The agenda and papers for the meeting may now be downloaded here.
A copy of the following notice was circulated to members on 7th March, 2014.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the Engineering Professors’ Council (a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England & Wales 06791295) will be held in room 408, Rankine Building, University of Glasgow, on Tuesday 8 April, 2014 at 16:00 during the first day of our annual Congress. This Notice is served in accordance with Articles 38-40 of the Engineering Professors’ Council’s Articles of Association.
The Annual General Meeting (AGM) is required by our rules and the law to transact the following business (in no particular order):
The minutes of the last AGM
- The annual report and accounts
- The subscription levels for the following financial year
- Adoption of any special resolutions and ordinary resolutions as submitted (see deadlines below)
- The election of honorary officers, directors and committee members
- Approval of the venue for the 2015 Congress
- Other business as tabled by the Members
The AGM is the sovereign members’ forum of the Engineering Professors’ Council and is the body to which ordinarily the Committee and Directors are held to account and required to report. All Full Members and Associate Members are entitled to attend the Annual General Meeting. One senior manager from each Corporate Member (if any) is entitled to attend the Annual General Meeting (definition of membership status may be found attached to this Notice). No business shall be transacted at any meeting unless a quorum is present. Twelve persons entitled to vote upon the business to be transacted shall be a quorum. A resolution put to the vote of a meeting shall be decided on a show of hands, and every Full Member present in person shall have one vote. Corporate Members and Associate Members shall not have voting rights at an Annual General Meeting. Proposals requiring amendment to the provisions of the Memorandum and Articles of Association (copies of which are available at https://epc.ac.uk/our-committee/) will necessitate a resolution of an Annual General Meeting, carried by a vote of not less than two-thirds of the Full Members present and voting at such a meeting, for which the quorum shall be 20 drawn from the Full Members.
Members may submit resolutions and amendments to resolutions in line with the Companies Acts and the Articles of Association. If a Member wishes to place a special resolution to the Annual General Meeting, the draft resolution must be received by email to s.kay@epc.ac.uk no later than 09:00 on Friday 14 March 2014.
VACANCIES FOR COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND HONORARY OFFICERS
In line with the provisions of Articles 18-21 and 31-37, a number of positions of honorary officers and Committee members will fall vacant. Nominations are invited for these positions by the process outlined in Appendix 2 to this Notice. Notification of nomination should be made to s.kay@epc.ac.uk no later than 09:00 on Friday 14 March 2014. Details of the current committee may be found at https://epc.ac.uk/our-committee.
Professor D. K. Harrison
Secretary