Sweden and Germany Proposal for AGM 2004, Tuchola, Poland

IGF Membership Fees for European Countries

The classification of European IGF members with respect to the IGF membership 
fee is slightly out of date. We suggest that it is easier for the EGF than 
for the IGF to keep the classification updated and propose that the EGF 
should be made responsible for this. Moreover we suggest that the same size 
measure should be used as in the pairgo selection, i.e. the size is 
calculated as the smaller number of the following two numbers
1) The number members that the national association has paid for as EGF fee 
   the previous year. This number is at least 100.
2) Twice the number of players in the country with rating GoR > 1000 in the 
   official EGF rating list of December the previous year.

Countries with a size greater than 500 should fall into class B with respect to IGF fee and countries with a size of 95 or larger into class C. All others 
should pay the IGF fee for class D.

For 2004, the new classification becomes:

Group B ( 4 x 48000 Yen )

Germany, size: 1613
France,	       948
United Kingdom 690
Netherlands    508

Group C (14 x 24000 Yen)

Russia,        280
Czechia,       200
Italy,	       194
Sweden,	       141
Finland,       107
Belgium,       100
Hungary,       100
Poland,        100
Romania,       100
Switzerland,   100
Spain,	       100
Ukraine,       100
Slovenia,       98
Austria,        96

Group D (14 x 12000 Yen)

Slovakia,       82
Serbia-Monten.,	80
Denmark,        68
Norway,	        58
Croatia,        48
Lithuania,      40
Bosnia,         36
Ireland,        26
Luxemburg,      22
Israel,	        10
Armenia,         6
Turkey,          6
Belorussia,      4
Portugal,        0

Total fees: 696 000 Yen

This is to be compared with the IGF budget for this year, where the European 
countries were classified as follows:

Group B:	France, Germany, Netherlands, U.K.
(4 x 48000 Yen)

Group C: 	Austria, Croatia, Czech R., Denmark, Hungary, Israel, Norway, 
                Poland, Russian Fed., Serbia & Montenegro, Slovenia, 
                Sweden, Switzerland
(13 x 24000 Yen)

Group D:	Armenia, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Finland,  
                Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Portugal, Romania,  
                Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine.
(15 x 12000 Yen)

Total fees: 684 000 Yen.

On Behalf SGA and DGB
Henric Bergaker 
Secretary SGA
Martin Stiassny
President DGB