Summary of Annual General Meeting 2010 of the European Go Federation Meeting was held at 19:00 on 30th July 2010 in Hotel Cumulus, Tampere, Finland 1. Opening of the meeting 2. Verifying presence and voting rights 25 members were present and able to vote, plus Latvia 3. Accepting the agenda Item 16c was withdrawn, some items moved (eg item 4). 4. International Matters: a. Presentations from other International bodies: Mr Zhang Wendong, on behalf of Mr Liu Simming (IGF Office Director), announced new World Women’s Championship. Mr Matsuura, President WPGA, was introduced. Mrs Taki, President PandaNet, announced new Pandanet European Go Team Championship with online leagues and finals at EGC, replacing sponsorship of the Go European Cup. Mr Kim Sung-Rae of the Korean Go School in Budapest was introduced and suggested a European pro system could be set up. b. Nomination of replacement IGF Director from May 2011 Martin Finke 14, Matti Siivola 1, Oleg Gavrilov 6, Igor Grishin 5 c. Report from IGF Directors Martin Stiassny talked about Go at the Asian Games 2010, Sport Accord Games 2011, WMSG 2012, changes to IGF organisation and other matters. d. Cooperation with EGCC Financial problems now over so work on Go projects can restart under Direction of Supervisory Board (meeting next day). Jean-Yves Papazoglou and Catalin Taranu recommended to join Supervisory Board. More information on activities to be made available (Annual Reports publication requested (CZ)). 5. The previous year's AGM minutes were accepted. 6. Admission of new members: Latvia was admitted, provided they correct 2 discrepancies. Georgia was accepted as Observer Member. 7. Reports a. President Reported on the change from Ing money and new sponsors, being more Sport-like, Pair Go, WAGC, international ratings and how the executive was meeting more. b. Secretary A short report on admin was given. c Treasurer Equity down 6000 euro. Only 46 percent members paid on time. Late payment charge to be enforced. 8. Report of the Auditors: The auditors recommended acceptance of the 2008-09 accounts (inspected during EGC 2009) and 2009-10 accounts (inspected during EGC 2010). Level of information recording needs improving. 9. Reports of chairmen of existing Commissions a. Rules Referees Workshop organised and rules proposals checked. b. Ratings No report received c. Youth Jana Hricova reported on EYGC and results at WYGC in Taiwan, and other issues. d. Strong Players No report as not functioned. 10. Election of Executive officers and auditors a. The executive was reelected: Martin Stiassny for EGF President Tony Atkins for EGF Secretary Hans Kostka for EGF Treasurer Jana Hricova and Leszek Soldan for EGF Vice-President Matti Siivola and Ales Cieply for EGF officer b. Auditors: Thilo Burkhardt and Ilona Crispien 11. Budgets a. Approval of countries applying for reduction in 2010 Can be done by executive. b. Proposal to revert minimum membership fee to 50 euro (IE) Defeated (6-12-3) c. Proposal to change EGF accounting year to calendar year from Jan 2011 Accepted. d. Presentation for Comment of Budgets 2010 and 2011 Accepted - sponsorship of Team Champs will improve it. e. Proposal to report accounts three months before AGM (CZ) Now possible as year changed. 12. Appointment of Commissions Appeals must be set up. Strong Players should be restarted. 13. European Go Congresses a. Financial reports from past tournaments (CZ) Already a requirement. The accounts for 2009 were presented. b. Comments on 2010: Tampere, Finland - No meeting area only problem. Details of prize fund distributed. c. Progress report on 2011: France Bordeaux d. Progress report on 2012: Germany now near Cologne e. Progress report on 2013: Poland f. Selection of hosts for 2014: Russia, St Petersburg 12 votes and Sibiu, Romania 13 votes. Romania selected. g. Expressions of interest in later years 14. European Tournament Calendar - Selection of hosts a. Youth Championship - 2012 No host b. Student Championship - 2012 St Petersburg, Russia c. Pair Go - 2011 Turkey and 2012 Lyon, France d. Women's Championship - 2012 Czechia f. Team Championship 2011 - event now held online 15. European Championship System Proposals 4 options voted on a) Alex Dinerchtein' system - 1 b) BGA's system - 15 c) Martin Stiassny's system - 8 d) EGF Executive's system - 0 b) Knockout after 7 rounds adopted. Rules Commission with sort details. 16. Proposals from Members a. Prizes at EGC (RO and RU) It was agreed that it was too risky for organisers to work this way. It was now guaranteed sponsor money would support European prizes. b. European Professionals at EGC (RO) The new Team Tournament prizes would help support our players at EGC. c. Rating System only open for national Go association members (CZ) Item withdrawn. d. President to report quarterly (CZ) A greed one member will report quarterly if not president. e. Top Players to vote at EGF AGM (RU) No support, but they should get more involved. f. World Cup selections (RU) The proposal was accepted (15-2-7). g. New Champions League (RO) Accepted as good idea; EuroGoTV offered to organise it. h. Situation, location and staff of EGCC (RO) Already discussed. 17. Any other business a. Italy reported the new FIGG board and on unity in the country. b. There was a complaint that the qualifying for Sport Accord Games was announced too late and that the team tournament was too soon. Also the event details have changed. The qualifying will be amended. Meeting closed 02:15.