Annual Report 2019
ICNDT is formally registered as alegal association in Vienna in accordance with theAustrian Corporations Act and has a bank account toconduct 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 2019.

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Vision and Mission
Our Vision
To create a safer world through wider use of non-destructive testing (NDT) and diagnostic technologies.

Our Mission
To lead a global network of NDT societies and their regional groups devoted to the promotion of the development of the science andpractice of NDT for the benefit of the public worldwide.

Committees and Groups
ICNDT Executive Committee (IEC)IEC meetings were held four times during 2019. The first physical meeting was held on 25 January 2019 in Glasgow, alongside theBritish Institute of Non-Destructive Testing (BINDT) Scottish Branch events, with the physical presence of the Chair. The second
meeting was held via GoToMeeting on 25 April 2019, the third on 29 August and the fourth on 28 November. All meetings werechaired by Dr Sajeesh K Babu and offered the facility for members to join via web conferencing.

ICNDT Advisory Committee (IAC)
The IAC meeting was held on 21 October 2019 during the VII Pan-American Conference on Nondestructive Testing (COPAEND) in
Mexico City with Dr Babu and Mr David Gilbert present and Dr Mike Farley participating via the Internet.

World Conference on Non-Destructive Testing (WCNDT) 2020
At each meeting of the IEC, reports were received from Prof Younho Cho on the progress being made in the organisation of the20th WCNDT, which is to be held in Seoul, South Korea, from 8-12 June 2020, under the organisation of the Korean Society for
Nondestructive Testing (KSNT). Members will be delighted to hear that the exhibition is fully sold out, more than 1100 paper abstracts
have been submitted and some excellent keynote speakers have been engaged. During the conference there will be two meetings ofthe General Assembly of ICNDT, where elections will be held for officers for 2020-2024 and the host society for the 22nd WCNDT in2028. There will also be meetings of Working Groups 1, 3, 4 and 6. Full details of the conference are given at www.wcndt2020.com

Working Group 1 (Qualification and Certification)
Working Group 1 (WG1) met during the VII COPAEND in Mexico City in October, chaired by Mr Alexander Mullin. The WG1 action
plan was discussed and updated during the meeting. The very first draft of the revised ISO 9712 standard was presented to the groupmembers, along with comments from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)’s Committee of Conformity Assessment(CASCO) in terms of compliance with ISO/IEC 17024:2012. The Terms of Reference of WG1 were slightly amended to encourage
members to be present in person at the physical meetings.
The Working Group is organising a workshop during the 20th WCNDT in South Korea at which the ongoing activities of the groupwill be publicised.

The ICNDT Certification Executive Committee (ICEC)
Activities of the ICEC centre around the Multilateral Recognition Agreement (MRA), conformity assessment of Personnel Certification
Bodies (PCBs) and the Examination Question Bank (EQB). The ICEC carries out most of its work via email and the Internet and held
online meetings on 15 May and 2 October 2019. There are now 46 signatories to the MRA Schedule 1. There are 17 PCBs registeredunder the MRA Schedule 2, which is three more than the previous year. One new application and four renewals of registration arein progress. An updated version of the EQB has been distributed to all registered users, which includes new phased array ultrasonics
questions in both English and Spanish. The ICNDT register of PCBs has been extended to include MRA membership and all known
PCBs have been contacted to supply data. The ICEC has recommended that only PCBs that have provided new data should be listed
in the public register. The revised register has been published on the ICNDT website and is available at: www.icndt.org/what-is-icndt/
documents/document-store/entryid/10158
Tony Wooldridge retires as ICEC Secretary at the end of March 2020, following a period of hand-over to Colin Bird. ICNDT wishes toacknowledge Tony’s excellent work in the role.

Membership Committee
Lead by Mr João Conte, the focus has been on contact with potential new members and the formation of NDT societies in Chileand Ecuador.

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ANNUAL REPORT 2019Working Group 3 (Research and Education)
Working Group 3 met in Friedrichshafen, Germany, in May 2019. The meeting was co-chaired by Prof Younho Cho and Prof AntonErhard. The objective of the meeting was to develop plans for the ICNDT Specialist International Groups (SIGs) to have sessions/workshops at the 20th WCNDT in South Korea. Three sessions were proposed and organisers suggested:1.		 Reliability (D Kanzler and M Bertovic)
2.		 Non-linear acoustics (I Solodov and M Kreutzbruck)
3.		 NDE 4.0 (J Vrana, B Valeske and R Singh).
Details of these sessions and any additional related SIG workshops or group meetings will be published in the 20th WCNDTprogramme. Further SIGs are under consideration as a result of discussions in Busan, South Korea, in August 2019 and Singaporein December 2019.

Working Group 4 (Communications)
Working Group 4 held a meeting at the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) Research Symposium in Orange
County, California, where Mr Shohei Ooka updated the action plans and progress for the group and discussion took place regarding
effective communication with members via the website. A further brief meeting was held during the ASNT Annual Conference inLas Vegas, Nevada.

Working Group 6 (Condition Monitoring)
Under the Chairship of Prof Len Gelman, UK, and Mr César Belinco, Argentina, the Working Group has organised input oncondition monitoring to several conferences, including the World Congress on Condition Monitoring (WCCM) 2019 (multiple
structured sessions and plenary keynote talks) and WCNDT 2020. The formal process to re-establish ICNDT’s Liaison A Membershipof ISO/TC 108/SC5 was completed in 2019 and Prof Gelman and Dr Babu have been registered as ICNDT Liaison representatives.
They are able to nominate people to Working Groups.

ISO/TC 135/SC7ICNDT Chair Dr Babu and Advisory Committee Chair Dr Farley represented ICNDT at the ISO/TC 135/SC7 meetings at the Plenaryand Task Group meetings held in Edmonton, Canada, 17-19 June 2019, as liaison delegates, and provided valuable input tothe review of ISO 9712:2012. Thanks are due to the Canadian Institute for Non-Destructive Evaluation (CINDE) for its excellent
hospitality and for providing the ISO committee members with access to their annual conference.

Chair’s Activities
ICNDT Chair Dr Babu represented ICNDT at several meetings and events during 2019. He presented a paper at the BINDT
Scottish Branch ‘NDT for safety-critical applications workshop’ event. He addressed the 2019 DACH conference at the opening
in Friedrichshafen, Germany, on 27 May 2019. The DACH conference integrates NDT professionals from German-speaking
countries in Europe, especially from Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Dr Babu also addressed the CINDE members during theirnational conference NDT in Canada (NDTiC) 2019, which was held between 18 and 21 June 2019 in Edmonton, Alberta,Canada.
Dr Babu has participated in the Asia Pacific Federation for Non Destructive Testing (APFNDT) executive meeting held on
8 and 9 July in Tokyo, as invited by the secretariat, the Japanese Society for Non-Destructive Inspection (JSNDI). He also participatedin a WCNDT 2020 progress review meeting in Busan, South Korea, between 29 and 31 August 2019 to review conference mattersand to address the KSNT members by delivering a lecture on ‘Global non-destructive technology trends, policies and international
cooperation’.
He also participated at the opening of the VII COPAEND in Mexico City between 21-24 October 2019, organised by the Instituto
Mexicano de Ensayos No Destructivos (IMENDE), which is one of the largest events organised in the American continent by anICNDT regional member. The conference included an exhibition and various Working Group meetings. During this conference, heparticipated in the ICNDT Advisory Committee meeting, the ICNDT Working Group 1 meeting and the Pan-American Federation
for Nondestructive Testing (PANNDT) meeting. At the meeting, IMENDE was awarded with the ICNDT Schedule II MRA certificate.
The last participation was attended in Dr Babu’s home country (Singapore) for the opening of the Singapore International NDTConference & Exhibition (SINCE) 2019, which was held from 4-5 December 2019. He also participated in the APFNDT Board andGeneral Assembly meetings.

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ICNDT Officers 2019:
ICNDT Chair

Dr 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)

Auditors

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

Chair – The ICNDT Certification Executive Committee

Mr Harold Jansen

Chair WG 1 – Qualification and Certification

Mr Alexander Mullin (Russia)

Chair WG 2 – Membership

Mr João Conte (Brazil)

Co-Chairs WG 3 – Research and Education

Prof Younho Cho (Korea) and Prof Anton Erhard (Germany)

Chair WG 4 – Communications

Mr Shohei Ooka (Japan)

Chair WG 5 – Radiation Protection

Charlotte Kaps (Germany) and David Gilbert (UK)

Co-Chairs WG 6 – Condition Monitoring

Prof Len Gelman (UK) and Mr C Belinco (Argentina)

Chair WG 7 – Administration

Dr Mike Farley (UK)Regional Group Representatives:
Mr Harold JansenAfrica

Dr Kamal Sahaimi
Dr Norikazu Ooka

Asia-Pacific

Mr Jong Poh Lee
Mr Roger Lyon (until 30 September)

EuropeMr Fermín Gómez Fraile
Mr César Belinco

Pan America

Dr Arny Bereson (until retirement 30 May)

Obituaries
It is with great regret and sadness that the passing of three very notable figures in international NDT circles must be reported.

Roger Lyon CEng FInstNDTRoger Lyon, President of EFNDT since 12 June 2018, passed away suddenly on 30 September 2019 at
the age of 74.
Roger has been a colleague and friend in BINDT, ICNDT and the European Federation for
Non-Destructive Testing (EFNDT) for many years. He was President of BINDT from 2007-2008.
His energy and commitment were greatly admired. He provided excellent leadership and wasalways willing to work at the detail necessary to achieve his plans for the benefit of the NDT community.
He was honoured with the presentation of the ICNDT Havercroft Award in 2016 in recognition of hishuge success in developing NDT apprenticeship schemes in the UK.
Roger Lyon

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Professor Hajime Hatano
Professor Hajime Hatano, theformer Chair of ISO/TC 135, passed
away on 26 August 2019 at the ageof 73. He was the Secretary of ISO/TC 135 for ten years, from 1998 to2007, and the Chair for nine years,
from 2007 to 2015. He was honoured
with the presentation of the ICNDTProfessor Hajime Hatano Havercroft Award in 2012 inrecognition of his success, working
with Mr Patrick Fallouey of the European Committee forStandardization (CEN) to harmonise the certification standards EN
473 and ISO 9712. His passion for ISO 9712 and his contribution
to ISO/TC 135 activities are immeasurable achievements.

Dr Professor Emeritus Ioannis
Prassianakis
Dr Professor Emeritus Ioannis
Prassianakis died suddenly on 17
May 2019, during a meeting of theManagement Board of the HellenicSociety of NDT (HSNT).
A pioneer in the NDT field in
Greece, he was a founder of theHellenic Society of NDT in 1987,
which he served as President for 22years until his unexpected passing.

Dr Professor Emeritus
Ioannis Prassianakis

He will be fondly remembered by all of the international NDTfamily.

Strategic Planning and Organisation
During 2019, the IEC focused on delivering the actions of the Strategic Plan and implementing the reorganisation and new fee
structure agreed in 2018. Ongoing status reviews in each of these areas were held at each IEC meeting. An updated Strategic Plan
will be presented at the Annual Meeting in 2020.

Review of Organisation of ICNDT and the Regional Groups
2019 was the first year in which the new fee structure was implemented. Each member paid a single fee, which was then divided
as arranged between ICNDT and the appropriate region. Some members paid an additional regional fee. All of the Regions hadagreed in advance not to vary their parts of the composite fee, so in all cases the split was 40% to ICNDT, 60% to the Region.
EFNDT and APFNDT had opted to collect the fees themselves and pass over the appropriate share to ICNDT. In contrast, the PanAmerican Federation for Nondestructive Testing (PANNDT) and the African Federation of Nondestructive Testing (AFNDT) had
opted for ICNDT to collect the composite fees on their behalf. By the end of the year almost all of the fees had been collected witha few gaps, including many very small societies in the 100 euro Category E, which is disappointing. The rules of ICNDT are suchthat only members that have paid their 2018 fees will be able to vote at the General Assembly in South Korea.
Changes to the Constitution and Operating Procedures
There are no changes to the Constitution. Several updates to Operating Procedures (OP13, OP14A and OP19) will be presented at
the Annual Meeting for approval.

MRA, PCB and EQB
Multilateral Recognition Agreement (OP19)•

There are currently 46 signatories to Schedule 1 of the MRA.

•There are currently 17 Personnel Certification Bodies (PCBs) registered under the MRA Schedule 2, an increase of three during
2019. The latest registrations are: Asociación Argentina Ensayos No Destructivos y Estructurales (AAENDE), Argentina; TÜVNORD Czech; The Department of Skills Development, Malaysia; and IMENDE, Mexico. One organisation has not renewed.

Personnel Certification Body Compliance Assessment (OP20)•IMENDE, Mexico, had a PCB Conformity Assessment by ICEC, which was completed successfully in September 2019 when thePCB was also registered under the MRA Schedule 2.

Examination Question Bank (EQB)•An updated version of the EQB has been distributed to all registered users, which includes nearly 100 new phased array ultrasonics
questions in both English and Spanish. The maintenance and longer-term development of the EQB remains under discussion, andit is hoped that an online delivery system may be facilitated in the future by the Non-Destructive Society of Singapore (NDTSS).

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Website/Journal/Publications
The ICNDT Secretariat has continued to provide updates to members through the website and ICNDT Journal (normally three issues
published each year; however, unfortunately only two were published in 2019), which have been consistently of a high standard
thanks to the efforts of Sharon Bond, Don Andrews (CINDE) and Corinne Mackle, Zoe White, Stephanie Hepworth and Hannah
Nichol from the Publishing Department of the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing (BINDT).
The German Society for Non-Destructive Testing, DGZfP, has continued to provide the platform for the ICNDT website and theFacebook page is becoming increasingly popular.

Finance
The audited financial report for 2019 and the budget for 2020 are shown in the following pages.

Acknowledgements
ICNDT wishes to thank its Executive Committee members for their efforts during 2019 and acknowledges the support of theSecretariat provided by the British Institute of NDT.

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Balance at 31.12.2019

Opening balance

2019

2019

Income (€)

Expenditure (€)

113,202.83

Donation from Austrian Chamber of Commerce

500.00Donation from WCNDT

0.00

Membership fees (new structure)

18,132.00

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

24.78

PCB CA service

0.00

MRA Service (OP19)8480.00

EQB product: application fees (OP23)

7500.00

EQB update fees (OP23)

0.00

Meeting expenses/Go to meetings

1288.13

Bank account Nr: 290-317-99501 – cost

130.57

Bank expenditures for incoming fees

42.83

Printing costs

0.00

Office costs

1402.00

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

3987.00

MRA/PCB – auditor payment (OP19)

5360.00

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

4526.00

Professional service

5600.00

Preparation of ICNDT monographs

0.00

Supplies (ICNDT badges, flags, etc)

0.00

Miscellaneous (shipping, conference calls)

0.00

Total
Allocation to reserves (31.12.2019)
Pending costs – €1975.00
Gerhard Aufricht, Treasurer, 14 January 2020, Vienna. Rev 0.

147,839.61

22,336.53
125,503.08

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Financial Report – Draft Budget 2020
Income (€)
Opening balance(01.01.2020)

Expenditure (€)

125,503.08

Donation fromAustrian Chamber of Commerce

500.00Donation from WCNDT

30,000.00

Membership fees(new fee structure)

20,000.00

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

30.00

PCB CA service (OP20)

11,000.00

MRA service (OP19)

7350.00

EQB product – application fees (OP23)

7500.00

EQB update fees (OP23)

3000.00

Meeting expenses/Go to meetings

11,500.00

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

200.00Bank expenditures for incoming fees

50.00

Printing costs

2000.00

Office costs

2000.00

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

11,000.00

MRA/PCB – auditor payment (OP19)

8000.00

EQB service costs (administration andoverheads) (OP23 contingencies)

5000.00

Professional service

8000.00

Preparation of ICNDT monographs

0.00

Supplies (ICNDT badges, flags, etc)

2000.00

Miscellaneous(shipping, conference calls)

2000.00

Total

204,883.08

Allocation to reserves

51,750.00
153,133.08

Gerhard Aufricht, Treasurer, 14 January 2020, Vienna. Rev 1.

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