Minutes of the ANNUAL GENERAL
MEETING 2016 – Stockholm, Sweden
State: 7 September 2016
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Minutes of the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2016 – Stockholm, Sweden
TOPIC No 1: Welcome speeches by the host organisation and
ECF President Manfred Neun
The Secretary General of Cykelfrämjandet Lars Stromgren welcomed the delegates to the AGM,
and handed over to ECF President Manfred Neun.
President Neun welcomed everybody to AGM, and thanked the host. Mr Neun spoke of the
importance of the AGM and the board and their crucial roles in the development of ECF. He
also spoke about the need for asset development within the organisation and how member
organisations can use the work that has been done with regard to the international work and
Sustainable Development Goals; member associations can use this in their lobbying.
ORGANISATION OF THIS AGM
TOPIC No 2: Decision whether the AGM has been properly
convened
By the ECF rules the assembly of the AGM states that the AGM 2016 has been properly
convened.
TOPIC No 3: Election of the Chairs
The AGM appoints the following persons as chairs of the AGM 2016:
Wim Bot (Fietsersbond NL)
Jette Gotsche (Cyklistforbundet DK)
TOPIC No 4: Tour de table: Short introductory round
All AGM delegates mention their name and organization.
Gereon Broil
Burkhard Stork
Anastasiia Makarenko
Bogdan Lepiavko
Ksenia Semenova
Saustian Igor
Maryna Shkutnik
Thanos Vlastos
Haritz Ferrando
Jelena Šimunović
Rein Lepik
Damien Ó Tuama
Colm Ryder
Jette Gotsche
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Allgemeiner Deutscher Fahrrad-Club (ADFC) e.V.
Allgemeiner Deutscher Fahrrad-Club (ADFC) e.V.
AVK, Kyiv Cyclists’ Association
AVK, Kyiv Cyclists’ Association
AVK, Kyiv Cyclists' Associaton
Brest Cycling Community
Brest Cycling Community
Cities For Cycling
Conbici
Croatia Udruga Sindikat biciklista
Cycling Club Vänta Aga
Cyclist.ie
Cyclist.ie
Cyklistforbundet (Danish Cyclists' Federation)
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Jens Peter Hansen
Klaus Bondam
Morten Kerr
Barry Flood
Piotr Kuropatwinski
Doretta Vicini
Lars Strömgren
Manfred Neun
William Nederpelt
Ceri Woolsgrove
Holger Haubold
Elina Baltatzi
Winifred Van Wonterghem
Adam Bodor
Kevin Mayne
Bernhard Ensink
Nagihan Ekmekci
Feridun Ekmekci
Giulia Cortesi
Francesco Baroncini
Wout Baert
Saskia Kluit
Wim Bot
Mikaël Van Eeckhoudt
Matti Kinnunen
Martti Tulenheimo
Mikko Ihanainen
Janne Takala
Marjut Ollitervo
Jens Erik Larsen
Olivier Schneider
Heike Bunte
Maris Jonovs
Viesturs Silenieks
Lilly Eischen
Samantha Georg
Pavel Harbunou
Yauhen Kharuzhy
Jan Roháč
Vasileios Migkos
Maria Dalamitra
Grigorios Papakanderakis
Dimitra Gkolia
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Cyklistforbundet (Danish Cyclists' Federation)
CEO, Cyklistforbundet (Danish Cyclists' Federation)
ECF Board, SLF -Syklistenes Landsforening
ECF Board, CTC -Cyclicsts' Touring Club
ECF Board, PSWE -Pomeranian Association Common
Europé
ECF Board, FIAB -Federazione Iatalaian Amici della
Bicicletta
ECF Board, Cykelfrämjandet
ECF Board, Allgemeiner Deutscher Fahrrad-Club (ADFC)
e.V.
ECF Board, Fietsersbond
ECF Staff
ECF Staff
ECF Staff
ECF Staff
ECF Staff
ECF Staff
ECF Staff
Envercevko
Envercevko
FIAB -Federazione Italiana Amici della Bicicletta
FIAB -Federazione Italiana Amici della Bicicletta
Fietsberaad Vlaanderen
Fietsersbond
Fietsersbond
Fietsersbond
Finnish Cyclists' Federation
Finnish Cyclists' Federation
Finnish Cyclists' Federation
Finnish Cyclists' Federation
Finnish Cyclists' Federation
Foreningen Frie Fugle
FUB -Federation Francaise des Usagers de la Bicyclette
HPV Deutschland e.V.
Latvian Bicycle Information Centre
Latvian Bicycle Information Centre
Letzebuerger Velos-Initiativ (LVI)
Letzebuerger Velos-Initiativ (LVI)
Minsk Cycling Community
Minsk Cycling Community
Nadacia Ekopolis
Podilattiki
Podilattiki
Podilattiki
Podilattiki
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Antonios Sifakis
Panagiotis Pitsilos
Kaethi Diethelm
Christoph Merkli
Andrzej B. Piotrowicz
Evelyn Eder
Andrzej Felczak
Vladimir Filippov
Bojan Žižek
Mats Mikael Larsen
Morgan Andersson
Andrzej Zalewski
Pascal Olivier
Daniel Mourek
Podilattiki
Podilattiki
Pro Velo CH
Pro Velo CH
PSWE, Pomeranian Association Common Europe
Radlobby Österreich
Radlobby Österreich
Russian Cycle Touring Club
Slovenian Cyclists´ Network
Syklistenes Landsforening
Syklistenes Landsforening
VeloPoland
FUB -Fedration Francaise des Usagers de la Bicyclette
Nadace Partnerstvi Greenways Programme
TOPIC No 5: Approval of the agenda
The AGM adopts the agenda for the 2016 AGM.
TOPIC No 6: Approval of the minutes of AGM 2015
The AGM approves the minutes of the 2015 AGM.
REPORTING ON 2015
TOPIC No 7: ECF Annual Report 2015
Secretary General Bernhard Ensink took the floor presenting ECF activities from the AGM 2015
until the present day.
On the Velo-city conference in Nantes Mr Ensink said that this was a success with more than
1,500 delegates, 85% of whom arriving from European countries. The conference included
EuroVelo coordinators meetings with 40 participants present.
Mobility week was held in Brussels in September which included riding with EU Commissioner
Bulc, the Chair of the European Parliament TRAN Committee Mr Cramer, the EU presidency and
Brussels Region Transport ministers; ECF also coordinated a workshop.
The EU Transport Ministers Minsters Summit produced a Declaration on Summit calling for
• An EU Focal Point for Cycling
• National Focal Points
• An EU Strategic Document on Cycling
This was the result of result of 10 years work, and an excellent collaboration with Luxembourg
ECF members LVI (Lëtzebuerger Vëlos-Initiativ). Mr Ensink also bid farewell to LVI president Gust
Mueller.
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With regards to the World Cycling Alliance work Mr Ensink spoke of the work being done on
COP21 (21st Conference of the Parties [to the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change]), TRB (Transportation Research Board), SLoCaT (Partnership on Sustainable,
Low Carbon Transport), TWG ( UN Thematic Working Group on Sustainable Transport), TTDC
(Transforming Transportation), PPMC/SLoCaT UN Climate Action Summit.
Mr Ensink then passed over to Adam Bodor the Policy Director and EuroVelo Manager who
spoke about ECF’s work promoting cycling funding across the EU and the success of the EU
Funds Observatory for Cycling. From 2007 – 2013 the possible EU funding for cycling reached
600 million; 0.7% of total investments in transport. From 2014 – 2020 this figure rises to 1.5
billion and 1.6% of total investments in transport (these are Commission calculations)
With regards to EuroVelo, Mr Bodor spoke about the success of the Iron Curtain Trail and
EuroVelo 5.
There was a summary of ECF’s project work;
• Bike2Work project – 8 ECF members are testing Bike2Work projects, this is a an
excellent project for ECF members to get involved in European projects
• ActiveVoice – this is looking to the implementation of EU health physical activity
guidelines
• Switch active travel promotes the switching of travel habits from cars to walking and
cycling in 8 cities
• Flow – technical project on how to deal with walking and cycling in transport and
congestion modelling
• Pro-eBike promotes E-bikes as an alternative to “conventional fossil fuelled” vehicles in 8
pilot cities
• ECF have also been involved in looking into the rise in Speed Pedelec use and the
consequences for ECF members
• CHIPS is looking at cycle highways innovation
• Silver cyclist project objective is to increase the number of elderly people undertaking
cycling holidays
• Velo-city 2016 in Taipei was a success with over 1000 delegates from 52 countries, 73%
from Asia, 19% from Europe
• Scientists for cycling colloquium took place in Taipei Velo-city with 90 members in
February 2016
• Cities for Cyclists Feb 2016 saw 5 new cities join the network
o WCA meeting took place in Taipei March 2016. WCA is not yet a fully legal
entity but has a network steering board from India, Chile and USA which met in
June for further steps. Velo-city 2017 WCA will adopt, or discuss this
o WCA will campaign for a world cycling day dedicated to celebrate impact of
cycling
• EU transport ministers summit Amsterdam April 2016
• ITF Leipzig May2016 saw collaboration of CEOs from DCF, ADFC, ECF all invited in
family photos with other leaders.
• Previous Board meetings were held in Sept (webinar) Sept 2015, Brussels Nov 2015
The link to the presentation can be found here https://ecf.com/groups/agm-2016-introductivereport-overall-ecf-activities
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Delegates Colm Ryder and Burkhard Stork congratulated and thanked Mr Ensink for 10 years of
work.
The AGM took note of the Annual Report 2015.
TOPIC No 8: Financial report/accounts 2015
Treasurer Barry Flood presented this report and the AGM took note of chapter 2. Financial
Review of the Annual Report 2015, the ECF Internal Balance Sheet 2015 and the statutory
auditor’s report on 2015.
TOPIC No 9: Exoneration of the ECF Board
By the ECF rules the assembly of the AGM exonerates the ECF Board by ballots voting.
Voting:
No - against
No - abstention;
Yes - overwhelming majority.
Total 68 votes
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ECF in 2015/2016
TOPIC No 10: Presentation of ECF membership candidates,
voting on membership
The Board had already approved these organizations as ECF members during the year 2015 – 2016.
The AGM confirmed the membership of the below listed organisations (see table). The membership
application from Greenways Social Enterprise (Greece) was withdrawn.
Presentation of the new members:
• Centre for Environment (Bosnia): presented by Crotian Cyclists Federation
o Established in 1999, working on transport since 2002
o More than 40 members, 8 employees
o Member of Transport & Environment, EuroVelo, national coordinator for European
Mobility Week since 2008
• Cycling Escape of Pieria (Greece):
o Established 2010
o Ca. 100 members
o Promoting bike as means of urban transportation; bike education
• Municipal Association of Bicycle Tourism Circle Relaxation (Poland):
o Established 1995
o Focusing on recreational cycle tours, bike education
New full member candidates
Vote
Center for Environment
Bosnia
No against, yes: overwhelming
majority
Cycling Escape of Pieria
Greece
No against; yes: overwhelming
majority
Municipal Association of Bicycle
Tourism Circle Relaxation
Poland
No against, yes: overwhelming
majority
ECF President Manfred Neun welcomed the new members and wished for good collaboration in
the future.
TOPIC 11: Membership resignations
AGM took note of membership resignations without further comments.
The following were signed off after not paying:
Name
Country
Membership
Cycling Club
Orthopetalia
Green Tour
Greece
Full
Bosnia
Associated
Land Transport Agency
Georgia
Associated
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Georgia
Polish Environmental Partnership
Foundation
Udruga Moj Bicikl.
VeloPoland Foundation
Poland
Full
Croatia
Poland
Full
Associated
These resigned due to change or integration in other ECF networks
Name
Country
Membership
Départements & Régions
cyclables
France
Associated
Netherlands
Associated
Stichting Landelijk
Fietsplatform
Biciutat de Mallorca
Full
Status
Change of
membership from
ECF’s Network to
EuroVelo
Coordination
Centers
Change of
membership from
ECF’s Network to
EuroVelo
Coordination
Centers
Integrated with
Spanish national
member, ConbiCi
The AGM took note of the membership resignations.
TOPIC No 12: Procedure for election of ECF Board candidates
The ECF Board 2016 – 2018 had 4 vacancies: 1 President Position and 3 Vice-President
Positions. In total, 9 candidates submitted their applications, 1 for the President position and 8
for the Vice-President positions.
ECF Secretary-General Bernhard Ensink presented the voting procedure as detailed in topic 12
of the AGM papers.
The election committee of Wout Baert and Jelena Šimunović were voted by members. The AGM
approved the election committee with overwhelming majority.
The AGM adopted the procedure for the election of ECF Board Members as described in topic
12 of the AGM papers.
TOPIC No 13: Presentation of ECF Board Candidates
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The candidates presented themselves in the following order and answered questions from the
delegates.
President candidates
Manfred Neun, ADFC (Germany)
Vice President candidates
Raluca Fiser, Green Revolution Association (Romania)
Jens Peter Hansen, Denmark Cyklistforbundet /Danish Cyclists’ Federation (Denmark)
Matti Kinnunen, Helsinki Cyclist (Finland)
Andrej Klemenc Slovenian cyclists network (slovenska kolesarska mreža) (Slovenia)
• Mr Klemenc was not present personally but the AGM approved presentation by proxy after
board had decided to let candidacy go ahead. Bojan Žižek presented.
Piotr Kuropatwinski, [PSWE] (Poland)
Marjut Ollitervo Finnish Cyclists’ Federation (Finland)
Ksenia Semenova Kyiv Cyclists’ Association (Ukraine)
Damien Ó Tuama, Dublin Cycling Campaign (Ireland)
After the presentations of the candidates, Saskia Kluit (NL) offered the publication “Cycling
Cities” on behalf of the Dutch EU Presidency/Ministry of Infrastructure to the ECF board as a sign
of gratitude for their support of the cycling activities under the Dutch EU Presidency. She
announced that further copies would be sent to the ECF members worldwide.
TOPIC No 14: ECF Board Elections
Before the elections to the board Morten Lange from the Icelandic Cyclists' Federation gave a
speech about gender, geography, skills and age being important points to consider when voting.
President
Name
Votes
Result
Manfred Neun, ADFC (Germany)
60 votes (out of 66
valid votes)
Elected President
1st Vice President vote
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Name
Votes
1st
round
2nd
round
3rd round
11
22
27
20
36
Result
Piotr Kuropatwinski Poland
Andrej Klemenc Slovenia Slovenian cyclists
network (slovenska kolesarska mreža
Damien Ó Tuama Ireland Dublin Cycling
Campaign
Jens Peter Hansen Denmark Cyklistforbundet
/Danish Cyclists’ Federation
Ksenia Semenova Kyiv Cyclists’ Association
11
14
x
Marjut Ollitervo Finnish Cyclists’ Federation
Matti Kinnunen Helsinki Cyclist
Raluca Fiser Green Revolution Association
12
Ksenia Semenova was elected as ECF Vice-President with a majority of 64 valid votes in the third
round of the first vote
2nd Vice President vote
Name
Votes
1st
round
2nd
round
3rd round
Result
23
26
31
x
13
13
11
21
Piotr Kuropatwinski Poland
Andrej Klemenc Slovenia Slovenian cyclists
network (slovenska kolesarska mreža
Damien Ó Tuama Ireland Dublin Cycling
Campaign
Jens Peter Hansen Denmark Cyklistforbundet
/Danish Cyclists’ Federation
Marjut Ollitervo Finnish Cyclists’ Federation
Matti Kinnunen Helsinki Cyclist
Raluca Fiser Green Revolution Association
29
Damien O Tuama was elected as ECF Vice-President with a majority of 60 valid votes in the third
round of the second vote.
3rd Vice President vote
Name
Votes
1st
round
2nd
round
3rd round
Result
Piotr Kuropatwinski Poland
Andrej Klemenc Slovenia Slovenian cyclists
network (slovenska kolesarska mreža
Damien Ó Tuama Ireland Dublin Cycling
Campaign
Jens Peter Hansen Denmark Cyklistforbundet
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/Danish Cyclists’ Federation
Ksenia Semenova Kyiv Cyclists’ Association
Marjut Ollitervo Finnish Cyclists’ Federation
Matti Kinnunen Helsinki Cyclist
Raluca Fiser Green Revolution Association
32
x
Raluca Fiser was elected as ECF Vice-President with a majority of 62 valid votes in the first round
of the third vote.
The ECF AGM elected the following persons for the ECF Board 2016 – 2018:
Position
Name
No of votes
President
Manfred Neun
66
Vice –president
Ksenia Semenova
36
Vice –president
Damien O Tuama
31
Vice –president
Raluca Fiser
32
All elected candidates accepted their election.
The parting board members Doretta Vicini, Morten Kerr and Piotr Kuropatwinski were thanked by
ECF President Manfred Neun for their substantial contribution to the work of ECF and gave their
farewell addresses.
TOPIC No 15: ECF’s membership fees for Full Members (this
Topic was exchanged with Topic 17 in the original agenda)
Irish member Cyclist.ie proposed a postponement of this topic since the proposer of the
amendment to the changes in membership (Cycling UK) could not attend the meeting. The AGM
therefore agreed to adopt Cyclist.ie’s motion to withdraw this item from the agenda and moved
on to the next item of business.
Votes on Ireland.ie proposal
For – 44
Against – 16
Motion adopted
TOPIC No 16: Budget and Work Plan
By an overwhelming majority (no against, no abstention), the AGM adopted the Budget and took
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note of the work plan 2016-2017.
TOPIC No 17: Budgets 2017-2018
The AGM adopted the Budgets 2017-2018 (see below).
TOPIC No18: Renewing the mandate of the ECF auditor
The AGM decided to renew the mandate of the commissioner for a further period of three years.
The fees are set by mutual agreement at an annual lump sum of € 3,000 excluding VAT. This
represents approximately 20 hours per annum at an hourly rate of € 150 excluding VAT.
Voting on renewing commissioner mandate
For – overwhelming majority
Against - zero
Topic No 19: ECF’s Position on Speed Pedelecs
ECF Development Director Kevin Mayne presented the results of the speed pedelec workshop
held earlier during the AGM.
Members of the AGM voted on the following Resolution:
• ECF as a federation of cyclists’ organisations should have a “Policy Position on the new
category of L-vehicles “Powered cycles” (commonly known as Speed pedelecs and ecargo bikes).”
• The ECF policy position will present both the positive benefits that the new vehicle category
can bring to the promotion of cycling and the relevant precautions that should be taken
(for example on infrastructure, highway codes, funding or incentives) to avoid risks that
the new machines could bring to the development of cycling and the safety of cyclists.
• Members recognize that this is an emerging policy area and therefore expect ECF to
update the ECF Policy Position to reflect emerging evidence and opinion. ECF will set up
an expert group to support this process which will enable members to input their views
and seek advice from wider networks on the direction of relevant policies.
The resolution on speed pedelecs was adopted with the following voting:
For - overwhelming majority
Against - zero
Topic No 20: Presentation on AGM 2017 in the Netherlands
Saskia Kluit (NL) presented the options for AGM location: Utrecht or Arnhem/Nijmegen.
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Bernhard Ensink presented date of next AGM: Saturday 10th June 2017; social event Friday
evening 9th June 2017. [Note of Bernhard Ensink dd 31st of August 2016: The Board decided in
the meantime to have the AGM 2017 on Sunday 11th of June 2017, the social event on
Saturday evening 10th of June.]
The AGM took note of the decision of the board to organise the AGM 2017 in The Netherlands
(the exact location to be confirmed at a later date).
MISCELLANEOUS
TOPIC No 21: Other Proposals from members to the AGM
No proposals
TOPIC No 22: Any other business
•
•
•
Andrzej Felczak thanked the participants for their work during the AGM.
Colm Ryder (Ireland) thanks Cykelfrämjandet for their great organisation of the AGM.
Lars Stromgren and Elisabeth Kempe thanked Wini Van Wonterghem and Elina Baltatzi
from the ECF staff for their collaboration in the organisation of the AGM, Wim Bot and
Jette Gotsche for chairing the session, and thanked Bernhard Ensink and Manfred Neun
for their coordination.
TOPIC No. 23: Closing
President Manfred Neun thanked the ECF staff for preparing the AGM, the chairs for steering
through the AGM and the delegates for attending and contributing. The AGM was closed.
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