Dear Roger, Re yours (below): It's far from an "obscure French law": and can you name ANY country in the world that DOESN'T demand yearly approval by the ultimate governing authority of a charitable or similar body - in our case the General Assembly - of the audited accounts and annual report of the Executive and Secretariat? No special meeting or costs are involved: all that is to happen (and should in fact always have happened) is that in years when there is no General Conference the annual meeting of the Advisory Committee sits as a short General Assembly (with proxies avaiable for those bot ttending in person). Patrick Boylan Chairperson, ICOM Legal Affairs Committee ==================== On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Roger Smith wrote: > How ridiculous...an obscure French Law dictates that an international > organisation has to spend time, effort and money meeting for no other real > purpose than to satisfy a statute! > > Isn't it about time that ICOM considered moving its HQ to a more > accommodating country. The whole thing is totally bizarre. > > Roger - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Change ICOM-L subscription options, unsubscribe, and search the archives at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/icom-l.html