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Who runs CIVL?
CIVL - behind the scenes
Who is really running CIVL?
HP Fallesen , CIVL Delegate Sweden, writes:
You make a very good point re the inability of the CIVL Plenary to deal with such an extensive agenda in three days. But that is not the most frightening.
Even if we CIVL delegates should be able to get through all items on the agenda and discuss them in our own organisation before the CIVL Plenary meeting (as all Nordic countries do) we still are more or less powerless.
As you can see from the Plenary schedule there are several sub-committee meetings the day before the Plenary. The chairmen of these committees are appointed by the CIVL president. These chairmen often have their own agendas. These committee's meetings often are attended by "specialists" from the big competition countries with the goal of making changes that favour their own competition pilots. And now for the worst part.
These sub committee meetings often come up with proposals for the Plenary to be held the next day. Proposals which are then dealt with and voted upon at the Plenary. Now the CIVL internal regulations clearly state that no item that is not on the pre arranged (weeks before) Plenary agenda can be voted on. They can only be discussed and only if two thirds majority agrees to this.
If you go back to the plenary meeting minutes for 2003 and 2004 and look at the agendas and then compare them with the decisions taken at the Plenary, you will realize who is really running CIVL.
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I note that HP, as Sweden's d
I note that HP, as Sweden's delegate, chose to not attend this year's CIVL meeting. Perhaps he is not very serious in voicing a concern about specialists running the meeting if he doesn't attend in order to keep an eye on them.
I sat in on parts of both the HG and PG meetings, and of all participants in those meetings, I saw for the majority that they were delegates, not specialists. Furthermore I saw little evidence that they were arguing in favour of the sport, not their own nation's teams. But that's just my opinion.
cheers
Stewart Midwinter
CIVL delegate Canada
participant at the 2005 Plenary