On the 2nd of December of 2003, at the city of Florianópolis, in the State of Santa Catarina, in Brazil, in a meeting under the direction of Judge Getulio Correa, Auditing-Judge of Santa Catarina State, began the discussion towards the foundation of  the International Association of Military Justice, with the following participants: GETÚLIO CORRÊA, auditing judge of  Santa Catarina State,  MARTA ITURVIDE CONTICH, military lawyer of the Military Supreme Court of Uruguayi; ANGEL GARCÍA BELDA,couselor judge of the Central Military Tribunal of Spain, FRANCISCO JAVIER MATA TEJADA, auditing general of the Central Military Tribunal of Spain; SÉRGIO CEA CIENFUEGOS,colonel and lawyer of the Military Justice of Chile; ERNEST ZWANE BRIG, general of the National Defense Force of South Africa;CHARLES ERDMANN,judge of the Court of Appeals of the Armed Forces of the United States of America; PIERRE BRICARD,  judge of the Defense Ministry of France; BEATO MANOEL PAULO, magistrate colonel of the Public Ministry of Angola; JOÃO CARLOS BONA GARCIA, magistrate and president of the Military Tribunal of the State of Rio Grande do Sul; AVIVALDI NOGUEIRA JÚNIOR,colonel  judge and president of the  Justice Military Tribunal of the State of São Paulo; JORGE CÉSAR DE ASSIS,prosecutor  of the Federal Military Justice and Vice-President of the National Association of Military Prosecutors; CARLOS AUGUSTO DE MORAES REGO, auditing judge of the Federal Military Justice and president of National Association of Military Justice ; JOÃO KOPYTOWSKI, judge of the Tribunal of the State of Paraná; SIDNEY ELOY DALLABRIDA,military justice prosecutor of Santa Catarina State; ROBERTO RITTER VON JELITA,federal lawyer; MARCOS BAYER, lawyer, consultant and professor; UNIVALDO CORRÊA, auditing judge of the Military Justice of the State of Santa Catarina.

I, Univaldo Corrêa, as a secretary of this meeting, and with simultaneous translation for Portuguese, Spanish and English, in charge of the whole transcription  of the discussion, declare that everyone made their own presentation at the event.

The director of the meeting, Judge Getulio Correa, made a brief retrospection about the idea of the foundation of this Association, since the previous meeting that took place in Brasília, in the 2000, at the time of the I International Meeting of Humanitarian Law and Military Law,  where representatives of eleven countries manifested their interest in the constitution of an international association for those interested in the studies of Military Law  and Military Justice.

After these comments, there was  an analisis of the statute of the Association, that was offered in the three languages mentioned above. It was asked for suggestions with a relevant meaning, considering  the intention to have another meeting in the year 2004, with the specific purpose to discuss the statute in an accurate form. However, according to the general opinion, item 5 of the second paragraph that concerns the unification of legislation in different countries was removed.

It was agreed that the directing board of the association, called Administration Council, would be composed of a President, 2 Vice-Presidents, 5 Counselors, a Secretary and a Financial Director. It was agreed the the nomination for those positions above would be done among the participants of the meeting. It was also proposed the add an item on article 16 in order to define a way for a voluntary  dismissal from the association. It was also decided to fix an annual fee of US$ 20,00 (twenty american dollars) for individuals and a fee of US$ 100,00 (one hundred american dollars) for instituitions that want to be members of the association. It was decided that in the next year, 2004, during the months of July or August  another meeting would be held  to discuss the statute, in another country  and that in the year 2005, in a different country, would happen the III International Meeting    of Humanitarian Law and Military Law.

Right after this began the nommination for the Administrative and Deliberative Counsils, composed such as bellow:

Another decision that was takenis that this new association,  while does not have proper funds, can use the funds of AMAJME for communication purposes.  

Those who have participated in this meeting and also those who have been in the meeting of Brasilia, mentioned before, are considered founder members of this association.

Finally the director of the meeting declared the end of the discussions and announced the creation of the INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MILITARY JUSTICE, and I wrote this ACT that will be signed by me and the other participants.

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   GETÚLIO CORRÊA                                       ERNEST ZWANE BRIG

       PRESIDENT                                          FIRST VICE PRESIDENT

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   CHARLES ERDMANN                                 ANGEL GARCIA BELDA

SECOND FIRST VICE PRESIDENT                        COUNSELLOR

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FRANCISCO JAVIER MATA TEJADA              MARTA ITURVIDE CONTICH

MEMBRO DO CONSELHO FISCAL                        COUNSELLOR

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     PIERRE BRICARD                                   BEATO MANOEL PAULO

       COUNSELLOR                                           COUNSELLOR

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JOÃO CARLOS BONA GARCIA                     AVIVALDI NOGUEIRA JÚNIOR

    FINANCE DIRECTOR                                       FINANCE DIRECTOR  

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    SÉRGIO CEA CIENFUEGOS               JORGE CÉSAR DE ASSIS

         COUNSELLOR

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CARLOS AUGUSTO DE                              JOÃO KOPYTOWSKI

MORAES REGO

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SIDNEY ELOY DALLABRIDA                  ROBERTO RITTER VON JELITA

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          MARCOS BAYER                                UNIVALDO CORRÊA

                                                               SECRETÁRIO GERAL