AIPPI Questions & Committee

Terms of Reference

1. Committee No.: Q141 (Dissolved)
2. Name of the Committee: Meetings Advisory Committee
Commission consultative des Réunions
Beratender Ausschuss für Veranstaltungen
3. Nature of the Committee: Bureau Advisory Committee
4. Officers:
Chairman: Robert Mitchell (Canada)
Bureau Link: Vincenzo M. Pedrazzini (Switzerland)
Co-Chairman: Peter Widmer (Switzerland)
Members: Bertrand Micheli (Switzerland)
Warren N. Sprigings (Canada)
Anthony J. Rollins (United Kingdom)
Peter A. Pestalozzi (Switzerland)
Michael Lantos (Hungary)
Philip C. Swain (USA)
5. Main Task:
  • To review the various Meetings and make recommendations on how to improve the organisation and planning of these Meetings.
  • To review the Guidelines including a list of minimum requirements for acceptance of an invitation from a National Group.
  • Based on the Guidelines, to study requests and preliminary invitations from National Groups and recommend the Secretary General whether to accept or reject such invitations.
  • To review manuals to help the Organising Committee of an AIPPI Meeting.
  • To investigate whether dates of a planned Meeting do not clash with religious holidays, major GO/NGO Meetings or other AIPPI International and National Meetings.
6. Advise to the Bureau: To advise on:
  • rules and regulations concerning international Meetings and Symposia
  • the establishment of a calendar of international Meetings and Symposia in cooperation with other NGO's
  • possibilities of cooperation with other NGOs regarding Meetings
7. Reporting:
  • To provide 2 months before each International AIPPI Meeting and 1 month before each Bureau Meeting an account of activities since the last such Meeting (incl. negative Report).
  • Each Committee Meeting should be followed by a written Report (Minutes of the Meeting) to the Secretary General.
8. Publications:

Committee Report (Executive Committee Meeting Lisbon 2002)

9. Special Instructions: Except as otherwise agreed all Reports, Minutes and other documentation are to be submitted to the General Secretariat:

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