Amendments to the Statutes of EUROGI set a new framework for the organisation
New Statutes of EUROGI entered into force on January 9, 2009

EUROGI now aims to evolve towards an open network capable of gathering into the organisation a diverse range of Geographic Information (GI) and Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) stakeholders from across Europe, retaining its foundation which has been based on unique national European country representative GI organisations.

The new membership structure is now based on three categories:

A. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION REPRESENTATIVES
From each European country one organisation is accepted to act as the National representative at EUROGI.

B. CORPORATE ORGANISATIONS
The private sector is represented by commercial organisations having GI activities in Europe.

C. OTHER ORGANISATIONS AND NETWORKS
The membership is open to national, regional and local bodies or authorities, SDI initiatives, cross border cooperation networks, Pan European organisations, universities and other not for profit stakeholders in the broadest sense.

EUROGI President Mauro Salvemini stated: 

The new structure is a crucial step towards enabling EUROGI to more fully play its role as an umbrella organisation for GI and SDI stakeholders in Europe, building it as a network of networks, strengthening its profile at the European Commission level and meeting the expectations from its Members.

The next steps of the re-engineering process will take place in 2009 and will include a new set of operational rules through amendments on the By-laws, adjustments to the internal organisation, rearranged prioritisation of activities within a mid term strategic framework, and identification and development of tools for increasing its networking effectiveness.

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