FIG Council Meets in Copenhagen
FIG Office, Copenhagen, 28-29 January 2006
The FIG Council had its first meeting this year in the FIG
Office in Copenhagen 28-29 January 2006. As this was the first face-to-face
meeting since the Working Week in Cairo, there were many strategic issues on
the agenda. The Council also discussed many issues related to the FIG
Congress 2006 and General Assembly in Munich in October and to the Regional
Conference in Accra in March 2006.
Under membership issues the Council approved membership
applications from four member associations and decide to propose these for
the General Assembly for its approval. These new members are the Institution
of Surveyors of Tanzania (IST) from Tanzania, Syndicat National des
Géomètres-Topographes et Assimilés du Bénin (SYNAGETAB) from Benin, The
Iranian Society of Surveyors (ISS) from the Islamic Republic of Iran and the
Federation des Ingenieurs Géomètres-Topographes (Geométrè Pluriel Asbl) from
the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Council also approved 7 new
academic members from Greece, Belgium, France, USA, Romania, Australia and
United Kingdom. At the same time two academic members have resigned from the
federation.
The Council also approved three new corporate members: PV
Publications Ltd. from United Kingdom and GIS Development from India to
membership category E (basic level) and Galileo Instruments, Inc. from USA
to membership category F (regional level).
The Council confirmed the re-arrangements of the FIG Office
including the appointment of Mr. Per Wilhelm Pedersen as the first
FIG Office Manager. The Council also reviewed the implementation of the FIG
Work Plan 2003-2006 and decided on actions needed to complete the work plan.
Further the procedure of preparing the work plan for 2007-2010 was
discussed. The Council also received an interim report from the Task force
on the FIG Governance Structure.
Quite a lot of time was used to discuss the arrangements of
the next FIG meetings in Accra, Munich, Hong Kong, Stockholm, Israel and
Sydney.
The Council approved the accounts from 2005 and confirmed
membership fees for corporate, affiliate and academic members for 2006.
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