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OCG (*) #12 3-4 October 2000. * :Operational Coordination Group. Productivity Indicators - as these have never been well received by the TB Chairmen, and as there seems to be no interest from the majority of Board Members, Gerry Lawrence announced that the indicators will be abandoned.
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OCG(*)#123-4 October 2000 * :Operational Coordination Group
Productivity Indicators - as these have never been well received by the TB Chairmen, and as there seems to be no interest from the majority of Board Members, Gerry Lawrence announced that the indicators will be abandoned. • Technical Organization structure - following consideration of the "merger" suggestions for small TBs from Azucena Hernandez, all the TBs concerned indicated that they did not think that any benefit would be achieved by merging with other TBs.
TB issues • EP UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications Systems) - the Board approved the closure of EP UMTS and expressed its thanks to Mr. Pierre Perrichon (Chairman) and Mr. Peter Adams (Acting-Chairman) for their work in running the Project. • It was also noted that EP UMTS intends to close with the work be transferred to TC SPAN.
Funded activities • Expert rate - the Board endorsed the increase of the Expert man day rate from 554 EUR to 600 EUR in 2001.
Internet issues • dotEU - the Board underlined its previous Decision on Internet governance related issues and decided to continue monitoring of the dotEU assignment until specific actions, e.g. in support of the European Commission, are required by ETSI.
Miscellaneous • D-GA36/11The GA approved the continuation of the ETSI Bake-off Service on a permanent basis. • D-GA36/14 The GA approved the refund of contributions received in excess to the year 2000 expenditure by means of a credit note; this corresponds to “Refund the full Y2000 year end surplus of 2.5 MEUR (current estimate)”. • D-GA36/17 The GA approved the year 2001 budget of 21,6 MEUR with the unit of Contribution set to 4 275 EUR for new Members and 3 375 EUR for existing Members (i.e. a reduction of 900 EUR).
Officials Appointments • The GA re-appointed, by acclamation, Mr. Francisco da Silva (Portugal Telecom S.A.) as Chairman of the Assembly for a 2nd terms of two years from November 2000. • The GA re-appointed, by acclamation, Mr. Karsten Meinhold (Siemens A.G) and Mr. Pierre-Yves Hébert (AFUTT) as Vice-Chairmen of the Assembly for a 2nd terms of two years from November 2000. • The GA appointed, by acclamation, Mrs. Verina Horsnell (Sun Microsystems) and Mr. Beat Lüscher (ASCOM AG) as members of the ETSI Board for the remainder of the mandate period (until November 2002). • The GA did not accept to extend the Term of Office of the Deputy Director-General, Bridget Cosgrave, and requested the Director-General to take the necessary preparatory action for an election at the April 2001 Assembly.