Matters 5. Affiliations and Exclusions. 5.1. Affiliations. Presidential Board in the course of the year granted provisional membership to a number of Federations which list shall be published before the commencement of the General Assembly. 5.2 Exclusions. Cases of the Federations temporarily excluded for non fulfilment of their financial obligations toward FIDE shall be submitted to the General Assembly for decision on their definite exclusion. Section B: Constitutional Committee Proposed Amendments to Statutes and Regulations STATUTES (2/3 majority vote) 6.1. The Secretariat in consultation with FIDE`s Solicitors shall submit proposals on amendments to Statutes regarding the power of the Executive Board to carry out fully all the functions of the General Assembly on non-Olympiad years except matters of elections and change of statutes. 6.2. Annex 5 is the proposal of the USCF to split American Continent in two (also to be discussed at American Continental Assembly). 6.3. a) Annex 6 is the terms of the Agreement reached between the two Presidential tickets concerning inter alia the number of Vice Presidents (with right to vote) to be individually elected or nominated by the President of FIDE. b) Annex 6A is the original proposal of FIDE Zone President Ignatius Leong. 6.4. FIDE Treasurer shall submit a proposal to change statutes A.01.- 13.10 and 13.11 to cover expenses by credit card. 6.5. Players` Council. In the light of the Prague Agreement the Presidential Board recommends the adoption of the GM Steering Committee as assuming the functions of the Players` Council. REGULATIONS (simple majority vote) 6.6. After approval of Presidential Board (Doha July 4th 2002) General Secretary submits proposal on amendment to regulations regarding eligibility to participate In FIDE events (C.05) proposing : 1/ Players who play in FIDE events despite their non-eligibility, shall have an additional two years added to the period before being eligible to play. 2/ To cancel article 4.3 regarding resident players in the country of federation readmitted to FIDE. 3/ To cancel article 6 regarding transitional arrangements which are no longer valid. 6.7. After approval of Presidential Board (Moscow December 2001 and Doha July 2002) FIDE Treasurer submits 7 proposals to amend financial regulations. 6.7.1 (A.03 – 7.3): Entry fees to be waived for participants of organizing federation for all youth competitions. 6.7.2 (A.03. – 10.4): Late report service charge of CHF 100 for each report and invoices to be submitted to federations every quarter. 6.7.3 The regulation regarding action to be taken on rating and titles for players from no service Federation shall only be included in the &rsquoHandbook&rsquo under Financial regulations. It is proposed that tournaments submitted for rating by non-service Federation shall be returned to the Federation. There will be a delay of three months from the time a federation no longer receives service to the implementation of this regulation. 6.7.4 It is proposed that the entry fee for the World Amateur be set at CHF 50 for players who are not exempt from fee. 6.7.5 Some