Annual Report 2017
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 2017

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Meetings and Appointments
ICNDT Executive Committee (IEC) meetings were held eight times during 2017, the first taking place on 5 January, the second on
13 February when the Chairman visited the Secretariat in Northampton, the third on 4 March, the fourth on 7 June alongside theCertification Conference in Vienna, the fifth on 17 August, the sixth on 23 October, the seventh on 14 November and the last one
for the year on 12 December. All meetings were chaired by Sajeesh K Babu and offered the facility for members to join via web
conferencing.
The Policy and General Purposes Committee (PGPC) met on 14 November 2017, during the 15th Asia Pacific Conference in Singapore,chaired by Dr Mike Farley. This meeting played an important role for the future of ICNDT, including the ongoing work to restructure
the organisation of ICNDT and the regional groups, updating the Constitution and operating procedures as well as continuous updates
on progress against the Strategic Plan. Dr Farley announced that the ballot of members had approved the updated Constitution andoperating procedures (see below). The meeting was very successful and paved the way for the implementation of the new organisation
structure from June 2018 and the new fee structure from January 2019.
Working Group 1: Qualification and Certification met twice during 2017, first during the Certification Conference in Vienna in Juneand again at the Asia Pacific Conference in Singapore in November. A glance at the agendas for these meetings and the Action Planof the WG shows the large number of tasks this working group has under its remit, under the Chairmanship of Alexander Mullin. Oneof the most important topics covered was the ICNDT contribution to the proposed revision of ISO Standard 9712: Qualification andCertification of NDT Personnel. More on this later.
The Certification Executive Committee (ICEC) carries out most of its work via email and the internet. It’s activities centre around theMultilateral Recognition Agreement (MRA), conformity assessment of Personnel Certification Bodies (PCBs) and the Examination
Question Bank (EQB). There are now 44 signatories to Schedule 1. The most recent is the National Centre for NDT in Sri Lanka, which
signed on 23 August 2017. All signatories are listed in the schedule on the ICNDT website. Throughout 2017, CEC review teams werevery busy assessing applications for Schedule 2 renewals. There have been seven successful renewals in 2017. There have been two
new registrations in 2017: The Non-Destructive Testing Society (Singapore) – NDTSS and the Certification Body for Non-Destructive
Testing, Sri Lanka (CBNDT). This brings the total registrations to 14. Regarding the EQB, the IAEA agreed to pay for the ICNDT EQB tobe supplied to the National Certification Body for NDT in Sri Lanka, which is part of the Atomic Energy Board. A web meeting of the
EQB Sub-Group was held on 7 November 2017. The meeting discussed development possibilities for the EQB and is currently seeking
approval from the IEC on the way forward.
Working Group 3 met in Singapore in November during the Asia Pacific Conference and several new members were welcomed. The
Action Plan was reviewed and updated and it is hoped that these actions and the enthusiastic direction of the Chairman Prof Younho
Cho will lead to early progress.
Working Group 4: Communications also met in Singapore, where Mr David Gilbert handed over the chairmanship to Mr Shohei
Ooka. This group discussed the journal and the website as well as updating Action Plan 2 of the Strategic Plan.
Working Group 6: In June, Condition Monitoring held a meeting at the ILEC Conference Centre in London alongside the First World
Conference on Condition Monitoring, under the Chairmanship of Prof Len Gelman. Mr César Belinco from Argentina was nominatedas Co-Chair as Mr Clausing (also Co-Chair) was unable to attend. Items covered included conferences and events, publications andwebsite, CPD, grant applications, awards, education and other CM activities.
ICNDT Chairman Sajeesh K Babu represented ICNDT at a number of meetings and events during 2017. He participated as aninvitee at the annual event of the Association of NDT Services Organisation of India (NANSO), held in Mumbai, India. He wasalso Guest of Honour at COTEQ 2017, organised by ABENDI, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. During the conference a meeting of the
Pan-American NDT Board was held. A new logo was introduced and the event brought new technologies and equipment to themarket.
On 25 June 2017, a historic memorandum of understanding was signed between ICNDT and the International Institute of
Welding (IIW) in Shanghai during the latter’s 70th General Assembly. Key highlights of this MOU include: sharing information,knowledge and networks in NDT in welding, enabling both organisations to excel as a result of this exchange; promoting thebenefits of this relationship to one another’s membership through publications and involvement in IIW and ICNDT technicalactivities and other means as deemed appropriate from time to time; and promoting education, training, qualification andcertification, research and development and technology transfer in NDT and welding. Overall, this MOU will use the best
endeavours of each organisation to help one another meet their objectives without any conflict with regards to their respective
goals.
As mentioned previously, the Austrian Society organised a successful conference, Certification 2017, which was held in
Vienna. This provided an information exchange platform for the ISO 9712:2012 standard and its proposed revision. The
conference explored the extent to which the international standard has worked well and examined aspects that could be
improved.
The conference was opened by Stefan Haas, the President of the Austrian Society for NDT, ÖGfZP, followed by an address from Franz
Resetar, the Federal Minister of Science, Research and Economy, and a welcome from Gerhard Aufricht, Managing Director and Vice
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During the last five years, since the introduction of ISO 9712 in 2012, it has become clear that the standard has been interpreted
and implemented differently around the world. In the interest of harmonisation, it was important to exchange experiences in
implementation and explore how best to minimise the differences in implementation. This certification conference provided the
optimal platform to capture the opinions of experts from industry, certification and standardisation. It was also very timely, since theISO committee (ISO TC 135/SC7) that is considering revisions to ISO 9712 required formal responses to its consultation by early
September 2017. As stated above, a meeting of the ICNDT Working Group for Qualification and Certification (WG1) was held
alongside the conference, primarily to help formulate an ICNDT view on the desirable changes to ISO 9712. 28 speakers from 15
nations all over the world provided their personal views of the necessary or desirable changes to ISO 9712 and the current status of
the standard in their countries. 80 delegates from 29 countries participated in discussions on the preferred way forward. In summary,this was a very successful and effective meeting, which has helped develop valuable suggestions to improve the interpretation andimplementation of ISO 9712 and the harmonisation of certification more generally. These suggestions will be central to ICNDT’s input
to the review of ISO 9712.
Mike Farley, as Chairman of the PGP Committee, also attended several important meetings and events during the year underreview. One highlight was a meeting in Vienna with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), where
he was accompanied by Mr Harold Jansen, Secretary of the African Federation of NDT (AFNDT), representative to the ICNDT PGP
Committee and Chairman of the ICNDT Certification Executive Committee, and Mr Sean Blake from the South African Instituteof Welding and NDT (SAIW). UNIDO’s Sustainable Development Goal (9) is about ‘Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure’, withthe objective of ‘building resilient infrastructure’. Also relevant to ICNDT are Development Goals (7) Affordable and Clean Energyand (3) Decent Work and Economic Growth. This includes a focus on diversity and youth employment. Bernard Bau (Industrial
Development Officer in the Trade, Investment and Innovation Department), who coordinated the meetings, is engaged in the West
African Quality System Programme, which supports the implementation of the ECOWAS Quality Policy. Bernard had arranged aone-to-one meeting for Dr Farley with Dr Bernardo Calzadilla-Sarmiento, Director of Trade, Investment and Innovation, and also
arranged for a presentation to UNIDO Trade, Investment and Innovation staff. About 12 officers from TII attended. Mike Farley
gave a presentation on ‘The importance of NDT for Industrial Development’. He described the scope and importance of NDTtechnologies and the role and objectives of ICNDT and offered the services of ICNDT to support UNIDO in its objectives. Harold
Jansen followed up with some information about ICNDT’s African Regional organisation (AFNDT) and some ideas about where ICNDTand UNIDO might cooperate, including promotion of the role of women in NDT, e-learning and a market survey for NDT in Africa. In
summary, this was a very worthwhile meeting and UNIDO is to be given liaison status of ICNDT, along with IAEA, ISO, IIW and thelike.
ICNDT Officers 2017:
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

Ms Sharon Bond (Canada)
Mr Les Dick (New Zealand)

Auditors

Mr Douglas J Marshall (Canada) and Dr Werner Schmid (Switzerland)

Chair – The ICNDT Certification Executive Committee

Mr Harold Jansen

Chair WG 1 – Certification

Mr Alexander Mullin (Russia)

Chair WG 2 – Membership

Mr João Conte (Brazil)

Chair WG 3 – Research

Prof Younho Cho (Korea)

Chair WG 4 – Communications

Mr Shohei Ooka (Japan)

Chair WG 5 – Radiation Protection

Dr Matthias Purschke (Germany)

Co-Chairs WG 6 – Condition Monitoring

Prof Len Gelman (UK), Mr Terry Clausing (USA) and Mr C Belinco(Argentina)

Chair WG 7 – Administration

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Regional Group Representatives:
Mr Harold Jansen
AfricaDr Kamal Sahaimi
Dr Norikazu Ooka

Asia-Pacific

Mr Jong Poh Lee
Prof Peter Trampus

EuropeDr Matthias Purschke
Mr César Belinco

Pan America

Dr Arny Bereson

Strategic Planning and Organisation
During 2017, the primary focuses of the IEC were on delivering the actions of the strategic plan and achieving progress withthe reorganisation proposal (see 2016 Annual Report). Ongoing status reviews in each of these areas were held at each IEC
meeting.
International Specialist Groups
Under the new Operating Procedure (OP26: International Specialist Groups – ISGs) several Specialist Groups have now been
set up under the auspices of ICNDT. The Groups are intended for those topics, either technology areas or application areas,in which international liaison is beneficial/necessary. The following Groups are currently under development (host society inbrackets):• Full Matrix Capture (BINDT)• Terahertz Imaging (BINDT)• Microwave NDT (ASNT)• Magnetic Memory Method (Maroviscz)• NDT of Art and Cultural Heritage (BINDT)• NDT Reliability (DGZfP)• Non-Linear UT (KSNT)• Guided Wave UT (KSNT)• NDT Automotive Composites (BINDT).
ISGs are open to all members of NDT Societies in ICNDT.

Review of organisation of ICNDT and the Regional Groups
The plans for the reorganisation of ICNDT and the Regional Federations/Groups have progressed well following the approval, by asignificant majority, at the General Assembly in Munich (39th meeting – 16 June 2016).
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 have directcommunication links to the Regions.
The ICNDT Executive Committee (IEC) will be made up of a Chairman, General Secretary, Treasurer, Regional Representatives (onefor 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.

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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 and was approved by the PGP Committee during 2017. 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.
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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).

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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.

Changes to the Constitution and Operating Procedures
The Constitution (V4) and OPs 3, 8 ,12 and 15 were approved by the PGP at the internet meeting hosted from Oran in November
2016.
OPs 1, 2, 3*, 4, 5, 6, 7,11,12*, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 23 and 24 were approved unanimously by postal ballot of the PGP between 10
and 31 March 2017.
OP28 was submitted to postal ballot by the PGP 13-25 April 2017.
*Updated style only. Note that OPs 9, 10, 21, 22, 25, 26 are unchanged and OPs 16 and 17 are superseded.
The current Constitution requires a six-month period for voting on changes to the Constitution. A positive vote by two thirds of thevotes cast (excluding abstentions) with a minimum of ballot return of 50% of the voting members was required and this was achievedby the deadline of 1 November 2017. The full set of revised operating procedures was also approved. At the Annual Meeting in January
2018 the membership will be asked to approve the implementation of the new constitution and operating procedures (including fee
structure) from the close of the ICNDT General Assembly, to be held in Gothenburg at the ECNDT in June 2018.

MRA and PCB Registration
Multilateral Recognition Agreement (OP19)•

There are currently 44 signatories to Schedule 1 of the MRA, with the addition in 2017 of Mexico, Uzbekistan, Argentina and
Sri Lanka.

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Two additional Personnel Certification Bodies – The Non-Destructive Testing Society (Singapore) and the National Centre for
NDT in Sri Lanka – were registered under Schedule 2 of the MRA during 2017, bringing the total number of registrants to
14.

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In addition, seven of the original registrants under Schedule 2 of the MRA have successfully renewed their registration in 2017.
These are: UkrSRINDT (Ukraine), RTC ‘Testing and Diagnostics’ (Russia), Relacre (Portugal), UDT-CERT (Poland), Inspecta
Sertifiointi Oy (Finland), BINDT (UK) and AINDT (Australia).

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

Personnel Certification Body Compliance Assessment (OP20)•

There were no applications for PCB Conformity Assessment in 2017, but one is anticipated for 2018.

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Register of External Organisations with an Interest in NDTIssue 1-4 of this register has been used by the BINDT Secretariat for mailing of ICNDT documents, such as the two recent ICNDTGuides to Qualification and Certification of Personnel for NDT and for Condition Monitoring.
Report of the 8th International Conference on Certification and Standardization in NDT, Vienna, 6-7 June 2017
This important conference focusing on ISO 9712 was mentioned earlier in this report. The CEC Secretary produced a brief reporton the conference and included key points from each of the presentations.
Reports on the ICNDT Workshop held at 15th APCNDT in Singapore on Accreditation and Certification
A report is being prepared and will be published on the ICNDT website.

MembershipA total of 40 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 Ms Sharon Bond (CINDE),Mr Les Dick (NZNDT), Dr Mike Farley (Chair, PGPC), Mr David Gilbert (Gen Sec), Mr Ferid Herelli (TNDT), Dr Alexander Mullin(RSNTTD), Dr Matthias Purschke (DGZfP) and Mr Shohei Ooka (JSNDI).
The Membership Committee has been involved with the following activities:•

Review of the ICNDT Strategic Plan.

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

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

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Process to recommend the NDTC (Sri Lanka) as an Associate Member of ICNDT.

•To recommend COMEND (Morocco) as a full member of the ICNDT.

•Statement to the Egyptian associations about the IEC’s decision, declaring the approval of the Egyptian Society for NDT as afull member and Egyptian Society for Industrial Inspection as an Associate Member.

•Contacts with Algerian and Lebanese societies regarding membership of ICNDT.

Website/Journal/Publications
The ICNDT Secretariat has continued to provide updates to members through the website and ICNDT Journal (normally threeissues published each year; however, only two were published in 2017), 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.
The German Society, DGZfP, has continued to provide the platform for the ICNDT website. The Facebook page is becoming
increasingly popular.
As reported above, a meeting of the Communications Working Group was held during the Asia Pacific Conference in Singapore
and thanks go to Group members S Bond, D Courchesne, S Cullman, D Gilbert, G Liming and S Ooka (Chair).

Finance
The audited financial report for 2017 and the budget for 2018 are shown below.

Acknowledgements
ICNDT wishes to thank its Executive Committee members for their efforts during 2017 and acknowledges the support of theSecretariat provided by the British Institute of NDT.

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Balance at 31.12.2017

Opening balance

2017

2017

Income (€)

Expenditure (€)

113,343.06

Donation from Austrian Chamber of Commerce-

Donation from WCNDT-Membership fees (34 at €300/2 at €100)
Bank account Nr: 290-317-995/01 – interest
PCB CA service
MRA Service (OP19)

11,300.00
11.38
4866.96

EQB product: application fees (OP23)-

EQB update fees (OP23)-

Meeting expenses/Go to meetings

2778.17

Bank account Nr: 290-317-99501 – cost

172.46

Bank expenditures for incoming fees

127.29Printing costs-

Office costs

212.91PCB CA service costs (system administration, insurance)(OP20)

4272.65

MRA/PCB – auditor payment (OP19)

8197.50

EQB service costs (administration and overheads) (OP23
contingencies)

1360.00

Professional service

4560.00

Preparation of ICNDT monographs-

Supplies (ICNDT badges, flags, etc)-

Miscellaneous (shipping, conference calls)

-

Total

129,521.40

Allocation to reserves (31.12.2017)

107,840.42

Pending costs (OP19; OP23; professional service) – €1200
Pending income (Donation, Austria) – €500
Gerhard Aufricht, Treasurer, 13 January 2018, Vienna. Rev 0.

21,680.98

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Financial Report – Budget 2018
Income (€)
Opening balance(01.01.2018)

Expenditure (€)

107,840.00

Donation from
Austrian Chamber of Commerce

500.00Donation from DGZfP (WCNDT Munich)-Membership fees
(40 at €300/€100, less pre-payments)

14,000.00

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

20.00

PCB CA service (OP20)

6000.00

MRA service (OP19)

3550.00

EQB product – application fees/sales (OP23)

7500.00

EQB update/maintenance (OP23)

2250.00

Meeting expenses/Go to meetings

2500.00

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

300.00Bank expenditures for incoming fees

200.00Printing costs

2500.00

Office costs

200.00PCB CA costs (administration, application,
insurance) (OP19)

3550.00

MRA/PCB – audit-process/payment (OP20)

6000.00

EQB service costs (administration, sales, SW
adaption) (OP23)

7000.00

Professional service

4500.00

Preparation of ICNDT monographs

2000.00

Supplies (ICNDT badges, flags, etc)

2000.00

Miscellaneous(shipping, conference calls)

500.00

Total

141,660.00

Allocation to reserves

110,410.00

31,250.00

Gerhard Aufricht, Treasurer, 13 January 2018, Vienna. Rev 02.
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