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N F 29th. W O R L D
C O N G R E S S
Valalta (Hrvatska Republika / Kroatien / Croatia
/ Croatie)
"Back to the Roots: The Future of Organised
Naturism" |
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| CROACIA,
the hosts (right) and the Spanish delegation,
taking over for 2006 |
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| REPORTS
by the different representatives at
the INF Central Committee |
WOLFGANG WEINREICH
PRESIDENT
Re-elected
for another four year term |
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He
starts by thanking everybody and by
remembering those who have passed
away.
He makes a reference to the crisis
within the French Federation which
is still undergoing.
He goes on to explain the need to
move the INF to another country, (Belgium
or Germany). The decision has to be
taken at the present assembly.
A reduction in costs is now possible,
as under the new treasurer finances
have been reined in.
Internet should be more widely used.
In addition, it also cuts back on
expenses.
Federations should pay closer attention
and dedication to the World Guide.
The publication needs contributions.
The library has been computerised.
A strong INF can provide sponsorship
to sport, environmental, recreation,
health, leisure and tourist activities. |
CHARLES OBERGFELL
Vice-president.
Secretary
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He
was elected at the previous Congress
in 2002, as French naturism was undergoing
difficult times.
A year later, France has new statutes,
based on the experience gathered in
other countries. The situation in
France has been a source of concern
not only for the INF but also for
French Naturism and particularly for
the tourist who visit France and now
they find they do not need the INF
membership card.
He has learned a lot in these last
two years. He has attended 20 meetings
of the Executive Committee, together
with very capable Public Relations
personnel and members of the legal
committee, at the Interfederal meetings
at El Templo del Sol and at Flevo
Natur as well as at the Adriatic Alps
meeting.
He wishes to thank the support and
understands the protests raised by
the suspension of all activities planned
to celebrate the INF 50th anniversary
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SIEGLINDE IVO
Advisor for the INF Youth Division |
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There
are 10 federations made up of 160
members who came to the 2003 Spring
meeting in Holland.
Two new groups have signed up.
The English group shows a remarkable
growth in membership.
The 2003 Youth Camp in Evionat brought
together 32 youths from six federations.
The 2004 Spring Meeting at Betulle
(Italy) and the 2004 Youth Camp at
El Portús, Spain, promises
to be the beginning of a new strong
group. |
| ROGER VIOLA
INF Advisor for Sports |
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The
2002 Petanque Tournament took place
in Brielle, Holland, and the Swimming
Gala in Crawley, Great Britain.
The 2003 Petanque Tournament in Sarrebruck
and the Swimming Gala were cancelled
The 2004 Petanque Tournament took
place in Britain and the Swimminmg
Gala in Italy.
Usually 300 participants attend, together
with friends, relatives and local
people.
We must bear in mind the INF sport
regulations, (they will be sent out
soon) and the local legal norms so
as to avoid potential trouble. The
expenses to attend easily run to 200
€ which is too much for some
federations to afford.
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| MICK AYERS Public Relations
and INF Ambassador for Europe |
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Among
the federations which are growing,
the Spanish federation stands out.
He has visited the Tourism Fair, FITUR,
for four years in a row. The promotion
of naturist tourism fostered by the
FEN is remarkable and he sees himself
as an advisor rather than an Ambassador.
He adds that sponsors must be sought
for locally. |
GEORGE VOLAK Public
Relations and INF overseas Ambassador
He was re-elected
for another four years term |
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The
struggle to both preserve and spread
our lifestyle always finds the traditional
fiends against which we have to fight:
repressive regimes and hardboiled
conservatives.
He congratulates those who make it
possible to push forward agains adversity.
His mission is bound by financial
limitations, which on occasions, have
led him to provide money out of his
own pocket.
He also thanks Mieke for providing
him with numerous contacts and Pat
Brown, the AANR president, for the
work they often do together. |
| RENÉ NIJHOF President
of the INF Legal Commission |
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The
work undertaken to produce the new
statutes has gone very well.
The most urgent item in the agenda
was to move the INF out of Switzerland.
The situation was unsustainable as
the Swiss Law lays all the responsibility
on the members of the executive board.
Belgium and Germany were considered
as alternatives.
Additional difficulties with bank
transfers, in particular, made the
choice of Belgium unadvisable.
Other items dealt with have been:
sport regulations and to take on a
new editor for the INF magazine. |
| REPORTS
from the FEDERATIONS |
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CA
FQN-FCN
(6) |
Union FQN-FCN Union
Stéphane DESCHENES |
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·The
INF must not contact directly centres,
associations, organisations or deal
with commercial initiatives except
in countries without federations or
with the OK of the national federations.
(M11)
·The INF must find ways to
help Federations (M12), by send pictures
or articles (13) by working out yearly
statistics (14) or by sending out
internal memos. |
CH
UNS-SNU
(12) |
Union Naturiste Suisse/Schweizer
Naturistenunion/ Unione Naturiste
Svizzera
Heinz MENZ |
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·Once
and for all decide which INF logo
is to be used in the future. (M16) |
DE
DFK
(19) |
Deutscher Verband
für Freikörperkultur
Kurt FISCHER |
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·Change
the name of the World Guide to Naturist
Travel Guide International (M5)
·To move the site of the INF
(M6 and 7). In fact this move means
only a change in the wording in the
statutes.
·KF tells us about the
lack of financial support in Germany
and how good the integration in sport
clubs is. |
DK
DNU
(5) |
Dansk Naturist Union
Eva LACKNER |
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There
are 1040 members in Denmark grouped
in nine associations, seven of which
have their own places.
There is hardly any problem for naturist
recreation anywhere in the country.
The Nordjylland Club is very active
in winter at the Aalborg swimming
pool.
The Scandinavian federations have
an excellent relationship with one
another.
Erik Holm, president since 1956, died
last winter . |
ES
FEN
(7) |
Federación
Española de Naturismo
Ismael RODRIGO |
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·Request
to organise all events for 2006 in
Spain to celebrate the 25th anniversary
of its foundation (M8)
·A new concept of Naturist
Olympic Games will take place in Spain
in 2006.
·To commission Carlos Gil to
help organise Naturism in South-America,
at very low cost, (as he can obtain
large reductions because of his profession)
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| FR
FFN
(36) |
Fédération
Française de Naturisme
Guy DELFOUR |
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A new
team has been set up since 2003 in
order to solve the problems and pay
back debts as a result of the refusal
of some centres to recognise the INF
membership card.
Those centres are not members any
longer but collaborating centres.
A new organisation, ONE, is trying
to replace the FFN.
The relationship between the old editor
of the magazine and the FFN has been
broken up.
The bad relationship between the Montalivé
centre and the FNN made the celebration
of the INF’s 50th anniversary
impossible.
The FNN wishes to thank the INF for
its support . |
HR
DNH
(2) |
Drusto Naturista
Hrvatske
Mirko FERENCIC |
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·The
relationship between the naturist
centres, the national federations
and the INF should be defined very
clearly.
Only the national federations should
have the power to take decisions.
They must also be allowed to use the
INF logo.
If the national federations are accepted
as members, then the financial contribution
must be half for the federation and
half for the INF. (M17) . |
NZ
NFN
(5) |
New Zealand Nudist
Federation Inc.
Kay HANNAM |
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The
New Zealand Federation is made up
of 23 organisations of different kinds,
with a membership of 1,500.
www.gonatural.co.nz
is their main means of letting people
know about themselves. They are thinking
of designing a new marketing strategy
and a magazine.
The founder, Doug Cousins, died in
December 2003. |
| PT
FPN
(2) |
Federaçao
Portuguesa de Naturismo
Laurindo CORREIA
He leads the
Foundation for Development. Elected
for a two year term |
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The
presidency has changed, as well as
the look and its motto: “25
years dignifying nudity”. They
publish a Mini-Guide. They participated
in the Tourism Fair held in Lisbon,
(INF & CCBN contributions and
the attendance of the Mr and Mrs Ayers
& the AND/FEN board).
Another beach has been declared legal.
Refurbishing of a public swimming
pool.
They were invited by the AND to the
FITUR, tourism fair, in Madrid.
A number of reports have been turning
up in the Mass Media.
The number of members has grown threefold.
The discounts given to the largest
federations seem to be unfair. |
SE
SNF
(8) |
Sveriges Naturist
Förbund
Eirik ISENE |
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·Motion
to allow for the delegation of votes
among federations (M2 and 3)
·The statutes should be published
on the Web.(M4)
There are 20 clubs and 3,119
members. Tillsammans, their magazine,
is published four times a year.
Nudity is not a problem in Sweden,
even on TV. As a mater of fact, a
president of a club frequently appears
naked in a TV programme.
In spite of that, it is hard to make
people understand the social benefits
of nudism. |
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10
camping sites: 1 public, 2 private
and 7 linked to clubs. Public Relations
are centralised in a single Scandinavian
Web page: www.naturist.net.org.
226 press articles have been published
in 2003.
The cooperation with the INF has some
drawbacks. The INF has been requesting
year after year data which can be
downloaded from the Web, whose page
is updated very often. The INF does
not allow a single organisation for
the three countries, (Norway, Sweden
and Denmark)which would be much cheaper.
The INF Webpage is not sufficiently
good and does not provide any information. |
US
AANR
(29) |
American Association
for Nude Recreation
Dean HADLEY |
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He asked all the representatives
to sign a petition to the State of Virginia
to alter Law 158. This law forbids minors
to attend youth camps by themselves.
All members signed the petition. |
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Countries
which did not put forward any motions, (or
we have not had access to them) |
AT
-- ÖNV
Österreichischer Naturistenverband
(7)
Alfred GRASSER |
AU
-- ANF Australian Nudist Federation (7)
Werner JACOB
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BE
-- FBN Fédération Belge de
Naturisme/ Federatie van Belgische Naturisten
(16)
Arlette DEBBAUT |
BR -- FBdN
Federaçao Brasiliera de Naturismo
(1)
Castresano VANDERLEI
Auditor substitute,
(elected for two years) |
CZ -- UNA
Unie Naturistu Cech a Moravy (3) 
Frantisek HAJEK |
GB -- CCBN
Central Council for British Naturism (19)
Paul KIRBY |
HU -- NC
Napora Club (2)
Judit HALASZ |
IT -- FENAIT
Federazione Naturista Italiana (10)
Gianfranco RIBOLZI
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NO -- NNF
Norsk Naturist Forbund (7) 
Annett FUGLESANG |
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-- NFN Nederlandse Federatie van Naturistenverenigingen
(36)
René NIJHOF |
SI -- ZDNS
Zveza Drustev Naturistov Slovenije (3) 
Joze PUC |
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| Countries
which did not attend |
LU
FLN |
Fédération Luxembourgeoise
de Naturisme |
Armand
Céolin reports about an increase
of 17,5% in the last two years, (470 members)
He mentions financial difficulties as the
reason for not being able to attend the
INF events. |
| UA
KCN |
Kiev Commonwealth of Naturists |
FIN
LM |
Luonnonmukaiset r.y./Suomi |
IE
INA |
Irish Naturist Association |
IL
INS |
The Israel Naturist Society |
RU
NFfN |
National Federation for Naturism |
SK
UNSK |
Union of Naturists of Slovakia |
ZA
SANF |
South African Naturist Federation |
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| LEISURE.
OTHER PEOPLE PRESENT |
Christiane Lecocq,
The guest star.
Founder of the INF
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Sailing along the shore for companions |
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| Javier Sedano with Mieke
Choin, the INF Secretary |
Tomás
and Mina (Vera Natura) in the background
and José Manuel (FEN Vice-President)
and Chris in the foreground |
Carlos Gil, (FEN Secretary) with his friends
from the US |
Ismael, (FEN president), Mieke, (INF Secretary)
and Sieglinde, (Advisor for Youth) |
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The Spanish
group +3, From left to right:
José Pablo (Gheisa); Javier (Sports);
Mieke (INF Secretary); Ismael (FEN President);
Secretary for the Croatian Federation; Christi;
Mirko (Croacia);
Carlos Gil (FEN Secretary) and José
Manuel (FEN Vice-president).
Missing in the picture: Alberto (Translator),
Suka (International relations), Manuel
Tomás and Mina (Vera Natura).
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Pictures
by Carlos Gil (FEN) & Steve Thompson
(BN)
Translated by Alberto González Iglesias
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