Central Board

CENTRAL BOARD MEETING 17.04 1999

Place: Pan Pacific Hotel, Singapore

Present:
Liljelund, John Vice President
Gilardi, Thomas
Jansson, Per
Jonsson, Tomas
Kauppinen, Risto
Lillepalu, Ain
Lindström, Peter
Sinnakaruppan, Ramasamy
Vaculik, Martin
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Kratz, Stefan Secretary General

Excused:
Eriksson, Tomas President

§ 1 Opening of the meeting
Mr. Liljelund opened the meeting at 10.00 17.04 1999.

§ 2 Approval of the agenda
The agenda was approved with some completions.

§ 3 Minutes from the last meeting
The minutes from the meeting 30-31.01 1999 was scrutinized and put ad acta.

§ 4 Economy (enclosure 1)
a) Financial report 31.03.99
Mr. Jonsson presented the Financial Report by 31.03.99.

§ 5 Administration development (enclosure 2)
Mr. Jansson presented the proposal from the Swedish Floorball Federation regarding development of the IFF office.

The CB finds the proposal very generous.

The CB decided to accept the proposal and to put forward to Mr. Liljelund and Mr. Jonsson together with the Swedish Floorball Federation to work out an agreement.

§ 6 Nominations (enclosure 3)
a) Committees
The Finnish Floorball Federation has nominated Jukka Parviainen as a member of the Referee Committee.

The CB decided to appoint Mr. Parviainen as a member of the Referee Committee.

§ 7 World Championships
a) WFC 1999
Mr. Kratz reported from the WFC 1999 preparations and that the contract is now signed.

b) WFC 2000 (enclosure 4)
Mr. Jonsson reported from the WFC 2000 preparations and that the contract now is signed.

c) WFC 2001 (enclosure 5)
The Latvian Floorball Union has confirmed their willingness to organize the Women’s WFC 2001.

Mr. Kratz and Mr. Kauppinen reported from a meeting with Latvian Floorball Union.

The CB decided to grant the WFC 2001 to the Latvian Floorball Union and to put forward to Mr. Kauppinen, together with Mr. Kratz, to start the contract negotiations.

d) WFC 2002 (enclosure 6 & 7)
Mr. Gilardi presented the bid for WFC 2002 from the Swiss Floorball Federation.

Mr. Kauppinen presented the bid for WFC 2002 from the Finnish Floorball Federation.

The CB decided to grant the WFC 2002 to the Finnish Floorball Federation and to put forward to Mr. Jonsson, together with Mr. Kratz, to start the contract negotiations.

e) U19 Championships 2001
The lack of an organizer of the Men U19 Championships 2001 was discussed.

The CB decided to put forward to the RACC to actively look for an organizer.

f) Future WFC’s for men and women - (enclosure 8)
Mr. Kauppinen presented the RACC proposal regarding appointment of WFC organizers.

The CB decided to accept the RACC proposal with some minor changes included in the enclosure 8, and to ask the Swiss Floorball Association to consider an application of the Men’s WFC in the near future.

§ 8 European Cup
a) European Cup 1999
Mr. Gilardi reported on the EC 1999 preparations.

b) Future EC (enclosure 9)
Mr. Kauppinen presented the RACC proposal regarding qualification in general and to the European Cup 1999 in specific.

The CB decided to accept the RACC proposal and to put forward to the RACC to start the contract negotiations with Czech Floorball Union regarding the qualification round of the EC 1999.

§ 9 Committee Reports
a) EDC
Mr. Jansson reported on the EDC work since the last meeting.

Mr. Kauppinen reported on contacts with the Ministery of Education in China and a planned visit from them in Helsinki in the beginning of May.

Mr. Sinnakaruppan reported on the work done in Singapore.

A status report of the development in Asia will follow in the next CB meeting.

b) MC (enclosure 10)
Mr. Liljelund reported on the MC work since the last meeting.

The agreement of co-operation with SP, Swedish National Testing and Research Institute, was approved and put ad acta.

c) MIC
Mr. Lindström reported on the MIC work since the last meeting and the status of the IFF sponsors.

Further Mr. Lindström reported that a new brochure will be produced during 1999.

The CB decided to ask Mr. Axel Wester, as a MIC member, to be responsible for the negotiations with a possible main-sponsor.

d) RACC (enclosure 11 & 12 )
Mr. Kauppinen reported from the RACC meeting in Helsinki 06-07.03 1999.

The RACC proposal on how to change the rules of the game was discussed.

The CB decided to return the proposal to RACC for a renewal and to discuss the new proposal in the next meeting.

The RACC also proposes that the fee for the organizer of an International Club Tournament shall be 100 CHF.

The CB decided according to the proposal.

e) RC (enclosure 13)
Mr. Schlossmacher has sent a written report.

The report was noted and put ad acta.

§ 10 Member Associations
a) New members (enclosure 14 & 15)
1. Hungary
The Hungarian Floorball Federation, Magyar Floorball Szövetseg, has completed their membership application of 31.03 1998 with their statutes translated into English.

The CB decided to grant Magyar Floorball Szövetseg provisional membership of the IFF as member 19.

2. Slovakia
The Slovak Floorball Association, Slovensky Zväz Florbalu, have applied for provisional membership of IFF as member 20.

The CB decided to grant Slovensky Zväz Florbalu provisional membership of the IFF.

b) Decisions on Russian FF (enclosure 16)
Mr. Kratz reported that the Russian Floorball Federation has not yet paid their bets.

The CB decided not to invite Russia or Russian teams to IFF competitions until the debts are paid, and that a meeting with RFF shall be set up during the WFC 1999.

c) Information on Japan
Mr. Sinnakaruppan reported on a meeting with representatives from Japan Floorball Federation (JFF) and Mr. Kratz reported on meetings with representatives of JFF and Japan Unihoc Association (JUA).

The CB notices the reports.

§ 11 GAISF application
The CB decided, since the number of member Associations now has reached 20, to send a completion of the earlier sent application to GAISF.

§ 12 President's Meeting 1999
The preparations of the President’s Meeting was discussed.

§ 13 Next meeting
The next meeting will be held 12.05 1999 in Borlänge starting 09.30 and ending 14.00.

§ 14 Closing of the meeting
Mr. Liljelund thanked the participants and ended the meeting at 18.15.