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3. FAI Matters

The FAI Secretary General Max Bishop reported that the main event in 2004 had been the FAI Conference in Madrid.

Mr. Pierre Portman, a Swiss national who has been living in France for many years, was elected new FAI president.

FAI had appointed a new permanent representative to ICAO, Mrs Mary Anne Stevens. Mary Anne is a balloonist and has already been working together with Peter Eriksen in the ICAO Flight Crew Licensing Panel.

FAI has a new flag and logo. There is also now a specific logo for each air sport. (For the IGC logo, see the top of page 1 of these minutes).

Organisers are obliged to use the FAI logo and flag for all FAI sanctioned events. For detailed rules and procedures contact the FAI office.

It was noted that 50% of the FAI’s reserves now are with the Sporting Commissions.

The Centenary for the FAI will be celebrated in Lausanne and in Paris.

There will be an airshow in Lausanne. There will be the FAI Centenary Conference in Paris together with another airshow. The Opening Ceremony of the conference will be at the Mairie de Paris (Paris town hall), the closing in the French Senate, where the president of the Senate will host the event.

The Centenary is the 14th October 2005.

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