Minutes of a meeting of theGeneral Assembly of the ICNDT
Thursday 14th June 2018 – Gothenburg, Sweden
Present:

S K Babu
A Bereson
C Belinco
P Wadyalkar
G Aufricht
J ConteM Mihovski
L Obrutsky
G ShenV Krstelj
P MazalJ Toivonen
E Martin
A Erhard
P Trampus
D Joshi
M Ghaemi
E Tuberosa
T Ogata
J P LeeR Sliteris
I Mukriz
J Verkooijen
L DickF Hermansen
T Chady
B Alves
A Stanciu
J GrumH Jansen
F Gomez
P Merck
W SchmidC H Chiang
C H Gϋr
C BullICNDT Chair/Singapore (NDTSS)
America (ASNT)
Argentina (AAENDE)
Australia (AINDT)
Austria (OGfZP)
Brazil (ABENDE)
Bulgaria (BGSNDT)Canada (CINDE)
China (ChSNDT)
Croatia (CrSNDT)Czech Republic (CNDT)
Finland (Finnish NDT Society)
France (COFREND)
Germany (DGZfP)
Hungary (MAROVISZ)
India (ISNT)
Iran (IRNDT)
Italy (AIPnD)
Japan (JSNDI)
Korea (KSNT)
Lithuania (LNBD)
Malaysia (MSNT)Netherlands (KINT)New Zealand (NZNDTA)
Norway (NSNDT)Poland (PTBNIDT/SIMP)
Portugal (FSEND RELACRE)
Romania (ARoEND)
Slovenia (SSNDT)South Africa (SAINT/SAIW)
Spain (AEND)/EFNDT Vice President
Sweden (FOP)
Switzerland (SGZP)
Taiwan (SNTCT)
Turkey (TURK NDT)
United Kingdom (BINDT)

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D Bajula
J Ansler
N OokaP Grosser
P Milligan
G Idinger
Y Mizahev
M Purschke
P Anandan
M Carboni
K KuboN YagiS OokaY Cho
M Choi
H J Chung
K K KohOhyang Kwon
S Hussein
R Klieber
E Romero
D J Gilbert
R LyonP Brisset
D Corcoran
J Jimenez
A Wooldridge
M Farley

Proxies:

RSA – SAINT (South African Society for NDT) – SAIW

Apologies:

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America (ASNT)
Argentina (AAENDE)
Asia Pacific (APFNDT)Australia (AINDT)
Australia (AINDT)
Austria (OGfZP)
Bulgaria (BGSNDT)
Germany (DGZfP)ISNT India (ISNT)
Italy (AIPnD)
Japan (JSNDI)
Japan (JSNDI)
Japan (JSNDI)/Chair ICNDT WG4
Korea (KSNT)/WCNDT President
Korea (KSNT)
Korea (KSNT)
Korea (KSNT)
Korea (KSNT)
Malaysia (MSNT)Switzerland (SSNT)
Spain (AEND)
United Kingdom (BINDT) - General Secretary
EFNDTInternational Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
ISO TC135 SC7 Chair
ISO TC135 SC7 ChairICEC Secretary
ICNDT Immediate Past Chairman

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Welcome and confirmation of Quorum
The Chair welcomed all and thanked the hosts (Swedish Society for NDT).
There were 35 voting members present, therefore a quorum was reached.

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MemoriamA minute’s silence was observed in memory of Dr Baldev Raj.

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Membership, Roll-Call, Voting Rules
The roll-call was taken and members were reminded of the voting rules.

4.

Minutes of Minutes of 38th and 39th Meetings in Munich 2016
The minutes of the last meeting were approved, subject to swapping G Idinger/G Aufricht on the list ofparticipants.

5.

Annual Report and accounts for 2017
The Annual Report for 2017, including the Financial Report of the accountants, had already been
approved at the Annual Meeting.

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ICNDT Strategic Plan - status
The Strategic Plan (Version 10i) had been circulated in advance of the meeting.
The Chair presented the Strategic Plan, noting that the document is regularly updated.

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Presentation of Financial Report for 2018 to date
G Aufricht presented the Financial Report. Liquid cash at 31/05/18 was €120,388.

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Confirm approval of new Operating Procedures
A number of revised OPs were approved by postal ballot at the end of 2017.
M Farley presented OP19 (Rev 4), which had already been approved by CEC and IEC. M Farleyhighlighted the changes and the document was approved unanimously.

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Membership fees for 2018 (Approved in Annual Meeting)
M Farley presented the background to the new constitution and fee structure (available to download fromthe website), and pointed out that due process had been followed. The GA voted unanimously in favour
and the new constitution will be implemented from this GA with the new fee structure being implemented
from 1 January 2019.
Thanks were extended to Sharon Bond and Les Dick for their services over the last two years.
The new fee structure (from 1 January 2019) is in accordance with OP2. M Farley explained that fees
would be in accordance with the size of the society and would be split 60% to the Federation and 40% toICNDT.
Regions have decided that from 2019 they will use the recommended fees. If there is more than one
group, the society will be asked to approve the category that they wish to be in. Responses would be
required by the end of September 2018.
D Gilbert will send an email to all societies.
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Send email to all societies
regarding the new fee
structure.

DJG

STATUS/COMPLETE BY
Ongoing.

It was noted that Asia Pacific would collect their own fees but the others would be collected by the ICNDT
secretariat. The secretariat will then work out the totals and distribute according to OP2.
P Trampus advised that Kazakhstan did not have a current NDT society and should therefore be removed
from the list of members. The Latvian and Moldova societies have been suspended and should therefore
also be removed from the list of members.
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WHO

Remove Kazakhstan, Latvia
and Moldova from the list ofICNDT Members.

DJG

STATUS/COMPLETE BY
Ongoing.

It was noted that the Advisory Committee would be meeting later today and will focus on priorities for
ICNDT and each region.
Thanks were extended to the Task Group who worked and developed the documents.
All OPs and the new Constitution are on the website.

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Presentation of draft Budget for 2018 (Approved in Annual Meeting)
The fees for 2018 were approved at the 2018 Annual Meeting (€300/€100) and the budget was alsoapproved.

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Membership – Presentation of new Member applications
A new member (Morocco) has joined the ICNDT since the last meeting.
Directory and Website
Societies are requested to please advise the secretariat of any updates.
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WHOSocieties to advise thesecretariat of any updates tothe directory and website.

Societies

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S K Babu thanked the outgoing elected members – S Bond, L Dick and members of WG7.
The auditors (D Marshall and W Schmid) were also thanked.
The previous Executive Committee was discharged.

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