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Constitution Committee Report 2008-12
Arthur Rantlone
I am pleased to present this, the final report of our committee, to the General Assembly of WCA 2012.
Our first item of business entailed giving effect to the resolutions of the 53rd General Assembly of WCA 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa. In this regard, a constitutional amendment was approved to ensure greater and more meaningful participation of member societies in the election of officers of the federation. Article 4.3 previously allowed for the Executive Committee to decide the final list of candidates for election as officers of the Federation. With the constitutional amendment in place, member societies will from now henceforth have the ability to determine the final list of candidates for election to the different offices.
Regulations guiding this revised electoral system have been detailed in the Administrative Manual which has itself undergone extensive revisions and updating to ensure that the activities of the federation are in accordance with the letter and spirit of the constitution.
These two projects owe their success to the collaborative effort between the Constitution Committee and Executive Committee, and I am hugely indebted to everyone for all their input.
The 54th General Assembly will be asked to consider three new constitutional amendments, notice of which has already been circulated to member societies. In this regard, the Constitution Committee has been tasked with writing the founding articles to establish the Scientific Committee and Professional Wellbeing Committee as standing committees of the WFSA. These will be tabled at the General Assembly and allied to this will be a proposal to disband the Foundation Committee.
As previously stated in our annual reports, the constitution is there to give form to the objectives and guidance to the activities of the Federation. It must therefore undergo continual renewal so that it remains relevant to the changing milieu in which we must function. Accordingly the committee once again extends an open invitation to members to identify any issues of a regulatory nature that have the potential to impair delivery of the Federation’s mandate.
My thanks and appreciation go to the following committee members for their invaluable contributions in the past four years:
Dr Gonzalo Barreiro
Dr Florian Nuevo
Dr David Wilkinson
Dr Yoshinori Nakata
