VATSIM Europe Region is seeking a new member to join the Regional Conflict Resolution Panel. The role is clearly defined in Article III of the Code of Regulations, the relevant excerpt is enclosed below. Applications to Neil Dewson-Smyth the RCRP Chairman (vatsim@d-s.demon.co.uk) no later than 1700Z Sunday 5th February 2012 please.

§3.10 Executive Committee –Regional Conflict Resolution Panel Each Regional Director shall be required to create and empanel a board referred to as a Regional Conflict Resolution Panel. The Regional Conflict Resolution Panel shall consist of three (3) or five (5) members.

A. Qualifications: To be eligible for this position, an individual must meet all of the following qualifications:
1. The individual must be an active member in good standing of VATSIM.net; and
2. The individual must be an active member of the region in which the Regional Conflict Resolution Panel sits; and
3. The individual must have a VATSIM.net rating of Senior Controller or higher. However, the Regional Director of the particular region in which the Regional Conflict Resolution Panel sits may, in his or her sole discretion, waive the rating requirement and allow one of the members of the panel, where the panel is comprised of three individuals, or two of the members of the panel, where the panel is comprised of five individuals, to have a rating which is lower than senior controller. An individual for whom the rating qualification is waived, however, must still meet all other qualifications of this rule; and
4. The individual must not currently be a Divisional Conflict Resolution Manager; and
5. The individual must not currently be a member of the VATSIM.net Board of Governors. The Regional Director may be one of the members of the Regional Conflict Resolution Panel.

B. Powers: The Regional Conflict Resolution Panel shall hear and decide appeals of decisions made by Divisional Conflict Resolution Managers which are made by formally suspended or expelled members of VATSIM.net pursuant to the definitions, terms, powers and procedures set forth in Article VI. of this Code of Regulations.

C. Terms of Members of Regional Conflict Resolution Panel and Replacement Procedures: A Regional Director, in his or her sole discretion, may set limits on the terms that members of a Regional Conflict Resolution Panel may serve. The appointment and replacement procedures for members of a Regional Conflict Resolution Panel are left to the Regional Director in his or her sole discretion.

Thomas George
Region Director, VATSIM Europe