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IFF Central Board meeting 5/2018
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§ 1. Opening of the meeting Mr. Eriksson informed to the CB that Mr. Thorbjörn Ovedal has in writing resigned from his position as a CB member. (Appendix 2) The CB is to discuss of the measures to be taken based on this. The President of Danish Floorball Mr. Carsten Provstgaard Sørensen has asked for a meeting with the IFF during the WFC. Mr. Eriksson expressed that the IFF will in writing ask, in accordance with the IFF Statutes, if the Danish association will be interested to propose a replacement for the seat. Mr. King pointed out that the person and the Danish association has to commit to participation in international development and the work of the IFF CB if they choose to nominate a person. CB decided: To approve the report and decide to that the IFF will contact the Danish association. § 2. Approval of the agenda Appendix 22 - Changes of Regulations CB decided: To approve the report and update the proposed appendixes § 4. Economy CB decided: To approve the report. b) Information on IFF claims – status November 30th, 2018 Not much has happened concerning payments after the last meeting since the expected pay-offs have been scheduled for December. Meetings has and will be held during WFC Prague with the Associations with severe debts to discuss how to solve these. The Slovakian federation will pay half of their present debt by the end of year and then made a new payment plan until end of June for the remaining part, so that they will not run into issues with the organisation of the upcoming WFCQ 2019 in Trencin. IFF will have meetings with Latvia and Slovenia. Mr. Eriksson asked how we will deal with the outcome of the meetings with Latvia and Slovenia. Mr Liljelund expressed that CB needs to have a per capsulam decision on the outcome of these meetings in January. The following actions needs to be taken in connection to the registration of the teams for the WFC 2020, as the dead-line for registration is in the end of December 2018, in accordance of the IFF License System 2.0. The association must be without debts to IFF by the time of the registration to be guaranteed participation but also associations following a set up plan to pay off their debts may be given the possibility to participate. For the WFC 2019 the association must be without debts by the end of year 2018, to be able to participate in the qualifications. CB decided: To approve the reports c) IFF General Assembly 2018, Prague, Czech Republic The invitation has been sent out 90 full days prior to the GA, which was on the 7th of September 2018. The member associations have only sent in one motion to the IFF GA the required 60 full days prior to the IFF GA, which was the 7th of October 2018, namely the EFT countries motion of the Euro Floorball Championships. The IFF CB has sent out all proposals and materials of the GA 30 full days before the meeting, on the 5th of November 2018. Mr. Eriksson went through the Agenda for the IFF General Agenda and clarified how the meeting will be run. Based on this the CB discussed the running of the General Assembly and the program for the day. The CB is also to finally approve the Agenda for the IFF GA (Appendix 6) Mr. Kratz will be handling the minutes of the IFF General Assembly. IFF has received the IOC Patronage for the WFC2018 given by the IOC President Thomas Bach. CB decided: To approve the reports and the Final Agenda for the IFF General Assembly 2018 d) Change of Financial Regulation 2019 CB decided: To approve the report and change the Financial Regulations accordingly Mr. Eriksson concluded that the Event has been a sheer success and the Czech Floorball has set a new benchmark for coming organisers. Further Mr. Liljelund reported on the TV situation. The final agreements with Czech TV have been made and Czech TV will produce all matches and transfer the signal to satellite of IFF‘s, from where IFF will distribute the signal. (Appendix 8) IFF has secured a satellite for the broadcasts and the 2nd signal for the matches played in the Sparta Arena. IFF the Turn Around for Asia has been secured. A total of 44 matches out of the 48 matches have been broadcasted for TV and there has so far been 144 matches broadcasted, in a total of 18 takers. Mr. Liljelund also reported on the present Ticket sales situation by the 30.11. (Appendix 9) During the opening day of the championships, the organiser made a new record for a single group game 12362 spectators and the best ever first day spectator and any WFC day spectator result with 31073 spectators. CB decided: To approve the reports b) U19 WFC 2019, Halifax, Canada The U19 WFC 2019 LOC have prepared a marketing video for the Event, which will be shown at the IFF General Assembly. IFF has also made a promotional video with the former floorball player, presently the NHL star and Stanley Cup champion Mr. Teuvo Teräväinen, which has been published last week. CB decided: To approve the report c) WFC 2019 Mr. Kratz reported on that the preparations of the qualifications are ongoing and in accordance with plans. Only teams without debts, or with a pay-off plan by the end of 2018, will be eligible to participate in the qualifications. Mr. Liljelund reported that the negotiations with Polar HD for the production of the TV-signal/stream is ongoing. CB decided: To approve the report d) Upcoming organisers Mr. Kratz reported of the invitation to the WFC 2020, with 31st December 2018 as last date to IFF will contract PolarHD as the production company and do the production for YLE. YLE will still CB decided: To approve the reports U19 WFC 2020, 2021 and 2022 Further to be reported is that discussions has started with Czech Floorball to organize the U19 WFC 2021. Finland and New Zealand has shown interest to organize the U19 WFC 2022 and the aim is to start the bidding procedures in January 2019 CB decided: To approve the report. WFC 2022 CB decided: To approve the report, award the WFC 2022 to the Swiss Floorball Association and start the contract negotiations in beginning of 2019 § 6. EuroFloorball Cup CB decided: To approve the report. b) EuroFloorball Challenge 2018 CB decided: To approve the report. c) Champions Cup 2019 Mr. Nurminen reported and presented the proposal the Champions Cup Steering Group has prepared for the Concept for the Future of the Champions Cup (Appendix 10). Mr. Nurminen wanted to thank Mr. Zoss and Mr. Liljelund for the preparation of the Concept paper. The IFF CB discussed its position towards the Concept. The Champions Cup stakeholders have informed their view to the proposal. The Finnish and Swiss associations have already handed in their view to the proposal. The Czech and Swedish associations will be able to provide their answer till the end of February. The model is a bit fragile on the financial side, as it needs the sponsors. It is still however important to have a clear opinion from the IFF CB. Mr. Klabere asked what the IFF financial responsibility is for the Event. Mr. Kratz answered that IFF pays 25.000 per year and are responsible for the Prize money. Mr. Liljelund expressed that IFF has informed that all stakeholders must share the possible commercial risk, in lack of sponsors there is no event, as the sales must be done before the decisions are made. Mr. Eriksson felt that the IFF financial responsibility can‘t increase from the present level. Mr. Suman stressed that the dead-line for point of no return for organised must be defined in the concept. Mr. Klabere felt that it would be better to continue with the EuroFloorball Challenge and the EuroFloorball Cup. Mr. Nurminen informed that the Champions Cup Steering Group will have a micro meeting on Friday the 7th of December, to check the status of the Champions Cup Concept 2023 and forward. CB decided: To approve the report § 7. Committees and Ad Hoc group reports Mr. Eriksson has through the Swedish Ice hockey Federation Chair Mr. Larsson discussed on limitation on terms for the positions in the IFF. The IIHF has accordingly more or less decided the same as IFF is now proposing, at its AGM on limitations on terms for IIHF President and council members in force with maximum 12 years. In addition, Mr. Eriksson has had talks with Mrs. Sörling, 1st Vice President of International Table Tennis Fed on the situation in China situation, where they face severe issues with their Chinese federation, concerning the arrangement of the upcoming World Championships and the fact that they have to re-establishing national federations as we in Floorball face as well. Further to this Mr. Eriksson has spoken with Mrs. Nilsson Damgren, vice president of ITU (Triathlon) on gender equality challenges and she had the same opinion on ASOIF survey and what has been presented by ASOIF in co-operation with Equestrian Federation Ingmar de Vos on speeding up gender equality in line with Olympic Values. Mr. Eriksson has further meet with IOC Olympic Games Bid Department Miss Barrett and Miss Burns in conjunction with the Bid of 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Sweden. The interesting outcome is the conclusion on how the bid processes will, under “IOC New Norm” be implemented and having huge impact on all International Federations event bids and applications in the future. Mr. Liljelund reported that the IFF Ethics Commission (ETC) will have its yearly meeting on Sunday the 9th of December in Prague, to discuss among other topics the Guidelines for the IFF ETC, the gambling situation in Floorball and the link between the Ethics Commission and the IFF Disciplinary committee. Mr. Liljelund reported that Mr. Kalsta has prepared and collected the necessary documents for the IFF registration and Mr. Eriksson and Mr. Liljelund has visited the Vaud Commercial Registry in November to verify some signatures. Everything is on track and final adjustments to statutes expected to be decided on in the GA. After that the final submission of papers will be made and we hope for a smooth process once the appeal period for the GA Minutes has closed and everything is duly signed. CB decided: To approve the reports b) CB members responsibilities Mr Lopez reported about the on the development in Central and Latin America and the plans for the future. There is not too much to report after the last meeting. Mr. King reported on the on the present status of the proposal for the implementation of the IFF Development Officer Mr. Juerg Kihm for the AOFC with New Zealand as the country. (Appendix 11a) The Mentor program has started well and there is an agreement to be signed. There is a Key Performance Indicator – KPI‘s list to be defined. Mr. King will report upon the process in the next CB meeting. The SEA Games have been secured for the Philippines and some development work is to be connected to this. The Pakistani association has got a venue to play floorball in and Nepal has been reactive. The referee development has been quite active. Mr. Spence to report on the present issues in Northern America. (Appendix 11b) There has been a meeting in the USA to run a new project for the USA Floorball National Team, to build the team mostly based on US based players. There has been a tournament of eight teams in San Diego. There has also been some referee development, with WFC reports running them. CB decided: To approve the reports c) Contacts to International Sports Organisations Mr Eriksson informed that during the GAISF IF Forum, which had the main topic on ESport and the possibilities and challenges new technology brings to the Sports community. The topic of Blockchain was carefully discussed and there was a specific workshop on Esports, upon how the IF‘s could develop their readiness to Esports. (Appendix 12) Before the IF Forum GAISF organised an informal meeting, where the council informed that Mr. Raffaele Chiulli will be acting president of GAISF until the next AGM in May 2019. The GAISF will continue on the path laid down by Mr. Patrick Baumann and introduced the organisation of the GAISF Urban Games 2019 in Los Angeles. In the meeting the GAISF also informed about the Good Governance project for the GAISF members, based on the ASOIF project carried out earlier in 2018. The ARISF and AIMS IF‘s are to fill in the self-assessment questionnaires 20 questions, compared to the 50 questions in the ASOIF questionnaire. The questionnaire is to be handed in by the 16th of January 2019. (Appendix 13a and 13b) Mr. Liljelund reported that during the ARISF Council meeting the present situation in GAISF was discussed and the fact that the GAISF office is taking over the practical operations of the ARISF administration and will run projects on Good Governance and Sustainability. The ARISF council decided that the ARISF President will also write a letter to the member federations of the present development. The letter was composed by Mr. Tom Hollowell and Mr. Liljelund. In addition, Mr. Hollowell and Mr. Liljelund were given the task to start the process for the ARISF Strategy until the ARISF AGM during SportAccord in May 2019 (Appendix 14) Mr. Eriksson reported concerning the Urban Games. If the first edition is a success, Los Angeles has a possibility to organise a 2nd edition in 2021. IFF had applied for inclusion on the program for the 1st Urban Games and we had not received any information from GAISF prior to the announcement of the Los Angeles Urban Games that we are not included on the program. IFF held some discussions concerning this with the GAISF Director Mr. Philippe Gueisbuhler and the Urban Games responsible. GAISF apologised that no information had been given to the IF‘s on the program. Mr. Liljelund informed that IFF participated in the IWGA – Olympic Channel workshop in Madrid, where IFF made a presentation on our streaming and TV operations as a best practice example. The workshop discussed a lot concerning the way IF‘s should work with social media and video creation. During the meeting IFF held a meeting with the Olympic Channel to secure the visibility of the WFC on the Olympic Channel with 19 matches. Mr. Eriksson reported that FISU‘s President Mr. Oleg Matytsin invited for a short meeting to discuss the future of the Floorball World University Championships. FISU wants to change the system for the WUC from 2022 to stop playing with National Teams and move over to University based teams. It was agreed that discussions would continue during SportAccord and the topic would be presented for the IFF Association meeting in Neuchatel 2019. However, it seems that FISU has not included Floorball on the first list asking for WUC organisers for 2022. This had happened without the knowledge of the FISU Floorball Technical Director. IFF will continue the discussion in 2019, as the FISU Council member Ms. Hilkka Pöyhönen informed that the decision is not final. The preparations of the IMGA European Master Games in Torino, Italy next year are ongoing, and the registration has started. IFF has included an ad in the WFC 2018 Match Program and will after a meeting with the Italian association decide how to proceed with the marketing of the Event. Mr. Eriksson reported that Floorball has been included on the 30th South-East Asian Games to be organised in November-December 2019. The Floorball tournament is planned to be played from the 27th to 30th of November 2019, which is good as the Women‘s WFC will start on the 7h of December in Neuchatel, Switzerland. Mr. Eriksson further reported that the IOC Sport Department has informed that all IF‘s are to secure the participation of all countries in their Events and agree this with the organisers. This is based on the issues with the Kosovo delegation participation in the Karate World Championships in Spain in October. (Appendix 16) CB decided: To approve the reports d) RACC Mr. Kratz proposed to include a clarification of the Team Jerseys to be made in the Competition Regulations §5. Based on the experience from the WFC 2018 the Shirts should be the same colour on both front and back, and the main colour must be dominating. (Appendix 22) CB decided: To approve the report e) RC The main topics were the use of the IFF Way of Refereeing Playbook and the experience of using it and also the planning of the edits of the Playbook for the future. Also, the new edition of Rules 2018 was discussed basically to get the feedback from different IFF member associations and how the new rules have been adopted to use. CB decided: To approve the report. f) Medical committee CB decided: To approve the report g) Athletes Commission CB decided: To approve the report h) Marketing function The footage for the reference videos will be shot during the WFC 2018 in Prague by the IFF video crew. We will also be able to include at least one of the LOC sponsors as a video reference material. The final material will be put in use for sales and marketing during early 2019. The Fan Value-Based survey for Floorball was started in September. The questionnaire has been finalized and translations are due to begin, after which the interviews will begin. The final report will be available in January 2019. Mr. Liljelund reported that the WFC 2017 High-Lights program, produced and distributed by Broad Reach Media has been broadcasted by 7 Broadcast Partners, in 57 countries and have had a possibility to reach a total of 220 million households. The broadcasters were Fox Sport Europe (9 countries), Setana Sports Ireland, Front Runner Sports UK, Dubai Sports Channel (24 countries Pan Middle-East), OSN Sports (27 countries Pan Middle-East), Fox Sport Pan Asia (19 countries) and the Olympic Channel. We had for the WFC 2017 lost the Eurosport Asia Pacific, but have confirmed broadcast for WFC high-lights and the African channels Kwese and Fox Africa, as there is limited interest for women‘s sport in Africa. But there are discussions to bring at least one back for 2019. (Appendix 19) Mr. Liljelund further reported that the new Sponsorship deals for official rink and flooring will be announced during the IFF General Assembly and the floorball material sponsor will be announced during the WFC Bronze game intermission. CB decided: To approve the reports f) Development & Equality Ad Hoc group CB decided: To approve the report g) International Lobbying Ad Hoc group Mr. Eriksson felt that it is good that Mr. King is on top of the process. CB decided: To approve the report § 8. IFF Office The CB members are to talk to the present nations during the WFC Final week-end which has not answered and how to secure interviews with federation present. CB decided: To approve the report a) Development operations CB decided: To approve the report b) Communications operations CB decided: To approve the report c) Material operations CB decided: To approve the report Mr. Halonen in absence of Ms. Bruun reported that both Manual Wheelchair Floorball and Special Olympics Floorball will be demonstrated during the WFC 2018. Special Olympics demo is played on the 8.12. during the 1st intermission of first semi-final, with Czech and Slovak Special Olympics teams are playing. The Manual Wheelchair demo will be played on the 9.12, during the 1st intermission of the WFC final, with Czech and Swedish teams playing. CB decided: To approve the reports e) Equality operations CB decided: To approve the report. § 9. Member Federations CB decided: To approve the report b) Members under suspension CB decided: To approve the report. c) New Member Applications The IFF Office proposes to approve the Burkina Faso Floorball Federation membership application with as the provisional member number 70. The CB decided: To approve the report and approve the Burkina Faso Floorball Federation as the IFF provisional member number 70. § 10. Next CB meeting Meeting 1: 09.-10.03. Malaga, Spain CB decided: To approve the report and decide the time and place for the next CB meeting § 11. Closing of the meeting
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