Minutes of the Marseille 2001 Business Meeting

     The President welcomes the 24 members present

   The acting secretary, Martine Ammassari-Teule, gives the results of the postal ballot. She reports that 170 members voted in this election and that a majority of votes were in favour of Susan Sara as President-elect and Stéphanie Clarke as Cttee member. She suggests that an electronic ballot should be less time-demanding, less expensive and might probably ensure a larger participation. The treasurer Albert Gramsbergen remarks that not all the EBBS members have an electronic address and, overall, that e-mail addresses are frequently changed without any information is sent to the treasurer or the secretary. The decision of maintaining the postal ballot is taken unanimously.   

   The President welcomes the new officers, Susan Sara and Stéphanie Clarke, and wishes them a fruitful work in the Cttee.  

   On the behalf of the Cttee, the treasurer Albert Gramsbergen thanks Susan Sara for serving the society as secretary for the past five years and recalls her dedicated and enthusiastic commitment

   As four Cttee members will be replaced next year, the president asks the members to reflect on possible candidatures susceptible to permit the various disciplines to be represented within the Cttee.

   Ignacio Morgado-Bernal gives a brief report on progress in organisation of the 35th EBBS Annual General Meeting in Barcelona, in 2003. He distributes the preliminary announcement and reiterates his invitation to held the next EBBS Cttee meeting in Barcelona to have an overview of the situation.

   H.-Otto Karnath announces that the next EuroConference /EBBS workshop on Cognitive and Neural Bases of Visuomotor Control will be held in La Londe (Hyères) in 2002. As part of the budget of this workshop is covered by a EC funding, he briefly describes how asking for this type of financial support. He proposes to give precise information to any person interested in making such an EC application.

   The acting secretary reports that the e-mail addresses of the EBBS members do not appear on the web site. On the one hand, it is apparent that a number of persons prefer to maintain their privacy. On the other hand, a list of e-mail addresses can be extremely useful. It is suggested that in the next letter for renewing memberships, each member be asked to indicate his/her preference. Thus, e-mail addresses will be put on the web site depending upon individual agreement. The secretary also announces the dinner-debate in San Diego (SFN Meeting).  

   The treasurer Albert Gramsbergen reports on the membership and financial situation. The total receipts for this year are superior (12.000 Euros) to those collected last year (7717.58 Euros) and there is an even balance. He mentions that this even trend in savings is due to the increase of new members depending upon (1) the possibility to register electronically (2) the recruitment by personal contacts. He considers that the increase in membership fees to 40 Euros should notably improve the situation but suggests to go on with the recruitment of new members by personal contacts.

Jacques Paillard, previously nominated for honorary membership, is elected by a unanimous vote.

The meeting is adjourned at 13.30.