President : Pr Mazhar TOKGOZOGLU
Past President : Pr Martin KRISMER
President elect : Pr Eduardo GARCIA-CIMBRELO
Treasurer : Dr Kjeld SOBALLE
General Secretary : Dr Herve OLIVIER

1. APPROVAL of the MINUTES of the MEETING in JUNE 2005
The minutes are approved with no modification

2. REPORT of the PRESIDENT
Domestic meeting 2006
EFORT
. Relations strained
. Meeting

Hip International
. New contract
. Disadvantageous

Future of the Society
. European Arthroplasty Society?
. Membership
. Database
. Executive secretary
. Future meeting site

Sponsoring of EHS
. Four meetings
. Reduced fees
. Use of logo
. Program

3. REPORT of the TREASURER
The fiscal year 2005 came out with a positive income to the Society of Euro 5,674. Generally, the income of the Society derives from two sources: membership fees and investments (which are low due to the low bank interest). Regarding investment, most of the money is invested in bonds ans shares which give the Society a stable income, that, generally, only covers a part of the expenses of the daily operation of the Society, i.e. auditing, book-keeping and secretarial function. In conclusion, the economy of the Society is still stable as the cash balance is Euro 160,591. We only have 190 paying members, and approximately 100 members who have not yet paid their subscription fee, even though reminders have been forwarded. I recommend that the national representatives try to recruit new members. Quitus is gived to the treasurer by the General Assembly.

4. REPORT of the GENERAL SECRETARY
Since the last meeting in Lisbon 2005, the activity of the General Secretary was focused to the relationship with EFORT. As you will see later the problem of the permanent secretary is not yet solved. We have been asked to propose for the EFORT Congress in Florence 2007 topics for the instructional course lectures and for the symposia. After enquiry to the Nationale Representatives, we proposed:

• Minimally invasive surgery
• Image guided surgery
• Minimally invasive implants
• Resurfacing arthroplasty
• Contemporary bearing surfaces
• Revision total hip prostheses
• Joint preserving procedures
• Treatment of the adult congenitally dislocated hip
• Periacetabular osteotomy
• Revision total hip arthroplasty with impacted grafts
• Stress fracture around the hip
• Clinical results and wear measurements of different alternative bearing surfaces
• Revision surgery
• Predictability for the long term survival
• Contemporary bone implant interfaces
• Total hip with double mobility in acetabular cups
• Primary total hip customed made
• Total hip after femoral osteotomies
• Anterior mini-incision fo total hip

We don’t know which topics have been chosed. Furthermore we worked on the contract between EFORT and EHS and we will see that later. Regarding the membership we had some resignations, one member,
Pr Witvoet, asking to become an Emeritus Member and 29 applications for new members.

5. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EFORT and EHS
During the Congress of EFORT in Lisbon we had a meeting between the Speciality Societies and the Executive Committee of EFORT. The proposal was to choose between a "scientific collaboration" with no participation in the Speciality Day and no obligation towards EFORT and a "global partnership", the speciality society being the exclusive scientific partner of EFORT for the topics with a significant financial support in relation with this involvement. After that meeting the Executive Committee of EHS decided to go further in the global partnership. Finally a contract for global partnership has been proposed by EFORT: that contract includes exclusive cooperation, representation, research, EFORT web page and portal, EFORT newsletter and advertising, central office services, event organisation, payments for participations in the EFORT biannual congress. The General Assembly decided in Antalya to ask to EFORT some precisions:

• The Hip Day should be all the day and not only half a day
• If EFORT is going to have annual Congress and not biannual this contract should be modified
• The financial aspect of using Central Office services. We should know how much it will cost and if we can afford it.
• So it was decided not to sign waiting for the answers.

6. PERMANENT SECRETARY
We met in Lisbon Gabriella Skala head of the central office of EFORT and decided at that time to try a collaboration including:

• Archives of the Society
• Assistance to our meetings and Redaction of the minutes excluding:
• Organisation of our Domestic Meetings
• Correspondance for members annual fees

I sent to the Central Office the list of Members of EHS, the Constitution and the minutes of last meetings.
The Central Office was supposed to make a proposal of Budget after six monthes. We did not received anything since. A secretary was not able to come in Antalya for our meetings and take in charge the redaction of the minutes, probably because in the same time there was the General Assembly of EFORT in Geneva. We must think back to other solutions more familial, as Elisabeth Elson proposed by Martin Krismer in Innsbruck in 2004 or Kjeld Soballe secretary proposed in Antalya. We are waiting for the different proposals.

7. NEXT MEETINGS
The program of the Hip Day in Lisbon 2007 is confirmed:

• Half a day on bone tumors under the responsibility of Pr Gradinger, probably more on metastasis than primary tumours
• Half a day on Hip Fractures under the responsibility of Gordon Bannister

The next Domestic Meeting will be in Madrid in June 2008 11 to 14, under the presidence of Pr Eduardo Garcia-Cimbrelo.

8. NEW MEMBERS
The following applications have been studied:

All the applications are accepted by the General Assembly

9. DOMESTIC MEETING in 2010 and PRESIDENT ELECT
During the Executive Meeting only one candidature appears, coming from Greece and Pr MACHERAS. The General Assembly voted for Greece as Domestic Meeting in 2010.

10. CANDIDATURES for GENERAL SECRETARY in 2007
The function of the actual general secretary ends in 2007. The Executive Committee proposes to Pr Martin KRISMER to be the next one. The General Assembly voted for the nomination of Pr Krismer as next General Secretary.