Dear all

just some short update on current activities beyond the planned media work:

I will try to meet our ministry of Justice tomorrow.  Georg and Annemarie from AbL will also take part. We will try to get some impression what they think about the process in general and will inform you. This also might cause further changes in our draft media release. After the meeting I also will come back to draft letters to the Members of the Admin Council (also asking for further meetings).

I still have to write letters to some of your organisations regarding funding for 2020. However, before doing so, I wanted to get the final version of the account overview from Gen-ethical Network for first half of the year 2019, which will be sent  along with the letter. I will remind them again that they promised to send.

By the way: I welcome Gudula from the Gen ethical network as introduced by Judith just recently. I will add her to the mailing list.

We still have to manage some technicalities around the changes in the statutes, but I would like to wait till we have a full list of members of the Board. Ruth and Katherine are working on it. Thanks!!

Johanna asked about interest in having a phone conference (or zoom conference) in May or June... I think this would be a good idea.

Cheers

Christoph

PS regarding the issue of some organisations want to become member as juridical bodies, I handed over to Johanna and the Board. I guess they will inform Arche Noah and SWISSAID and ProSpecie (any other?) that this process is finalised.

However, this does not mean that any new organisations will become members. We now have a request from Danish Seed Savers to become a member (thanks a lot to Erling!). I guess this process will follow the statutes and internal rules for procedure. I asked Johanna to provide us with a check-list.