WORLD CAT FEDERATION

2016-09-27

Invitation to the General Assembly 2017

Dear WCF – members,

We would like to invite you to the General Assembly of 19.01.2017 to 23.01.2017. The registration of the participants is conducted on Thursday the 19.01.2017 in time 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 pm.

Location: RUHRTURM, Huttropstr.60, 45138 Essen. www.ruhrturm.de

If a president does not represent his association, he can delegate one of the club members. The participation must be registered as well as a possible delegation at least 30 days in advance in the office. Please use therefore the attached form. Only fully and correctly completed forms will be accepted. Please send a photo of the president or the delegate as an attachment to the application by email or post to the WCF office in Essen, so that a subscriber identity can be created. The date of receipt of the complete and correct registration with a passport photo in the WCF office in Essen is relevant to the procedure laid down in the statutes deadline at least 30 days before the GA. Too late received applications will not be considered.

To register on Thursday please bring:

• your membership card of the WCF club which you belong to and which you possibly represent

• the writing of the delegation by the association with seal and signature in Original

• your identity card or passport

All participants in the GA must personally subscribe in the period from 3 to 6 pm in the foyer of the RUHRTURM in the list of participants.

Each delegate may bring a non-voting and not-talking authorized advisor. More Individual members of WCF associations be placed separately as a listener by prior arrangement. The hall is limited to 150 participants. If unannounced listeners appear, participation can in the worst case, due to the force of the hall safety regulations and occupancy limit, not be guaranteed.

The meeting of the committees and the Board will take place on Thursday 19.01.2017.

Please reserve and book your room yourself!

The hotel “Webers”, see the RUHRTURM

For the participants of the GV “Weber” a quota of 30 single rooms are blocked at a price of 94 euros. Breakfast must be ordered separately and costs 14 Euro. www.webershotel.de (keyword: World Cat Federation in January 2017)

If you do not receive a room at Hotel Weber, you will find a wide selection of various hotels in www.booking.com.

If you need a visa, obtain this please yourselves.

The conference fee is 65 € per person / day. This includes two coffee breaks with coffee and tea and snacks or cakes and for lunch a 3 course lunch with a drink in the restaurant. The conference room of water and apple juice are available.

The conference package must, without exception, to be paid by each participant. The fee must be paid at least 30 days in advance to the account of the WCF or via PayPal to the WCF.

Reason for payment: GV-package, membership number, name(s) of the participant/s.

The receipt of payments in Essen is not possible, because there is no out cash during the GA.

Please keep in mind, to send us completed and signed the enclosed registration forms as soon as possible according to the statute § 14 not later than 30 days before the GA back.

You can elect this time all positions:

President

Secretary General

Treasurer 1.

Vice-President

2. Vice-President

Standard- and Judging Commission

Disciplinary Commission

Show Commission

Auditors (auditors)

Corresponding nominations of your club please submit until 60 days before the GA at the office on statutory behalf . Please nominate only candidate from your own club. Candidates from another club may be nominated for the costs incurred with the written consent of the club in question. Also keep in mind that the persons concerned must be sufficiently qualified for the respective office and be willing to volunteer work.

All proposals and applications* have to be sent in a proper form latest 60 days before the GA in good English, German and French. Strive please a translation agency if necessary. Non-understandable or motions with non-intelligible translations can not be accepted. All applications must be sent as a pdf file. All applications that are not written in the prescribed format, may not render correctly because has claimed the further processing of the agenda in recent years too much time and the amount of data increases exponentially in the processing of other formats.

* This includes all proposals and applications, which at the extraordinary GA 2012 (10.03.2012) and the GA 2012 (28-29.04.2012) were already treated or were sent during the period May 2012 to today.

The invitation is available for download for your records in our password protected area. You can request the password in the WCF office, if it is not available to you. The agenda and the plants on the applications will in due course also provided there.

The password may not be divulged to any person or entity.

La WCF ne pas responsable The GA will be held in the official language German. Please ensure that the delegates of the GA can follow linguistic or consultants if necessary are capable to translate for the delegates.

Anneliese Hackmann
WCF – President

Other important announcements:

The WCF website is our official organ. Please check the details of your club address regularly for gaps or erroneous information! Again and again, we note that addresses are no longer correct. Please note that you always first have to announce to the WCF office Food and the Secretary-General any change of address, like at the same time. In copy to the Commission concerned. At defective mail and postal addresses the WCF accepts no responsibility for delay or non-receipt of any correspondence.

Please note that there is absolutely no smoking during the meeting. Also prohibited is to use entrained laptops to play during the meeting. The devices are only authorized to provide notes or to retrieve information. Any photo, video and sound recordings require the prior approval of the Board.