| ENUSP Minutes
from the Board-Meetings July 17 - 19, 2004 in Odense
& Vejle Possible participants and invited people: Gabor,
Peter, Kerstin, Paul, Piotr, Marinka, Mary, Milena, Iris, Stefania, Claude, Virpi,
Clemens K. Present: Gabor, Peter, Kerstin, Paul, Piotr, Mary, Iris
Present
as guests: Jurek, Maths, Mia, Clemens K.
Excused: Marinka, excused. Paul cannot
attend at the boardmeeting. The board of the Clientsunion did not want him now
to take part of boardmeetings of ENUSP. Milena & Stefania (no travel costs
reimbursement) Topics A. Meeting on July 17 in Odense 1.
Vejle conference organisation: - We remembered the problems at the
Luxembourg conference (Peter brought th short paper from Budapest)
- Who
will make the registration of the participants? Peter (incl. the delegates with
voting rights)
- Who will administrate the voting card procedure? Peter
-
Voting procedure for the regional meeting; there will be an information at the
info-board. The regional board-member will be confirmed by the General Assembly;
also non-voting-delegates can become board-member. The minority board-member will
be elected by the general Assembly.
Gabor will explain the voting procedure
at the beginning of the General Assembly. - Each Assembly will be splitted
into 2 hours GA and one hour regional meeting.
- Maths organizes a home
room for each region except Monday
- Voting delegates (about 60) need a
card before the first General Assembly
- Who will take the minutes? Mary
will organize it.
- Who will take and save the addresses of the groups
and people? Peter
- Who will care for translation issues for the web site?
Peter
- Who will ask new people for membership applications in ENUSP? Gabor
in the welcome speech, List at the info board, all board-members
- Iris:
There is a workshop preparation Sunday midday 12.00 - 1.p.m. together with Judi
Chamberlin)
- Monday: 4 - 6 p.m.: Open Space, ENUSP Stand, each person
will be there for 30 minutes: Gábor, Piotr, Clemens, Mary
- How
to deal with the statutes change / Announced membership meeting in Berln in August
2004. Copies for the voting delegates will be prepared for the Sunday GA, Gabor
will meet Peter before to prepare for 10 minutes
- Thank you for WNUSP
for all the preparation work: Gabor in welcome speech
- Who report about
the (former called) "White Paper" to the General Assembly? Gábor
- Proposal for new regions
North
west: England | Faroe Islands | Iceland | Ireland | Netherlands | Northern
Ireland | Scotland | United Kingdom | Wales - South West: Andorra
| Belgium | France | Italy | Luxembourg | Portugal | San Marino | Spain
- North
East: Denmark | Estonia | Finland | Germany | Latvia | Lithuania | Norway
| Poland | Russian Federation | Sweden
- South East: Albania | Armenia
| Azerbaijan | Belarus | Bosnia & Herzegovinia | Bulgaria | Croatia | Cyprus |
Georgia | Greece | Macedonia | Malta | Serbia & Montenegro | Slovenia | Turkey
| Ukraine
- Central: Austria | Czech Republic | Hungary | Liechtenstein
| Moldova | Romania | Slovakia | Switzerland
2. Money situation:
Financial statement by Kerstin & Peter, present status, future Information
by Peter & Kerstin about the current situation. Time sheet distributed. Statement
2003/2003 will be tranlated into English and distributed to the voting delegates.
Treasurer Virpi and Gabor will have a look into the book-keeping before Sunday.
PEPSAEE money: Kerstin proposes to write an official paper letter to PEPSAEE;
Mary drafts a letter to the Commission.
3. Changes in the board Written
resignation of Bev available now. Peter showed it. 4. EU-Application
2004 Information about what we applied for. 5. Desk and project's
situation / German tax administration Peter will report about the tasks
of the desk in the first part of the GA and distribute information sheets before.
A solution is needed for a desk without European Commissions money and with EU
money
Interests of Berliners: Jasna and Clemens K. are interested, the GA
will vote on the secretary (for the first time) 6. Membership applications Clientenzentrum
Limburg Time out, Netherlands
Rehabilitation Club Phoenix, St. Petersburg,
Russia
AEIPS, Portugal
All are accepted. 7. ENUSP and MHE The
new board is recommended to offer support membership to MHE and all its members
(to be published in the MHE-Newsletter) 8. ENUSP and WNUSP Maths
will present to GA (1. part) a proposal on non-competition between ENUSP and WNUSP:
As
a step in the process of delevoping the relationship between ENUSP and WNUSP,
we propose that both organisations formally make the following statement: - That
there shall be a non-competition between ENUSP and WNUSP
- That ENUSP accepts
WNUSP as the representative of users/survivors at the world level
- That
WNUSP accepts ENUSP as the representative of users/survivors at the European level.
| | |
(In
the evening of Monday, July 19, Peter gave the statement to Mary O'Hagan from
WNUSP board, who agreed spontaneously to the statement. Peter invited her to give
some short welcome words in the name of WNUSP at ENUSP's General Assembly at July
20, and Mary agreed to do so; for unknown reasons Mary did not come.) 9.
ENUSP and WHO Discuss the proposal of Héðinn Unnsteinsson / Who will
present it to the assembly? Gabor, Mary, Héðinn itself if he wants. 10.
Next board-meeting Tuesday 1 - 4 p.m. (if possible), together with the
leaving board members. Information gathering for the next board. Existing and
confirmed invitations to conferences have to be fullfilled. 11. European
Patients Forum and ENUSP postponed for the new board 12. Future
of ENUSP Chair: Regions should propose a Chair; they should consider
that they need a second deputy if their elected board-member is elected as Chair. 13.
ENUSP membership in Mind Freedom (Support Coalition International) postponed
for the new board 14. Small other topics Membership fee: A
proposal is announced from German Association BPE for the GA. B.
Meeting on July 18 in Vejle Present: Gabor, Peter, Piotr, Mary Applications
for membership: Rita Formosa, Malta, individual membership; Alkynoides, Greece,
local group; Irish Advocacy Network, national group: all are accepted. French
Conflict: The board confirmed the long-year membership of Advocacy France as national
member beside FNAP psy; the position of FNAP psy, to vote exclusively for France,
was not shared, and it was decided, that in case there is no common decision,
the board will give one voting card to the delegate of Advocacy france. Mary and
Peter took over to speak with both organisation's delegates. C.
Meeting on July 19 in Vejle Present: Gabor, Peter, Piotr, Mary, Virpi,
Kerstin Gàbor and Virpi controlled the book-keeping, done by Kerstin
& Peter. Applications for membership: Kolumbus, Czech national organisation
of (ex-)useres and survivors of psychiatry. Equilibrium, Moldova; Sent, Slovenia;
Ion Moraru (individual member), Romania; Cork, Irish local Advisory group; Netzwerk
Spinnen, Austria. All are accepted. The expected wish of the Northern
countries, to stay in a region for its own, especially without Russia, Poland
and Germany, and ways of solutions in case of a confirmation of this wish were
discussed. Gabor, Peter, Piotr & Kerstin prepared the General Assembly
part 2. Minutes by Kerstin Kempker & Peter Lehmann |