The 7th Annual Meeting in London

Posted on November 24, 2017 by - news

FULL PRESENTATION: click here

Following speakers had their presentations:

  • Honorary guest: Mr. Marcin Herra – Head of the MEN’s EHF Euro 2016 (download presentation: light PDF or MS PowerPoint file)
  • Hilton Worldwide – Sven Pasch Dir. Sport Events Hilton Worldwide (download presentation here)
  • Catalonia Tourist Board – Jordi Secall (download presentation here)
  • Dr. Shamendra Talwar – Football for Unity-  The Unity of Fights Foundation as CRM program.

 

  1.     AGM confirmed the validity of the General Assembly Meeting ( 39 active members present out of 62)  and accepted the agenda – open vote ( 39 votes  “for”).

2.    The official part  included the financial report , the  presentation of profit & loss and balance sheet for 1 July 2014 – 30 June 2015. All those documents were presented and voted for approval ( 39 votes  “for”) .  

3.    The plan and the budget till 30 June 2016 was accepted by open vote ( 39 votes  “for”).

4.    The auditor’s  ( Lilian Knechtli couldn’t come) statement was  read by Secretary General and  accepted by open vote ( 39 votes  “for”) .

5.      General Assembly accepted the minutes of last AGM in Budapest – by open vote ( 39 votes  “for”)

6.      The ISTAA Code of Conduct was accepted by open vote ( 39 votes  “for”)

7.      Annual Report and the budget till 30 June 2016 was presented   by Secretary General Barbara Dziedzic  and accepted by open vote ( 39 votes  “for”).

8.      Following resolutions of the 7th AGM were accepted by the open vote:

          8.1.Resolution no. 1 of the 7th ISTAA Annual General Meeting:
          First sentence of an Article XIV of the ISTAA Constitution will be changed:
          The management and administration of the Association consists of up to 9 members of the Board. ( 39 votes  “for”)

          8.2.Resolution no. 2 of the 7th ISTAA Annual General Meeting:
          Second sentence of an Article  XIV of the ISTAA Constitution will be changed into: The General Assembly votes  for the Members of the Board : President, Vice President and other Board Members ( 39 votes  “for”, one against)

          8.3.Resolution no. 3 of the 7th ISTAA Annual General Meeting:
          The new sentence of an Article XIV of the ISTAA Constitution will be added : It is possible to add or replace  the Board Members  between the AGMs in case of the resignation of the elected Board member due to the objective reasons. ( 39 votes  “for”)

          8.4.Resolution no. 4 of the 7th ISTAA Annual General Meeting:
          XI.3 Article of the ISTAA Statute will be changed into: The Membership will expire due to the following reasons:…… 3. Non-ethical behavior contrary to the ISTAA Code of Conduct ( 39 votes  “for”)

          8.5.Resolution no. 5 of the 7th ISTAA Annual General Meeting:
          The General Assembly accepts:
          -the financial balance 1.07.2014-30.06.2015
          -the budget for 1.07.2015-30.06.2016
          -the Auditor of Finance report  (39 votes “for”)

          8.6.Resolution no. 6 of the 7th ISTAA Annual General Meeting:
          Article II of the ISTAA Constitution: The Board proposes to the AGM to change the address of the registered office of the ISTAA Association from ISTAA member TravelClub Zurich to the neutral office by the end of 2016. ( 39 votes  “for”)

9.  After Working lunch the networking session took place.

10.  Discussion in 3 working groups:

  • “Euro 2016” led by Vincent Delmas
  • “Olympic Games Brazil led by Yoav Bruck
  • “MEN’s EHF Euro 2016 & other main events 2016 & 17” led by Zebby Wróbel

11.  During open discussion the ISTAA President Zebby Wróbel underlined the important issues in the relation between ISTAA and the organizers of the sports events like: early communication, precising the expectations on both sides, predicting the number of tickets for Istaa members, develop trust to ISTAA and awareness of the association building the awareness of the event , standardize the expectations and giving feedback after the event to the organizer. Two  other group leaders  concluded the discussion by the call for the cooperation and   creating  dedicated google groups to be formed to  speed the communication in the future and reduce spam.

12.  Networking session was very fruitful, but members asked to improve the speed date system by the timing option to make it even more effective.

13.  Closing of the meeting , the discussion about the date and place of next meeting . Extended 1.5-2 day next Annual Meeting was discussed. Sven Pasch  indicated Hilton hotels where special conditions for next ISTAA AGM would apply ( in Berlin, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Athens, Istanbul, Barcelona and Tel Aviv) . More valuable speakers are expected. Presentations of the important sports events should be done with more advance.
Zebby Wrobel summarized the options by giving the guideline for creating the specific offers from the members ( complex organization, sponsoring, excel estimation, draft of the program etc) . Secretary General will collect the offers and present to the Board.

14.  Behind the scenes tour (the tour of Chelsea FC) was very interesting. More networking was possible at the Gala Dinner at „Marco Grill” . Pictures and slide-presentation are loaded on ISTAA secret website.

Keeper of the minutes
Barbara Dziedzic- Secretary General