1) CCPN status and activities

2) Change of CCPN charter

3) Any other business

Information - point 2

The CCPN charter has not proved to fit well with the conduct of day-to-day business. Prescribed procedures were too cumbersome to be used in practice, and required an unrealistic level of participation from the members. Specifically the procedure for electing the new Executive Committee was hard to get to work and made it difficult to ensure that the executive committee was representative of the members.

The executive committee therefore proposes a change to the charter to clarify some points and make it fit better with actual practice and needs. To summarise:

- The rules for membership have been simplified so they no longer require monitoring which groups are represented at assembly meetings. The rules for determining quorum have been simplified accordingly.

- The selection procedure for the Executive Committee has been changed, so that the outgoing Executive Committee proposes a composition of next years committee for the Assembly to amend or approve. The rules for voting on Executive committee members and selecting the Executive Committee chairman have been simplified accordingly. To make the process more predictable we have added non-binding guidelines for choosing the new Executive Committee.

- Email votes have been given an official place in the charter.

- Some minor points have been clarified, typing errors fixed, etc.

The proposed new charter is appended as a Word document with change tracking, allowing a direct comparison between the current version and the new proposal.