Minutes of the Meeting of the AE Nominations Subcommittee and Council meetings held in Naples, September 23-24, 2009 ------------- - Membership Nominations: Ranked nominations from section committees should be sent to the London Secretariat by Feb. 28, 2010. ( --> Section Committee should rank candidates by December 2009. Nominations should reach the Section Chair by Nov. 1, 2009.) Nomination Subcommittee and Council decision will take place before the Leuven AE AGM. - Nomination through the "President's List" (fast) procedure was discussed extensively, with numerous pro and contra opinions. Sections should give notice to the president of fields where nominations from members are missing. Section chairs may ask for external peer reviews. The newly elected members were approved by the Council. - Next AE AGM is in Leuven, Belgium (Sept. 9-11, 2010). - Erasmus Medal proposals for Leuven: Council elected Fréchet, Jean M. J. (reserve: Steels, Luc). Committee for nominating the next Erasmus Lecturer is elected. - New AE Treasurer, SIR ROGER (JAMES) ELLIOTT, Kt., F.R.S. was elected. by Council. - Venue of the 2011 Sept. AE AGM is selected to be Paris. - Council decided a change in the current Regulations (2006) to establish "Patrons" (Proposed by the Board), with AGM approval. - Report on finances was given. Council decided to keep the subscription at the same level as earlier. - New sections were established with new chairs: A8 Social Sciences: Prof. Anne Buttimer (University College Dublin) A9 Law: Prof. Josef Straus (Munich) A10 Economics, Business and Management Sciences: Prof. Peter Nijkamp (Amsterdam) - AE Legal Status is changing, according to persent UK legal regulations, Bord is Established (its members are directors, equivalently with former Trustees). AE Remains a Charity! (No tax obligations.) Now the Board will delegate tasks to the Council: 1. Management of the New Members Election and Scrutiny Process 2. Management of the Officers election process 3. Management of the Section committees 4. Managing the Erasmus Medal process 5. Conference and workshop programme oversight, and specifically the AGM. 6. Publications oversight committee (chaired by a Board member) 7. External projects committee? (chaired by a Board member) Council accepted the recommended changes. - Initial Board members are elected by Council: Lars Walløe, President Sierd Cloetingh, Vice President Peter Day / Sir Roger Elliott, The Treasurer Ole Petersen, Chair of the Nominations sub Committee, and Theo D’Haen, Cinzia Ferrini, Pieter C. Emmer, Michel Che - EASAC Report: 5 new reports were published, New: Memorandum for new MEPs and Commissioners -