Minutes of the General Assembly of NOSOVE 2002

The meeting was arranged in Helsinki 26 november 2002. 16 members joined the assembly.

1. Olli Peltoniemi was elected as chairman of the General Assembly
    
2. Eero Rautiainien was elected as secretary of the General Assembly
    
3. Anne-Grete Hassing was elected as keeper of the minutes
    
4. Lis Alban went through the board’s report:
   The major event during this last period was the NOSOVE-meeting in Norway.
   Also, of importance has been the establishment of a website for NOSOVE (thanks to Nils Toft, DK), as well as the continued management of the Epinord-list (Thanks to Larry Paisley, DK).
   The General Assembly unanimously approved the board’s report.
    
5. The treasurer Ann Lindberg was not present at the meeting. Therefore, Eero Rautiainen presented the accounts. There have been limited movements on the accounts. At current there is a surplus of SKR 56,111
    
6. The auditors had scrutinised the accounts and found verifications to be in accordance with the daybook, and the accounts to be in good order.
    
7. Election of the board     
   Chairman              : Lis Alban (DK)   re-elected
   Dep. Chairman     : Anette Ersbøll  (DK)  re-elected
   Secretary              : Eero Rautiainen (FI) serving another year
   Treasurer             : Ann Lindberg   (SE) serving another year
   Member               : Anne-Margrethe Urdahl (NO) re-elected
    
8. Election of substitutes
   Substitute 1           : Lena Hult  (SE)                          re-elected
   Substitute 2           : Olli Peltoniemi (FI)                     new
    
9. Election of auditors
   Eystein Skjerve (NO)                                               new
   Helle Stege (DK)                                                     re-elected
    
10. Election of deputy auditor
    Kaj Vestergård (DK)                                               new
     
11. There will be no membership fee for the coming period
     
12. Michael Thrusfield called for de-facto diplomats for the European college EBVS. Deadline for application of defacto recognition of membership is 15/4/2003 (http://www.vu-wien.ac.at/ausland/ECVPHinfo.htm)
     
13. NOSOVE agreed to host a future annual meeting of SVEPM in 2006 or 2007 probably in connection with the NOSOVE annual meeting.
     
14. The assembly decided that there should be no paying for advertisement of NOSOVE homepage. Instead the individual NOSOVE should tell about the homepage in their scientific environment.
     
15. Next meeting will be in Denmark in autumn 2003. The Danish members of the board will organize the coming meeting and decide the topic – one suggestion is mixed model analysis.
     
16. Lis Alban announced that ISVEE will hold it’s meeting next year in Chile, 11-17 November 2003. Last call for abstracts are March 17. 2003. The homepage of ISVEE are www.isvee10.cl
     
17. The meeting closed in good order.