19 Aug 2013 at 08:43 | Published by: Hans | Views: 8197 | News search

Delegates visiting the WMF Delegates Conference in Bad Munder  (Photo by Evgeny Kaplun 2013)

On Sunday the WMF Delegates conference was held in Bad Munder, Germany. 18 member nations and the full WMF Board was present.

Among the motions that was passed was as usual many small improvements and corrections in the rules in the TC-area but also a change of the statues regarding the transferring of marketing rights from members to WMF at International Championships.

In the elections the new board looks like follows:

President: Dr. Gerhard Zimmermann, Germany
Secretary General: Hans Bergström, Sweden
Finance Manager: Peter Joost Middag, The Netherlands
Sport Director: Pasi Aho, Finland
Media Manager: Evgeny Kaplun, Russia

South Korea and Mongolia was approved as new members in the WMF.

Also the current members in India and China was repulsed due to unpaid fees and poor contact and new organisations representing these two countries was elected as members.

The financial result of the WMF was 2011 -23.445 Euro and for 2012 +277 Euro.

The suggested budget for 2014 are 0 and 2015 are -7000 Euro. This was approved.

The suggestion from the WMF board to raise the membership fee was approved after a change for the nations with less than 100 active players.

Full minutes will be published within the following weeks.

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