2022 Annual Meeting
This meeting of GFMD’s General Assembly on April 5th 2022 is being held online and in-person in Brussels in order to fulfil the legal requirements of our Belgium registration.
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This meeting of GFMD’s General Assembly on April 5th 2022 is being held online and in-person in Brussels in order to fulfil the legal requirements of our Belgium registration.
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Date: Tuesday 5 April
Time: 14:00 - 15:00 CET
Location:
Rond-Point Schuman 6 / 7th. Floor 1040 Brussels Brussels
Executive Committee members:
GFMD deputy chair: , Head of Department, Policy and Learning,
GFMD treasurer: , Director of Operations,
GFMD Secretariat:
GFMD executive director: Mira Milosevic
GFMD head of policy and learning: Tom Law
Brussels notary:
Kim Lagae:
For full details see section seven of the GFMD constitution.
The relevant items for this meeting are:
The General Assembly:
Approves annual financial report, including remuneration of members of the Executive Committee and the Steering Committee, the appointment of auditors or representatives and their fees, and the annual budget.
Adopting GFMD's 2021 audited accounts.
Adopting GFMD's budget for this financial year.
Acceptance of GFMD's auditor for this financial year.
The General Assembly in Tirana also agreed:
That the new constitution, once reviewed by GFMD’s lawyers, will be registered as the organisation’s new statute.
The Steering Committee and Executive Committee will be registered in Belgium as Administrators of GFMD.
The new Constitution has been reviewed by GFMD's lawyers to ensure that it meets the requirements of Belgium law and translated into French.
According to the requirements of GFMD's Brussels regsitration, this meeting of the GFMD General Assembly must approve the 30 September 2021 election of the GFMD Steering Committee so that this can be witnessed our notary.
The GFMD new Steeering Committee was elected in Tirana on 30 September 2021.
Tom Law from the GFMD Secretariat explained the nomination and voting process:
2 Aug. - 10 Sept. – Members were invited to submit their candidacy for the Steering Committee.
29 Sept. – The voting commission met to verify that the votes have been cast and counted fairly.
The outgoing Chairperson Ricardo Corredor informed the meeting that:
Out of GFMD’s 103 general members, 81 were eligible to cast a vote (as per the Constitution, only members who are up to date on membership fees are able to vote at the General Assembly).
60 votes were cast. There were no invalid votes.
The outgoing Chairperson Ricardo Corredor announced the duly elected members of the new Steering Committee.
Our notary has advised that the General Assembly is followed by a Steering Committee meeting in order to confirm the appointment of the members of the Executive Committee.
Our notary has advised that the Steering Committee meeting after the General Assembly must:
Officially appoint Ms Mira Milosevic as Executive Director
Confirm that the position of Exective Director is also a non-voting member of GFMD's Executive Committee.
The GFMD Secretariat would like to put forward CHRISTIAN MISSANTE SRL to audit GFMD accounts for the current financial year.
GFMD Chair: , Director,
All who wish to attend
Members of the
Register to attend the extraordinary GFMD General Assembly .
If you are unable to attend please nominate a proxy by using .
The is the sovereign body of the GFMD and brings together all , as well as , provided that only general members have the right to vote at General Assembly meetings.
This meeting of GFMD’s is being held in order to fulfil the legal requirements of our Brussels registration by:
Adopting in Tirana, September 2021
Adopting our in the presence of a notary.
Discussing any other business raised by ahead of the meeting.
The new Constitution was .
As this exceeded the two-thirds threshold outlined in , the outgoing Chair, Ricardo Corredor declared the new Constitution adopted.
Both translations were shared with GFMD members in early January via the and publised on the and on the .
Below is a quote from :
21 - 28 Sept. – A full list of was shared with the CEO, Director or designated GFMD representative of each general member with a secure link that tracked who had voted but not who they had voted for.
Details of election of the Executive Committee at the Steering Committee meeting in Tirana on 30 September 2021 are , in the minutes from the meeting.
The GFMD Steering Committee will meet on 7 April 2022 in Perugia, Italy. - see "Approvals".
The GFMD Steering Committee will meet on 7 April 2022 in Perugia, Italy. - see "Approvals".
The roles and responsibilties of the GFMD administrative body, the Executive Committee - including the Executive Director's membership of the Executive Committee - is outlined in Section .
GFMD's final accounts for 2021 are available .
GFMD's budget for 2022 is available .
The agenda will be formally adopted by the on Friday 25th March.
Please note that the will be meeting to discuss strategic matters, approval of new members and other issues on Thursday 7th April at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy.
