Neuquen - Argentina, June 20th 2007                     
                                                                                                 

                                                                                               Letter 5 - Ref.:Constitution Review

 

To the ICCG Member Associations
To the World Bureau Director


Dear friends,

As you may remember during the last triennium (2003-2006) the World Committe together with the Pontifical Committe for laymen and the WAGGS, represented by Lesley Bulman, were working on the review of our Constitution to adjust them to the Canon Law Code in force.

The request to carry out this task was done by the CPPL to the previous World Responsible, Françoise Parmentier, when she was finishing her term of office.

We remind you briefly of what was done (we have also informed at the appropriate time through correspondance and verbally to the XVI Warsaw Committe delegates):

The World Committe together with the assistance of F. Jean Debruynne –World Chaplain- and F. Alejandro Sánchez – canonist from the Argentine Parish of Neuquén-, as well as with the guidance of Lucianne Sallé and Monsignor Delgado, both of them from CPPL, worked during the first stage on the adjustments, which, finally, turned out to be very few in the current Constitution and Bye Laws.

By the beginning of 2006 the task at this level had already been finished.

At the same time, as established in the Modus Agendi, these adjustments were analized by the WAGGS Charters Committe the first time, leaving then the task of interchange and queries in the hands of the World Bureau Director at that time, Lesley Bulman.

In December 2006 we received the last comments from the WAGGS, which meant we had reached the end of this stage.

We Intend to submit the final version to the CPPL in September of this year, by these means the initial recognition (1968) would be confirmed with the new denomination given by the Canon Law Code to International Organizations, in our case it is Asociación Privada de Fieles(Faithful Private Association)

The next World Committe (in 2009) will include and Extraordinary Assembly for the definite approval of the new Constitution.

We attach a copy of the final version of the Constitution and Bye Laws as they have been modified indicating the specific changes that have been made, none of them, as you may see, modifies the mission, identity or functioning of the International Catholic Conference of Guiding.

Through Mary of Guadalupe


Silvia Staib de Chanes
World Responsible

Note from the webmaster: As these changes will be effective only after the vote of the delegates at the next World Meeting in 2009, we do not attach here the changes to the Constitution and Bye Laws  so as to not throw into confusion. The persons that are concerned had received by post this document.

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