Minutes of the general Assembly of the Nordic Fertility Society
held in Lillehammer, Norway, January 6th 2002.
§1. The president of NFS Leif Hägglund opened the General Assembly and welcomed the members of the society.
§2. The General assembly chose Matts Wikland to chair the meeting, Juha Tapanainen to secretary,
and Karin Erb and Kerstin Lundin to scrutinizers of the minutes.
§3. The minutes of the previous General Assembly in Reykjavik concluded by Karl Gösta Nygren were accepted.
Leif Hägglund introduced the letter to WHO regarding the withdrawal of all public funding for infertility treatments in Norway.
The assembly by common consent accepted the letter in which the society asked support from the Director General of WHO to repeal the decision in Norway.
§4. Leif Hägglund gave the annual report of the NSF board.
Briefly the board has had eight meetings.
After long discussions the board has decided not to prepare any guidelines for certification or accreditation of IVF units at this moment.
The board has discussed among other things the following topics: formation of a special interest group for ethics and stem cell research, formation of a sub-committee to plan future congresses.
The board has also realized that due to increasing size of the society the increasing costs of administration have to be anticipated.
§5. On behalf of the treasurer Annette Gabrielsen Leif Hägglund presented the treasurer's report and budget which were accepted.
Matters raised: several participants of the congress had taken advantage of the lower registration fee although they had not paid the membership fee.
§6. The board proposed to keep the membership fee as 200 DKr which was accepted.
§7. Leif Hägglund presented the proposal of the board to change the by-laws concerning the composition of the board.
The proposal was accepted first time in Reykjavik and now by the consecutive General Assembly by common consent.
§8. Leif Hägglund presented the proposal of the board to change the working procedures of the board after changing the board composition. The proposal was accepted by common consent.
§9. The board for the period 2002-2005 proposed by the Election Committee was accepted:
Ida Bra Gisledottir (Iceland, secr), Øystein Magnus (Norway, Dr), Bente Skov Iversen (Denmark, nurse),
Anja Häkkinen (Finland, techn.), Julius Hreinsson (Sweden, emb.) Arne Sunde (representative of the previous meeting) and Anders Nyboe Andersen (representative of the next meeting).
§10. Johan Hazekamp was chosen to the next president of NFS.
§11. The General Assembly decided that the next meeting will be held in Denmark, Helsingör, 7,-10.8.2003.
§12. Chairman closed the meeting.
Oulu, January 15, 2002
Gothenburg, January 15, 2002
Juha Tapanainen - Secretary
Matts Wikland - Chairman
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