Eurovent > General Assembly 2009

The 51ª General Assembly of Eurovent has taken place in Ljubljana (Slovenia), between the days 27 and May 29, 2009. Along the days 27 and 28, the meetings of the board of directors have been celebrated, of the Environmental Commission and of the executive board of the association. Finally May 29 the exactly said, General Assembly was celebrated.

What continues subsequently is a brief outline of some of these meetings and of the decisions taken in the same.

Board of Directors

On the 27, behind closed doors, met the board of directors of Eurovent, to analyze the different themes and the proposals that, subsequently, would present for approval to the executive board and to the General Assembly. These proposals are found collected in the summaries of the corresponding meetings of them cited classes of the Association.

To this board of directors, chosen in the General Assembly celebrated in Madrid the year 2007, that celebrated its last meeting, given that mandatory corresponds to renew its composition every other year, belonged like member of full right in representation of AFEC, Javier Fernández of Bordons, as well as Francisco Muñoz of Leyva, former-president.

Environmental Commission

The Secretary of the Commission, Philippe Callewaert, presented with aid of some transparencies the current state and the evolution expected of the different Guidelines that affect to our sector, doing special emphasis in the actions carried out by the Environmental Commission and the working Parties of Eurovent in the generation of collective documents, "Position Papers", that reflect the collective opinion of the European manufacturers.

Subsequently a summary of that presentation is collected.

Board of directors on Energy Efficiency of the Buildings (EEE).

Noticeable aspects of the text refundido, approved in the first reading by the European Parliament, with influence in our sector:

Adoption of a methodology of calculation to European level of the Energy Efficiency of the Buildings. (Not more late of the 31.03.2010).
Adoption of a methodology of calculation to European level of the level of optimum price of the most minimum requirements of Energy Efficiency of the Buildings. (Not more late of the 31.03.2010).
Establishment, by the Member States, of the most minimum requirements of Energy Efficiency of the Buildings to reach a level of optimum price. (Not more late of the 30.06.2015).
Establishment of the most minimum requirements of Energy Efficiency of the new, Technical Systems, of reinstatement or of modernization of the buildings if is possible technique and functional.
Establishment of the principle of "Net Energy Zero" in the buildings from the year 2019.

Guidelines on Residues of electrical Appliances and Electronic, (RAEE), and on Restrictions to the Utilization of you determined Dangerous Substances in electrical Appliances and Electronic (RuSP).

To the wait of the text refundido of both Guidelines recalls the position of Eurovent relating to the definition of a common reach to both, collected in the articulated of the Managing one RuSP, that be based on the Article 95 of the European Union.

Board of directors on requirements of applicable ecological design to the Products that Utilize Energy (PUE).

Position of Eurovent regarding the Lot 1. (Kettles) and Lot 2. (Water heaters)
Request of inclusion of the bombs of heat.
Questioning of the procedure of calculation.
Request of simplification of the model of calculation and of the information of the labeling.
Lot 6. (Energy losses in situation of wait or disconnection)
Confirmation of the exclusion of the bombs of heat, air conditioners and ventilation according to joint request of Eurovent and EPEE.
Lot 10. (Air conditioners and fans of comfort)
Eurovent will prepare, on the rough draft of the measures to implement and the energy labeling that will be analyzed in the Consultation Forum of June 22, a document summary of its position.
Lot 11. (Motor electric to 150 kW, bombs of water, fans, etc.)
The measures to implement relating to motor electric and bombs of water, already they have been adopted for the European Commission and slopes of analysis by the Parliament are found.
The evaluation of the impact of the measures in fans expects be completed in brief time limit.

Executive Board

Optimization of the meetings of the executive board and of the General Assembly

To avoid the repetition of the treated themes in the up the meetings cited, to the ones that attend habitually the same people in representation of the associations national members of Eurovent, agrees to celebrate the General Assembly during the first semester of the year and a meeting of the executive board in the second half.

The General Assembly will be divided into two parts. The first one will be celebrated behind closed doors with participation limited, while the second part will be open to guests of other associations and businesses associates of the national associations.

Contribution of the national associations

The proposal is presented, that subsequently will be submitted to approval of the General Assembly, that the contributions to Eurovent be established in base to the GDP of each country and they be distributed among the associations, members of Eurovent, of each country. They are discussed and they analyze the consequences of this proposal in different supposed and countries.

Election of president and six vice president

The executive board agrees to present to approval to the Assembly, the proposal of continuity of the current president, Lambert Bouwmeester, during a year, to give step the following year to Carlo Grossi. It agrees to propose to the Assembly the election of the vice president nominated by the different national associations.

Designation of auditors

The executive board thanks to Emmanuelle Briere, of the association GFCC-Uniclima, the audit of the accounts of the year 2008 and agrees to propose to the General Assembly its designation as the auditor of the accounts of the year 2009.

Election of president of the CPPC. (Committee of Politics and of Programs of Certification)

At the suggestion of the board of directors the nomination is approved of Gian Carlo Sormani as the president of the CPPC and the incorporation to the committee is accepted of Anders Freyschuss, like member of full right of the same one.

General Assembly

The meeting of the 51^to General assembly of Eurovent, was initiated May 29 with a brief allocution of the President, Lambert Bouwmeester, that subsequently led to the development on the order of the day.

Inside the same one, the president of AHRI, Air Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration Institute, Jim Walters, expressed its satisfaction by the fruitful contribution among both associations, emphasizing, among others themes developed in its speech, the growing importance of the legislative action of the governments and, consequently, the special attention that the industry should put in its relation with them.

Subsequently Mr Bouwmeester shelled the most important actions carried out in the breast of the Association, during the past exercise, to finish presenting the Executive Director, Joop Hoogkamer, that will be incorporated to its position in August of 2009. This incorporation is one of the most important milestones predicted in the development of the Business Plan.

Nomination of the representatives of Eurovent in Eurovent Certification Company

The relation of chosen members to form part of the Committee of Direction of Eurovent Certification Company for the period 15 April 2009-15 April 2012 is:

You take Valencia (AFEC; Johnson Controls)
Carlo Grossi (CO AER; Climaveneta)
Christian Herten (VDMA ALT; Gea)
Laurent Legay (GFCC UNICLIMA; Carrier)
Göran Robertson (DANKS VENTILATION, FAMBSI, SWEDENT; Systemair). Chosen as the President.

Natural-born members of the Committee, they are at the same time:

The President of Eurovent: Lambert Bouwmeester
THE managing Director of Eurovent Certification Company: Jacques Benoist (until June 30, 2009), and Erick Melquiond (from July 1, 2009).

Subsequently, and once they approved by the Assembly, the Strategic Plan for Eurovent Certification, the account of results and balance of the year 2008, and the Plan of action for the period 2010-2011 was discussed once more the amount of the contributions of the national associations.

Contribution of the national associations

A fixed contribution of 4,000 Euro is adopted and a variable quantity related to the GDP of the country, to distribute among the national associations, members of Eurovent, of each country. A stop of the 15% of increment in the contribution of the national associations is established that, as a result of this new structure, they see increased their contribution.

Once it approved this point and, bound with him, the budgets of the year 2010, proceeded to the election by means of secret ballot of the President and of the 6 vice-presidents for the period 2010-2011. The result of the election is collected in the enclosed picture.

REGULAR	CHARGE	ASSOCIATION
Lambert BOUWMEESTER	President (year 2010)	NKI VLA
Carlo GROSSI	President (year 2011)	COAER
Christian HERTEN	Vice president (in charge of Certification)	VDMA ALT
Georg MAGER	Vice president (in charge of Finances)	AGORIA
Didier GIVES COAST	Vice president (in charge of Marketing)	UNICLIMA
Alex RASMUSSEN	Vice president (in charge of External Relations)	DANSK. VENT
Javier FERNÁNDEZ OF BORDONS	Vice president (In charge of the Com. Technical)	AFEC
Carlo GROSSI	Vice president (In charge of Com. Environmental)	COAER

Board of directors of Eurovent

The meeting finished with the programming of the meetings of the board of directors, executive board, Commissions, etc., for the next year.

Inside this program emphasizes, the nomination of Bruges (Belgium) as headquarters of the 52ª Assembly of Eurovent, that will take place between the days 26 and May 28, 2010, and the designation, for the next ten years, of the countries in which the successive general assemblies will be celebrated.

According to this plan the sequence is: Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, France, Finland, Spain, Turkey and Slovenia.