UNAPPROVED MINUTES OF 30th MEETING, Montreal, 16thWCNDT
Thursday, 2 September 2004

1.

WELCOME

The Chairman, Giuseppe Nardoni welcomed the attendees. Each member
society present was presented with a membership plaque (courtesy of theCanadian Society), an ICNDT flag (courtesy of the Italian Society) and agroup photograph.
Mr Nardoni expressed his thanks to the Canadian Society for their excellent
arrangements for the 16th WCNDT and for the ICNDT meetings. He wasparticularly complimentary on the subject of the exhibition.
2.

ATTENDANCECountry

Delegates

SocietyVotingArgentina

Cesar Belinco
Alberto Nicolini

AAENDE

1Australia

Tony Sonneveld
David Barnett

AINDT

1Austria

G Aufricht

OgfZP

1

Bangladesh

Mahi U Khan

BSNDT

1Belarus

P Prochorenko

BANTD

1Belgium

G Hennaut

BANDT

1Brazil

Edson V Moreira
Osvaldo Rossi

ABENDE1

Country

Delegates

Society

VotingCanadaDouglas Marshall
Douglas Whitely

CINDE

1ChinaRong Sheng Gong
G Guo
Ya Qing Zhu

ChSNDT

1

Colombia

Javier Santamaria

ACOSEND

1

Croatia

Vjera Krsetlj
Ana Lypolt

CrSNDT

1Czech Republic

Pavel Mazal

CNDT

1Denmark

Torben LundDanish Society for
NDT

1FinlandJ Sillanpaa

Finnish NDTCommittee

1

FranceMichel Poudrai
Patrick Fallouey

COFREND

1

Germany

Rainer Link
Jutta Koehn

DGZfP

1

GreeceMinas Fytos
Athanasia Vahaviolos

Hellenic Society of
NDT

1

India

K Viswanathan
S I Sanklecha
R Sampath
B Venkataraman

Indian Society for
NDT

1

Ireland

M Prendergast

IIWEI

1

IsraelA Notea
G Shoef

Israeli National
Society for NDT

1

Italy

G Gatti
G Nardoni
S GhiaE Tuberosa

AIPnD

1

LatviaV Kozharinov

The Latvian Societyfor NDT

1JapanM Takagi
M OnoeJSNDI

1KoreaOh-Yang Kwon

KSNT

1Malaysia

Yeo Yan Teng

MSNT

1

New Zealand

Andy RoweNZNDTA1

Country

Delegates

SocietyVoting

NorwayJ Snipstad
Arve Hovland

NSNDT

1Poland

Pavel Mazal (proxy)

SIMPS

1Russia

V Klyuev
Georgi Bazov
V Kozelnikov

Russian Society for
NDT and Technical
Diagnostics

1

Singapore

Sze Thiam Siong
Heng Keng Wah

Singapore Welding
Society

1

Slovenia

Janez Grum

SSNDT

1

South Africa

Amanda van derWesthuizen

South African
Institute for NDT

1SpainEmilio Romero
Jesus Serrano

AEND

1SwedenClaes Eriksson

Swedish Society forNDT

1

Switzerland

G Aufricht (proxy)

SGZP

1

TaiwanPao-Hong Tong
Chih-Hung Chiang

SNTCT

1

Tunisia

Ferid Herelli

COTEND

1

United Kingdom

Ed Newton
Mike Farley
Matt Gallagher
John Thompson
D Gilbert

BINDT

1

Uruguay

Silvia Infanzon

AENDUR

1

USA

Wayne Holliday

ASNT

1

Other delegates (non-voting)
Chile

Jose Lecea

MexicoAlfonso Garcia Cueto

Azerbaijan

A Mammadov

AFNDT

P Schaffy

Thirty eight members were present.
3.

PROCEDURES FOR VOTING, QUORUMThe General Secretary reminded members that voting was one voting
delegate per member society. Mr Poudrai (France) and Mr Rossi (Brazil)
were appointed as Tellers. Austria announced it had a general proxy for
Switzerland, Czech Republic for Poland. Australia had a proxy for the World

Conference only from Pakistan. Malaysia, Singapore and Latvia werewelcomed to their first meeting as members.
4.

REPORT BY MEMBERSHIP WORKING GROUP (Chairman DougMarshall)

Douglas Marshall reported on a meeting of the Membership Committee(Douglas Marshall, Emilio Romero and Tony Sonneveld) held during the 16thWCNDT. Following the approval of four applications at the 29th meeting ofICNDT on 29 August, consideration was given to applications from threecountries with the following outcomes:(i)Colombian Welding and Testing Society• already a member since 1989, the above Society will now be
the official representative(ii)

Serbia NDT Society• English translation of application required. The Secretariat
will seek this directly or via EFNDT (Serbia already accepted
as a member)(iii)

Vietnam Society for NDT• The Society had contacted the Secretariat prior to the World
Conference requesting membership, but had failed to submit
the requested paperwork. The Secretariat will follow up.

The Membership committee recommended that the present membershipguidelines be reviewed with specific attention to the following items:(i)One immediate change to the membership appendix is to have theapplication and required document translated to the official language of
the ICNDT(ii)

Consideration should be given to types of Membership application, ie.
Voting, non-voting.

(iii)

Voting privileges should be addressed with respect to regional
participation and activity(iv)

Develop application and guidelines for regional groupings(v)

Closer collaboration with regional groups and ICNDT Membership
ChairmanApplications from Serbia and Vietnam would continue pending receipt offurther information.

5.

ELECTIONS

5.1

Chairman of ICNDTMr Nardoni and Mr Marshall polled 20 votes each. Mr Nardoni advised themeeting that he would stand down and allow Douglas Marshall to take theICNDT Chairmanship. As Immediate Past Chairman he will serve ICNDT as
PGP Chairman. The meeting warmly applauded Mr Nardoni’s solution to thestalemate situation and members congratulated Douglas Marshall as the newICNDT Chairman.
Following a secret ballot for the election of two Individual members at large
among four candidates (Link, Prevorovsky, Grum and Sonneveld), Dr Link
and Mr Sonneveld were elected.
Britain advised that following the election of Douglas Marshall as Chairman it
would withdraw its own candidature for Secretariat in favour of the CanadianSociety.
Dr Link asked for a show of hands to confirm those candidates for whichelections had not been necessary:
General Secretary
Secretariat
Fund Holder Society
Trustee of Fund

Mike Farley
Canadian Institute of NDEAustriaV Klyuev

This list was approved unanimously.
The new Executive Committee and PGP Committees were announced. SeeAppendix.
6.

REPORT ON 17TH WORLD CONFERENCE, SHANGHAI 2008

Professor Rong Sheng Geng, President of the 17th WCNDT announced:• Date under consideration ~Summer 2008, perhaps immediately after theOlympics in Beijing?
• Request for articles for NDT in China and the World• Sponsorship arrangements have been made with GE Inspection
Technologies• Website www.csndt.com established• Canada will hand over accounts, database, statistics on sessions, andpublish information to help China and future conference holders.
7.

ELECTION OF HOST FOR 18TH WORLD CONFERENCE 2012

Following a brief few words from Matt Gallagher (Britain), Tony Sonneveld(Australia) and Amanda van der Westhuizen (South Africa) a secret ballot washeld.
Votes cast were Australia 13, Britain 10 and South Africa 18. Mr

Nardoni congratulated South Africa and offered the backing of members ofthe ICNDT.
Brazil (Mr Rossi) intimated that it wishes to be a candidate for the 2020
conference.
8.

PRESENTATION ON WG3 – RESEARCH AND EDUCATION

The presentation was given on behalf of Dr Baldev Raj by Mr B
Venkataraman. Actions recommended are to be considered further by theExecutive Committee.
9.

REPORT ON ICNDT CERTIFICATION SEMINAR

It was announced that following the Certification Workshop during the 16th
WCNDT two new working groups would be formed:
(i)
(ii)

NDT Guidelines for Aerospace – Chairman Mr Nardoni (Italy)
NDT practical examinations – Chairman Mr Luiz Cesar de Almeida(ABENDE)

Volunteers’ names are being collected by the Executive.
10.

STRATEGIC PLANNING OF ICNDT ACTIVITIESThe Executive will carry out a strategic analysis and prepare a “business plan”
which will include the incorporation of ICNDT as a legal body.
Mr Holliday (ASNT) commented that he had found his first round of ICNDT
meetings both interesting and valuable and was pleased to reconfirm ASNT’s
support of ICNDT. ASNT has members in 85 countries and is keen tomaintain an international outlook.
Professor Amos Notea of Israel proposed that ICNDT should take a strong
interest in NDT in the services of public security (anti-terrorist diagnostics).
There was unanimous support for this proposal but some concern how toname the action. The Executive agreed to prepare proposals for a newWorking Group.
11.

TIMETABLE OF MEETINGS

The preliminary timetable was agreed as follows:ICNDT EXECUTIVEPGP
ICNDT EXECUTIVEPGP
ICNDT & PGP
PGP
PGP

2004 Manchester
2005 Albuquerque2005 Milan 13-15 October 2005
2006 AFNDT, Cairo, February 2006
2006 EFNDT, Berlin, September 2006
2006 APCNDT, Auckland, November 2006
2007 PANNDT, Argentina, 2007

ICNDT & PGP

2008 WCNDT, Beijing, 2008

Other Executive meetings will be arranged later to fit in with national
conferences where possible.
12.

ANY OTHER BUSINESS

Professor Onoe proposed a vote-of-thanks to Mr Sergio Ghia in respect of hiswork on behalf of the ICNDT Secretariat during the period 1998-2004. Mr
Ghia replied that he had enjoyed the work and wished the organisation andthe new Secretariat best wishes for its future success.

J M Farley
General Secretary
ICNDT
September 2004

APPENDIX:POLICY AND GENERAL PURPOSES COMMITTEE
Post
Chairman(Immediate Past
Chairman ofICNDT)ICNDT Chairman
ICNDT General
Secretary
WorldConference
President
Vice Chairmen

Name
Mr G Nardoni

dmarshall@cinde.ca

Mike Farleymfarley@mitsuibabcock.com

Rong Sheng Geng

gengrs@sohu.com

Asia-Pacific:
Les Dick, Oh-Yang Kwon

Pan-America:
J Conte, W Holliday
Africa:Dr M Shafey, F Herelli

Honorary
Members ofICNDT

nardoni@icndt.org

Douglas Marshall

Europe:E Romero, V Krstelj

Members

E-mailljdick@ndt.co.nz
okwon@inha.ac.kr
informacion@aend.org
vjera.krstelj@fsb.hr
abende@abende.org.br
wholliday@asnt.org
herelli.f@sncff.com.tn

Dr Baldev Raj
Mr Rainer Link
Mr Tony Sonneveld

dmg@igcar.ernet.in
Link@dgzfp.de
Termimeshsydney@bigpond.com

Dr H Kopineck
Prof de Meester
Mr G Nardoni
Mr Singharia
Prof M Onoe
Prof V Klyuev
Dr J M Farley
Mr G Aufricht
Mr F Herelli
Dr S Vahaviolos
Prof Chengbin Guo
Dr Theiretzbacher
Mr D Marshall

H.J.Kopineck@t-online.denardoni@icndt.org
m.onoe@ieee.org
spektr@co.ru
mfarley@mitsuibabcock.com
aufricht@mittli.atherelli.f@sncff.com.tn
sotirios@pacndt.com
cbguo@sohu.com
hav@tuev.or.at
dmarshall@cinde.ca

ICNDT EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Post

Name

E-mailChairman ICNDT

Douglas Marshalldmarshall@cinde.ca

World Conference
President
General Secretary
Treasurer
Immediate PastChairman ICNDTRong Geng Sheng

gengrs@sohu.com

Mike Farleymfarley@mitsuibabcock.com

Gerhard Aufricht

aufricht@mittli.at

Giuseppe Nardoni

nardoni@icndt.org

ICNDT COMMITTEE CHAIRMANWG1 Certification
WG2 Internet
WG3 Research &Education

Mike Farley
Professor M Onoe
Dr Baldev Raj

WORLD CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
Post

Name

17th WorldConference
President

Rong Sheng Geng

17th World
Conference Chair

Dr Shen Jianzhong

17th World
Conference
Secretary/Finance
Chair

Xu Yongchang

Immediate Past
World Conference
President

Douglas Marshall

Exhibition Chair
Chairman,Organising
Committee
Chairman, TechnicalCommitteeMrs Zhu Yaqing
Professor Cai Anding
Dr Shen Gongtian

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