General Assembly 2010

The Special Constitutional Session was held on the 18th August 2010 to review the UICC Constitution recommended for approval by the Board of Directors.

The new UICC constitution was approved by the board- key components include:

Full English text name to be Union for International Cancer Control so that the “UICC” acronym is consistent with that for the French, Spanish, Latin texts.
Advocacy to be included explicitly in the Constitution.
Voting at Assembly to include the option of proxy votes.
No election by the Board of any of its own members.
Nominating Committee to be elected by the Board and chaired by the President.
Presentation of Nominees to the Assembly by the President.
Aditionally, TORs were established for the Chief Executive Officer and revised for the Board with regard to individual responsibilities.

For more detail please find below the full constitution document.