Less than 24 hours after being elected, the new European Athletics Council for the four-year period from 2023-27 sat down at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Belgrade to start work on Sunday (23).
Opening the inaugural meeting of the new 18-member Council, European Athletics President Dobromir Karamarinov and then World Athletics President Sebastian Coe welcomed everyone, but especially the six new Council members who had been elected for the first time on Saturday.
Much of the 90-minute meeting was taken up with administrative tasks and planning for the year ahead, with the composition and format of advisory bodies and working groups to be decided in the near future.
However, one order of business was to reappoint Jean Gracia as the First Vice President, a crucial role in the event that the President is unavailable or indisposed.
With the increasing focus on transparency and good governance, all the Council members completed their Declaration of Integrity which governs their conduct and activities.
The meeting concluded with the traditional first group photos of the new Council.