September the 2Nd from 15:00 to 18:00, Brussels

Minutes of the ENF General Assembly:

Held on September the 2nd from 15:00 to 18:00, Brussels

Countries represented:Board:

Belgium (ABNF)President: Mr Kondo

Czech Republic (CKF)Vice President Mr Hannoset

France(CNK/FFJDA)Vice President Ms Zaitsu

Germany (DnagB)General Secretary: Mr D’hose

Italy (CIK)Technical Director: Ms Hamot

Netherlands (NNR)Treasurer: Ms Mérieult

Sweden (SBK)

The President, Mr Kondo, opens the general assembly at 4 pm.

At opening the GA, Chaiman proposed a selection of the persons who
sign the Minutes and Mr Ryngen & Mr Berghaan accepted it.

The General Secretary, Mr D’hose gives the points that will be discussed

1)The Uppsala meeting re-voting agreement

It has been agreed by a majority of members that the Uppsala meeting held the 13th of October 2006 was wrongly recorded as a “Steering committee” that has no value under our statutes. In order to validate the main decisions of that meeting we have decided to revote them at this General Assembly and if necessary to retroactively apply these votes.

As Germany was not a permanent member at that moment, his vote will not be taken into consideration. Here are the matters:

A) TO ORGANIZE A EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP EVERY 2 YEARS, this shall start in 2008.

TO ORGANIZE THIS CHAMPIONSHIP AT A FIXED PERIOD, normally the first weekend of November, but if it is not possible the week end before or the week end after, this flexibility was an argument raised by Sweden.

THE YEAR WHERE THERE IS NO CHAMPIONSHIP ANOTHER INF EVENT SHALL BE ORGANISED. This is still an open issue but Sweden suggests a sensei seminar in order to share the knowledge an the way of teaching of each other...

THE NETHERLANDS WAS ACCEPTED TO BE THE NEXT HOST COUNTRY. The president strongly reminds The Netherlands but also other ENF members that all the fees for the ENF championship and ENF seminar should be approved in forehand. The General Secretary took that opportunity to talk about the guidelines that he wrote and that he will submit to the president so that all the ENF country can clearly see what they have to do in order to organize an ENF Championship for example.

B) After a year of excellent work we are proud to accept Germany as a definitive member of the ENF. This decision was accepted by all the participants of the meeting.

C) Italy (under CIK) was admitted in ENF as a temporary member. As asked by some members, Italy will send CIK statutes to the secretary who will transmit them to all ENF members sothat they could follow with full knowledge the procedure on the future entry of Italy into the ENF.

D) Mr David D’hose’s election as a Director for the Europe-Africa zone *

*previously to that vote we obviously asked if another representative was candidate, but nobody was candidate.

Here are the results:

A)Yes: Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Netherlands, Sweden No: none

B)Yes: Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Netherlands, Sweden No: none

C)Yes: Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Netherlands, Sweden No: none

D)Yes: Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Netherlands, Sweden No: none

It was clarified that the board was not allowed to vote, even if it was use to be done in the past. The official statutes are clear about this and should be respected.

So we can now officially retroactively record that:

A)The European Championship will be held every two years and the next one will be held in the Netherlands in 2008.

B)Germany is a permanent member of the ENF and this shall be communicated to INF as it was mandatory point to be member of INF.

C)Italy is temporary members of ENF this shall be communicated to INF as it was mandatory point to be member of INF.

D)David D’hose is the Europe-Africa Zone Director for INF retroactively since May 2007.

2) Financial Reports from 2003 until 30th June 2007 by Treasurer

Please check the attachment. (A1)

The president agrees that this report is send by email in the future.

3) Activities from 2003 to 2007 by General Secretary

Lots of INF events took place in Europe last few years thanks to the help of Mr Kondo.

This list does not contain the local events that are organized by each country and open to all the other ENF members.

- 2004 INF seminar in Belgium in Louvain-la-Neuve

- 2005 INF seminar in Czech Republic in Prague

- 2005 ENF Championship in France in Tours

- 2006 INF seminar in Sweden in Uppsala

- 2007 INF World Championship and Seminar in Belgium in Brussels

Question was raised concerning ENF examination organized in France. Should we define our examination as ENF each time we organize them ? The answer is yes as long as you are an ENF member and your examination is open to any other country. Please keep a record of this to our technical director.

4) ENF Logo

Unfortunately only one new proposal was done since the last meeting for the ENF logo. So after a decision of the assembly we have decided to restart the competition until the next assembly. In the context of this new release two suggestion have been made:

-show the proposal that have already been made

-suggest a reward to the winner (I would say a naginata-ki)

You can see the existing proposal in the attachment. (A2)

5) Election of new officials

The election of new officials was done with by closed ballot.

1)post: President

- candidates: Mr Tadahiko Kondo, Mr André Raboen