Annual General Meeting 2009 of the European Go Federation
Meeting will take place at 20:00 on 31st July 2009 in Groningen, Netherlands

Agenda

 1. Opening of the meeting 

 2. Verifying presence and voting rights 

 3. Accepting the agenda 

 4. International Matters:
 a.   Presentations from other International bodies
 b.   Confirmation of Victor Bogdanov as replacement IGF Director
 c    Nomination of Martin Stiassny as continuing IGF Director
 d.   Report from IGF Directors 
 e.   Anti-Doping Policy 
 f.   Go and Olympics - the way forward
         Do players have to join country associations?
 g.   EGF application for Association Membership of IGF
 h.   International event captains        
 i.   Cooperation with EGCC

 5. Acceptance of previous year's AGM minutes 

 6. Admission of new members (none) and updates from candidates

 7. Reports of the President, Secretary, Treasurer 

 8. Report of the Auditors 

 9. Reports of chairmen of existing Commissions 
 a.   Rules - International Rules?
 b.   Ratings - relationship with EGD?
 c.   Strong Players 

10. Election of Executive officers and auditors 
 a.   The nominations for executive: 
        Martin Stiassny for EGF President  (PL NL CZ SK ES RU AZ BY)
        Tony Atkins for EGF Secretary  (PL NL CZ SK ES RU AZ BY)
        Hans Kostka for EGF Treasurer  (PL NL CZ SK ES)
        Jana Hricova for EGF Vice-President  (PL NL CZ SK ES)
        Leszek Soldan for EGF Vice-President  (PL NL CZ SK ES)
        Oleg Gavrilov for Vice-President (RU AZ BY)
        Matti Siivola for EGF officer (PL NL CZ SK ES FI RU AZ BY)
        Ales Cieply for EGF officer (PL NL CZ SK ES)
        Oleg Gavrilov for EGF Officer (RU AZ BY)
 b.   Auditors: 
      Arnaud Knippel (?), Thilo Burkhardt (?)

11. Budgets - EGF's financial future? 
 a.   Motion to increase membership fee
 b.   Proposal to suspend support rules for EYGC when no sponsor
 c.   Presentation for Comment of Budgets 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 

12. Appointment of Commissions

13. European Go Congresses 
 a.   Accounting requirements - reports from past tournaments
 b.   Comments on 2009: Groningen, Netherlands 
 c.   Progress report on 2010: Finland 
 d.   Progress report on 2011: France 
 e.   Progress report on 2012: Germany 
 f.   Selection of hosts for 2013: Poland and ?
 g.   Expressions of interest in later years (2014 Russia, Czechia)

14. European Tournament Calendar - Selection of hosts 
 a.   Youth Championship 2011 - Brno, Czechia?
 b.   Student Championship 2011 - Praha, Czechia?
 c.   Pair Go 2010 and 2011 
 d.   Women's Championship 2011
 f.   Team Championship 2011 

15. Rules Proposals 
 a.   Proposal to deduct 76 Pair Go points from 6 countries supported at WMSG
 b.   Proposal to award more age group prizes at EYGC
 c.   Proposal to award PGEC tournament prizes by same rule as tournament points
 d.   Proposal to adopt new EC Rules 
 e.   Rules for selection and level of PGEC tournaments
 f.   Definition of European Player (carried forward from 2008)
 g.   Formalise and record the rules of the Championships (carried forward from 2008)

16. Any other business