Minutes of the ICNDT GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING
Thursday, 19 April 2012
Durban, South Africa
Attendance list
Name
Representing (Country)
Cesar Belinco
ARGENTINADavid Barnett
AUSTRALIAJohn Maccarone
AUSTRALIA
Shayne Flynn
AUSTRALIA
Josh Morris
AUSTRALIA
Gerhard Aufricht
AUSTRIA
Günter Balas
AUSTRIA
Joao Antonio ConteBRAZIL
Edson Eufrasio
BRAZIL
Moussa Bakoura
CAMEROON
Douglas Marshall
CANADA
Sharon BondCANADA
Gongtian Shen
CHINA
Vjera Krstelj
CROATIA
Pavel Mazal
CZECH REPUBLIC
Omar Serrano
ECUADORP Fallouey
FRANCEMathias Purschke
GERMANY
Jutta Koehn
GERMANYFriederike Pohlman
GERMANY
Peter Trampus
HUNGARYP Kalyanasundaram INDIAV Pari
INDIA
Samir K Goksi
INDIA
B Venkatraman
INDIA
Sigit Budi Santoso
INDONESIA
Hamid Tazikeh
IRAN
Yossi Shoef
ISRAEL
Gabriel Shoef
ISRAEL
Giuseppe Nardoni
ITALY
Giacinto Porco
ITALY
Gianmaria Gatti
ITALY
Roberto Gittardi
ITALY
Sergio Ghia
ITALY
Ezio Tuberosa
ITALY
H KatoJAPAN
N OokaJAPANVoting (YES/NO)
YES
NO + Gen Sec
YESNONOYES + Treasurer
NO
YESNONO
NO
YES
YES
YES
YESNO
YES
YESNO
NO
YES
YESNONONOYESNOYESNONOYESNONONONONO
YES

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S Ooka
Y Yokono
Yuji Ogino
Hajime Hatano
S Stagnafors
John Chege
Younho Cho
Hong Joo Chung
Lee Yong
Ab. Razak Hamzah
Khazali Zin
Alfonso Garcia Cueto
Michael A Adegbite
Steiner Hopland
Pedro Vilaca
Alexander Mullin
N Volkova
Sajeesh Kumar Babu
B Mulhuramalingam
Janez Grum
Erich Eckhardt
Manfred Johannes
Jim GuildFermin Gomez Fraile
Werner Schmid
Shr-Liang Chu
Chih-Hung Chiang
Ching-Chung YinAsma Kharrat
C Hakan Gür
V Troitskiy
Gennadiy Lutsenko
Mikhhail Kazakevich
Mike Farley
S J Lavender
P Milligan
C Sinclair
John Thompson
David Gilbert
Sylvia Infanzon
Wayne Holliday
R PotterMichel L Turnbow
Apologies
Rong Geng
Baldev RajPeter Hayward
Matea
Asa Prateepasen
Elena Azizova

JAPANJAPANJAPAN (sec ISO TC135)
JAPAN (ISO TC135)
KAZAKHSTAN
KENYA
KOREA
KOREA
KOREA
MALAYSIA
MALAYSIAMEXICONIGERIANORWAYPORTUGALRUSSIARUSSIASINGAPORE
SINGAPORESLOVENIASLOVAKIA
SOUTH AFRICA
SOUTH AFRICASPAIN
SWITZERLAND
TAIWANTAIWANTAIWANTUNISIATURKEY
UKRAINE
UKRAINE
UKRAINE
UNITED KINGDOMUNITED KINGDOMUNITED KINGDOMUNITED KINGDOMUNITED KINGDOMUNITED KINGDOMURUGUAY
USAUSAUSA (ASME)NONONO
NO
YES
YES
NO
NO
YES
YES
NO
YES
NO
YES
YES
NO
YES
YES
NO
YES
YES
YES
NO
YES
YES
YES
NO
NO
YES
YES
YES
NO
NO
Chairman
YES
NO
NO
NO
NO - Minute Secretary
YES
YES
NO
NO

CHINA
INDIA
NEW ZEALAND
PHILIPPINESTHAILANDUZBEKISTAN

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21-3. Welcome, Memorium, Roll Call, Voting Procedures and Quorum
The Chairman, Dr Mike Farley, welcomed all to this 36th General Assembly ofICNDT and initiated a roll call.
One voting delegate is permitted per member society. 33% of membership
was required for quorum and only 1 proxy was permitted per member country
present. A simple majority is required.
(Note: changes to Constitution/Terms of Reference require 6 months noticeand positive vote of two-thirds of those present).
There were 37 voting members present and two proxies – Serbia to Croatia
and Philippines to Singapore (latter only for vote for General Secretary). Thus,
more than 50% of the total membership were present and a quorum wasachieved. There were also two postal votes received for the election of theGeneral Secretary only.
The Chairman proposed to move the Agenda item 10: Strategic Plan up theAgenda to after item no. 5. This was accepted.
A membership certificate was presented to the Kazakhstan Society.
4.

Report by Membership Working GroupMr Conte presented his report, covering present status and new applications(Iran), and mentioned the Workshop for Fledgling Societies to be held on thefollowing Thursday.

5.

ICNDT business5.1 Annual Reports for 2010 and 2011
These were approved unanimously.
5.2 Finances
Accounts for 2011
Mr Aufricht presented the results for 2011.
Auditor’s report
Mr Maccarone confirmed that he had found the accounts to be prepared ingood order.
5.3 Discharge of ICNDT Chairman, General Secretary, Treasurerand Executive Committee Secretary
Mr Maccarone proposed to discharge the current Chairman, General Secretary
and Treasurer and this was approved unanimously.
5.4 Budget 2012
Mr Aufricht went through the budget for 2012 (appended) and proposed thatthe membership fees for 2012 remain unchanged. The budget was approved
unanimously.
5.5 Fees for 2012
The proposal to keep the membership fees at the same levels for 2012 wasapproved unanimously.

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3Dr Farley thanked Mr Aufricht for his many years’ hard work as Treasurer.
He also acknowledged the support of national societies, in particular BINDT,CINDE, DGZfP and ISNT.
The General Assembly was closed at this point and the 36th ICNDT Meeting
commenced immediately.

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4Minutes of the 36th MEETING of the ICNDT
Thursday, 19 April 2012
Durban, South Africa
IMPORTANT NOTE: This meeting followed on immediately after the General
Assembly Meeting and the Agenda items are numbered accordingly.

Attendance list
Name
Representing (Country)
Cesar Belinco
ARGENTINADavid Barnett
AUSTRALIAJohn Maccarone
AUSTRALIA
Shayne Flynn
AUSTRALIA
Josh Morris
AUSTRALIA
Gerhard Aufricht
AUSTRIA
Günter Balas
AUSTRIA
Joao Antonio ConteBRAZIL
Edson Eufrasio
BRAZIL
Moussa Bakoura
CAMEROON
Douglas Marshall
CANADASharon BondCANADA
Gongtian Shen
CHINA
Vjera Krstelj
CROATIA
Pavel Mazal
CZECH REPUBLIC
Omar Serrano
ECUADORP Fallouey
FRANCE
Mathias Purschke
GERMANY
Jutta Koehn
GERMANYFriederike Pohlman
GERMANY
Peter Trampus
HUNGARYP Kalyanasundaram INDIAV Pari
INDIA
Samir K Goksi
INDIA
B Venkatraman
INDIA
Sigit Budi Santoso
INDONESIA
Hamid Tazikeh
IRAN
Yossi Shoef
ISRAEL
Gabriel Shoef
ISRAEL
Giuseppe Nardoni
ITALY
Giacinto Porco
ITALY
Gianmaria Gatti
ITALY
Roberto Gittardi
ITALY

Voting (YES/NO)
YES
NO + Gen Sec
YESNONOYES + Treasurer
NOYESNONONOYESYESYESYESNOYESYESNONOYESYESNONONOYESNOYESNONOYESNONO

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1Sergio Ghia
Ezio Tuberosa
H KatoN OokaS OokaY Yokono
Yuji Ogino
Hajime Hatano
S Stagnafors
John Chege
Younho Cho
Hong Joo Chung
Lee Yong
Ab. Razak Hamzah
Khazali Zin
Alfonso Garcia Cueto
Michael A Adegbite
Steiner Hopland
Pedro Vilaca
Alexander Mullin
N Volkova
Sajeesh Kumar Babu
B Mulhuramalingam
Janez Grum
Erich Eckhardt
Manfred Johannes
Jim GuildFermin Gomez Fraile
Werner Schmid
Shr-Liang Chu
Chih-Hung Chiang
Ching-Chung Yin
Asma Kharrat
C Hakan Gür
V Troitskiy
Gennadiy Lutsenko
Mikhhail Kazakevich
Mike Farley
S J Lavender
P Milligan
C Sinclair
John Thompson
David Gilbert
Sylvia Infanzon
Wayne Holliday
R PotterMichel L Turnbow
Apologies
Rong Geng
Baldev RajPeter Hayward
Matea
Asa Prateepasen
Elena Azizova

ITALY
ITALY
JAPANJAPANJAPANJAPANJAPAN (sec ISO TC135)
JAPAN (ISO TC135)
KAZAKHSTAN
KENYA
KOREA
KOREA
KOREA
MALAYSIA
MALAYSIAMEXICONIGERIANORWAYPORTUGALRUSSIARUSSIASINGAPORE
SINGAPORESLOVENIASLOVAKIA
SOUTH AFRICA
SOUTH AFRICASPAIN
SWITZERLAND
TAIWANTAIWANTAIWANTUNISIA
TURKEYUKRAINE
UKRAINE
UKRAINE
UNITED KINGDOMUNITED KINGDOMUNITED KINGDOMUNITED KINGDOMUNITED KINGDOMUNITED KINGDOMURUGUAY
USA
USA
USA (ASME)NONONO
YES
NO
NO
NO
NO
YES
YES
NO
NO
YES
YES
NO
YES
NO
YES
YES
NO
YES
YES
NO
YES
YES
YES
NO
YES
YES
YES
NO
NO
YES
YES
YES
NO
NO
ChairmanYESNONONO
NO - Minute Secretary
YES
YES
NO
NOCHINAINDIA
NEW ZEALAND
PHILIPPINESTHAILANDUZBEKISTAN

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Strategic Plan

Dr Farley presented slides detailing the present status and timelines for actionplans. He said that meetings of each Working Group would take place at all
major conferences. He went through each section of the plan and gave thenames of the members of the associated working groups.
Several comments arose from the floor:
Mr Sinclair (BINDT) offered the use, through the secretariat, of a technicalresource at the British Institute.
Mr (Norway) stated that the Norwegian Society was upgrading its website andrequested information on an RSS feed from ICNDT. Mr Gilbert would discuss.
Regarding education, Dr Farley reiterated the need for a section on the website
for universities to promote their programmes.
A research workshop would be scheduled for the next Asia Pacific conferencein Mumbai in 2013.
Work would commence on a register of NDT bodies with a view to issuingresearch challenges to organisations on the list.
Regarding certification, it was proposed to hold joint workshops with IAEA.
Dr Farley invited members to joining WG1.
Mr Cueto asked who was responsible for creating the Spanish version of theQuestion Bank. This was under consideration via an IAEA regional project (ref.
C Belinco, Argentina).
Mr Thompson referred to the successful workshops held in the past at ASME
PVP conferences and proposed to restart these.
Mr Fallouey then reported on the future plans of the Certification Executive
Committee (CEC), as follows:
The CEC was planning to hold teleconference as early as possible, followed bya physical meeting in the UK on 19 November 2012 (if quorum can beobtained), alongside UK Certification Conference, with the aim to adopt aposition on preliminary proposals drafted by the Chairman and the Secretary.
Early objectives:
1. Contact all ICNDT members with the following aims:
a. Request signature on Schedule 1 of MRA
b. Survey expected participation in MRA Schedule 2 (PCB registration)
and assessment of PCB where no accreditation.
2. Formulate Business Plan for MRA and PCBA
3. Establish Assessor Register and arrange assessor training at next regional
conference
4. Ensure liabilities and disclaimers are in place.
Regarding the new Radiation Protection section, information from Dr Purschke
would be published in the ICNDT Journal.
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Elections of Officers and Secretariat for 2012-2016
Mr Marshall took over the chair for the election of the Chairman.
Dr Farley was elected unanimously.
Dr Purschke was unanimously approved as next World Conference President.
BINDT was elected unanimously as Secretariat.
Mr Aufricht was elected unanimously as Treasurer.
Mr Maccarone was elected unanimously as Auditor.
Mr Schmid was proposed and approved as 2nd Auditor.
In a secret ballot, Mr S K Babu gained 23 votes and Mr Barnett gained 18votes: Mr Babu was elected General Secretary.
Mr Barnett declared that he would not stand as an elected representative, as
he did not have the support from his society in this position.
This left only two candidates for elected representative to the IEC and PGP –Sharon Bond and Younho Cho. As there were two vacant places, no election
was required. Ms Bond and Mr Cho were elected unanimously.

To summarise, the officers for the period 2012-2016 would be:
Position
ICNDT
Chairman
ICNDT General
SecretaryWorldConference
President
NDT Society toprovide
SecretariatTreasurer

Two electedmembers

Name(country)
Dr Mike Farley(UK)S K Babu(Singapore)
Dr Matthias Purschke(Germany)
British Institute of NDT(UK)
Ing Gerhard Aufricht(Austria)
Sharon Bond(Canada)
Younho Cho(Korea)
John Maccarone(Australia)

Auditors
Werner Schmid(Switzerland)

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4Dr Farley then went over the elections for the other positions, as follows:
Position
Chairman
WG1
Chairman
WG3
Chairman ofMembership
Working Group
Chairman ofCertification
ExecutiveCommittee(CEC)
Secretariat CECName(country)
Alexander Mullin(Russia)
Manfred Johannes(South Africa)João Conte(Brazil)
Patrick Fallouey(France)
John Thompson(UK)Dr Farley then gave the names of the Representatives of the Regional Groups,
as follows:RegionalGroupAfrica
Asia PacificEurope
Pan America

Name(country)
Jim Guild
Moussa Bakoura
B Venkataraman
N OokaV Krstelj
E RomeroW Holliday
C Belinco

Proposed by
AFNDT
APCNDTEFNDT
PANDT

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5Dr Farley then introduced the members of the Certification ExecutiveCommittee;

8.

Position

Name

Regional Representative

ChairmanPatrick Fallouey

Secretary

John Thompson

Treasurer,
ICNDT

Gerhard Aufricht

Chairman, WG1

Alexander Mullin

Members

S K Babu

Asia Pacific

Jim Guild

AfricaMatthias PurschkeEuropeJoão Rufino Teles

Pan America

Report on 18th World Conference, Durban
Mr Johannes presented his updated report. The total number of registereddelegates was 1096, plus 568 accompanying persons and ISO delegates,
giving a total of 1664 from 69 different countries. There were 120 exhibiting
companies.

9.

Election of host for 20th World Conference, 2020
The Chairman explained the procedure for the ballot – if one of the candidates
achieved a majority of more than 50% of the votes cast in the first round thenthey would be declared the outright winner. If a more than 50% majority was
not achieved by any candidate then the candidate with the lowest number ofvotes would be eliminated and a second round of voting would take place. The
winner would then be the candidate with the highest number of votes.
In the first round of the secret ballot, Korea gained 24 votes, Brazil gained 11votes and Mexico gained 2 votes. As Korea’s total was more than 50% of thetotal number of votes cast (37 + 1 proxy), Korea was the outright winner andwas chosen as the host of the 20th World Conference.

10.

Reports by Liaison Organisations
9.1 ISO
Dr Hatano presented his report (available from www.icndt.org)
9.2 Academia NDT International
Mr Nardoni presented his report.

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Timetable of meetings
Dr Farley explained the requirements of the Austrian Law to have an Annual
Meeting in the early part of the year to go through the official process ofapproving the accounts for the authorities.
An Annual General Meeting was thus scheduled for 1 February 2013 inRenfrew, Scotland. A postal ballot of the accounts/Annual Report 2012 would
be conducted prior to the meeting and members would be invited to join it via
teleconference.
There would be meetings of WG1 and CEC alongside the Certification UK
conference in Luton, England, in November 2012.
Professor Mazal presented brief details of the European Conference to takeplace in Prague, Czech Republic, in 2014.

Dr Farley then thanked all for the attendance and closed the meeting.

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