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President: Pr Garcia Cimbrelo 

1. Minutes of the General Assembly Antalya 2006
The minutes are accepted without any modification 

2. Report of the President
As you know, our relationship with EFORT has been very difficult and hard. I apologize for the misunderstandings. The annual meeting in Antalya was extremely successful from a scientific, social and economic point of view and I have again to express my deepest thank to Mazhar. His outstanding organisation of our Domestic Meeting together with his team has had a remarkable impression in our Society. The Hip Day in this Florence meeting has been well organized by our friends Reiner Gradinger and Gordon Bannister. However, my information on the events was always confusing. Several months ago, Roberto Giacometti informed me that there would not be Speciality days and the specialities world be in the form of symposia scattered over the days of the EFORT meeting. I understood that meant there was no speciality day. These communications problems led to my misinterpreting the assemble schedules. I present my apologies especially to Hervé, Reiner and Gordon for all the trouble that this caused. Fortunately, all the problems have been solved and the symposium on hip tumors and the other on hip fractures has been held to day. The other points: relationship between EFORT and EHS and permanent secretary will be discussed in detail in their points. Last week, we received a letter from the EFORT executive xommitee. It addresses most of the issues, and, basically, I think it is acceptable. However, before Monday, we need to decide points 2,3 and 4 because Martin, as next General Secretary, and I should attend the meeting. Before then, we also need to discuss the following:
The hip day should be a whole day and not only a half day. This has finally been accepted.
Annual Congress: obviously, our relationship with EFORT has drastically changed in the last year because they have decided to organise a meeting every year. As Soballe wrote in his letter, the organisation of a yearly EFORT meeting contradicts the existing EFORT rules stating that biannual congresses fall on odd years. The first meeting will be in Nice next year. Hervé and myself have first hand knowledge of the discomfort of the other societies on this question.
As Martin said, concerning a share of profits in the courses, educational programs…we have remembered that our members don’t participate as much as they might. So it could be that a course organised by EFORT and EHS on hip will have a participation of 400, but that only 40 are EHS members, so the profit will be divided as 4.000Euros for EHS and 36.000 for EFORT, although we have contributed to half of the presentations, and we have perhaps paid our travelling costs.
Domestic Meeting Madrid 2008. Our next biannual meeting will be in Madrid on June 11 to 14 2008. The venue will be the Congress Palace, on the Paseo de la Castellana, very close to the Real Madrid Stadium. In this area there are a lot of big hotels and good communications with the airport. The past meeting in Antalya is a challenge for us. We hope to have more than 500 attendees. We also hope to present attractive symposia on different topics. I have contacted different industry sponsors. I hope they will actively support the congress and contribute to results as positive as the one from Antalya. I think it is very important for the Society for as many members as possible to attend and participate in that meeting. 

3. Report of the Treasurer
The fiscal year 2006 came out with a positive income to he Society of EURO 115,790 Generally, the income of the Society derives from three sources: membership fees, investments (which are low due to the low bank interest) and conferences. The conference in Turkey came out with a positive income of EURO 105,665. Regarding investment, most of the money is invested in bonds and 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 276,478. We have 217 paying members, and approximately 80 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.

4. Report of the General Secretary
The Society:
When I took the responsibility of General Secretary of EHS, I tried to solve two problems, the data of membership and the permanent secretary. Regarding the membership I tried to find back all the members of EHS past and present and I asked to the National Representatives an actualisation of the list of the members of their country with if possible the e-mail address. Only one did answer me. So I failed. I tried to use the e-mail addresses to send a convocation to the General Assembly in Florence with the minutes of the last General Assembly in Antalya. About 10% were wrong. Regarding the permanent secretary we decided in Innsbruck to explore the possibility of using the Central Office of EFORT. I sent to Gabriella Skala some data of our meetings and our membership in order to have a proposition of cost. We met Gabriella Skala in Lisbon. Since, she has been fired. The next one too. So I think that the solution of Central Office of EFORT is not possible and that we must go back to a personnal solution. 

Relationship with EFORT:
Last year we received a proposal for a global contract of cooperation with EFORT. I met the Executive Committee of EFORT in November. They asked me to write a new proposal of contract. I did so and I sent it to the members of the Executive Committee of EHS. The reaction was to wait before a decision, wait until the General Assembly in Florence. For the meeting in Florence, we have been asked by Pr Thorngren two years ago for topics and speakers about hip surgery. We did so. Then there was absolutely no feed back. We did not participate at all in the selection of the abstracts on hip surgery and for the final choice of speakers and topics.
Since there is a big revolution, because EFORT decided to do annual meetings. So it will be a competition with our domestic meeting. Can we survive ? It will be probably very difficult to have the industry to our meetings in competition with the EFORT meeting.

What are the possibilities ? 
a. Disappear
b. Become a hip group of EFORT with annual meetings in the same big towns than EFORT 
c. Try to maintain a domestic meeting every two years with difficulties of finance and probable necessity to change of period in order not to be too close to their meetings (September?) and participate to EFORT meeting every two year. They would like an alternance between ESKA and EHS. So one should do their domestic meeting in odd years and the other in even years.
d. Try to develop the Society without any participation to EFORT meetings and may be do an annual independent meeting. 

5. Relationship between EFORT and EHS
Regarding the future of our Society because of annual meetings of EFORT, the questions were: should we remain a Society, should we do annual or biannual meetings, should we participate to the annual meetings of EFORT or every two years in alternance with our domestic meetings. The decision was: remain a Society with its own life, do biannual meetings, participate annually to the meetings of EFORT but do a Hip Day every two years. There will be a meeting between the Executive Committee of EFORT and the representatives of the Specialities Societies on the 14th of May in Florence. Our representative will be Pr Garcia Cimbrelo and Pr Krismer. They will ask for a representation in the Scientific Committee of EFORT and the responsibility of the selection of topics, authors on Hip Surgery. Some members insist on the necessity to have a total responsibility of the topics, selection of the free papers and choice of the speakers for Instructional Course Lectures and Symposia on Hip Surgery. It seems to be very important to avoid same topics in the same time in different rooms. The National Representatives Committee of EHS decided to create a Scientific Committee. The President will be Pr Krismer. The members will be: 
Pr Soballe, Dr Zagra, Dr Tabutin, Pr Tokgozoglu and Pr Macheras. 

6. Permanent secretary
The solution using the Central Office of EFORT, which was voted in the General Assembly of EHS in Innsbruck appears to be impossible.
So it has been decided to choose a more personal solution. Pr Krismer proposed a secretary in Innsbruck. It was accepted.

7. New Members
The following candidatures are accepted:

8. Domestic Meeting in Madrid 2008
It will be from 11th to 14th of June 2008. It will be a critical test because of the Congress of EFORT in Nice which will be in May 2008.

9. Hip Day EFORT 2009
The topics of the Hip Day during the Congress of EFORT in Vienna 2009 were discussed. As far as now, we don’t know if it is going to be a full or a half day. Topics proposed are: resurfacing arthroplasty, minimum invasive surgery, revision surgery, treatment of the pain after surgery, rehabilitation. 

10. Domestic meeting Athens 2010
It might be necessary if possible to move it in September 2009, first to be a bit far from EFORT meeting generally in May, and secondly to respect a future alternance between ESKA and EHS in the EFORT meetings in the future. Pr Macheras is going to study the problem back home and will give an answer in Madrid next year.

11. Election of the General Secretary
In Antalya, Pr Krismer accepted to be the next General Secretary. The General Assembly voted unanimously for the election of Pr Krismer.

12. Hip Arthroplasty Registar
The collaboration between the European Registrar and EHS is necessary. A representative of EHS will be designed in the Board of the Registrar.

13. Miscellaneous
Report of Pr Tokgozoglu as President 2004-2006: The 7th Domestic meeting of the European Hip Society was held on June 21-24 2006 at the Sungate Port Royal Resort Hotel in Kemer, Antalya, Turkey was a huge success. 778 participants from 34 countries attended sessions with 275 oral presentations were made. We also displayed 72 posters. In addition to the main program we had 2 industry sponsored satellite symposia and 4 Workshops. A European Arthroplasty Registry Meeting was also attached to the main scientific program. The feedback I have received from the attendees and Nationale Representatives were overwhelmingly positive. The Turkish attendees, the Turkish Society of Orthopedics and Traumatology and Turkish Arthroplasty Society has expressed their appreciation of EHS to have a Domestic Meeting in Turkey and has been extremely pleased with the scientific quality of this meeting. They are looking forward to future collaboration with EHS. Our congress website http://www.ehs2006.org is up and will be running for another five years to provide information on our society and carry the abstracts. This has been paid for. The meeting has also become a financial success as well. After all expenses and currency conversions a net profit of E105.000 has been deposited to the account of EHS. I think this profit can be channelled to provide scholarships for one trainee from each member country to attend future meetings. I personnaly believe thet our Society is maturing and we should continue our Domestic Meeting biannualy to provide our members an arena to present their scientific papers. 

ADDENDUM

On Monday May 14th 2007, Martin Krismer and Eduardo Garcia-Cimbrelo met ProF. Puhl and the EFORT Executive Committee Members and Representatives of other specialities. In this meeting, Prof. W. Puhl said that our problems were especially caused by a lack of communication. He was willing to maintain good collaboration with the different specialities, and this collaboration was necessary for the good of EFORT and the entire orthopaedic family. He said specialist society support was necessary for EFORT. In the name of EHS, Martin Krismer insisted on our point of view, and the representatives of the other different specialities had their say. Prof. Puhl expressed their willingness to participate in joint future adventures. Most representatives accepted Puhl’s words and kept any doubts to themselves to see what happens in the future. Meeting in Nice will be a test for the reality of this collaboration with EHS.