Statutes and Bylaws of the IOU (Final Version, 2010)

The International Ornithologists’ Union

The Statutes and By-Laws of the International Ornithologists’ Union (IOU) were originally prepared by Donald S. Farner, President of the 17^th International Ornithological Congress (IOC), as the Statutes and By-Laws of the International Ornithological Committee (IOCommittee) and adopted at that 17^th IOC in Berlin 1978.  Revisions of these Statutes and By-Laws were prepared by Walter J. Bock (Permanent Secretary of the IOCommittee) and adopted at the 20^th IOC in Christchurch 1990, 21^st IOC in Vienna 1994, and 22^nd IOC in Durban 1998.  Further revisions were prepared by Jacques Blondel (President of the 24^th IOC in Hamburg 2006) and by the members of the Statutes Committee, consisting of Walter J. Bock (President of the 23^rd IOC in Beijing 2002), Dominique G. Homberger (Secretary of the IOCommittee), Christopher Perrins (President of the 21^st IOC in Vienna 1994), John Wingfield (Vice President of the 24^th IOC in Hamburg 2006), and Hans Winkler (Member of the IOCommittee Executive Committee).  The revised Statutes and By-Laws were adopted at the meeting of the IOCommittee at the 24^th IOC in Hamburg on August 13, 2006.  At that meeting, the IOCommittee charged its Executive Committee with developing new statutes and by-laws to allow the incorporation of the International Ornithologists’ Union (IOU).  The Statutes and By-Laws of the IOU were developed by Dominique G. Homberger (Secretary of the IOCommittee), in collaboration with Jacques Blondel (President of the 24^th IOC in Hamburg 2006), John Wingfield (President of the 25^th IOC in Campos do Jordão 2010), Walter J. Bock (Past President of the 24^th IOC in Hamburg 2006), and Soekarja Somadikarta (Honorary President of the 25^th IOC in Campos do Jordão 2010) and with input from members of the IOCommittee and its Executive Committee.  They replace the existing Statutes and By-Laws of the IOC and were accepted by the IOU Committee
of Representatives at its meeting in Campos do Jordão on August 21, 2010.