EUROPEAN
FEDERATION OF EMPLOYEE SHARE OWNERSHIP INFPA
FEDERATION EUROPEENNE DE L’ACTIONNARIAT SALARIE AISBL
Board and General Meeting of members,
The Hague 28 April 2001
Conseil
d’administration et assemblée générale des membres
REPORT OF THE MEETING / COMPTE-RENDU
The
meeting was prepared through working documents on following points:
Les
réunions ont été préparées au moyen de documents de travail sur les points
suivants:
1.
Agenda + Attendance / Présences
2.
Report of the Executive Office and Board / Rapport
du bureau et du conseil d’administration
3.
Membership / Membres
4.
Financial accounts 2000 and budget 2001 / Comptes
2000 et budget 2001
English Index
1. Operating account year 2000 in Euro
Sheet on 31.12.2000 in Euro
3. Report of the chartered accountant
Index français
1. Compte
de résultats de l’année 2000 en Euro
2. Bilan
au 31.12.2000 en Euro
3. Rapport
de l’expert comptable
4. Budget
2001 en Euro
Detailed accounts / Comptabilité
détaillée
1. Compte de résultats de l’année
2000 en BEF
2. Bilan
au 31.12.2000 en BEF
3. Balance générale des comptes au
31.12.2000
4. Balance des comptes de clients
5. Balance des comptes de fournisseurs
6. Mouvements analytiques
For information /
Pour information
EFES BELGIUM / FEAS BELGIQUE Balance Sheet (Bilan) on 3112.2000
EFES BELGIUM / FEAS BELGIQUE Operating
account 2000 (compte de résultats)
(provisory, not audited; provisoires, non audités)
5. Board and Executive Office / Conseil d’administration et
bureau exécutif
Proposals / propositions
Letter of resignation of Walter Cerfeda / Lettre de démission de Walter Cerfeda
6.
Next action programme / Programme d’activités à venir
Letters of Belgian Ministers for a Belgian EU Presidency conference supporting
PEPPER policies
Lettres de ministres
belges pour une conférence de la Présidence belge de l’UE soutenant les politiques
PEPPER
1.
Agenda + Attendance / Présences
Report of EFES Board of
Directors / Rapport
du conseil d’administration
Admission
of new members / Admission de nouveaux membres
Accounts
2000 / Comptes 2000
Budget
2001
Action
programme / Programme d’activités
Board of Directors
and Executive / Conseil
d’administration et exécutif
Board
approval / Décharge aux administrateurs
PARTICIPANTS
2. Report of the Executive Office and Board / Rapport du bureau et du conseil d’administration
We discussed the future, our
relations with EU institutions and EFES organization.
The Third European Meeting was
a good meeting. It is a good step forward. We are now starting a new EU funded
project : an employee ownership network in the CEEC. We now have an office
in Budapest and Janos will co-ordinate this network. Another project is an
international conference on 23 November with the next Belgian Presidency of
the European Union. It is important that many EU governments would be represented
in that meeting. It is mainly a political event.
A fourth project is a research
project. We all would like to promote the good practices in EO and so a main
step would be to identify the practices and to clarify which are the good
and bad practices and why. We would make 100 case studies in about 10 countries
and then go to models of good practices.
About the EU: We visited the
Dublin Foundation. We must now lobby the Parliament again for a budget and
if we can, secure a budget for our functioning.
About the board: Walter Cerfeda
of CGIL asks to resign and they decided to switch with the CISL, so Pier Paolo
Baretta will represent the CISL in the board of EFES
About sponsoring and membership
: We must develop our funding and have more members. In this sense I ask you
to take a few membership form and help find members. About sponsoring :we
need professional help. If you can help, please do.
About the team of EFES secretariat
: I am the main person to work; it is practically a full time, and Laurence
and Myriam are helping for precise works.
About the accounts and budget
: we have 3 parts English accounts, in Euros; same in French; detailed accounts
in French and BF. Now there is EFES International and the former EFES which
we called EFES Belgium. The accounts of EFES Belgium must be passed on to
EFES international and we decided to ask to an external auditor to check the
accounts. We have his report on EFES international and we are waiting for
his report on EFES Belgium accounts. Also about the meeting of Warsaw in 1999
: we ask UNIA Unia to send justifying invoices so that we could decide on
what to do.
The budget for 2001 is based
on a 1 year programme as submitted to the Commission. Now there is another
project, the CEEC network project, that we should add.
We also decided that there should
be a surplus.
We have also the project of
a conference in November with the Belgian Presidency of the European Union:
the letters form the Belgian Ministers are included for your information.
3. Membership / Membres
The first general meeting of members was held
in Warsaw on 13 November 1999 and 30 members were admitted. Now we have a
list of 88 new observatory members (including Italian CISL). They will be
admitted as new members (statutory, associate or supporting) when their fee
will be in order.
La première
assemblée générale des membres s’était tenue à Varsovie le 13 novembre 1999
et 30 premiers membres avaient été admis. Nous avons maintenant une liste
de 87 nouveaux membres observateurs (y compris la CISL italienne); ceux-ci
seront admis en qualité de membres statutaires, associés ou adhérents, à condition
de se mettre en règle de cotisations.
Mauro Bossola was pleased to tell
that the Italian federation FIADA has just decided to join EFES completely.
We are very pleased to have CISL as a new member, because we will be stronger
if we have a strong cooperation with the Unions. We are now entering new duties
for EFES and we must have a reflection on the approach to be more effective
than we are.
4. Financial accounts 2000 and budget 2001 / Comptes 2000 et budget 2001
See working documents / Voir documents distribués
5. Board and Executive
Office / Conseil
d’administration et bureau exécutif
1. The board was elected on 13.11.1999 for a 2 years term and legally,
the association began to exist on 18.6.2000 (ten days after that the Moniteur
belge published the statutes). Thus, the 2 years term will go to mid-2002,
and on the next general meeting of members, we will have to elect a new board.
Le conseil d’administration de
la FEAS a été élu le 13.11.1999 pour un terme de 2 ans et légalement, l’association
existe depuis le 18.6.2000 (dix jours après la publication au Moniteur belge).
Donc, le terme de 2 ans court jusque mi-2002 et la prochaine assemblée générale
annuelle aura à élire un nouveau conseil.
2. Composition of the board :
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Proposal 1: to act Walter Cerfeda’s
resign and to thank him for his support.
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Proposal 2: to elect Pier-Paolo Baretta
to follow Walter Cerfeda in his mandate.
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Proposal 3: to elect Dr. Mahmoud
Salem to the board, representing Egypt.
-
Proposal 4: ask George Tuthill to
join the board, representing Ireland.
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Proposal 5: ask IAFP to join the
board.
Composition du conseil:
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Proposition
1 : acter la démission de Water Cerfeda et de le remercier pour son soutien.
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Proposition
2 : élire Pier-Paolo pour achever le mandat de Walter Cerfeda.
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Proposition
3 : ouvrir le conseil au Dr. Mahmoud Salem, représentant l’Egypte.
-
Proposition
4 : demander à George Tuthill de joindre le conseil, représentant l’Irlande.
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Proposition
5 : proposer à l’IAFP de joindre le conseil.
3. Executive office :
Proposal that Serge Cimmati will now take his right place in the office,
all conditions being completed. Patrick Guiol will stay as invited member.
Composition du bureau exécutif :
Proposition que Serge Cimmati
siège désormais à part entière, toutes les conditions étant remplies. Patrick
Guiol continuera à siéger comme invité.
4. Presidency : Pierre Vanrijkel was proposed for a provisory
term of 3 months. Proposal to confirm Pierre in the role of President.
Présidence: Pierre Vanrijkel avait
été désigné pour un mandat provisoire de 3 mois. Proposition de confirmer
Pierre dans son mandat de Président.
6. Next action programme / Programme
d’activités à venir
David Erdal would like to congratulate
Marc in getting us to this much stronger position. The different countries
have different approaches and we are building a political alliance between
everybody. We have to think now of a structure to develop the organization
in a way that is both professional and effective.
Pier Paolo Baretta would like to thank
Cerfeda from CGIL. In Italy, there
are constant relations between CGIL and CISL : even if we have some political
differences we always agree on the rights of workers. I will do all my best
to contribute to EFES and to develop a good cooperation with trade unions.
Serge Cimmati
remercie Marc Mathieu pour ce qu’il a fait depuis le début de cette fédération
et I apologize for France and the problems it causes at the beginning. I am very happy to
be a full participant in the board. I talk on behalf of France and I am probably
very “franco-français”. Comme en Grande-Bretagne, nous avons fait un grand
pas and we are going to pass this new law which will be a step forward. Since
yesterday and since I heard Mr Baretta opinion, my views on EO in Europe have
opened up. I will soon approach the trade union organizations in France, in
order to have a European approach for the subject.
Pierre Vanrijkel: The board ask me
to take the presidency and I realise I am restricted in my possibilities.
I put all my weight to convince the Belgian government to support us.
David Erdal: Mauro’s proposal
to discuss the structure is a good one : I think we shall discuss how to insure
representativeness.
Janos Lukacs: We should be aware
of time : we have tasks at this meeting. Last year we had a very intense and
productive discussion about the organization but we did not discuss what type
of structure. Now we can not do it because we do not have a proposal. We could
propose to the executive office to think about the structure and come up for
the next date with a proposal to the board and then we could go deeper into
what kind of structure serve the best those aims we identified as the most
important tasks.
Mauro Bossola: We have to set
up a strategy and after that find out what kind of organization tools could
support that strategy.
Patrick Guiol: I have a proposal
for the board. Some associations like the French launched indexes on EO; we
have seen another one yesterday. We could also reach the public at large with
something else, we could launch a label such as the one on biological farming.
Jacek Lipinski: I would like to
thank the board for the decision to partly fund the Warsaw conference in 99.
We have the project of a conference in Poland in September.
Marc Mathieu : The board
meeting is coming to a close. Now there will be the general meeting. I would
like you to agree on the report and proposals and to present them to the general
meeting. We will discuss Jacek’s proposal in the executive office and in relation
with the CEEC network project.
Everyone in the board
agrees with the report and proposals.
GENERAL
MEETING VOTES / DECISIONS DE L’ASSEMBLEE GENERALE
- Agree with the
new members: ok
- Agree on the accounts
for 2000: ok
- Budget for 2001:
ok
- Proposals on point
5 ok : Walter Cerfeda resign and thank you, Pier Paolo Baretta,
Mahmoud Salem, George Tuthill,
IAFP
- Executive: Serge
Cimmati + Patrick Guiol: ok
- Presidency: ok
- To discuss a label:
ok
- Approval of the
board: ok
EXECUTIVE
OFFICE MEETING / REUNION DU BUREAU
Janos Lukacs: We should together
plan for this year : what and how we process. Not to go deep in the design
such as the invitations for that November conference but have a joint thinking
to generate ideas and give advices. Do we plan an executive office meeting
and when and what calendar? Do we have any joint contributions to the preparation
of this November conference? How to prepare ourselves for strategy as Mauro raised it and structure?
I think our strategy has a basis. It can be based on our strategy meeting
in Paris. There is a need to have an executive office about the priorities.
Then there is the Presidency :we should get prepared and how.
Marc Mathieu : I’d like
to hold one or 2 meetings in September and October and 1 every months as netmeetings.
This could be combined with other elements of the agenda, for example the
conference in September in Warsaw.
Dates in the agenda:
Netmeeting late in
May : 22 May on 10:00
Netmeeting 20 June
16:00-18:00
Netmeeting August
16, 10:00
28 September Warsaw
: meeting to be confirmed.
Netmeeting October
26 10:00
Board meeting 24
November in Brussels
Janos Lukacs: If we can design
a good programme and marketing to sell the event of November, then maybe we
can attract companies to pay to speak there.
Mauro Bossola: I looked at the
figures and I think the idea from Janos is very good. It is possible to have
presentations from multinational or European companies who could afford to
support the event and give some supply to us.
Issues to discuss:
- EFES Label
- Belgian conference
- Polish proposal
- EFES strategy
- EFES organization
- EFES presidency
The EFES label is a good idea
but not so urgent.
For the first executive : Polish
proposal and Belgian conference.
David Erdal: For the netmeeting
we should record the minutes and make them available to EO members of EFES.
It would also be an area of the site where to put some documents. Let’s ask
Dan Bell how to do this.
Janos Lukacs: There are several
topics. I propose that we share responsibilities and I propose to drive the
debate on the strategy.
Mauro Bossola: My favourite field
is the organization : what kind of organization for the future?
Marc Mathieu will coordinate
November conference in Brussels
Marc Mathieu, Secretary General