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INTERNATIONAL TABLE TENNIS FEDERATION ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ MEETING INDEX Agenda: Annual General Meeting p3 and 4 Annual reports from the Executive Committee: p5 to 23 President: Adham Sharara (document A1) Deputy President: Thomas Weikert (document A2) Senior Executive Vice-President: Khalil Al-Mohannadi (document A3) Executive Vice-President (Finance): Petra Sörling (document A4) Executive Vice-President: Patrick Gillman (document A5) Executive Vice-President: Cherif Hajem (document A6) Executive Vice-President: Masahiro Maehara (document A7) Executive Vice-President: Melecio Rivera (document A8) Executive Vice-President: Shi Zhihao (document A9) Annual reports from the Continental Federations: p24 to 36 Africa (document B1) Asia (document B2) Europe (document B3) Latin America (document B4) North America (document B5) Oceania (document B6) Annual reports from the Executive Directors: p37 to 58 Chief Executive Officer (document C1) Deputy Chief Executive Officer (document C2) Competitions (document C3) Development (document C4) Education and Training (document C5) Marketing (document C6) Operations (document C7) Annual reports from committees: p59 to 80 Equipment Committee (document D1) Media Committee (document D2) 1 Nominations Committee (document D3) Para Table Tennis Division (document D4) Rules Committee (document D5) Sports Science and Medical Committee (document D6) Technical Commissioner (document D7) Umpires’ and Referees’ Committee (document D8) Olympic and Paralympic Commission (document D9) Audited financial statements for the year ended: 31 December 2013 (document E to be provided) Propositions and resolutions (AGM): (document F) p81 to 86 Agenda: Board of Directors’ Meeting p87 Annual reports from commissions and working groups: p88 to 95 Athletes’ Commission (document G1) Junior Commission (document G2) Veterans’ Committee (document G3) Women in Sport Commissioner (document G4) Propositions and resolutions: BoD (document H) p96 to 100 Technical leaflets p101 to 128 Technical leaflet T3 (the ball) Technical leaflet T4 (racket coverings) Technical leaflet T5 (net gauge) 2 INTERNATIONAL TABLE TENNIS FEDERATION ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING The Annual General Meeting of the International Table Tennis Federation will be held on Wednesday 30 April 2014 at 09h00 in the Prince Room, B1, Takanawa Prince Hotel, Tokyo, Japan AGENDA 1. Welcome and opening address 2. Appointment of a Chair 3. Roll call of associations present and verification of proxies 4. Appointment of scrutineers 5. Confirmation of the minutes of the AGM held on 15 May 2013 in Paris, France 6. Presentations 6.1 Merit award 6.2 Other presentations 6.3 2015 World Championships 6.4 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games 6.5 2017 World Championships bid 7. Applications for membership (Mali and American Virgin Islands) 8. Report of the Nominations Committee 9. Annual reports from the Executive Committee 9.1 President: Adham Sharara (document A1) 9.2 Deputy President: Thomas Weikert (document A2) 9.3 Senior Executive Vice-President: Khalil Al-Mohannadi (document A3) 9.4 Executive Vice President (Finance): Petra Sörling (document A4) 9.5 Executive Vice-President: Patrick Gillmann (document A5) 9.6 Executive Vice-President: Chérif Hajem (document A6) 9.7 Executive Vice-President: Masahiro Maehara (document A7) 9.8 Executive Vice-President: Melecio Rivera (document A8) 9.9 Executive Vice-President: Shi Zhihao (document A9) 3 10. Annual reports from the Continental Federations: 10.1 Africa (document B1) 10.2 Asia (document B2) 10.3 Europe (document B3) 10.4 Latin America (document B4) 10.5 North America (document B5) 10.6 Oceania (document B6) 11. Annual reports from the CEO and Directors: 11.1 Chief Executive Officer (document C1) 11.2 Deputy Chief Executive Officer (document C2) 11.3 Competitions Program (document C3) 11.4 Development Program (document C4) 11.5 Education and Training Program (document C5) 11.6 Marketing Program (document C6) 11.7 Operations Program (document C7) 12. Annual reports from the committees: 12.1 Equipment Committee (document D1) 12.2 Media Committee (document D2) 12.3 Nominations Committee (document D3) 12.4 Para Table Tennis Division (document D4) 12.5 Rules Committee (document D5) 12.6 Sports Science Committee (document D6) 12.7 Technical Committee (document D7) 12.8 Umpires’ and Referees’ Committee (document D8) 12.9 Olympic and Paralympic Commission (document D9) 13. Finance 13.1 Audited Financial Statements (2013) (document E) 13.2 Appointment of auditors 14. Ratification of the work done by the Board of Directors and Executive Committee 15. Propositions and resolutions (document F) 16. Future world championships 16.1 Update on the 2015 World Championships in Suzhou 16.2 Selection of host of the 2017 ITTF World Championships 17. Planning DBI and P5 update 18. Revisions to the Constitution 18.1 Timelines 18.2 Affiliation of Continental Federations 18.3 Nomination and appointment of Chair 19. Next AGM: to be held in Suzhou in May 2015 20. Any other business 21. Adjournment 4 PRESIDENT (Adham Sharara) Report to the AGM Document A1 At the AGM in Paris I announced a new initiative for setting future goals and objectives for the ITTF. Using the Data-Base Intelligence (DBI) method, we will involve all national associations, continental federations, table tennis officials and experts in taking part in the setting of the future direction of the ITTF in the most inclusive way possible. This is a long and slow process, which was officially launched during the GAC World Tour Grand Finals (WTGF) in Dubai in January 2014. On that occasion, what is today dubbed “The Dubai Events”, in addition to meetings of the EC, OPC and DCC, many other events were held. The ITTF held its second Dream Building Fund Raising Dinner, as well as its first Star Awards celebration. Taking advantage of these multiple events plus first class table tennis, we launched the DBI process with a select group of table tennis experts from around the world. In an effort to be inclusive and sensitive to our members’ needs, we are in the process of gathering ideas, recommendations, proposals, goals and objectives, which will be processed and formulated in the form of clear goals and objectives with a DBI plan focused on making table tennis one of the top 5 sports in the world, and making the ITTF one of the top 5 international federations in the world. To achieve these very high standard goals, we are starting with the IOC assessment of our sport after the London Olympic Games as the base. This is already a great launching pad, as table tennis was promoted from the 4th to the 3rd group of sports in the Olympic Movement with an overall ranking of 9th to 14th. Realistically speaking we could consider table tennis in the middle of this field at around 11th place. To move to the top 5 is a tall order, but one that is possible to achieve if we all work together in the same direction. Coupled with our efforts to reach the Top-5 position for our sport and for our federation, we are now more and more focused on the PROMOTION of our sport and our Federation. This is an area that I repeatedly indicated our weakness, but we are moving swiftly with determination to break through the top 5 positions in all social media platforms, as well as in the general public’s perception of our sport and our federation. To achieve our overall goal of being in the top 5 in the world, the safest way is to target all IOC criteria and our own set benchmarks, and make every effort to reach the top 5 in all of them. To succeed we need to be fully aware of the skills available to us through our elected officials, volunteers at all levels (national, continental and international), and even friends of the table tennis family that have special skills and knowledge that can help us move to the top. This data will also take considerable time to gather, but we have started the process already. One of the indications that table tennis is starting to make its mark in international sport are all the awards the ITTF has won over the last few years culminating into the great honour of being 5 invited to speak at the United Nations’ conference on sport. Lately we have also received news that several of our colleagues have successfully been elected at the highest levels of their NOCs. On the financial side, the ITTF has established a comfortable reserve fund and is striving to increase this safety net even further through more aggressive marketing actions. The contractual agreement between TMS International and the ITTF has been modified to a percentage share of income. This is in order to provide more transparency and more motivation to TMS to raise even more funds for the ITTF through the sale of TV rights and sponsorships to ITTF events. Our federation is growing, we have now five (5) continental federations that have accepted to be “affiliated” to the ITTF and be a full and integral part of the ITTF structure, while maintaining their own identity and autonomy. The contractual agreements with these 5 CFs provides human and financial resources in the areas of development and marketing. Hopefully the 6th continent will also soon be joining this extended table tennis family so that we can all work towards making our sport one of the top 5 sports in the world. During this AGM, if accepted, two more national table tennis associations will join our family making the ITTF the largest international sports federation in the world, together with Volleyball, at 220 member national associations. Regarding the good governance of our federation, the Executive Committee is proposing a very important addition to our Constitution. A new position of “Chair” of the AGM, without a vote, and with limited specific responsibilities is proposed to come into effect for the 2015 AGM.