FIG XXII GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
31 May and 4 June 1999
Sun City, South Africa
PROGRAMME
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Monday
31 May |
09.00 - 11.00 |
GA plenary
session |
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11.00 - 11.30 |
Coffee break |
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11.30 - 12.45 |
GA plenary
session |
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12.45 - 13.00 |
GA plenary session:
introduction by Tom Kennie to the discussion paper on
governance |
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14.00 - 15.00 |
GA breakout sessions on
different aspects of the discussion paper on governance |
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15.00 - 15.30 |
GA plenary session:
presentation of results of breakout sessions on
governance |
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Friday
4 June |
09.00 - 10.00 |
President’s meeting with
Presidents of member associations (or their
representatives) |
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10.00 - 11.00 |
Open meetings for task
forces:
Under-represented groups in surveying ,
Chair: Gabriele Dasse
Standards, Chair: Iain Greenway
Mutual recognition of
qualifications/reciprocity, Chair: Stig Enemark
Sustainable development, Chair: Helge
Onsrud
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11.00 - 11.30 |
Coffee break |
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11.30 - 13.00 |
GA plenary
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AGENDA
for the meetings to be held at the
Convention Centre, Sun City, South Africa
on 31 May and 4 June
1999
Note: All Agenda papers have been sent as
hard copy to each Member association, Affiliate member, Correspondent and
Sponsor member, Honorary President, Honorary Member and to Chairs of
Commissions, Permanent Institutions and Task Forces.
Download the Agenda as a Word
6.0 document.
Note: Updated appendices after the Agenda
was first published on the website and which have not been circulated as hard
copy:
Monday 31 May, 9.00 - 11.00 and 11.30 - 12.45
(plenary session)
1. OPENING
PROCEEDINGS
President Peter Dale to open the
22nd General Assembly.
2. ROLL CALL
Appendix: Membership list –
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document.
Secretary General Roy Swanston to take the
roll call.
3. APPOINTMENT OF
TELLERS
Motion: That the General Assembly appoints
two persons as tellers.
Decision:
4. ADOPTION OF THE
AGENDA
Motion: That the agenda be
adopted.
Decision:
5. ADOPTION OF THE MINUTES OF THE
21ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Minutes have been circulated previously.
Please bring your copy of the minutes
FIG(GA)M(98)1 with you to the meeting.
Motion: That the minutes be
adopted.
Decision:
6. MEMBERSHIP
6.1 Acceptance of new members
6.1.1 The Institution of Civil Engineering
Surveyors
The Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors
has submitted a formal application to become a second member association from
the United Kingdom. The Bureau has considered the application and believes that
the Institution meets criteria for membership of FIG as a member association.
The application is supported by the existing UK member association, the RICS.
Appendix: Completed application form (only
as hard copy).
Motion: That the General Assembly admits
the Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors as a member association of
FIG.
Decision:
6.1.2 Ordre des Géomètres-Experts
The members of the Comité Français de
Représentation à la FIG, OGE and AFT, have decided that they would prefer to be
represented separately as member associations within FIG. The Bureau supports
this request and has agreed that formal membership applications are not needed
provided that an official letter giving up-dated membership information is
respect of each association is received by the General Assembly.
Appendix: Letter giving up-dated
membership information, to be tabled.
Motion: That the General Assembly admits
the Ordre des Géomètres-Experts as a member association of FIG.
Decision:
6.1.3 Association Francaise de
Topographie
The members of the Comité Français de
Représentation à la FIG, OGE and AFT, have decided that they would prefer to be
represented separately as member associations within FIG. The Bureau supports
this request and has agreed that formal membership applications are not needed
provided that an official letter giving up-dated membership information is
respect of each association is received by the General Assembly.
Appendix: Letter giving up-dated
membership information (only as hard copy).
Motion: That the General Assembly admits
the Association Française de Topographie as a member association of FIG.
Decision:
6.1.4 The Nigerian Institute of Quantity
Surveyors
The Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors
has submitted a formal application to become a second FIG member association
from Nigeria. The Bureau has considered the application and believes that the
Institute meets criteria for membership of FIG as a member association. The view
of the existing Nigerian member, the Nigerian Institution of Surveyors, will be
reported orally to the General Assembly.
Appendix: Completed application form (only
as hard copy).
Motion: That the General Assembly admits
The Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors as a member association of
FIG.
Decision:
6.2 Expungements
The subscriptions of the following member
associations are more than three years in arrears
- Union of Romanian Geodesy;
- Ukrainian Society of Surveyors;
- Association of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing
(Vietnam).
The General Assembly has powers to expel from
the Federation any member association whose fees are in arrears and shall under
normal circumstances expel any member association whose fees are three years in
arrears. (Article 4.3 of the Statutes).
In accordance with Article 4.3 of the
Statutes, which requires the Bureau to take action to expel any other member
whose fees are three years in arrears, the Bureau has expelled the Brunei Survey
Department (affiliate member), whose fees were more than three years in arrears
at the start of 1999.
Motion: That the General Assembly expels
the
- Union of Romanian Geodesy
- Ukrainian Society of Surveyors
- Association of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing
(Vietnam)
if their membership fees still are in arrears
at the time of the motion being put to the vote and notes the expulsion of the
Brunei Survey Department.
Decision:
6.3 Appointment of Honorary
Members
Any nominations received will be considered by
the Bureau at its meeting on 30 May and its recommendation will be
tabled.
Appendix: To be tabled.
Motion: To be tabled.
Decision:
7. PRESIDENT'
REPORT
Appendices:
- President's
report
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- Annex report on FIG and
the United Nations
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Motion: That the General Assembly adopts
the President’s report.
Decision:
8. SECRETARY-GENERAL’S
REPORT
Appendices:
- Secretary-General's
report
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- Annex report on the
FIG office
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Motion: That the General Assembly adopts
the Secretary-General's report.
Decision:
9. XXI CONGRESS DIRECTOR’S
REPORT
Appendix: XXI Congress Director's
report
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document.
Motion: That the General Assembly adopts
the XXI Congress Director’s report.
Decision:
10. REPORTS FROM CHAIRS OF COMMISSIONS, AD HOC COMMISSION
AND DIRECTORS OF PERMANENT INSTITUTIONS
Appendices:
- Report from Commission 1
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document.
- Report from Commission 2
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Word 6.0 document.
- Report from Commission 3
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Word 6.0 document.
- Report from Commission 4
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Word 6.0 document.
- Report from Commission 5
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Word 6.0 document.
- Report from Commission 6
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Word 6.0 document.
- Report from Commission 7
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Also available as a
Word 6.0 document.
- Report from Commission 8,
version 3 May 1999, to be tabled
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Also available as a
Word 6.0 document.
- Report from Commission 9
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Also available as a
Word 6.0 document.
- Report from the Ad Hoc Commission on
Construction Economics/Management
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Also available as a Word 6.0 document.
- Report from the International Office of
Cadastre and Land Records OICRF
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Also available as a Word 6.0 document.
- Report from the FIG Multi-Lingual Dictionary, to be
tabled
- Report from the FIG Permanent Institution on the History
of Surveying, to be tabled.
Motion: That the General Assembly adopts
the reports and records its thanks to the chairs and directors for their past
year’s work.
Decision:
11. REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR, FIG/UN
LIAISON
Appendix: Report of the Director,
FIG/UN Liaison
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The Director will report orally on FIG Vice
President Robert Foster's, Director, FIG/UN Liaison Ian Williamson's and
Director of the FIG Office Markku Villikka's visit to the UN headquarters in
Nairobi and Markku Villikka's participation in the 1999 UN Session on Human
Settlements in Nairobi.
Motion: That the General Assembly adopts
the report and the Director's recommendations resulting from his subsequent
written or oral report and records its thanks to the Director, FIG/UN Liaison
for his past year’s work.
Decision:
12. LIAISON WITH OTHER INTERNATIONAL
ORGANISATIONS
Appendices:
- Liaison with other
international organisations
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- Memorandum of
Understanding between CIB (the International Council for Research and
Innovation in Building and Construction) and FIG
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- Memorandum of
Understanding between ICEC (International Cost Engineering Council) and
FIG
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Subsequent oral reports will be given to
report the outcome of the meeting on 7 April with CIB and the FIG/FIABCI liaison
meeting in April.
Motion: That the General Assembly approves
the FIG/CIB and FIG/ICEC memoranda of understanding, adopts the reports and
recommendations contained in subsequent written or oral reports and records its
thanks to all who have contributed to the development of FIG liaison activities
during the past year.
Decision:
13. IUSM
Appendix: Report on IUSM
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Motion: That the General Assembly endorses
the Bureau’s recommendations that FIG should terminate its membership of IUSM
and instead seek to enter into a bilateral agreements with each of its other
members and with ISPRS.
Decision:
14. FINANCE
Appendices:
1. Finance
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2. Annex unaudited FIG income and
expenditure account, 1998
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3. Annex up-dated FIG budget,
1999
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Motion: That the General Assembly adopts
the unaudited accounts for 1998 and notes the up-dated budget for
1999.
Decision:
15. BUDGET,
2000
Appendix: FIG Budget 2000
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5.0/95 document.
Motion: That the General Assembly adopts
the budget for 2000.
Decision:
16. SUBSCRIPTION
RATES, 2001
The General Assembly is required to set levels
of fees for member associations two years in advance of the year in which they
become payable. Fees are payable in respect of each individual member up to a
maximum of 4,000 members; member associations with more than 4,000 members pay
fees in accordance with a sliding scale (minute 23 of FIG(GA)M(98)1). Fees for
1999 and 2000 are
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Per capita fee |
Minimum fee |
Maximum fee |
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1999 |
Sw.frs. 4.75 per member up to a maximum
of 4,000 members |
Sw.frs. 100.00 |
fee payable by an association with 4,000
members |
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2000 |
Sw.frs. 4.75 per member up to a maximum
of 4,000 members |
Sw.frs. 100.00 |
105 per cent of the fee payable by an
association with 4,000 members |
The incoming Bureau recommends that fees
payable in 200l should be Sw.frs 4,95 per capita up to a maximum of 4,000
members, the minimum fee should be Sw.frs 100.00 and that the maximum fee for
the big associations should be 108 per cent of the fee payable by an association
with 4,000 members. This recommendation is supported by the
Bureau.
Motion: That the General Assembly endorses
the recommendation of the Bureau and incoming Bureau that fees payable by member
associations in 2001 should be
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per capita fee |
Minimum fee |
Maximum fee |
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Sw.frs. 4.95 per member up to a maximum
of 4,000 members |
Sw.frs. 100.00 |
108 per cent of the fee payable by an
association with 4,000 members |
Decision:
17. REPORT FROM THE
2002 CONGRESS DIRECTOR
Oral report by the Congress Director 2002.
Motion: That the General Assembly notes
the report of the Congress Director 2002.
Decision:
18. INCOMING
BUREAU DRAFT WORK PLAN 2000–2003
Appendix: Incoming Bureau Draft
Work Plan 2000–2003, not circulated as hard copy. Hard copy to be tabled at
the General Assembly
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Also available as a Word '97 document.
Motion: That the General Assembly notes
the draft work plan, for preliminary discussion at the plenary session on 4 June
1999.
Decision:
19. AMENDMENTS TO
INTERNAL RULES
Appendix: Amendments to Internal
Rules
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6.0 document.
Motion: That the General Assembly adopts
following changes to the Internal Rules according to Internal Rule 11.1. and
Internal Rule 15.1:
1. The terms of reference for commission 9 shall in future
read as follows:
Commission 9 - Valuation and the Management of Real
Estate
- Valuation - the estimating of value of real estate by
valuers and appraisers for various purposes including market value, property
taxation, eminent domain, claims of damage or impact on value by some cause or
event, and acquisitions for public use or public policy
- Investment market value and investment planning
- Development finance, land use feasibility planning
- Management of property, as a single asset or by
management companies
- Management of property systems to ensure efficient use of
public and private resources
- Management of public sector property.
2. The name of the FIG Permanent Institution on the History of Surveying
should in future be the International Institution for the History of Surveying
and Measurement - a Permanent Institution of FIG
Decision:
20. BIDS TO HOST
WORKING WEEK 2004
By 30 March bids have been received by the
Bureau from:
- The Dutch Society for Geodesy (Nederlandse vereniging
voor geodesie) NVG to host the Working Week in Rotterdam, The Netherlands in
May of June.
- Sveriges Lantmätareförening SLF (The Swedish Association
of Chartered Surveyors) and Samfundet för Fastighetsekonomi SFF (The Swedish
Association of Real Estate Economics) to host the Working Week in Stockholm,
Sweden, during the first week of June.
Appendices:
- Application letter
from the Dutch Society for Geodesy NVG (only on hard copy)
- Application letter from Sveriges Lantmätareförening
SLF and Samfundet för Fastighetsekonomi SFF
(only on hard copy)
Motion: That the General Assembly receives
brief presentations from candidates willing to host the FIG Working Week 2004
and notes that the selection of the venue will take place at the plenary session
on 4 June.
Decision:
Monday 31 May, 12.45–13.00 (plenary
session)
21. TASK FORCE ON
THE FUTURE GOVERNANCE OF FIG
Appendix. Draft discussion document
of "The Future Governance and Management of FIG"
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The Chair of the Task Force on the Future
Governance of FIG, Dr Tom Kennie, will present the draft document.
Motion: That the General Assembly invites
the chair of the task force to introduce his report; to suggest which aspects of
the report might be addressed in the subsequent breakout sessions; and to invite
leaders of the sessions to report back to an immediately following plenary
session
Decision:
Monday 31 May, 14.00–15.00 (breakout
sessions)
22. ASPECTS OF
GOVERNANCE
Breakout sessions on FIG future governance based on the
draft discussion document introduced at the plenary
session.
Monday 31 May, 15.00–15.30 (plenary
session)
23. PRESENTATION OF RESULTS OF BREAKOUT
SESSIONS ON ASPECTS OF GOVERNANCE
Leaders of the breakout sessions to report back to the
General Assembly.
Motion: That the General Assembly notes the results from
the breakout sessions on FIG future governance.
Decision:
Friday 4 June, 9.00–10.00 (President's
meeting)
24. PRESIDENT'S MEETING
Separate invitations to Presidents of the Member
Associations to follow.
Friday 4 June, 10.00–11.00 (open meetings
for task forces)
25. OPEN MEETINGS FOR TASK
FORCES
Open meetings for following task forces:
- Under-represented groups in surveying; Chair: Gabriele
Dasse
- Standards; Chair: Iain Greenway
- Mutual recognition of qualifications/reciprocity; Chair:
Stig Enemark
- Sustainable development; Chair: Helge Onsrud
The aim of these open meetings is to help the
chair of each task force to take his or her work forward and identify
individuals with an interest in these areas of activity.
Note: These will be open sessions, not
restricted to delegates to the General Assembly. All delegates who are in Sun
City and who would like to attend will be most welcome to do
so.
Venue for each meeting will be announced in
Sun City.
Friday 4 June 11.30–13.00 (plenary
session)
26. ROLL
CALL
Appendix: Membership list
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Motion: That present members be recorded
in the minutes.
Decision:
27. REPORT FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE
EDUCATION FOUNDATION
Appendix: Report from the President
of the Education Foundation (28 April 1999).
Printed and updated version to be tabled.
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President of the Education Foundation, Robert
Foster, will include to his report responses to the request on the Sun City
registration form for voluntary contributions to the Foundation and results of
the Directors' meeting held on 1 June 1999 in Sun City.
Motion: That the General Assembly adopts
the report and its recommendations.
Decision:
28. INCOMING BUREAU DRAFT WORK PLAN
2000 - 2003
Appendix: To be tabled at the General
Assembly on 31 May.
Discussion on the proposed draft Work Plan to
be finally adopted by the General Assembly in 2000.
Motion: That the General Assembly notes
the draft work plan, for subsequent publication when the US Bureau takes office
and formal approval by the General Assembly in 2000.
Decision:
29. REPORTS ON WORKING WEEKS 2000,
2001 AND 2003
Brief oral reports from chairs of the
organising committees of following Working Weeks:
- Prague, Czech Republic 22–27 May 2000
- Seoul, Korea May 2001
- Eilat, Israel 2003
Motion: That the General Assembly notes
progress with the arrangements for each venue.
Decision:
30. AD HOC COMMISSION ON CONSTRUCTION
ECONOMICS/MANAGEMENT
Appendix: The Future of the Ad Hoc
Commission on Construction Economics/Management
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Motion: That the General Assembly
1. notes the review of the activities of the
ad hoc commission on construction economics/management;
2. agrees that the task force on the future
governance and management of FIG should bring forward recommendation as to what
should be the future status of construction economics within FIG; and
3. agrees that the ad hoc commission on
construction economics should remain in being until the task force has delivered
its final report and recommendations.
Decision:
31. REPORTS FROM TASK FORCES
Appendices:
- Under-represented groups
in surveying
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- Standards
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- Mutual recognition of
qualifications/reciprocity, to be tabled
- Sustainable development, to be
tabled
All task forces will arrange several internal
and open sessions, as well as their programmed open sessions, during the Working
Week and their chairs will make amplifying oral reports.
Motion: That the General Assembly adopts
the reports and recommendations of the task forces on
- Under-represented groups in surveying
- Standards
- Mutual recognition of qualifications/reciprocity
- Sustainable development
and records its thanks to all task force
chairs for their past year’s work.
Decision:
32. REPORT FROM ACCO
Appendix: Report of ACCO meetings, to
be tabled.
The Advisory Committee of Commission Officers (ACCO) will meet on 29 and 30 May (and possibly at other times during the
Working Week).
Motion: That the General Assembly adopts
the report and its recommendations and records its thanks to ACCO for its past
year’s work.
Decision:
33. ACADEMIC
MEMBERSHIP
Appendix: To be tabled.
The Bureau has invited Prof. Stig Enemark with
the help of the FIG office to prepare promotional material for and to study the
concept of academic membership including development of the Surveying Education
Database.
Motion: That the General Assembly notes
activities taken to promote academic membership and records its thanks to those
involved with this work.
34. SELECTION OF VENUE FOR WORKING
WEEK, 2004
Motion: That the General Assembly makes
its selection for the venue of the FIG Working Week 2004.
Decision:
35. PRESENTATION OF CERTIFICATIONS OF
APPRECIATION
36. CLOSING PROCEEDINGS
Data supplied by the FIG Office.
Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that this data is accurate errors
might exist. Requests for updates and corrections should be emailed to the FIG Office.
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