Fifth day, Friday 13th

The day started with the Secretariat report: the office team gave an account of its work during the last year.

In the morning, a representative from another organization applying for membership, EcoCenter Zapovedniks from Russia introduced this NGO in front of all the participants; after this presentation, the Membership Acceptance and Membership Cancellation issues were discussed. Both applying new Organizations, Baobaby from Czech Republic and EcoCenter Zapovedniks from Russia were accepted as Associate Members. Welcome in our team!

The afternoon session (about the approval of the Statutes and the Rules of Procedure) was long and hard but very fruitful. After a couple of years of work, discussions and proposals, finally a lot of important amendments to the Statutes and Rules of Procedure were discussed and adopted. Hopefully, these changes will help the Federation to be more effective, more transparent and will bring it closer to the needs of its MOs.

The nominations for the new Executive Board Members were opened at the end of the day. They will be elected tomorrow by the delegates of the Full Member Organizations.