Under the adopted Commercial Stakeholder Group (CSG) charter the CSG has six seats on the new Council starting in October in Seoul. It has been agreed between the three constituencies in the CSG that each Constituency will select two seats until further notice. It has been agreed within Council that Council members with terms that are unfinished will remain in place until the natural end of their term. This maintains the continuity benefits of elections in staggered years. For the BC this means that Mike Rodenbaugh, who was elected by the BC for the period October 2008 - October 2010, will be one of our Councillors for the next 12 months. Under our existing BC Charter we would in any case be holding elections for the seats currently held by Philip Sheppard and Zahid Jamil in September.

BC Charter discussion looks like it may take some time and risks us not replacing our representative if we wait until discussion has finished.

We anyway have longer to discuss this than the necessary timing of the election for Council.

It is not necessary to hold the election under a revised Charter. We just need to have a selection mechanism.

We therefore intend to hold an election under our existing Charter for the seat presently held by Zahid Jamil for the term October 2009 - October 2011.

To avoid confusion this election will take place shortly after the current election for the remaining nominating committee position.

The third seat currently held by Philip Sheppard will not be continued after the end of his term of office.