General Assembly Fribourg 14th February

1. Approval of the annual report and work of the Board

Pascal Pichonnaz ran through the annual report (which is attached to this protocol as an integral part)

Meetings of the Board.

The Board of Directors met in person at five occasions. On the AGM in Hamburg to take the first decisions on composition, financial matters, on the question of the new Secretariat and other matters. During the rest of the year, the Board met in Cologne on 19-20 May 2008, in Zurich on 4-5 September 2008.The last meeting in 2008 was held in Madrid on 25-26 November. A further meeting took place on 12 February 2009, prior to the beginning of the ELFA Annual Meeting.

New Secretariat

The administration of ELFA moved to Germany as well as the Bank Account.

Contacts with other organizations

Pascal Pichonnaz represented ELFA at the Annual Meeting of AALS in San Diego and could congratulate the new president Prof Rachel Moran (University of California, Berkeley) on behalf of ELFA. At the occasion of this meeting, the IALS President Prof Monica Pinto expressed her intention to be present in 2010 to the Annual Meeting. She will need an invitation.

[p1] Other points of the report are dealt with in relation with further issues below.

The report of the board was approved unanimously.

2. Presentation and approval of the annual financial report and the annual accounts

Heribert Hirte, presented the accounts, since the Treasurer, Hans van Houtte, could not attend the General Assembly.

The financial report results in a loss (82’445.85€  income  111’041,47€ expenses). This is due to 15’165,44€ paid to the European Commission and to a provision from 45’704,00€ made to pay the European Commission (on the so-called Cicero Project).

During 2008 the Board was confronted again with a repayment claim from the European Commission linked to the so-called Cicero Project of 1999-2000.

The financial report and the accounts, as well as the Draft Budget 2009 were approved unanimously. They are all attached to this document to be an integral part of it.

3. Release of the Board of Directors and Election of a new president

The Board was released by the General Assembly.

For the year 2009, the Board proposes Janez Kranjc, University of Ljubljana as President of ELFA for the year 2009-2010. The new President was accepted by the general Assembly unanimously. Jacek Petzel , University of Warsaw, was elected as 1^st Vice-President.

4. Election of two Board Members

As Pascal Pichonnaz and Heribert Hirte came to the end of their period as member of the ELFA board, two new members of the board were elected.

Prof. Anne Klebes-Pelissier, University of Strasbourg  and Prof. Reiner Schulze, University of Münster, were proposed by different Law Faculties and elected by the Assembly.

The new President took the opportunity to thank both Heribert Hirte and Pascal Pichonnaz for the wonderful work done in the past years.

5.Adoption of the resolutions presented by the Board

The General Assembly adopted the Resolutions presented by the Board after small changes.

The Resolutions will be published on the website and sent around to European Commissioners, European Governments, newspapers and ELFA members.

6.Tuning II

Following the last General Assembly, the Board mainly through Manuel Bermejo and Jacek Petzel discussed with Prof. Julia Gonzales the participation on the second phase of Tuning.

Ten Universities will represent ELFA on this second phase. Julia Gonzales has explained in details to the General Assembly their role and a written agreement will fix the relationship between Tuning II and ELFA.

7. Determination of the next General Assembly

The next General will take place in Ljubljana on the 25^thto 27^th February 2010.

8. New Members

The following membership applications were approved:

·        University College Dublin,

·        Charles University in Prague,

·        University of National and World Economy Law Faculty, in Sofia,

·        Grigol Robakidze University, in Georgia.

·        CAG University, Turkey,

·        Lazarski University, Poland,

·        School of  Law and Administration in Przemysl

·        University of Rome "Tor Vergata"

·        University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.

·        University Danubius Galati, Law Faculty, Romania

·        KOC University , Istanbul, Turkey

Fribourg, 13 February 2009