News from FSE GAM at Hidden Earth
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
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