Scintilena - English Version

Dear Friends
This email to give you the highlights of the FSE GAM that happenned on Saturday at Hidden Earth :

* On 25 member countries, 19 were present and 4 gave a valid proxy.
* The opening of EuroSpeleo Projects to Euro-Mediterranean projects (with Africa & Middle East) have been adopted.
* The ICEdb project (International Caving Expeditions database) has been officially launched by the General Assembly.
* The procedure to take decisions by electronic vote have been officially adopted by the GAM.
* The ECPC Internal Regulations will be validated by electronic vote after email debate on some specific points.
* The General Assembly will now have a meeting every year.
* Some changes have occured with the fees (cf. email from Manuel Freire to the FSE delegates).
* Juan Carlos Lopez and Olivier Vidal have been reconducted in their positions of President and Secretary General.
* A working group will make a proposal during next GAM of European regulations about vertical techniques competitions, in which such competitions would be forbidden in caves.

A draft of the detailled meeting report should be ready within few days, and the final version should be broadcasted by mid-october.
This Hidden Earth edition seems to be the biggest one ever organised with more than 800 participants from more than 25 present countries.
Again a big Thanks and congratulations to the BCA and the organisers,

For your information, Beal, the FSE Official Partner for caving ropes, has informed us that they will officially launch a revolutionnary new type of caving rope early October. We should be able to send you more information in some days.
Wishing you a nice speleological week,

Kind regards,

for the Bureau,
Olivier Vidal
Secr. General FSE
+33 6 81 61 16 70
Email : contact@eurospeleo.org

Web : www.eurospeleo.org
Forums : http://fsue.org/forums/

This email to inform you that if you want to participate to the Saturday evening dinner at Hidden Earth, you need to register before the congress online because the organisers assume that it will not be possible to register for it on the congress-site (limited capacity).
You can do so on :
http://caves.org.uk/payments/he09/

If you are the national delegate and your name is on the attached list, you can put “none” for the “Admission booked in advance” since the BCA give you a free admission for the congress (1 person per country)

To pay by bank card you may choose the “Paypal payment” and afterwards choose the option “I don’t have Paypal account - Continue”.

Looking forward to see you there,
Kind regards,

Olivier Vidal
Secr. General FSE