Dear Members of the European Region, As Juhani Juselius has resigned from his position on the ccNSO Council, a replacement needs to be found. We are therefore launching a Call for Nominations to the ccNSO Council for the European Region, starting on 10 September 2012 at 00.00 UTC, ending on 1 October at 00.00 UTC. See below for further information and instructions. This call is also posted at http://www.ccnso.icann.org/about/elections/call-for-nominations-2-10sep12-en... Kind regards, Gabi ============== Nomination of Candidates: Open: 10 September 2012 at 00:00 UTC Close: 1 October 2012 at 00:00 UTC 1. Juhani Juselius has resigned from his position on the ccNSO Council for the European region. Therefore, another ccNSO councillor for the European region needs to elected to fill the term (until March 2015). 2. Call for nominations The bylaws Section 4, Membership, paragraph 8 state: Any ccNSO member may nominate an individual to serve as a ccNSO Council member representing the ccNSO member's Geographic Region. Nominations must be seconded by another ccNSO member from the same Geographic Region. Each member from the European Region can nominate one candidate for election to the ccNSO council and each member from the European Region can second one candidate. Candidates do not need to be resident in the region or a citizen of a country within the region in which they stand for election. In order to nominate or second a candidate, a member must have been a member of the ccNSO by 10 September 2012. Nominations or Seconds should be sent by e-mail to the Nominations Manager at the following e-mail address: ccnso-extranominations@icann.org PLEASE NOTE: If you send a Nomination or Second you will receive an email from ICANN asking you to confirm that you have sent an email to ccnso-extranominations@icann.org. For your Nomination or Second to be valid you MUST respond to the email requesting confirmation. Archives to be found at: http://forum.icann.org/lists/ccnso-extranominations<http://forum.icann.org/lists/ccnso-nominations>. Please use this template for nominations: Template for nomination: 1. Region for which nomination is being made: 2a. Full name of the candidate being nominated: 2b. E-mail address of the candidate being nominated: 3a. Full name of the nominator: 3b. ccTLD and region of the nominator 3c. E-mail address of the nominator: All nominations must be seconded by another ccNSO member in the same region Please use this template for seconding nominations: Template for seconding a nomination: 1. Full name of nominator whose candidate is being seconded: 2. Full name of the candidate being seconded: 3a. Full name of the seconder: 3b. ccTLD and region of the seconder 3c. E-mail address of the seconder: Accepting Nominations The Nominations Manager will confirm the nomination, by sending an e-mail to the candidate requesting their acceptance. Nominations will be archived at: http://forum.icann.org/lists/ccnso-extranominations<http://forum.icann.org/lists/ccnso-nominations>. The Nominations Manager shall confirm the list of the Nominees. In the event that there is more than 1 nominee, an election will be called.