The 2016 ICOMOS Annual General Assembly and Advisory Committee took place in Istanbul, Turkey, from 15-21 October 2016, on the generous invitation of ICOMOS Turkey.

The agenda of the Annual General Assembly focused on receiving the reports of the ICOMOS President and Treasurer on the management by the Board and the health and financial situation of the association; approving the annual report and accounts and discharging the Board, as well as voting next year’s budget. In addition it will adopt new Rules of Procedure for ICOMOS General Assemblies.

All other matters such as adoption of doctrinal texts, elections of the Board and officers, conferring of Honorary membership, voting the ICOMOS General Programme and budgetary guidelines for the next triennium, as well as proposing resolutions for adoption by ICOMOS continue to be dealt with by the triennial General Assembly (next one in 2017, Delhi, India).

In order to prepare the Extraordinary General Assembly to be held in Delhi in 2017, an information and discussion session regarding the proposed amendments of the ICOMOS Statutes was also be organised in Istanbul.

All members shall have the right to attend the General Assembly and may be designated to be a voting member at the General Assembly within the conditions set out in Articles 9-a and 13-d-4 of the Statutes. Please note that additional Committee observers and voting members (beyond the Committee Presidents or their designated representative) are asked to contribute a registration fee.

Remote participation at the meetings

The Annual General Assembly and Advisory Committee meetings will be made available as video recordings to ICOMOS members via the ICOMOS website.