General Assembly

The ECOO General Assembly is a meeting of national delegations of the members of ECOO. The General Assembly is the highest decision making body of the association. It meets twice a year, in spring and in autumn.

The Executive Committee

The strategic leadership and decision-making body is the Executive committee, which is elected by the General Assembly and led by the President.

President

Gabriëlle Janssen (The Netherlands)

Immediate Past-President

Dr Matjaž Mihelčič (Slovenia)

President Elect

Dr Sylwia Kropacz-Sobkowiak (Poland)

Treasurer

Peter Gumpelmayer (Germany)

Chair of the Professional Services Committee

Ignacio J. Costa González (Spain)

Secretary General

Fabienne Eckert (Brussels)

ECOO Secretariat Manager

Ann Blackmore

 

 Thematic Committees

 

The Executive Committee is supported by two elected thematic Committees:

Public Affairs and Economic

Economic and commercial matters as well as with specific legislative and non-legislative EU dossiers.

 

  • Per Michael Larsen (Denmark) – Chair
  • Tina Alvær (Norway)
  • Luca Benzoni (Italy)
  • Kai Jaeger (Germany)
  • Daryl Newsome (UK)
  • Raúl Alberto Ribeiro Correia de Sousa (Portugal)
  • Zsolt Szabadi (Hungary)
  • Elaine Grisdale (UK) – Secretary

Professional Services

Development of the profession in terms of the scope of practice of optometry and optics in the member countries.

 

  • Ignacio José Costas Gonzalez (Spain) – Chair
  • Konrad Abramczuk (Poland)
  • Kerstien Gabarretta (Malta)
  • Stephan Hirschfeld (Germany)
  • Julie-Anne Little (UK)
  • Martin O’Brien (Ireland)
  • Iwan Zanchetta (Switzerland)
  • Pavel Šebek (Czech Republic) – Secretary

 

European Qualifications Board

 

With the activities of the ECOO Accreditation Agency the European Qualifications Board has been set-up and is responsible for the European Diploma in Optometry and the European Qualification in Optics including their performance, content and recognition.

Read biographies of members of the EQB.

SECRETARY
Fabienne Eckert

  • Professor Julie-Anne Little – Chair
  • Dr Bente Monica Aakre*
  • Fiona Anderson*
  • Dr. Stephan Bandlitz
  • Dr Roger Crelier*
  • Ignacio José Costa González
  • Dr Vincent Gautier
  • Peter Gumpelmayer
  • Dr José Manuel González Meijome *
  • Dr Sigrid Müller-Schotte *
  • Gustav Pöltner*

*Member of Expert Group

 

 

Constitutional documents

ECOO is governed by its statutes and Rules of Procedure: