This year was expected to be mainly devoted to our new premises and that was also the main commitment of all the managers and the officers concerned, because works were to be concluded and the purchasing act formalised, in compliance with the budget allocated to this operation by our Managing Board.
Any part of the new building was to be tested and checked, in order to be provided with the relevant certifications, the passing of property from the builder to the owner formalised, all moving operations, including that of staff, carried out without losing too much in efficiency and daily working, and, last, but not least, the official opening and the presentation of the new offices to our Members carefully and accurately handled.
We managed to cope with everything!
We also managed to achieve another ambitious target, kept as a secret: we respected the overall budget and covered the yearly costs without any extraordinary expenses or - as initially expected - using the funds set aside for this purpose.
This aspect may be hopefully added to the positive remarks that many of our Members and technical experts made when they attended the official opening and visited our new offices.

This is not, however, the only event mentioned in this report, because many others happened during this year and all of them are quite relevant for our organization and its Members.
The President of UNI was nominated to ISO Council for a two-year term, our Central Technical Board fully approved the re-appointment of its Chairman, while the recently setup President’s Committee of the Central Technical Board officially started working.
Our internal structure was further improved, by exclusively relying on internal resources and skills: two new areas were set up, one devoted to “General Affairs and Personnel” and another to “Communication and Training”, expected to work in an efficient synergy with the managing areas already existing.
The tasks allocated to UNI Points were submitted to a deep and close revision and the same was for their network all over Italy, in line with a project supposed to enter fully in force by 2008.
The same reviewing process was carried out and completed also for those appointed as experts in our technical bodies, and the new version of our electronic system, called UNIONE, was started up, with the purpose of improving the way in which technical documents are handled on-line.
Each single commission was assessed and new national technical bodies created, while more european and international secretariats were allocated to Italy.
SICURIS, the new Advisory Body of our Central Technical Board in the field of health and safety at the workplace, was formally set up and expected to start working in 2007.

We also managed to draft and publish the book titled “The rules of the game” - just in time for the official opening and the celebration of our 85th anniversary - with the purpose of offering an useful tool to explain standardization and its values, thus making them “common knowledge” to our whole society.