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Report of the Founding Meeting
31 January 2001
BBA Institute for Biological Control
Darmstadt, Germany
Olaf Zimmermann was suggested as Rapporteur.
Both candidates were elected unanimously.
As President and Vice-President:
Christian Borgemeister
Thorsten Kraska
Chris J. Lomer
As Executive Officer:
Bernhard Zelazny
As Members of the Finance Committee:
Christian Borgemeister
Thorsten Kraska
Chris J. Lomer
Olaf Zimmermann
Matthias E. Zweigert
Before the election of officers, the meeting adopted the following two resolutions unanimously:
a) The President, the Vice-President and one member of the Finance Committee are elected together and each member can cast two votes for the three candidates nominated for these three positions. The candidate receiving the highest number of votes will be elected as President, the candidate with the next highest number of votes as Vice-President and the candidate with the lowest number of votes as Member of the Finance Committee.
b) Four persons who were unable to attend the Founding Meeting, but would like to become members, are accepted as Founding Members. They are listed in Annex I section 2. The ballot forms they had submitted will be counted as part of the election for Society Officers.
Ballot forms were distributed and completed by the participants in a confidential manner. The election results were as follows:
Election of President, Vice President and one member of the Finance Committee:
President:
Chris J Lomer, 11 votes
Vice-President:
Thorsten Kraska 10 votes
Member of Finance Committee:
Christian Borgemeister 6 votes
Election of Executive Officer:
Election of Finance Committee:
Christian Borgemeister (see above)
Olaf Zimmermann 12 votes
Matthias E Zweigert 14 votes
All candidates accepted the vote and their office.
A List of producers and suppliers of biocontrol products is part of the Pest Directory and should be also included in the ISPI web site. In order to expand this feature ISPI would offer (for a small annual fee) a service to small companies to design and display websites about their companies.
For the time being, the web-page should be maintained in English only. However, a shorter version of the aims, structure, operation and activities of ISPI should be produced and translated into languages like French, Spanish, Chinese and Arabic. Several members offered help for these translations.
A general effort to generate interest for the activities of ISPI should be made. Several members offered to present the aims and activities of the Society at up-coming meetings. A poster and a flyer should be produced for publicizing the Society. Relevant organization should be contacted and requested to announce the new Society in their publications and internet pages.
In order to meet operating expenses for the Society, attempts should be made to generate some income as soon as possible (e.g. through internet services for small companies or the sale of the Pest Directory). The mode of paying small amounts (e.g. by credit card) to the society needs to be investigated.
Since the Society needs a temporary address (at a later stage a post box could be established) Dr. Huber kindly offered the use of the institute address for the time being. Therefore the address of ISPI would be:
International Society for Pest Information (ISPI)
c/o BBA Institute for Biological Control
Heinrichstr. 243
D-64287 Darmstadt
Germany
e-mail: ispi@pestinfo.org
For the time being, the logo of the Society would "ispi" (in small letters, bold, using font 'impact').
ISPI meetings should take place at least once ayear. It is foreseen to hold the next meeting in October 2001 at the University in Bonn, in connection with the "Tropentag"- meeting of the "Deutsche Phytomedizinische Gesellschaft".
Olaf Zimmermann
Rapporteur
Jürg Huber
Chairman
ISPI Founding Members
Christian Borgemeister
Institut für Pflanzenkrankheiten und Pflanzenschutz
Universität Hannover
Herrenhäuser Str. 2
D-30419 Hannover
Germany
e-mail: borgemeister@ipp.uni-hannover.de
Olaf Hering
Bibliothek Außenstelle Kleinmachnow
Biologische Bundesanstalt für Land- und Forstwirtschaft (BBA)
Stahnsdorfer Damm 81
D-14532 Kleinmachnow
Germany
e-mail: o.hering@bba.de
Jürg Huber
Institut für biologischen Pflanzenschutz
Biologische Bundesanstalt für Land- und Forstwirtschaft (BBA)
Heinrichstr. 243
D-64287 Darmstadt
Germany
e-mail: J.Huber.biocontrol.bba@t-online.de
Alois Huger
retired, last affiliation:
Institut für biologischen Pflanzenschutz
Biologische Bundesanstalt für Land- und Forstwirtschaft (BBA)
Heinrichstr. 243
D-64287 Darmstadt
Germany
e-mail: 320061901766-0001@t-online.de
Thorsten Kraska
Institut für Pflanzenkrankheiten
Landwirtschaftliche Fakultät
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn
Nußallee 9
D-53115 Bonn
Germany
e-mail: kraska@uni-bonn.de
Chris J. Lomer
Department of Ecology and Molecular Biology
Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University
Thorvaldsensvej 40
DK-1871 Copenhagen - Frederiksberg C
Denmark
e-mail: clo@kvl.dk
Hans Wilps
GTZ-Projekt Biologisch-Integrierte Heuschreckenbekämpfung
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH
Postfach 51 80
D-65726 Eschborn 1
Germany
e-mail: wilps@gmx.net
Bernhard Zelazny
(no current affiliation)
Eulerweg 3
D-64347 Griesheim, Germany
e-mail: Zelazny.ISPI@t-online.de
Olaf Zimmermann
Institut für biologischen Pflanzenschutz
Biologische Bundesanstalt für Land- und Forstwirtschaft (BBA)
Heinrichstr. 243
D-64287 Darmstadt
Germany
e-mails: beneficials.biocontrol.bba@t-online.de
Matthias E. Zweigert
GTZ-Projekt Biologisch-Integrierte Heuschreckenbekämpfung
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH
Postfach 51 80
D-65726 Eschborn 1
Germany
e-mail: matthias.zweigert@gmx.net
Jan Breithaupt
Plant Protection Service (AGPP)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
I-00100 Roma
Italy
e-mail: Jan.Breithaupt@fao.org
Holger Hindorf
Institut für Pflanzenkrankheiten
Landwirtschaftliche Fakultät
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn
Nußallee 9
D-53115 Bonn
Germany
e-mail: h.hindorf@uni-bonn.de
Christian U. Pantenius
FAO EMPRES (Desert Locust) Programme
c/o Crop Protection, Production and Regulatory Department
Ministry of Agriculture
P.O. Box 62347
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
e-mail: empreseth.fao@telecom.net.et
Arne Peters
e-nema GmbH
Klausdorferstr. 28-36
D-24223 Raisdorf
Germany
e-mail: a.peters@e-nema.de
Discussion Paper
Possible definition for membership
International Society for Pest Information (ISPI)
ISPI is recognising two types of members:
Active members
These have voting rights, participate in Society meetings, and are entitled to a substantial discount on ISPI publications, like the Pest Directory database.
They actively participate in collecting and disseminating information or are engaged in organisational activities of the Society. Therefore they will be part of one of the following Society structures:
·
Executive Committee, Finance Committee, or other organisational structuresContributing members
These are entitled to a discount on ISPI publications like the Pest Directory database.
Contributing members stay in regular contact with the Society and provide information on:
· their current affiliation, address and field of work
· scientific articles, which they publish in journals or in the internet
· subjects of general and current interest, like international scientific meetings or the introduction of a new pest into a country