[council] WG B and NC liaison

Further to yesterdays NC meeting and following discussion with Michael Palage, the elected chair of WG B on famous trade marks, it is proposed to the Names Council that the previous role of NC co-chair to WG B should be abolished and be replaced by the following structure.
A Names Council facilitator from the Business Constituency (Philip Sheppard)

A Names Council facilitator from the Non-commercial Constituency (Kathy
Kleiman).

The role of the two facilitators will be three fold:
1. To provide liaison between Working Group B and the Names Council,
reporting regularly to the NC on progress, reminding the WG of deadlines and
proposing to the Names Council when deadlines should be extended.
2. To act as an alternate chair in the absence of the elected chair.
3. To revisit the mission of the working group, and subsequently steer
discussion to incrementally seek areas of common ground based on joint
proposals from the two NC facilitators.

Philip Sheppard
AIM - European Brands Association
9 av. des Gaulois B-1040 Brussels
Tel +322 736 0305 Fax +322 734 6702