The 46^th Annual Meeting of CIS Regional, National and Collaborating Centres was held on 29 June 2008 at the COEX Convention Center in Seoul, Republic of Korea, at the margin of the XVIIIth World Congress on Safety and Health at Work (June 29-July 2), which was preceded by the Safety and Health Summit.

At this meeting, 18 representatives of CIS National Centres, 8 of Collaborating Centres and 2 of Regional Centres were present.

Mr Assane Diop, Executive Director of the ILO Social Protection Sector and representative of the Director General of the ILO, opened the meeting and delivered a speech in which he mentioned several important issues, including the updating of the ILO Encyclopedia of Occupational Health and Safety and the future of CIS.

As usual, the Meeting enabled participants to exchange information on the activities and achievements of both CIS and CIS Centres. Mr Gábor Sándi (CIS Coordinator), made a presentation entitled "CIS 2008 – The Present and the Future"; Mrs Ilise Feitshans (Encyclopaedia Coordinator) presented "Why a 5th edition?" [of the Encyclopaedia]; Mrs Annick Virot (CIS Centres Network Coordinator) rounded up information about the activities and plans to 2008-2009; and "Concept of new databases", was presented by Mr András Szücs (CIS Senior Systems Analyst).

Access the Report of the 2008 CIS Centres Annual Meeting.

Access the links to the CIS Centres Annual Reports and presentations made at the Meeting.

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   View picture taken at the 46th Annual Meeting of CIS Centres

It was proposed to hold the next Annual Meeting in Düsseldorf (Germany) and participants were reminded that the year 2009 will be the 50th anniversary of the founding of CIS. All proposals for the celebration were welcome.