Summary of Annual General Meeting 2012 of the European Go Federation
Meeting was held at 18:00 on Thursday 26th July 2012 in 
Stadthalle, Bad Godesberg, Bonn, Germany

 1. Opening of the meeting 

 2. Verifying presence and voting rights 
      23 members were present and able to vote.

 3. Accepting the agenda 
      13b was taken before 4 and 9a/b before 11.

 4. International Matters:
 a. Presentations from other International bodies:
      None

 b. Appointment of continuing IGF Director from May 2013
      Martin Finke is to be nominated to the IGF

 c. Report from IGF Directors
      The report of Martin Finke and Martin Stiassny was circulated.

 d. Report of EGCC Supervisory Board
      The Supervisory Board had met in March. The EGCC is running more events,
      such as its 20 year anniversary one, the Iwamoto Award and the videos.

 5. The previous year's AGM minutes were accepted.

 6. Admission of new members and updates from Candidates:
      Kazakhstan was welcomed as the 37th EGF member. The status of other 
      non-members was discussed, eg Estonia had run an EC Tournament.

 7. Reports 
 a. President
      Martin Stiassny's report was circulated, emphasising the WMSG. 
 b. Secretary
      Tony Atkins gave a short report on admin and the website.
 c. Treasurer 
      Hans Kostka reported concern over lax member payments and the meeting
      shared his concern about the misuse of the reduced fee option.

 8. Report of the Auditors for 2011
      Thilo Burkhardt reported that they had only been able to answer all
      questions with the treasurer at the congress. They found all bookings were
      correct and the finances were in good order. However some countries were
      not reporting their member numbers accurately. The accounts were accepted.

 9. Reports of officers/chairmen of existing Commissions 
 a. Tournaments
      Matti Siivola, as Officer, reported on the success of the European Cup 
 b. Rules
      Matti Siivola, as Chairman, reported on the referee workshop in Bordeaux 
      and recent rules updates.
 c. Ratings 
      No report had been received, neither from the chairman nor from EGD. 
      A report must be received next year.
 d. Youth
      Jana Hricova reported there was no budget for new projects, only events.
 e. Appeals
      No report received, but it was believed no appeals had been heard.

10. Election of Executive officers and auditors 
 a. Having thanked Matti Siivola and Alex Cieply for their time on executive, 
    the meeting elected the executive as follows: 
      Martin Stiassny for EGF President 
      Tony Atkins for EGF Secretary  
      Hans Kostka for EGF Treasurer  
      Jana Hricova and Leszek Soldan for EGF Vice-President
      Li Ting and Lorenz Trippel for EGF officer 
 b. Auditors: Thilo Burkhardt and Michal Zubalik, with reserve auditors
      Steffi Hebsacker and Leo Dal Zovo

There was a break from 20:00 to 20.20.

11. Budgets
 a. Presentation for Comment of Budgets 2012 and 2013 
      These were approved after a discussion of travel and equipment costs.

12. Appointment of Commissions
 a. Tournaments – work now assigned to executive.
 b. Rules – continuing with Matti Siivola and Robert Jasiek.
 c. Ratings – it was not clear on its current purpose, so would be suspended.
 d. Youth – this will be now assigned to executive.
 e. Appeals – continues as it is in the constitution.
 f. Promotion – this was suggested, but will not be started.

13. European Go Congresses 
 a. Financial report from 2011 Bordeaux, France: A surplus of about 5000 euro
      was made, with 841 participants and 250000 euro budget, thanks to support.
 b. Comments on 2012 Bonn, Germany: There had been some clock problems but all
      else was making for a very good congress. There was concern that some
      players refused to play a blind opponent – this should be forbidden.
 c. Progress report on 2013: Poland. Will now be in Olsztyn – registration open
 d. Progress report on 2014: Sibiu, Romania. Flyers were available.
 e. Progress report on 2015: Liberec, Czechia.
 f. Selection of hosts for 2016: After three presentations and questions,
      voting eliminated Turkey (they were not represented) and Slovakia  
      (Bratislava), and then Russia (St Petersburg) beat Spain (Madrid) 12-11.

14. European Tournament Calendar - Selection of hosts 
 a. Short updates were received from the 2012/2013 selected hosts
 b. Youth Championship – 2014 agreed for Bognor Regis, UK.
 c. Student Championship - 2014 Toulouse, France.
 d. Pair Go - 2013 Amsterdam (EGCC); 2014 Helsinki, Finland
 e. Women's Championship - 2013 Leksand, Sweden; 2014 no host

15. Proposals from Members
    None

16. Any other business 
 a. Netherlands are making a new play box for children.
 b. Martin Stiassny proposed holding the AGM on Mondays – rejected.
 c. Austria requested a report of Go sets stock be provided at the AGM.
 d. Italy asked about the European Professional scheme – this has stalled
      as it has no sponsor.
 e. Austria suggested some of the EGF funds be kept out of the euro-zone 
      in case of financial crisis.
 f. Martin Finke reminded that online registration was available for WMSG.

Meeting closed 22:27.