39th General Assembly Meeting
Thursday 16th June, 2016
International Congress Centre, Munich – 19th WCNDTPresent – Voting Members
M H AbalNourEgypt
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 Eckhardt
SSNDT Slovakia
A Erhard
DGZfP Germany
E Gorkunov
RSNTTD Russia
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
V Krstelj
CrSNDT Croatia
Present – Non-Voting
G Aufricht
ICNDT Treasurer
S K Babu
ICNDT Gen Sec
D Bajula
ASNT USAJ Bennett
ASNT USAJ Birir
NDTS Kenya
S BondCINDE Canada/ICNDT IEC
J F Chai
SNTCT Taiwan ROC
A Charbonnier
COFREND France
E Cheprasova
RSNTTD Russia
Y Cho
KSNT/ICNDTC Cho
KSNT Korea
S K Choksi
ISNT India
H J Chung
KSNT Korea
T Clausing
ASNT USAN Doniga
AROEND Romania
U Duaka
INDT-NIG Nigeria
Dr M Farley
Chair - ICNDTD Gilbert
ICNDT Secretariat
V Gomes
RELACRE Portugal
C Henry
NSNDT Nigeria
F Herelli
COTEND Tunisia
K Hickman
Minute Secretary

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

COFREND France
CNDT Czech Republic
BGSNDT Bulgaria
JSNDI Japan
ACOSEND Colombia
AIPnD Italy
DSNDT Denmark
ISNT 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

A Jayatilake
M Johannes
D Kang
S Kluyev
O Kwon
S S Lee
G Liming
J Maccarone
H Mammadov
S Mammadov
D Marshall
P Milligan
A Mullin
N OokaM PotterR Raghunathan
E Romeo
J Seong-Hyeon
G Shoef
K SmithR SmithT Tsuchiya

SNDT Sri Lanka
SAINT/ICNDT WG3KSNT Korea
RSNTTD Russia
KSNT Korea
KSNT Korea
ASNT USAAINDT Australia
AZNDT, Azerbaijan
AZNDT, Azerbaijan
ICNDT
AINDT Australia
Chair ICNDT WG1
APFNDT
ASNT USAUAE
AEND Spain
KSNT Korea
ISRANDT Israel
ASNT USA
BINDT UK
ISO/TC135

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.
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F Honarvar
B Hu
G Idinger
H Jansen
Apologies

IRNDT Iran
T Wooldridge
ICNDT CECChSNDT China
N YagiJSNDI JapanÖGfZP Austria
S Youssef
IRI Lebanon
SAIW South Africa
Tony Sonneveld, Prof H J Wustenberg, J-P Lee, Patrick Fallouey, J-P Gustin

1. Welcome

Dr Farley welcomed everyone to the 39th Meeting of the ICNDTGeneral Assembly. He said how pleased he was with the number ofrepresentatives in attendance.
The agenda was presented.

2. Roll Call

43 voting members were represented.
Apologies as above.
Introductions were made.

3. Procedures for voting confirmation of quorumDr Farley explained the procedure for voting. Only full member
societies/organisations have voting privileges; one vote per fullmember; members who did not pay their 2015 fees are not entitled tovote; simple majority voting.
The meeting was quorate (more than 33% of full members entitled tovote present).
Tellers were appointed as follows: G Aufricht, J Conte and H Jansen.

4. Reports by societies
Presentations were made by the following societies:
South Africa (SAINT) - including presentation of new Yearbook.
Iran - established 2012.
Argentina (AAENDE)
Bulgaria (BGSNT) - celebrating 50-year anniversary.
Italy (AIPnD)
UK (BINDT) - including strategic plan 2017-2022.
Australia (AINDT) - (Note: a presentation had been submitted inadvance by the due date but was not made available for the meeting.
Mr Gilbert apologised for this).
Korea (KSNT)
Canada (CINDE) - incl. new CEO Glen Turbott; S Bond, lifetime
member, congratulated.
Singapore (NDTSS) - note 15th APCNDT, 13-17 November 2017,
Singapore.
Kenya (NDTK)
Austria (ÖGfZP) - note Certification Conference, 6-7 June 2017,Vienna.
Japan (JSNDI)
Nigeria (NSNDT)Poland (PTBNIDT) (note 60 years of activity and annual conference inOctober).

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5. Reports from the Regions


A report was presented for each region, as follows:
AFNDT - H Jansen; APFNDT - Younho Cho; EFNDT - P Trampus;
PACNDT - J Conte and A Bereson.
The presentations are available on the website.

6. Reports from the liaison organisations
6.1

ISO TC 135 - NDT
Dr Ooka, Chair of TC 135, presented a report, available on thewebsite.

6.2

ISO TC 135 SC7 - Qualification and Certification of NDT personnel
Sharon Bond is Chair and Canada acts as secretariat of this group.
ISO meetings will take place immediately after this conference andamongst other things updates to TR 25107 and 8 will be discussed.
SC7 will meet on Monday and Sharon said how interesting it is beingat the conference and how many countries have or are adopting ISO
9712 as their standard, despite the challenges in doing so.

6.3

ISO TC 108 - Condition monitoring
Terry Clausing had been appointed ICNDT point of contact for liaisonand he reported that he attended a meeting and had issued a report toWG6 Committee (CM).
He noted that the ISO committee was receptive to liaison with ICNDTand had requested a meeting. He requested paperwork to formalise
the liaison arrangements.
ACTION - TC/JMF: Letter requesting liaison ICNDT-ISO TC108 to bedrawn up.
Mr Clausing also noted that there had been considerable discussion
as to the term Level 1 and how this may be misinterpreted by someemployees. A suggestion was made to refer to this grade as trainee.

6.4IAEA
Patrick Brisset reported that he was gratified that ICNDT WG1 hadagreed to give consideration to NDE training within civil engineering.
This was a very important issue for developing countries.
The Chairman confirmed that he was looking forward to a continued
close relationship between ICNDT and IAEA in the years to come.

7. Election of Officers and Secretariat for 2016-2020
Nominations and voting conducted in accordance with OP1. A call for
nominations had been issued to all member societies. Nominations
had been reviewed at the Executive Committee, the AGM and thenthe PGPC. No further nominations were submitted.
Nominations were as follows:
Chair: Mr Sajeesh K Babu
General Secretary: Mr David Gilbert
Treasurer: Mr Gerhard Aufricht

Minutes of the 39th ICNDT General Assembly, 16 June 2016, MunichWorld Conference President: Prof Younho Cho
Secretariat: BINDT
These were elected unanimously.
Nominations for 2 elected members of the Executive Committee:
Ms Sharon Bond, Mr Terry Clausing and Mr Les Dick
A ballet was held and Sharon Bond and Les Dick were elected.
(It was noted that Terry Clausing would be invited to all PGP
Committee meetings as Chair of WG6).
Nominations for Committee and Working Group Chairs:
Chair membership Committee: Mr João Conte
Chair CEC: Mr Harold Jansen
Chair WG1: Qualification & Certification: Mr Alexander Mullin
Chair WG2: Education & Research: Prof Younho Cho(replacing Manfred Johannes who is standing down).
Chair WG5: Radiation Safety & Security: Dr Matthias Purschke
Chair WG6: Condition Monitoring & Diagnostic Technologies: Mr Terry
Clausing
These were elected unanimously.
Nominations to PGP by Regional Groups
Africa (AFNDT): Dr Mourad Zergoug and Mr Harold Jansen
Asia-Pacific (APFNDT): Dr Nori Ooka and Mr J-P Lee
Europe (EFNDT): Prof Peter Trampus and Dr Matthias Purschke
Pan America (PanAmNDT): Dr Arny Bereson and Mr Cesar Belinco
These were elected unanimously.
Election of Auditors
Nominations: Dr Werner Schmid and Mr Douglas Marshall

These were elected unanimously.
8. Strategic Plan 2106 - 2020
The new Chair, Sajeesh K Babu began by thanking all representativesof members for electing him to Office. With all effort from committees
he would implement the strategic plan, which he then presented(available via website).
The PGP Committee had the associated Action Plans, which he went
through in some detail. The Action Plans were then approved by theGeneral Assembly.

9. Proposed reorganisation of ICNDT and Regions and new feestructure
Dr Farley presented the background to the proposal, which comprised
recommendations that had been unanimously approved by the Task
Group and also by the PGP Committee. There were no comments

Minutes of the 39th ICNDT General Assembly, 16 June 2016, Munichregarding the organisational restructure. The full proposal is available
on the website.
Regarding the fee structure, Dr Farley explained the proposal(currently in version 10). The fees would be arranged in bands andeach society would decide its band according to its size (gross annualincome). ICNDT would provide recommendations for this and anillustration was presented. There was some discussion and somesocieties suggested that they had been allocated to the wrong
category - this would be adjusted and it was reiterated that thesocieties themselves would decide the category. The total would besplit between the ICNDT and the Regions, based on 40% to ICNDTand 60% to the Region. In the case shown the ICNDT share would be€23,200 per year and the total share for all the regions would be€34,800.
The additional funds available to ICNDT would be used as follows:Primarily to advance, using professional support, projects
included in the Strategic Plans of ICNDT and the Regions
All projects would be subject to formal approval by relevant
ICNDT/Region committees and within ICNDT/Regions’ agreed
budgets
Projects could be “bottom-up”, proposed by members or “topdown”, proposed by Executive/Boards or Working Groups
Projects could be for the benefit of members, the wider NDT
community, or the public in general
The Strategic Plan would outline plans.
In the 2016 budget (which is typical ICNDT) has a maximum
budget of €15k for Professional Support. With the new fee
structure this would be increased by about €10k.

A motion was put to the assembly to approve the proposal v. 10 andthis was carried. There were, however, two votes against Kazakhstan and Russia. Dr Farley confirmed that the majority were infavour and he noted that no comments had been received fromRussia during the discussions.
Dr Farley then explained the next steps:

Policy paper V10 to be endorsed by PGP and approved by GA
Revised constitution and OPs to be prepared embodying theproposal for approval by PGP and GA. The Task Group would
be invited to continue in existence to review revised
constitution and Operating Procedures
The plan is to implement the changes at the next meeting of
the General Assembly in 2018 (at ECNDT) and to introduce
the new fees structure from Jan 2019
(Note: three Cat A societies ASNT, BINDT and DGZfP havevoluntarily agreed to pay the new fees from 2018).

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10.

World Conferences
10.1 19th WCNDT, Munich, Germany, 2016
Dr Purschke thanked all assembled for extremely positive feedback
and the organisers are very grateful. The number of registrations andparticipants exceeded all expectations. He was congratulated on thesuccess of the Conference.
He made some further announcements with regard to preparations forthe closing ceremony.
10.2 20th WCNDT, Seoul, Korea, 2020
Prof Younho Cho made a presentation on the Korean Society for NDT
and introduced the key personnel for the Society. The President of theSociety welcomed all and extended a warm invitation to Seoul toattend the world conference.
A Minister from the Korean government, the nation's nuclear industry,along with the large companies based in Korea and all in NDT inKorea also extended an invitation.
It was noted that the 2020 Conference would take place 8-12 June nearly the same dates as this year's event. This will also be Korean
Society's 40-year anniversary.
10.3 21st WCNDT 2024
Proposals had been received from AAENDE (Argentina) and ASNT(USA) to host the 2024 WCNDT. Each made brief presentations (themain ones had been made at the 38th General Assembly earlier in theweek).
A ballot then took place and the result was that AAENDE (Argentina)
was chosen to host the 21st WCNDT in 2024.

11. Future meetings
Meeting

DatePlace

PGP

28 Nov 2016

Oran, Algeria to coincide with ACNDTICNDT Annual Meeting

27 Jan 2017*

InternetPGP

13-17 Nov 2017

Singapore, APCNDTICNDT Annual Meeting

26 Jan 2018

Internet

General Assembly + PGP

11-15 June 2018

Gothenburg, Sweden, 12th ECNDTICNDT Annual Meeting

25 Jan 2019

InternetPGP/IAC2019ICNDT Annual Meeting

25 Jan 2020

General Assembly

8-12 June 2020

PanAm NDT Mexico
InternetSeoul, 20th WCNDT*AFTERNOTE: Annual Meeting 2017 re-scheduled to 13 February 2017

Minutes of the 39th ICNDT General Assembly, 16 June 2016, Munich12. Handover of Chair and Vote of Thanks to retiring ICNDT Executive
There followed the hand-over of the Chair to new ICNDT Chairman,
Mr S K Babu.
Thanks were given to the retiring members of the ICNDT Executive.
Special mention of:
Douglas Marshall, retiring from Chair, PGP
Mike Farley, retiring from ICNDT Chair
Sharon BondYounho Cho
Matthias Purschke, WCNDT President
BINDT, David Gilbert
Gerhard Aufricht
Thanks were also to DGZfP and the conference team for theirexcellent support and facilities
The Chair thanked the Assembly and Guests for their attendance andparticipation and closed the meeting.

Minutes of the 39th ICNDT General Assembly, 16 June 2016, Munich