PPI Conference 2015/Minutes

General Assembly PPI 2015, Warsaw, Poland, 4th/5th of July 2015

Chair & Officials

Chairman	Jens Stomber (PP-DE)
Vice Chairman	Alexander Kohler (PP-DE)
Minutes	Mia Utz (PP-DE), Gregory Engels (PP-DE), Pat Mächler (PP-CH)
Vote Tabulator	Mikuláš Peksa (PP-CZ)

Delegate participants

(16 delegations in total)

Party	Delegates	4th	5th
PP-BE	Kjell Segers (remote by Radek Pietron)	√	√
PP-CAT	Muriel Rovira Esteva, Moises Carrasco, Kenneth Peiruza, Oliver Herzig, Miquel Núñez Ferrer (all remote)		√
PP-CZ	Mikuláš Peksa, František Kopřiva, Vojtěch Pikal (remote)	√	√
PP-DE	Kristos Thingilouthis, Thomas Gaul, Mia Utz, Alex Kohler, Sebastian Krone, Jens Stomber	√	√
PP-EE	Märt Põder, Heiki Lõhmus, Eero Elvisto, Mart Stöör (all remote by Board)	√	√
PP-CH	Pat Maechler	√	√
PP-IT	Aram Gurekian (remote), Giuseppe Cossalter (remote), Alessandro Ciofini (remote), Marco Confalonieri (remote)	√	√
PP-JP	Tom J. Kita	√	√
PP-KZ	Marat Mulkulbaiev (remote)	√	√
PP-NO	Raymond Johansen, Anders Kleppe (remote by Raymond Johansen), Tale Haukbjørk Østrådal (remote by Raymond Johansen)	√	√
PP-NZ	Andrew Reitemeyer (remote by Henrique Peer)	√	√
PP-PL	Radek Pietron, Zbigniew Łukasiak, Bernard Pyszkiewicz, Paulina Kolbusz	√	√
PP-PT	Nuno Cardoso (remote)		√
PP-RU	Nikolay Voronov (remote)	√	√
PP-TN	Chemseddine Ben Jemaa (remote by Jens Stomber)	√	√
PP-UA	Sergey Yarygin (remote by Gregory Engels)	√	√

Resources

Live transscript

Pre-conference documents

1. Proposed agenda
2. Rules of Procedure
3. Progress reports of the board:

Thomas Gaul

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  Gregory Engels

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  Anders Kleppe

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  Koen de Voegt

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  Stathis Leivaditis

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  Sebastian Krone, Treasurer

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  Kjell Segers, CoA

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  Lay auditor report

Results / Votes

Elections (Board, Court of Arbitration, Lay Auditors)

Chairperson

Name of the candidate	Member of	Sponsor	Members voted in favor of the candidate	Total
Andrew Reitemeyer	NZ	BE, NO, NZ	IT, BE, EE, RU, PT, CZ, DE, NZ, NO, PL, CH	11
Patrick Schiffer	DE, BE, NL	BE, NO, NZ, DE	BE, EE, RU, PT, CAT, CZ, DE, PL, CH	8.5
Koen De Voegt	BE	NO	BE, RU, CAT, JP, NZ, NO, PL, TN	7.5
Gregory Engels	DE, KZ, RU, LU, SE	DE	RU, UA, KZ, DE, TN	5

Andrew Reitemeyer is elected as chairperson.

Vice chairperson

Name of the candidate	Member of	Sponsor	Members voted in favor of the candidate	Total
Patrick Schiffer	DE, BE, NL	DE, NZ, BE	PT, CAT, EE, BE,CZ, DE, NZ, NO, PL, RU, CH	9.5
Koen De Voegt	BE	NO	BE, CAT, JP, NZ, NO, PL, RU	6.5
Gregory Engels	DE, KZ, RU, LU, SE	DE	KZ, IT, DE, RU, UA	5
Samir Allioui	NL	??	TN, PT, EE, NZ	4

Patrick Schiffer is elected as vice chairperson.

Board members

Name of the candidate	Member of	Sponsor	Members voted in favor of the candidate	Total
Karla Medrano	MX	NZ, NO, BE	BE, CAT, CZ, EE, IT, NZ, NO, PL, PT, RU, CH, TN	11.5
Dr. Richard Hill	CH	CH, DE	BE, CAT, CZ, EE, DE, JP, PL, RU, CH, UA	9.5
Henrique Peer	BR	??	BE, CAT, EE, DE, IT, NZ, NO, PL, PT, CH	9.5
Chemseddine Ben Jemaa	TN	TN, NO, BE	BE, CAT, CZ, EE, NZ, NO, PT, CH, TN	8.5
Min Chiaki	JP	JP	BE, CAT, CZ, DE, IT, JP, NO, CH, TN	8.5
Anders Kleppe	NO, SE	NO, BE	BE, CZ, IT, JP, NZ, NO, PL, RU	8
Boris Sirbey	FR	DE	CZ, EE, DE, IT, RU, CH, UA	7
Koen De Voegt	BE	NO	BE, CAT, IT, NZ, NO, PT, RU	6.5
Gregory Engels	DE, KZ, RU, LU, SE	DE	CZ, EE, DE, IT, KZ, UA	6
Thomas Gaul	DE	NO	CZ, DE, IT, JP, CH, TN	6
Samir Allioui	NL	??	CZ, EE, JP, NZ, PT, TN	6
Sebastian Krone	DE	DE	CZ, DE, IT, PT, CH	5

Karla Medrano, Dr. Richard Hill, Henrique Peer, Chemseddine Ben Jemaa and Min Chiaki are elected as board members.

Alternate board members

Name of the candidate	Member of	Sponsor	Members voted in favor of the candidate	Total
Anders Kleppe	NO, SE	NO, BE	IT, RU, BE, PT, CAT, EE, CZ, JP, NZ, NO, PL	10.5
Nikolay Voronov	RU	RU, NO	IT, RU, BE, CAT, EE, CZ, DE, NO, CH	8.5 / 7
Koen De Voegt	BE	NO	BE, PT, CAT, EE, CZ, JP, NZ, NO, PL	8.5 / 5.5
Gregory Engels	DE, KZ, RU, LU, SE	DE	IT, RU, KZ, EE, CZ, DE, JP, UA	8
Sebastian Krone	DE	DE	IT, CAT, EE, CZ, DE, JP, PL, CH	7.5
Samir Allioui	NL	??	PT, EE, JP, NZ, TN	5

Anders Kleppe, Nikolay Voronov, Koen De Voegt and Gregory Engels are elected as alternate board members.

Jury of the Court of Arbitration

Name of the candidate	Member of	Sponsor	Members voted in favor of the candidate	Total
Marco Confalonieri	IT	IT	BE, CAT, CZ, EE, DE, IT, NZ, NO, PL, RU, CH	10.5
Nuno Cardoso	IT	IT	BE, CAT, CZ, EE, DE, IT, NZ, NO, RU, CH , PT	10.5
Thomas Gaul	DE	NO	CAT, CZ, DE, IT, JP, NZ, NO, RU, CH, TN	9.5
Kjell Segers	BE	BE, NO	BE, CAT, CZ, EE, NZ, NO, RU, CH, PT	8.5

Marco Confalonieri, Nuno Cardoso, Thomas Gaul and Kjell Segers are elected for the jury of the court of arbitration.

Lay auditors

Name of the candidate	Member of	Sponsor	Members voted in favor of the candidate	Total
Pat Mächler	CH	CH	CZ, DE, CH, NZ, PL, JP, NO, EE, IT (The candidates are voted on block.)	9
Sebastian Krone	DE	DE
Mikulás Peksa	CZ	CZ

Pat Mächler, Sebastian Krone and Mikulás Peksa are elected as lay auditors.

Statutes Amendments

• SAP-1 Admittance of Members, Voting result: Approved (11Y/1N/1A)

• SAP-1a eligible Ordinary members, Voting result: not voted

• SAP-2 Supportive Membership, Voting result: Approved (9Y/1N/2A)

• SAP-3 Termination of Membership, Voting result: Approved (12Y/1N/0A)

• SAP-4 One Chair, one vice-Chair, Voting result: not voted

• SAP-4a Board composition fix, Voting result: Disapproved (7Y/4N/2A)

• SAP-4b Composition of the Board, Voting result: Approved (10Y/0N/3A)

• SAP-5 Term of Office, Voting result: Disapproved (6Y/6N/1A)

• SAP-5a Board Terms counter proposal, Voting result: not voted

Motions

• MO-1 Access to medicine, Voting result: not voted (withdrawn)

• MO-1b Access to medicine, Voting result: not voted

• MO-1c Access to medicine, Voting result: Approved (10.5Y/0N/1A)

• MO-2 Copyright, Voting result: Approved (13.5Y/0N/0A)

• MO-3 Net Neutrality, Voting result: Approved (11.5Y/0N/0A)

• MO-4 Basic Income, Voting result: Approved (7Y/2.5N/5A)

• MO-5 Privacy, Voting result: Approved (13.5Y/0N/0A)

• MO-6 No to TTIP, Voting result: not voted (withdrawn)

• MO-6b No to TTIP, Voting result: Approved (11.5Y/0N/0A)

• MO-7 Transparency of the Public Sector, Voting result: Approved (12.5Y/0N/0A)

• MO-8 Political Manifesto , Voting result: not voted

• MO-8b Political Manifesto, Voting result: Approved (11.5Y/0N/0A)

• MO-9 eDemocracy system decisions, Voting result: Approved (8.5Y/4N/2A)

• MO-10 continue quarterly reports by the treasurer, Voting result: Approved (12Y/0N/0A)

• MO-11 Mandate new board to come up with new regulations to avoid a second Thinktwice situation, Voting result: Approved (10Y/1N/0A)