Report of the General Committee: 24

Abstract

SummaryDr Sandra Knapp has been appointed as President for the Nomenclature Section at the XX IBC to be held in Madrid in July 2024 and Dr John Wiersema's appointment as Vice‐rapporteur has been approved. Decisions of the General Committee are reported on proposals and requests in Report 71 of the Permanent Nomenclature Committee for Vascular Plants (NCVP), Reports 21 and 22 of the Permanent Nomenclature Committee for Algae (NCA), Report 14 of the Permanent Nomenclature Committee for Fossils (NCFoss), as well as proposal (1960) from NCVP Report 63. The GC also considered various procedural matters: (1) voting by committee members on their own proposals; (2) definition of a “simple majority” and the potential use of a quorum; (3) two‐step voting on requests for binding decision; (4) date of authorization of binding decisions and suppression proposals.