Nomination procedure for officers and committee positions

Vice President

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Vice-President:
Active member of EuroSpine: i.e having served the Society in relevant positions incl. at least one term within the Executive Committee.

Executive and Committee Members:
Active member of the EuroSpine

A disclose is mandatory if the applicant is member of another committee of other similar activity in another organisation.

Vice-President

The present secretary will verify that some “equity rules” are respected, i.e. not more than two officers per country simultaneously, not two consecutive presidents from the same country, etc. The candidates fulfilling the criteria will be presented at the Excom meeting and a secret vote will be organized. The two candidates who get the highest number of votes per position will be presented to the GA for election. A brief CV (1 slide/candidate) will be shown by the chairman before the vote. No other “campaign” will be scheduled.

Executive and Committee Members:

Applications/Nominations will be forwarded to the related committee chairs. Committee chairs will forward two potential candidate names to the ExCom until August 30, 2010, The committee proposals must be accompanied by a motivation letter explaining the qualities which makes the candidates eligible. Agreement of the candidate (if by nomination) to serve the society in that position, A country can only be represented once per committee. The Excom will evaluate the suggested candidates and select one candidate per position. For each position, the ExCom will present one candidate to the GA for ratification.

These rules will increase the active role of the GA and thus the legitimacy of the officers.

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Candidates can apply themselves or be proposed by another member of EuroSpine. The following information will be needed:

on which position she/he is interested in background information, specialisation, CV (brief) for vice-president: former postions within EuroSpine

September 20, website announcement and e-mail to members with link to the rules for officer election October 7, dead-line for nominations October 18, ExCom meeting: decisions October 20, General Assembly: Election