From January 2021, we will have vacancies in:

• Austria
• Belgium
• Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Estonia
• France
• Hungary
• Ireland
• Italy
• Latvia
• Moldova
• Netherlands
• Portugal
• Russia
  
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Turkey
• United Kingdom

For more details on current council members and vacancies from 2019, please see Current Councillors allowances and vacancies as of 20 September 2020.

The Council is an advisory group for the Board and acts as a link between the members in their country and the Association. Council members also have an important role in publicising EAHIL and recruiting new members. The Council usually meets formally once a year at the time of the annual EAHIL conference or workshop.

Councillors are elected for a term of four years by the voting EAHIL members resident in their country. Councillors may be re-elected once, after which they are not eligible for re-election until they have been absent from the Council for two years.

Each member state of the Council of Europe is eligible to elect councillors, provided that there are at least at least five voting members based in the country:

• fewer than 5 voting members = 0 councillors
  · 5-29 voting members = 1 councillor
  · 30-54 voting members = 2 councillors
  · 55 and over = 3 councillors

The list linked to above details the Council vacancies by country for the term starting in 2021. The available places were calculated based on a count of all EAHIL members on 1 October 2020. If the number of members increases by 1 November 2020, there may be an entitlement of an additional Councillor in some countries.

Procedure for nominating Council members

The nomination form is available on the EAHIL web site: https://eahil.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/EAHIL_Council_nomination_form_2020.rtf

Any two members can nominate a Council member from their own country. For this election, we are not requiring physical signatures from the two nominators and the nominee, but nominators must discuss and receive confirmation from the nominee that they are willing to stand, and all three people must be copied into the email submitting the nomination form. Please email the fully completed form not later than 20 October 2020 to the EAHIL Nomination Committee via eahil-secr@list.ecompass.nl.

Voting will be conducted electronically 26 October – 8 November 2020. To be able to vote, please make sure that you have an up-to-date email address in the membership database.

Please encourage members to stand for the Council election!

On behalf of the Nomination Committee,
Marshall Dozier
EAHIL Past President