General Assembly 2015

It was a week of long discussions, controversial opinions and formal work with the common objective to prepare the JJIF for the next step of development.

With positive engagement of all delegates the 2015 edition of the JJIF voted for new statues giving the leadership of JJIF the guidelines and tools to work effective and democratic.

In the future the board will consist of 9 elected members with voting rights.
Sports Director and General Manager are additional members to advise.
The operation core, the executive board will consist of President, General Secretary, Treasurer, Sports Director and General Manager.

The continents are represented by their presidents being Vice presidents in JJIF plus quotas for a global presence in the board and the affiliated commissions and committees.

The status of membership had been changed, giving the national members the full membership rights faster but allowing the JJIF to terminate the membership of inactive national members as well.

General Secretary Dana Mortelmans conducted the meeting professional and President Panagiotis Theodoropoulos was very happy that so many delegates supported the process with their professional knowledge.

The delegates support and ratified the work and decisions of the different panels in the convention, showing trust and confidence in the work of the expert groups.

Unanimously the Assembly accepted Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Turkmenistan and FYROM as new members in JJIF. so 108 countries execute Ju-Jitsu under the guidelines of JJIF now.