Opening of the Presidium Meeting Apologies for absence and personal notes Acceptance of the proposed agenda for the 31st Presidium Meeting Acceptance of new members and confer certifications Approval of the minutes of the 30th Presidium Meeting held in September 2002

Members of ISM Presidium Prof.Yu Changxing – President, China Dr.Kalman Baratosi – Vice President, Hungary Prof. Bernard Drzezla, Poland Mr.Vitaliy Mamrov, Kazackstan Prof.Axel Preusse, Germany Dr.Jurgen Palm (Honorary Member) Germany Dr.Alojzy Dzierzega, Switzerland Mr.Gary Bardill, United Kingdom Mr.Carl Vender, USA Mr.Gilbert Bordonne, France Mr.Martin Vrubel, Czech Republic Mr.Karel P Landman, South Africa Dr.Andrew Jarosz, Australia Dr.Halim Setan, Malaysia Prof..Ranko T. Todorovic, Slovenia Dr. Erik Ludvigsen, Norway Dr. B.Ranjbar, Austria Prof.Shi Jinfeng, China Guests and other participants Mas.Yuan Yuefeng, China Ms.Aleksandra Wagner Poland Dr.Ralf Schulte, Germany Prof.Jacek Szewczyk, Poland Dr.Jadwiga Maciaszek, Poland Dr.Gareth Powell, United Kingdom Mrs.Helen Leighfield, United Kingdom Mr.Keith Leighfield, United Kingdom

ISM held the presidium meeting The 29th presidium meeting of ISM took place from 10th to 14th on September in Varna ,a famous scenic city which sits the seashore of the Black Sea in Bulgaria. The host of this meeting was ISM Bulgarian committee. Prof. Yu Changxing, the current president of ISM, attended and presided over this meeting .He came here after leading a group being invited to visit UNESCO. Prof. Shi Jinfeng who was the current director of ISM secretariat, a member of the ISM commission 1, the vice rector of Liaoning Technology of China also attend the meeting. Delegates of member states and members of presidium as well as peoples attend added up to 18. Inspection of technology (Rollin Mine) and scenery visiting took one and a half days in the meeting of 4 days . The second day of the meeting was just the 2th anniversary of death for Prof. Czubik, the former president of the Institute for Mine Surveying and Mining Subsidence Engineering of Leoben University of Austria. In order to cherish the mine surveying expert who made great contribution to ISM undertakings, all attendees observed one minute’ silence before the meeting begin. In the meeting, four new members were admitted to ISM commission by the recommendation of presidium members. The delegates of Bulgaria also posed to recommend several youths as candidates on the meeting, the exact candidates will be proposed in the next meeting

The Program: 1. Opening of the 28-th ISM Presidium Meeting. 2. Confirmation of the Minutes of the 27-th ISM Presidium Meeting in Taian. 3. Changes in the Presidium membership. 4. Proposal of grant the honorary membership for Hans Jurgen Palm. 5. Proposal for concluding the co-operation contract between FIG and ISM. 6. The ISM Banner. 7. The ISM Statute. 8. Information about the preparations for the XII ISM Congress in China. 9. Information about the ISM Working Committees’ activities. 10. The succeeding ISM Presidium Meetings. 11. The new ISM authorities. 12. Conclusions.

The following programme was accepted : 1. Opening, presentation and apologies for absences 2.National reports about the activities 3. Special papers oriented generally to the topic of the commission No. 5 4. Discussion 5. Organisational agenda 6. Conclusion