38th General Assembly Meeting
Tuesday 14th June, 2016
International Congress Centre, Munich – 19th WCNDT
1. Welcome
Present – Voting Members
B AlvesFSEND/RELACRE Portugal
C Belinco
AAENDE Argentina
A Bereson
ASNT USAK CainSAINT South Africa
T Chady
SIMP Poland
J Chege
NDISK Kenya
M Y Choi
KSNT Korea
D Chu
SNTCT Taiwan ROC
J ConteABENDI Brazil
L DickNZNDTA New Zealand
E Gorkunov
RSNTTD Russia
E Eckhardt
SSNDT Slovakia
A Erhard
DGZfP Germany
B Frenn
IRI-Lebanon
J GrumSSNDT Slovenia
M Ghaemi
IRNDT IranF Gomez
AEND Spain
S HaasÖGfZP Austria
C Hakan-Gur
TURK NDT Turkey
T El-Hakim
IRI Lebanon
F Hermansen
NSNDT Norway
A N Ibrahim
MSNT Malaysia

V Krstelj
E Martin
P Mazal
M Mihovski
T Ogata
E Palido
M Papponetti
B Pedersen
V Pari
I Prassianakis
W Schmid
G ShenY Shoef
C Sinclair
G Sofronic
A Stanciu
Sze T Siong
P Trampus
J Verkooijen
P Wadyalkar
K WoitS Zaitova

CrSNDT Croatia
COFREND France
CNDT Czech Republic
BGSNDT Bulgaria
JSNDI Japan
ACOSEND Colombia
AIPnD Italy
DSNDT DenmarkISNT India
HSNT Greece
SGZP Switzerland
ChSNDT China
ISRANDT Israel
BINDT UK
SDIBR Serbia
ARoENDd Romania
NDTSS Singapore
MAROVISZ Hungary
KINT Netherlands
AINDT Australia
CINDE Canada
NDTTDAK Kazakhstan

Present – Non-Voting
M H AbalNour
Egypt
P Anandan
ISNT India
G Aufricht
ICNDT Treasurer
J AnslerArgentina
S K Babu
ICNDT Gen Sec
V K BabuHong Kong/China
M Bakoura
HYDRAC Cameroon
D Bajula
ASNT USAJ Bennett
ASNT USAJ Birir
NDTS Kenya
H BowlesASNT USAS BondCINDE Canada/ICNDT IEC
J F ChaiSNTCT Taiwan ROC
A Charbonnier
COFREND France
E Cheprasova
RSNTTD Russia
Y Cho
KSNT/ICNDTC Cho
KSNT Korea
H J Chung
KSNT Korea
T Clausing
ASNT USADr M Farley
Chair - ICNDTD Gilbert
ICNDT Secretariat

G Liming
R LyonJ Maccarone
D Mandina
S Mandayam
D Marshall
A Meszaros
P Milligan
Y Mirchev
A Mullin
Y Mirchev
I Mukriz
G Nardoni
N OokaS OokaM PotterE RomeoC Schnitzer
J Seong-Hyeon
G Shoef
K SmithASNT USA
BINDT UKAINDT Australia
ASNT USAISNT India
ICNDTEFNDTAINDT Australia
BGSNDT
Chair ICNDT WG1
BGSNDT Bulgaria
MSNT Malayisa
Italy
APFNDT
APFNDT/JSNDI Japan
ASNT USA
AEND Spain
ASNT USA
KSNT Korea
ISRANDT Israel
ASNT USA

Secretariat: The British Institute of NDT, Midsummer House, Riverside Way, Bedford Road,Northampton NN1 5NX UK
Tel: +44 1604 438300 Fax: +44 1604 438301 Email: icndt@bindt.org
The ICNDT is registered as a legalised Association with its seat in Vienna, Austria.
A1010 VIENNA, Krugerstraße 16

V GomesJ G Hargreaves
C HenryF Herelli
S Hussein
G Idinger
H Jansen
S Javaheripour
M Johannes
A Joycli
D KangO KwonR Kleber

RELACRE Portugal
BrazilNSNDT Nigeria
Tunisia
MalaysiaÖGfZP Austria
SAIW South Africa
IRNDT IranSAINT/ICNDT WG3
SNDT Sri Lanka
KSNT Korea
KSNT Korea
SSNT Switzerland

Apologies

Tony Sonneveld, Prof H J Wustenberg, J-P Lee, Patrick Fallouey, J-P Gustin

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R SmithT Tsuchiya
E Tuberosa
G Tubrett
A Vamvakousis
D J Varde
T Wooldridge
N YagiS Youssef
P K Yuen
S Zoppi
K Hickman

BINDT UK
ISO/TC135
AIPnD Italy
CINDE Canada
HSNT Greece
ISNT India
ICNDT CECJSNDI Japan
IRI Lebanon
CINDE CanadaArgentina
Minute Secretary

Dr Farley welcomed everyone to the 38th Meeting of the ICNDT General
Assembly.
The agenda was presented to all those in attendance.

2. Memoriam Respects were paid to Prof Hermann J Kopineck, Honorary member of ICNDTand past president of DGZfP, and Juan Báez, pioneer of NDT in Argentina.
3. Roll Call 41 voting members are attending this meeting Apologies as above
 Introductions were made
4. Procedures for voting confirmation of quorum
 Dr Farley explained the procedure for voting. Only full member
societies/organisations have voting privileges; one vote per full member;members who did not pay their 2015 fees are not entitled to vote; simple
majority voting.
 The meeting was quorate (more than 33% of full members entitled to votepresent)
5. Approval of Minutes of ICNDT General Assembly/37th meeting(Prague 2014)
 The minutes of the previous meeting were accepted as a true record.
6. ICNDT Business
6.1
Report on Annual Meeting (29 Jan 2016, Balance 2015, Budget 2016 andfees) An internet meeting had been held in January where the 2015 Annual
Report was approved The report is available on the website.
 The budget was approved for 2016 The starting balance was €85,000 and the expected closing balance will be€100,000 assuming there is a donation from the World Conference.

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€15,000 will be allocated to professional services to keep actions moving forthe future.
The membership fees for 2016 will be €300 for full membership and €100for associate membership
A request was made for fees to be paid as soon as possible.
Notification of Operating Procedures issued since last GA
The Executive Committee work in a methodical, systematic way inagreement with the General Assembly.
The modified OP18 was approved
Robin Shipp has retired as secretary of the CEC committee and Tony
Wooldridge has taken on this role.
OP19, OP20 and OP24 were all approved.
Three new OPs – OP22: Recognition of voluntary effort, OP25: ICNDTInternational Forums and OP26: ICNDT Specialist International Groups had
been approved by the PGP Committee on 12 June 2016.

7. Nominations of Officers and Secretariat for 2016‐2020(Elections at 39th meeting) Nominations and voting conducted in accordance with OP1. A call fornominations had been issued to all member societies. Nominations had
been reviewed at the Executive Committee, the AGM and then the PGPC. No
further nominations were submitted.
 Nominations were as follows: Chair: Sajeesh K Babu
General Secretary: David Gilbert
Treasurer: G Aufricht
World Conference President: Younho Cho
Secretariat: BINDTThe PGP require 2 elected members, and there are 3 nominations – Sharon
Bond, Terry Clausing and Les Dick.
 John Maccarone will stand down as auditor and both Doug Marshall andWerner Schmid were nominated to become auditors.
 Further nominations:
Chair membership Committee: João Conte
Chair CEC: Harold Jansen
Chair WG1: Qualification & Certification: Alexander Mullin
Chair WG2: Education & Research: Manfred Johannes
Chair WG5: Radiation Safety & Security: Matthias Purschke
Chair WG6: Condition Monitoring &Diagnostic Technologies: Terry Clausing Nominations to PGP by Regional Groups
Africa (AFNDT): Mourad Zergoug and Harold Jansen
Asia‐Pacific (APFNDT): Nori Ooka and J‐P LeeEurope (EFNDT): Peter Trampus and Matthias Purschke
Pan America (PanAmNDT): Arny Bereson and Cesar Belinco

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8. ICNDT Awards and Honorary Membership
8.1
Summary of ICNDT Awards presented at the Opening Ceremony Details of the Awards presented at the Opening Ceremony are detailed in
the Table below.
ICNDT AWARD
ROENTGEN
AWARD

HAVERCROFT
AWARD

SOKOLOV
AWARD
YOUNG
ACHIEVERAWARD
PAWLOWSKI
AWARD

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For major
contribution toscience andtechnology ofNDTFor a major
contribution to
NDT Education,
Training andCertification
For a major
contribution toNDT Research
For achievementof young people
in NDTFor a major
contribution tothe promotion ofNDTInternationallyWINNER
Tony Dunhill

RUNNERS-UP
NPO ENERGOMASH

Roger Lyon

Anatoly Gourvich

Hermann
Wüstenberg

Bruce Drinkwater and Paul Wilcox
Valentin KaloshinAlexander
Machikhin

Katy Milne

Mike Farley

Vjera Krstelj
Makoto Ochiai
Vasily Sukhorukov

Approval of Nominations for Honorary Membership (confirmation ofrecommendations by Chair)

New Honorary Members proposed by the Chairman are detailed
below:David Gilbert - for his support to ICNDT and EFNDTVjera 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 WCNDTSharon Bond - for her services to ICNDT since 2000 (including the 16thWCNDT ) and her work with ISO TC135 SC7Joao Conte - Chairman of the ICNDT Membership Committee and a leader inthe Pan American Committee
Sajeesh Kumar Babu - General Secretary of ICNDT and active member of theAsia Pacific FederationAlexander Mullin - Chairman of ICNDT WG1 Qualification and Certification

Dr Farley urged all to think about making nominations for the awards in 4years time.
Dr Farley also thanked everyone for nominating him.

9. Membership
9.1
New Members and applications
 AMEXENDE (Mexico) were approved as an Associate member.
 Agreement had been reached with Iranian societies: IWNT (Iranian Societyfor NDT and Welding) was approved as Associate member, and IRNDT(Iranian Society for Non‐Destructive Testing) Full member.

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Contact had been made 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.
Contacts had been made with the African Federation of NDT to support its
associates to become members of ICNDT: for example Angola and Egypt.
An application from Azerbaijan was progressing.
Membership Committee Action Plan
There are a number of actions on the strategic plan for support of societies,
and the first aim is to set up workshops in conjunction with conferences toshare best practice. Developing societies will benefit from these workshops.
Suggestions for venues and locations would be appreciated.
Some activity has taken place in South and Central America with workshops
and there has been a lot of interest (as reflected above ‐ New Members).
These will be developed.
A workshop is being planned for the AFNDT Conference in Algeria inNovember.
A very useful workshop on education and training was held in Mumbai in2013.
For societies that do not have a website, ICNDT can offer a 'shell scheme',that provides the infrastructure to have a presence on the website at nocost.
There will also be a mentoring service for societies that require it. Societiesthat would like to become a mentor, or indeed require mentoring should
contact the General Secretary.
A directory of National Societies is available on the website, and everyone
should have received a form to update their Society details.
Report on Liaison Members
The Table below summarises the liaison members and their status.

ISO TC135

Formal/Informal
FormalISO TC135 SC7FormalActiveICNDT Chairman

ISO TC108 SC5FormalActiveTerry Clausing

IAEA

Informal

ActiveICNDT Chairman and TreasurerIIWInformal

WINS

Informal

WFNDEC

Organisation

Active or not

ICNDT nominee(s)ActiveICNDT Chairman

CommentAlexander Mullin

New nominee

ActiveMatthias Purschke

New action in progress

FormalNot active

WG2 Chair

WCI

FormalNot active

WG5 Chair

Academia NDTInformal

ActiveICNDT Chairman

ISCM

FormalActiveWG6 Chair

Relatively new

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10.1 Strategic Plan 2012‐16
 The plan was approved in Durban, refreshed in Prague and each Working
Group has been working in accordance with the strategic plan.
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Internet/Website/JournalThanks were extended to the members of the task group
ICNDT journal published 3 times a year in April, June and September
Corresponding deadlines are end of February, April and July
The journal is a vehicle to inform about activities and the developments ofall member societies
Articles and case studies are invited
There is a facility to embed the journal on to own societies' websites.
Thanks extended to Sharon Bond for her assistance in collating material forthe journal and to BINDT and its Publishing department for its help in
producing the journal.
New guides had been published – Guide to Education and Training, Guide to
Research and Development in NDT, Guide to Qualification and Certificationof Personnel for NDT (brand new version), Guide to Qualification andCertification of Personnel for CM – and also a corporate ICNDT leaflet.
The above guides are also available for download from the website.
Work continues on mapping external bodies.
Dr Farley will circulate to members a list of external bodies interested inICNDT. The list will be used to promote the Guides and distribute copies.
We will use our resources to improve the presentation of NDT, CM andICNDT on Wikipedia. The resource is used widely and information should bekept updated.
Publications are produced as and when required and any suggestions wouldbe welcomed.
Dr Farley thanked David Gilbert and his group for working on these projects.
The website is a valuable resource for material and information and to act asa link for regional societies.
Each society is requested to ensure there is a prominent link to icndt.org on
their website
Upgrade the website – this is important as it is one of the main vehicles topromote ICNDT and NDT. Should any society have material please forward
to David Gilbert for upload.
Resources – external organisation that have an interest in NDT. We would
like to expand and develop these.
Those in attendance were encouraged to register on the ICNDT website if
they had not already done so.
There is a Register of Research Bodies and all societies are invited to help us
to make it more comprehensive. Bodies wishing to register should completethe form on the website in the Resources Section.
Details of Specialist Groups will be available along with links for documentsand resources.

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An Events Calendar is available to allow a Society to input its own
information on forthcoming events. This can be uploaded directly or
forwarded details to David Gilbert.
ICNDT Facebook pages are available and growing in importance along withother social media. Sharon Bond was thanked for setting this up andmaintaining the page. Members were encouraged to this development thisby visiting and 'liking' the page.
WG1 – NDT Qualification and Certification
WG1 contributed to the new edition of the Guide to Qualification andCertification of Personnel for NDT
A guide to recommendations for practical examinations has been agreed by
WG members and will be presented for approval of IEC.
The list of ISO and EN standards has been kept updated.
The relevant Operating Procedures have been updated.
A document on clarification of functions and responsibilities of certification
bodies was under development.
CP106 and the ASNT standards were reviewed after Prague and thecomments received were useful.
India (ISNT) proposed to appoint a representative to the WG and was invited
to complete an application for consideration.
ASNT's CP106 was not fully compliant with ISO 9712 and WG1 is working on
a gap analysis.
Dr Farley extended his thanks on behalf of the International Committee toAlexander Mullin and his committee for all the hard work undertaken andcompleted.
Certification Executive Committee(including vote of thanks to retiring Chair and Secretary)
See accompanying report.

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WG3 – Research and Education CommitteeSee accompanying report.

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WG5 – Radiation Safety and Security
See accompanying report.

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WG6 – Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Technologies
Terry Clausing reported on WG6, confirming it to be an honour to co‐Chair
this group with Prof Len Gelman.
The first meeting was held in Oxford, UK last year.
Discussions took place on ‘what is Condition Monitoring’ and it wasacknowledged there is no clear difference between condition monitoringand NDT. The CM work undertaken on wind turbines and NDT work
undertaken on helicopters was a prime example.
The next meeting for WG6 will be in Paris in October 2016 at the Condition
Monitoring Conference.

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11. 21st World Conference 2024
 Presentations were made by potential hosts for the 21st WCNDT –AAENDE (Argentina - Buenos Aires) and ASNT (USA Miami)Elections will take place at the 39th meeting.
Dr Farley congratulated both Societies on their presentations.

12. Reports from National Societies
 The reports will be presented on Thursday 16th June at the 2nd General
Assembly meeting.
 All reports will be available on the website.
Australia and Singapore signed an agreement before those assembled,witnessed formally by Dr Ooka.
13. Other business
Mr Nardoni asked how many members are using the question bank – it wasconfirmed 5 at this time. The EQB is available for purchase by Personnel Certification
Bodies (PCB) meeting two main requirements:i.
The PCB has been proposed by a member of ICNDT that is a signatory of
the ICNDT Multilateral Recognition Agreement (Operating Procedure
OP 19 Schedule 1).
ii.
The PCB has registered in the ICNDT Multilateral Recognition
Agreement (Operating Procedure OP 19, Schedule 2), or committed toapply for registration.

The ICEC Secretary Tony Wooldridge is the contact for enquiries.
Gratitude was extended to both Patrick Fallouey and Robin Shippand Harold Jansen was also thanked for his role in assisting.
14. Adjournment
 The next meeting will be held on Thursday 16th June at 1pm.

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