Balkanfila Working Group

MINUTES

OF THE 8th MEETING

OF THE BALKANFILA WORKING GROUP

Exhibition Center, Vidin, April 6th, 2014, at 18.00

The roll call was made and the following attendance was registered:

Albania: Nikolla Xharo, Muharem Gimjani

Bulgaria: Spas Panchev, President, Kristo Nikolchev, Boncho Bonev,

Croatia: Proxy Bocho Bonev

Greece: Alexandre Galinos

Macedonia: Doncho Georgiev, Stanko Zafirov,

Montenegro: Tomo Katurić, President

Romania: Francisc Ambrus

Serbia: Slobodan Mendžija,

Slovenia: Igor Pirc, Bojan Bračič,

Turkey: M. Ziya Agaogullari, President, Mahmut Emirmahmutoĝlu,

BiH Republika Srpska: absent

Moldova: absent

Observers:

Cyprus: Nicos Rangos, President

FEPA: Bojan Bračič, Secretary

Agenda of the meeting:


1. XVII. Balkanfila exhibition VIDIN 2014
2. What kind of the Agreement do we need?

3. Organiser of the next - XVIII. Balkanfila
4. Election of the New Balkanfila President and Secretary
5. Miscellaneous

Ad. 1 General and unanimously opinion of the representatives was that the exhibition BALKANFILA 2014, organised by the Bulgarian Philatelic Union, devoted to 135 years of the parliamentarism in Bulgaria, was excellently prepared and carried out.

The exhibition hall offered enough place and light for the visitors and jurors to admire the exhibits, hotel accommodation was appropriate and close to the exhibition hall. The accompanying program was rich and diversified, showing to foreign and domestic participants the insight into the history and present life of the city of Vidin as well as the geological and vinery wealth of this NW region of Bulgaria. The presence of political and religious representatives at the exhibition and palmares gave additional mark to the event.

Speakers: Mahmut Emirmahmutoĝlu, Honorary Chairman of the Balkanfila, Nicos Rangos, Igor Pirc, Francisc Ambrus, Nikolla Xharo, Captain Tomo Katurić, and others.

Ad. 2 Balkanfila Working Group Exhibition Regulations have been introduced to the attending member representatives already at the 6th Meeting at Maribor, May 2012. No written comments have been received till the agreed date September 2012.

The draft consists of basic principles of the Balkanfila exhibitions – the aim of such kind of cooperation, frequence of the exhibitions, minimum costs borne by the organiser, organizational project approach, invitations to all member federations, criteria for participants, maximum frame fee, status of the commissioners and jurors, point levels and medals, special prizes and Balkanfila Grand Prix. New function of the Balkanfila Coordinator was introduced. Coordinator named for the next exhibitions as a support for the organizer and reporter to the actual President of the Balkanfila WG.

The attendants of the meeting agreed with the proposed regulations, which are the minimum of the requirements that the organizer has to assure. The past and the current exhibitions showed higher level services , which is saluted, but maybe will not always be possible by the potential organizers.

The draft of the Agreement was copied and signed by all representatives present. Each of them received a copy. The original will be published at the Balkanfila website www.balkanfila.org and kept by the Secretary.

At the Balkanfila WG meeting 2014 in Vidin two member federations have been missed – the Moldovan and the BiH RS. It is agreed that at the next Balkanfila exhibition (likely in 2016) the presence of the representatives as well the exhibits of both country federations are required. The signing of the Balkanfila Working Group Exhibition Regulations at that time is the condition to assure the future membership in the working group.

The Balkanfila WG has a website in construction, run by Francisc Ambrus – www.balkanfila.org. A lot of information has been already published. Member federations are asked to provide missing data, documents, photos etc. upon request or by their own initiative. Written demands will be sent out.

Ad. 3 Organizer of the XVIII Balkanfila exhibition: The president of the Albanian Philatelic Federation Nikolla Xharo announced the plan to organize the next Balkanfila exhibition in May 2016 in Tirana. Since not all conditions for confirming the organization were present, he asked for a 6 months delay: the final confirmation is to be expected in September 2014. In other case the next candidate will be contacted – the Turkish federation.

Bojan Bracic, Slovenia, has been appointed Coordinator for the XVII Exhibition.

Ad. 4 According to the practice, the organizer of the current exhibition, Spas Panchev has been unanimously elected the new President of the Balkanfila Working group and Igor Pirc the Secretary for the mandate till the next exhibition.

Ad. 5 The meeting ended officially at 19.00 with taking the photograph of the attending representatives, and with common dinner.

Prepared by

Igor Pirc

Attachment: List of participants

Balkanfila 2014, Vidin, Bulgaria, 05 – 07 April