General Assembly 2007

The Ordinary General Assembly of AFEC, pertaining to the exercise 2006, has taken place June 8, the present year in Jerez (Cadiz). To the same one they attended a total of 69 people in direct representation of 46 businesses, while other 3 they did it for delegation of vote. It supposes the greater assistance to a general assembly of the Association of their history.

As in previous editions, all the activities developed in the three days that the assembly lasted. The first day Friday, took place the celebration of the board of directors, the meeting of the General Meeting, and the supper of welcome. The following day, Saturday, was consecrated to the already traditional excursion, finishing the day with the celebration of the formal dinner, while the tournament of golf occupied the morning on Sunday.

Board of directors

Just as it is collected in the minutes of the same one, the meeting began at 10.00 in the morning of on the 8 in the White parlor of the hotel Jerez with the assistance of the President, the Secretary and all the members of the Meeting, except one that previously had excused its assistance.

Once it approved unanimously the minutes of the preceding meeting after its reading by the secretary, continued with the order of business. In the section dedicated to the verification of compliance in agreement, was reported, among others themes, of the recent firm of an agreement of contribution with FEGECA, Association of Spanish Manufacturers of Generators and Transmitters of Heat.A brief outline of this agreement is collected in another section of the present bulletin.

In the chapter dedicated to the assemblies of ICARMA and EUROVENT, celebrated the previous week in Madrid, D. Francisco Muñoz of Leyva reported of the success of both in which have covered the objectives predicted, having presented a new organization in EUROVENT, that will be studied for to be submitted to approval in October. It thanks the contribution of AFEC, standing out the effort carried out by its personnel in the organization of the events that had a high level.

The board of directors congratulates to Francisco Muñoz of Leyva by the success of them cited assemblies and to Javier Fernández of Bordons, by its recent appointment as vice President of EUROVENT.

Subsequently the different themes were examined that would treat in the afternoon in the development of the General Meeting. Among them mainly the enlargement of the board of directors that would be submitted to voting in the Assembly, given that the number of candidates surpassed to that of available positions.

It was commented, likewise, the presentation to the congresspersons of the three most important projects in which at present works AFEC.

The Plan of Quality, and its full force to to the light of the Real Decree 47/2007 of 19 of January, "basicProcedure for the certification of energy efficiency of buildings of new construction", especially in the referring thing to the thermal installations of the buildings.
The Plan of Communication, with special reference at work carried out to date in the elaboration of the study on energy consumption of the air conditioning in Spain.
Air Conditioning Installations Renewalproject in Cities world heritage, doing emphasis in the excellent reception that this project has received of Dª Rose Aguilar, mayor of Cordoba, of Dª Isabel of Haro, Director of the Agency of the Energy of the Meeting of Andalusia and of the IDAE, Institute for the Diversification and the Savings of the Energy.

In the section dedicated to various matters they treated different aspects of our relation with the IDAE, and themes related to the market research, in the search of their improvement to deepen in their utility to the participating businesses.

Joins General Ordinary

The General Meeting was initiated like was predicted at 17.00 o'clock, in second assembly in the Parlor Stirrup of the Hotel Jerez. Previously and during the registration of the assistants, to the entrance of the parlor, was delivered to the same the corresponding documentation that included among another information: the Order of business, the transparencies that would support the presentations of each one of the participants in the assembly, the document of vote for board of directors directors election, etc.

Subsequently and after an individual presentation of each one of the presents, was passed directly to the order of business beginning for the greeting of the President.

Greeting of the President

The President, Aurelio Garcia, initiated its allocution welcoming to all the assistants, to develop subsequently the content of its introductory letter that figures in the Memory, doing special mention to the previous President, Savior Cusí, thanking him its dedication in the time of its mandate. A statement of it cited letter is collected by way of introduction in the cover sheet of this number.

Subsequently it refers to the celebration, June 15, at night of air Conditioning, in which delivery of the Prizes of air Conditioning will be done, pertaining to the edition of 2007, congratulating to Aurelio to Be used to and to Jaime Deaf, who will receive them cited prizes in recognition to their professional path.

It advances that in the present year they comply 30 years of the existence of AFEC, and announces the celebration of this adequate anniversary.

In the development of the letter mentions four fundamental axes of action in the defense of the sectorial interests, that summarizes in:

The search of structures that consolidate a greater sectorial cohesion.
The development of our capacity of influence before the European and national administrations.
A determined impulse toward the innovation, that mark the future competitiveness of our sector and of the economy in general.
An important effort in the formation.

It finishes its brief allocution, thanking to the board of directors its support and confidence, as well as to the personnel of the Association its professionalism and delivery.

Subsequently, and to request of the President, Francisco Muñoz of Leyva, President of Eurovent, reports on the development of the Assemblies of ICARMA and of EUROVENT, that have been celebrated in Madrid and does a brief exposition of the current situation and of the future operating structure of EUROVENT.

Report of management

Continuing with the Order of business of the Assembly, the manager of the Association, José Mª Ortiz, read integrally the Report of Management, in which, taking as base the end and objectives of the Association shells the activities developed in the past exercise in the compliance of the same. Of among them it emphasizes the relating to: The general promotion of the sector and the defense of the interests of our associates, the information to the associates, the promotion of the export and the preservation of the environment.

In the section dedicated to the economic situation the equilibrium refers, that is maintained in the last exercises, between incomes and expenses with a light surplus that permits to undertake new and future commitments, mentioning that the economic management is carried out with conservative criteria and of prudence, as the high degree of compliance with the budget tests it and the light deviations with the ones that closes the exercise respect of It it predicted in the same one.

It finished the reading of the report, initiated the exposition of the themes of the Memory what carried out with the support of some transparencies, copy of the which, as has been mentioned previously, they had been delivered to the congresspersons to facilitate the monitoring of the act.

The Memory.

Subsequently José Mª Ortiz proceeds to the development of the Memory, dedicating special attention to some points of the same one, among the ones that emphasizes, as usual, the section dedicated to THE ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT AND THE MARKET.

In the chapter dedicated to NORMALIZATION relates of superficial form the activities of the Committee AEN/CTN-100. AIR CONDITIONING, whose Office of the secretary exercises AFEC, lending special attention to the activities of the working Party 11. "Criteria of Qualification of the Installations of air Conditioning".

In the chapter dedicated to the EXPORT mentions, as prominent points, the participation with a stand grouped in Shows Convegno (Milan) and ISK-Sodex (Istanbul), as well as the presence by means of an informative stand in the Fair Climate World (Moscow). It finishes its exposition with the description of the Sectorial Plan of the Association for the year 2007.

In the chapter dedicated to EXTERNAL RELATIONS, appointment, briefly, those institutions or companies, with the ones that AFEC maintains contacts, of form continued, on different aspects of the associative life

It continues the development of the Memory, with a brief exposition on the importance of the INFORMATION in the Association, citing explicitly the web page and its content, as well as the bulletin Afecnoticias, that is published frequently bimonthly and will reach in the year 2007 the number 50.

It finishes this brief one traveled through by the Memory, with a special mention to all the GUIDELINES and European REGULATIONS, that so much influence have and they will have in the to occur of the activity of the air conditioning in our country.

You count Annual of the Exercise 2006

In the section pertaining to all the accounts of the exercise 2006, the Treasurer, D. Eugenio of Miguel, analyzes, of schematic form, it reorganized economic situation of the Association, and presents in detail the state of the Annual Accounts of AFEC and SERVIAFEC, collected in the Memory that work in being able of the assistants.

It finishes its exposition with a summary of the Incomes, Expenses and Results of both companies, pertaining to the exercise 2006.

It arrived at this point takes the word the Secretary, Eloy of Alone, that requests the assistants its approval to the Report of Management, to the Memory and to the Annual Accounts of the exercise 2006. There not being votes in against are approved the three documents unanimously.

Budgets 2007

It finished the exposition of the accounting states of the year 2006, the Mr. of Miguel passes to the point 4 on the order of the day and continues with the presentation of the budgets of AFEC and SERVIAFEC of the year 2007. It finished the exposition, the Secretary requests again, as is mandatory, the approval to them cited budgets.

There not being objection to the same, they remain approved unanimously.

It continues its intervention, commenting with the aid of some graphics, the evolution of the Incomes, Expenses and Results of AFEC and SERVIAFEC; the evolution of the Incomes by quotas, related to the number of associates; as well as the origin and application of the incomes consolidated of both companies.

Subsequently, the Treasurer proposes to the Assembly that the payment of the quotas of associate be carried out of quarterly form, instead of monthly, as has come being custom to date, with purpose of diminishing the expenses of management, and to reduce administrative works.

This proposal will be carried out to all the businesses and will be implemented only for those associates that voluntarily they decide to accept it. The Assembly accepts, unanimously, that this proposal be carried out.

Election of members for enlargement of board of directors

The President reports of the decision of board of directors to expand the number of members of the same one, to the maximum permitted. Consequently the Secretary proceeds to read the article 14 of the statutes, where he is collected the cited maximum number of 16 members, and he reports that the number from plazas to cover is of 5 committees.

It proceeds to read the relation of businesses and representatives of the same, that have communicated to AFEC, of official form, its interest in forming part of the board of directors. Subsequently the candidates are presented briefly before the Assembly.

As a result of the voting they turn out to be chosen:

BUSINESS	REPRESENTATIVE	CHARGE
AIRZONE, S. L.	Antonio Montanary	Dtor. of Development of new Business
DAIKIN AC Spain, INC.	Luis Ore	Enclosed to General Direction
GER, INC.	Ignacio Sánchez	General director
IBER ELCO, INC.	José Luis Gracia	President Counsel Admón.
RAMÓN VIZCAINO, INC.	Iván Campos	Commercial director


Antonio Montanary	Luis Ore	Ignacio Sánchez	José Luis Gracia	Iván Campos

Singular projects.

Plan of Quality. The Manager of the Association recalls the assistants the origins and the evolution of the Plan of Quality, as well as his objectives, explaining the current situation of the same one and his full force, in light of the Board of directors on Energy Efficiency in the Buildings.
Plan of Communication. Upon exposing the development of the Plan of Communication, José Mª Ortiz does mention to the first document that will be generated because of said Plan, The Study of the Consumption Energy associate to the air Conditioning, reporting of the contracting of a Technical Engineer that already has initiated its works on that document.
Air conditioning installations renewalproject in cities world heritage. The President takes the word and he explains the assembly members the objective that intends with this Plan, the given steps to date and the supports with the ones that, in principle, he is counted to carry out.

They finished them cited expositions, and there not being requests neither questions the Assembly was interrupted briefly, to proceed to the recount of the votes and to the making of the Minutes of this meeting.

Approval of the Minutes of the General Meeting

It finished the traveled through by the different points on the order of the day, a brief pause was produced, during the which, a table formed by the Secretary, and the personnel of the Association, in which acted as the administrator Francisco Mazarías of the Business MAZARÍAS Technical of the Cold, proceeded to the recount of the votes that, for the election of the directors for the enlargement of board of directors, they had placed previously

In the resumption, proceeded to the reading and approval of the Minutes of the Assembly, being finished in this way the official program of work of this Ordinary General Assembly of AFEC.

The social program.

It finished the Meeting General congresspersons and companions, 120 people on the whole, they were transferred in bus to a vineyard called Hill Obregón, situated in a privileged enclave with some pretty views on Jerez and its environment, where to the fall in the afternoon, took place an informal supper served in a typically Andalusian environment.

The next day, Saturday 9 of June, the day of excursion began with a visit to the Herd from the Monastery the most important reserve of the world of Carthusian horses of pure Spanish race.

The visit included:

Walk by the central patio and pits of sires and horses of couplings.
It visits to the parideras, operating room and to the clinic, that is one of the European complexes with better equipment and technological endowment dedicated to the breeding, reproduction and horse investigation.
It visits to the ship of mares, where the mares with their colts are found.
Exhibition, in the covered riding school, of colts of different ages running at liberty, couplings, charges of mares...

General assembly 2007 The day of human-livestock fraternization developed with a high degree of rapport among the same as tests it the photo, in which the secretary of the association, the personnel of the same one and the boarder of a pit share some seconds of camaraderie and they are portrayed for the posterity.

It finished this visit the group was transferred to Arches of the Border, where took place the lunch in the Inn of it cited locality. To the termination of the same one a brief one was carried out traveled through guided by this city being undertaken to its termination the return to the hotel.

At 21.00 o'clock h, the group, originating in the hotel arrived at the wine Cellar Harvey´s. A small one traveled through by the wine cellar and an aperitif in the gardens led to the formal dinner in the patio of the wine cellar.

As element of surprise, once the president to have finished its speech, of gratitude to the presents by its assistance and of farewell to the meeting of the next year, led to a group of jokes of Cadiz, that supposed the original and amusing clasp to a pleasant evening.

In spite of the late hour to which the group arrived at the hotel the previous night, the participants in the tournament of golf rose early Sunday to arrive at the "green" of the hotel Montecastillo well early in the morning.

A total of nine golfers, among them two ladies, they participated finally in the III Tournament of Golf of AFEC, that, as has been mentioned previously, up took place in the country of golf of 18 pits, designed by Jack Nicklaus, of the cited hotel.

The generosity of the sponsors, whose logos are collected in the image that accompanies to this outline, that donated material and trophies, permitted to reward the effort of all and each one of the participants in a delivery of trophies that was carried out in the social club to the termination of the Tournament, of which further down diverse graphic testimonies are collected.

Subsequently took place a food in which they participated players and companions. This food supposed the end of all the activities of the Assembly of the year 2007.