Annual Report 2016
ICNDT is formally registered as alegal association in Vienna in accordance with theAustrian Corporations Act and has a bank account to
conduct financial business transactions.
The constitution meets the requirementsof the Austrian Corporations Act.
As an incorporated body, ICNDT is required to submit
its Annual Report and audited Financial Report to therelevant Austrian authorities.
This is the Annual Report for 2016

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Meetings and Appointments
ICNDT Executive Committee (IEC) meetings were held six times during 2016, the first taking place on 29 January, the second on
4 March, the third on 12 June immediately prior to the 19th World Conference on NDT in Munich, the fourth on 19 July and the othertwo on 14 September and 24 November 2016. The first three meetings were chaired by Dr Mike Farley and the remainder by the new
Chairman, Sajeesh K Babu, who was elected at the 2nd General Assembly meeting in Munich. All meetings offered the facility formembers to join via web conferencing. The Policy and General Purposes Committee (PGPC) met on 12 June 2016, prior to the 19th
World Conference on NDT, chaired by Mr Douglas Marshall, and again on 28 November alongside the 7th African Conference on
NDT held in Oran, Algeria, this time chaired by Dr Farley, as Chair of the PGP Committee. These meetings played an important role
for the future of ICNDT, including the ongoing work to re-structure the organisation of ICNDT and the regional groups, updating theConstitution and operating procedures as well as continuous updates on progress against the Strategic Plan. The meetings were fruitfuland significant progress has been made.
Working Groups 1,2 3 and 4 met in Munich in June during the World Conference and WG6 met in Paris in October.
Although there were no meetings of the ICNDT CEC (Certification Executive Committee), led by Mr Harold Jansen (Chairman) andTony Wooldridge (Secretary), work continued, mostly conducted electronically. Dr Wooldridge reported progress to most of the IEC
Meetings.
Mike Farley as ICNDT Chairman participated in the ASNT Spring Conference and the Danish NDT Society conference, and as
Chairman of the PGP the BINDT conference, the Polish NDT Society conference and the ASNT Fall 75th Annual Conference. SajeeshBabu as ICNDT chairman visited Korea and participated in KWATER conference to promote ‘Advanced NDT methods and the Roleof ICNDT’. During the visit he also met with the working group on the 2020 World Conference and visited the conference venue,
COEX, in Seoul. The Chairman also participated in the ASNT 75th Anniversary celebration in Long Beach and opened the ICNDT/ASNT International forum.
Highlight of 2016 was the 19th World Conference on Non-Destructive Testing, held in Munich from 13-17 June 2016. This event
exceeded all expectations in terms of the quality and quantity of the technical programme, the size and coverage of the exhibition,
the number of delegates and participants and the social programme. The scientific programme consisted of 660 oral presentations, 71
short presentations, two interactive presentations and 102 poster presentations.
The ICNDT is very grateful indeed to the German Society for NDT (DGZfP) and the WCNDT President, Dr Matthias Purschke, for thegenerous donation made to ICNDT following this very successful Conference (see Balance Sheet on page 7).
A total of 2060 delegates registered for the full conference, representing 66 countries. Additionally, 2091 part-time attendees
participated. The exhibit hall was full to capacity, with 273 exhibitors displaying the latest equipment and technologies.
The activities of the International Committee of NDT (ICNDT) included various committee meetings and workshops to coincide withthe conference, including ICNDT Working Group 1, ICNDT Executive and PGP Committees, two ICNDT General Assemblies (eachwith more than 40 member societies represented) and workshops on the Use of Social Media by NDT Societies and Certification
Bodies, NDT and CM Training and Certification, and E-learning for NDT and CM Training. At the second General Assembly,
Mr Sajeesh K Babu was elected ICNDT Chair for the period 2016-2020. The following officers were elected for the same period:
ICNDT Chair

Mr Sajeesh K Babu (Singapore)ICNDT Past Chair

Dr Mike Farley (UK)ICNDT General Secretary

Mr David Gilbert (UK)World Conference President

Prof Younho Cho (Korea)

NDT Society to provide secretariat

The British Institute for NDT (UK)

Treasurer

Mr Gerhard Aufricht (Austria)

Elected members
Auditors

Ms Sharon Bond (Canada)
Mr Les Dick (New Zealand)
Mr Douglas J. Marshall (Canada) andDr Werner Schmid (Switzerland)

Chair WG 1 – Certification

Mr Alexander Mullin (Russia)

Chair WG 2 – Membership

Mr Joao Conte (Brazil)

Chair WG 3 – Research

Prof Younho Cho (Korea)

Chair WG 4 – Communications

Mr David Gilbert (UK)

Chair WG 5 – Radiation Protection

Dr Matthias Purschke (Germany)

Co-Chairs WG 6 – Condition Monitoring

Mr Terry Clausing (USA) and Prof Len Gelman (UK)

Chair WG 7 - Administration

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The following Regional Group Representatives were appointed:
Mr Harold Jansen

AfricaDr Mourad Zergoug
Dr Norikazu Ooka

Asia-Pacific

Mr Jong Poh Lee
Dr Matthias Purschke

EuropeProf Peter Trampus
Mr César Belinco

Pan America

Dr Arny Bereson

Awards presented at the 19th WCNDTICNDT AWARD

WINNER

RUNNER(S)-UP

ROENTGEN AWARD

Prof Tony Dunhill

NPO ENERGOMASHMr Roger Lyon

Anatoly Gourvich

Prof Hermann Wüstenberg

Bruce Drinkwater and Paul Wilcox

For major contribution to science andtechnology of NDTHAVERCROFT AWARD
For a major contribution to NDT
Education, Training and Certification
SOKOLOV AWARD

Valentin Kaloshin

For a major contribution to NDTResearch
YOUNG ACHIEVER AWARD

Dr Alexander Machikhin

Katy Milne

Dr Mike Farley

Vjera Krstelj

For achievement of young people in NDTPAWLOWSKI AWARD
For a major contribution to the promotion
of NDT Internationally

Makoto Ochiai
Vasily Sukhorukov

The following were appointed Honorary Members:
David Gilbert - for his support to ICNDT and EFNDT
Vjera Krstelj - for her services to the Croatia NDT Society, EFNDT and ICNDT for more than 35 years
Dr Matthias Purschke - for services to EFNDT and ICNDT and his Presidency of the 19th WCNDT
Sharon Bond - for her services to ICNDT since 2000 (including the 16th WCNDT ) and her work with ISO TC135 SC7Joao Conte - Chairman of the ICNDT Membership Committee and a leader in the Pan American Committee
Sajeesh Kumar Babu - General Secretary of ICNDT (2012-2016) and active member of the Asia Pacific Federation
Alexander Mullin - Chairman of ICNDT WG1 Qualification and Certification.
Following passionate proposals from the USA and Argentina, Argentina won the bid to host the 21st WCNDT in 2024.
On a sad note, it is with deep regret that ICNDT records the death of Tony Sonneveld, Honorary Member of ICNDT, who passed away
13 November 2016. Tony was appointed Honorary Member at the World Conference in Shanghai in 2008 and at the same event waspresented with the Pawlowski Award for major contributions to the promotion of NDT internationally.

Strategic Planning and Organisation
During 2016 the primary focuses of the IEC were on delivering the actions of the strategic plan and achieving progress with thereorganisation proposal (see 2015 Annual Report). On-going status reviews in each of these areas were held at each IEC meeting.
Situation Update
ICNDT successfully launched the Multilateral Recognition Agreement, Personnel Certification Body Assessment Scheme andExamination Question Bank in October 2013. ICEC is managed by professional secretariat, currently provided by Mr Tony
Wooldridge, who took over from Dr Robin Shipp in June 2016. ICNDT wishes to express its thanks to Robin and also to the retiring
Chairman, Patrick Fallouey, who has made a major contribution to the development of personnel certification in NDT over many

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years. Harold Jansen is acknowledged for taking on the role of Vice-Chairman and acting on behalf of the Chairman when he wasindisposed. Harold was elected to take over the Chairmanship at the World Conference in June 2016.
The ICNDT Guide on Qualification and Certification of NDT personnel was updated and the 2016 edition was published at
WCNDT 2016 in Munich. The guide contains specific appendices on the MRA, PCBA, EQB, ASME recognition and PCBs offering
ISO 9712 Certification.
A new Guide: ‘ICNDT Guide on Qualification and Certification of Condition Monitoring personnel’ was published in time for theWorld Conference in June 2016. The prime purpose of this Guide, which was prepared under the auspices of the ICNDT Working
Group 6, is to promote best practice in the qualification and certification of CM personnel according to the International Standard
ISO 18436: Condition monitoring and diagnostics of machines – Requirements for qualification and assessment of personnel.
A new Operating Procedure (OP25: International Forums) has been approved that describes how ICNDT Forums may be organised
at Regional and national conferences, with the objective to provide a place for interaction and knowledge sharing between
NDT societies in Full and Associate Membership of ICNDT. Representatives of NDT Societies attending are encouraged to givepresentations on their activities and needs.
Another new Operating Procedure (OP26: International Specialist Groups - ISGs) has been approved that explains how Specialist
Groups may be set up and run under the auspices of ICNDT. The Groups are intended for those topics, either technology areas orapplication areas, where international liaison is beneficial/necessary. The following Groups are currently under development (hostsociety in brackets):• Full matrix capture (BINDT)• Teraherz imaging (BINDT)• Microwave NDT (ASNT)• Magnetic Memory Method (RSSNDT)• NDT of Art and Cultural Heritage (BINDT)• NDT Reliability (DGZfP)• Non-linear UT (KSNT)• Guided Wave UT (KSNT)ISGs will be open to all members of NDT Societies in ICNDT.
Working Group 1: ‘Qualification & Certification’ continued to be very active in 2016 under the Chairmanship of Alexander
Mullin. Two new members joined during the year, representing Denmark and Iran, making the total 21 and it was decided to limit
the membership for the time being. Work items on the Strategic/Action Plan were actively pursued and several new publications
had either been released or were under development, including a directory of personnel certification bodies, a guidance note on
assistance for developing countries seeking to establish certification schemes (Appendix to the ICNDT Guide), recommendations
for appropriate application of EN ISO 9712:2012 (approved by the IEC) and a report on the ‘Process of Conformity Assessment of
PCBs conducting qualification and certification of personnel when ‘introducing new NDT methods and techniques’ (also approvedby the IEC). A successful meeting was held in Munich prior to the WCNDT and the next one will take place in November 2017
alongside the Asia-Pacific Conference on NDT in Singapore.
Working Group 3: ‘Education & Research’ continued its activities under the Chairmanship of Dr Manfred Johannes until his
retirement in June 2016. ICNDT is grateful to Manfred for his efforts in revitalising the Group since its reconstitution in 2014.
Professor Younho Cho has taken over the Chairmanship of the Group and looks forward to continuing with the activities outlined
in Action Plan 4 of the Strategic Plan, including promotion of the research register on the website, review and promotion of theresearch and education guides, education & training directory development, specialist international groups (see above) and links
to other bodies such as WFNDEC and Academia NDT International.
Working Group 6: ‘Condition Monitoring’ is developing under the leadership of Co-Chairs Terry Clausing and Len Gelman. A
meeting was held at the ISCM (International Society for Condition Monitoring) conference in Paris in October 2016 and work
continues in the development of goals for the Group and in strengthening the liaisons between NDT, CM and SHM.

Review of organisation of ICNDT and the Regional Groups
Further to the initial proposal received from EFNDT in July 2014, a joint presentation was held to GA in Prague in October 2014.
The changes to ICNDT organisation were approved in principle.
The details of the reorganisation were developed in consultation with the regions and tabled in the PGP at Cartagena in 2015. In
the absence of full consensus, the PGP requested a Task Group to continue the development. The task group was given an objective
to reach an agreement in Munich 2016 and to implement changes thereafter.
The Task Group was set up with Membership: Farley (then ICNDT Chairman), Babu (then ICNDT Gen Sec), Aufricht (ICNDTTreasurer), Conte (ICNDT Membership Committee), Nori Ooka (APFNDT), Trampus (EFNDT), Bereson (PANNDT), Jansen (AFNDT).
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The Task Group met in October 2015, January, March and October 2016 and details of the proposed ICNDT reorganisation weredeveloped in consultation with the Regions/Federations. Version 10 of the presentation reflecting the recommendations were
presented to the PGP committee and it approved them unanimously on 12/06/2016. A motion was put to the General Assembly in
Munich (39th meeting - 16/06/2016) to approve the proposal, version 10, and this was carried by a significant majority.
Outline of proposals
The Regional Organisations/Federations will be represented on the ICNDT GA and Executive Committee and the PGP will be
replaced by an Advisory Committee.
ICNDT’s responsibilities will be extended to include coordination of its own work with that of the Regional Organisations/
Federations. ICNDT’s focus will be on global activities and the Regional Organisations’/Federations’ focus will be on regional
activities and support of local societies.
The Regional Federations will be represented on the ICNDT General Assembly alongside the member societies, with two voting
representatives nominated by each Regional Group/Federation (one being nominated to the IEC and both to the IAC, see below).
By this means the Regions will be fully involved in the decision making and executive actions of ICNDT and ICNDT will havedirect communication links to the Regions.
The ICNDT Executive Committee (IEC) will be made up of a Chairman, General Secretary, Treasurer, Regional Representatives:
one representative of each Region (currently four), the Past-Chairman (ex-officio) and the President of the next World Conference(nominated by the WCNDT organiser). The Chairs of ICNDT Committees and Working Groups will be non-voting members.
Note: There will no longer be a direct election of two additional people to the IEC.
An Advisory Committee (IAC) will replace the current Policy and General Purposes Committee. It will provide advice to the IEC
and WGs and will meet annually in a different region each time over the four-year cycle.
The membership of the IAC will be:• Members of the IEC as mentioned above (voting)• One additional member from each Region as nominated to the General Assembly (voting)• ICNDT Honorary members (non-voting).
This committee will be chaired by the Chairman of ICNDT (alternate: the Past-Chairman).
New fee structure
The fee structure proposed was suggested to the Task Group by the EFNDT Board and has been thoroughly reviewed by the Region/
Federation Boards. V10 has taken account of comments received (latest comments April 2016). The proposal is basically as follows:•

Fees will be based on the size of the Member society. Members will be categorised as A, B, C, D or E and will pay thecorresponding fee. All categories of Member will continue to have a vote at the General Assembly of ICNDT and in their
Regional Groups.

•

Each Society will choose its category, taking account of its sustainable Gross Annual Income and its own degree of regional
and international engagement. (Gross Annual Income takes account of all NDT related activities of the member organisation
including its divisions and subsidiaries).

•

The single fee will replace separate fees for ICNDT and the Regions. Members that wish to participate in more than one Region
will pay additional Regional components (60% of the full fee for each additional region).

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Associate Members will pay 75% of the full fee.

Next steps
The Task Group was invited to continue in existence to prepare the revised constitution and Operating Procedures. The plan is toimplement the changes at the next meeting of the General Assembly in 2018 (at the 12th ECNDT in Gothenburg, Sweden) and to
introduce the new fees structure from Jan 2019. (Note: four Cat A societies ABENDI, ASNT, BINDT and DGZfP have voluntarily
agreed to pay the new fees from 2018). Further Task Group meetings were held on 14th Sept and 28th October and good progress
made.
The proposed revised Constitution (V4) and OPs 3 (Recognition of regional groups) , 8 (Meetings of ICNDT and IAC) ,12 (Annual
Report and accounts), and 15 (Working groups and committees) were approved at the PGP meeting in Oran and are ready after
editorial check to be submitted to the GA for approval. OP 12 requires a minor modification to permit the AGM to be in the firsthalf of February. OP 2 Financial Management requires further discussion around whether fees are to be collected by the regions
or by ICNDT, there being opposing views on this. Also it was suggested that it may be best to separate the section on fees into aseparate OP. Updated OPs on Membership are being developed. New OPs are needed for Complaints and the World Conference
Committee.

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MRA and PCB Registration
Multilateral Recognition Agreement (OP 19)•

There are currently 40 signatories to Schedule 1 of the MRA, with the addition in 2016 of Denmark and Kazakhstan.

•

Two additional Personnel Certification Bodies – SAIW Certification (South Africa) and Sector CERT (Germany) – were registeredunder Schedule 2 of the MRA during 2016, bringing the total number of registrants to 12.

•

Certification Bodies from 6 countries have recently expressed an interest in becoming registered for MRA Schedule 2. These
are: Kazakhstan NDT and Technical Diagnostic Association, Denmark (FORCE Technology), Sri Lanka (CBNDT), Chinese
Taiwan, the Malaysian Society for NDT and Serbia (Zavod Cert Pers). They have all been sent details of the application process,and we await their submissions.

•

Six of the original registrants of MRA Schedule 2 are now within 6 months of their 3 year renewal date and have been invited
to prepare renewal applications. All six have confirmed their intention to renew.

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The CEC Chair (Harold Jansen) has proposed the development of a standardised process for assessing MRA Schedule 2
applications. This is intended to assist with the number of requests for registration anticipated in coming months; both new
registrations and renewal applications.

•A Work Instruction to support Operating Procedure OP19 has been produced and this has proved to be very useful.

Personnel Certification Body Compliance Assessment (OP 20)•

There were no applications for PCB Conformity Assessment in 2016.

Register of External Organisations with an Interest in NDTIssue 1-4 of this register (dated 28.09.16) has been sent to the BINDT Secretariat to use for mailing of ICNDT documents.
A covering letter has been prepared for circulation of the two recent ICNDT Guides to Qualification and Certification of Personnel
for NDT and for Condition Monitoring.
Reports on Workshops held at WCNDT in Munich
The CEC Secretary has finalised reports on the three workshops (Training and Certification, e-learning, Social Media) held in
Munich. The reports and associated presentations are now with the BINDT Secretariat for loading to the ICNDT website.

MembershipA total of 42 members had paid their fees by the end of the year, thereby retaining their voting status.
The Membership Committee is chaired by Mr João Conte (ABENDI) and members in the committee are Mr John Macarrone(AINDT), Ms Sharon Bond (CINDE), Dr Alexander Mullin (RSNTTD), Mr Emilio Romero (AEND) and Mr Shohei Ooka (JSNDI).
The Membership Committee is involved with the following activities:•

Support for the creation of the NDT and Welding Society of Chile (ACHISEND).

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Review and approval of the application of AMEXENDE (Mexico) to become an Associate Member of ICNDT.

•Agreement with Societies from Iran: IWNT (Iranian Society for NDT and Welding) as Asssociate Member, and IRNDT (IranianSociety for Non-Destructive Testing) as Full Member. A representative sits on WG 1.

•

Situation in Egypt: 2 Societies have expressed interest in becoming members of ICNDT. In line with the overall policy ofaccepting the legally registered body that represents most comprehensively the NDT community in the country in question, theMembership Committee favoured the Egyptian Society for NDT as the full member. Both organisations have been encouraged
to work together to find a solution and reach agreement as to which one should join ICNDT as the Full Member; the other will
be free to join as Associate Member.

•Contacts with institutions in Latin America who develop NDT activities in countries that do not have national NDT Societies:ESPOL/Ecuador, CEADEN/Cuba and ITCR /Costa Rica.

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The PGP meeting in Algeria had helped the African Federation of NDT to support its members and potential members. It wasrecommended that COMEND (Morocco) should apply for full membership whilst Libya and Algeria should apply to join as
Associate Members.

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A membership application form had been issued to Azerbaijan.

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Website/Journal/Publications
The ICNDT Secretariat has continued to provide updates to members through the website and ICNDT Journal (3 issues publishedeach year), which have been consistently of a high standard thanks to the efforts of Sharon Bond (CINDE) and Corinne Mackle, Zoe
White and David Gilbert from the Publishing Department of the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing.
Two new ICNDT Guides were released at the WCNDT 2016 in Munich:•

The ICNDT Guide on Qualification and Certification of NDT personnel was updated and a 2016 edition published.

•

A new Guide: ‘ICNDT Guide on Qualification and Certification of Condition Monitoring personnel’ was also published.

The German Society, DGZfP, has continued to provide the platform for the ICNDT website. The Facebook page is becoming
increasingly popular.
A meeting of the Communications Working Group was held during the ASNT Fall Conference in Long Beach and thanks go toGroup members S Bond, S Cullman, G Liming and S Ooka.

Finance
The audited financial report for 2016 is presented below and the budget for 2017 shown overleaf.

Acknowledgements
ICNDT wishes to thank its Executive Committee members for their efforts during 2016 and acknowledges the support of theSecretariat provided by the British Institute of NDT.

Sajeesh K Babu, Chairman, ICNDTBalance at 31.12.2016
2016 €

2016 €

IncomeExpenditure

Opening balance (carryover from 2015) Nr: 290-317-995/00

85,748.25

Donation from Austrian Chamber of Commerce

500.00Donation from DGZfP (19th WCNDT)

45,000.00

Membership fees (including pre-payments)*

15,550.00

Bank account Nr: 290-317-995/01 – interest

9.36

PCB CA service (OP20)-

MRA Service (OP19)

900.00EQB Product: Application fees (OP23)-

EQB update fees (OP23)-

Bank account ‘fees’, cost

198.58

Meeting expenses/GoTo meetings

1708.45

Bank account Nr.: 290-317-99501 cost

251.50Printing costs

6643.41

Office costs, insurance

2235.51

PCB CA service costs OP20: administration

383.40

MRA/PCB OP19

5360.00

EQB Service costs: administration

3732.80

Professional Service

11,124.31

Supplies (ICNDT badges, flags, etc)

2192.49

Miscellaneous (shipping, etc)

534.10Totals
Allocation to reserves*Note: 42 members paid
Gerhard Aufricht, Treasurer, 2017/01/02, Vienna

147,707.61
113,343.06

34,364.55

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Financial Report - Budget 2017
Income (€)
Opening balance(carryover from 2016)

Expenditure (€)

113,343.06

Donation from
Austrian Chamber of Commerce

500.00Membership fees
(46 at €300/€100 less prepayments)

14,000.00

PCB CA service

18,320.00

MRA service

6050.00

EQB Product – purchase fees

7500.00

EQB update fees

3750.00

Bank accountNr: 290-317-995/01 – interest

10.00

Meeting expenses/GoToMeetings

3000.00

Bank account costNr: 290-317-995/01

50.00

Bank expenditures – incoming fees

200.00Printing cost
(NDT Guideline, ICNDT Journal, etc)

2500.00

Office cost

2300.00

PCB CA service cost (system administration,
insurance)

2920.00

MRA/PCB service cost (auditor payment)

15,400.00

MRA application/renewal costs

6000.00

EQB service cost (administration andoverheads, contingencies)

5000.00

Professional service

11,000.00

Preparation of ICNDT Monographs

2000.00

Supplies (ICNDT badges, flags, etc)

2000.00

Miscellaneous(shipping, conference calls)

500.00

Total

163,473.06

Allocation to reserves

110,603.06

52,870.00

Ing G Aufricht (Treasurer), 2017/01/04, Vienna
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