
George Sparis, President of the recent and successful NOTOS 2015 and of the Hellenic Philotelic Society, has passed away
Today has passed away George Sparis, President of the Hellenic Philotelic Society (HPS). He was also President of the Organizing Committee of NOTOS 2015. We are just receiving such sad message from Anthony Virvilis.

FEPA Recognition granted to the National Youth Philatelic Exhibition with International participation “TRAKOSCAN 2016”
The 11th School of Young Philatelists / National Youth Philatelic Exhibition with international participation "TRAKOSCAN 2016", will be held from October 8th to October 16th 2016 in the Castle of Trakoskan, Croatia.

JANUARY SEMINAR IN BERLIN
On January 18, 2016 Berliner Philatelisten-Klub von 1888 e. V. organized its 2707 meeting (Sitzung). The central part of this meeting was a lecture on Astrophilately.

SEEN OVER 200.000 PAGES OF WWW.FEPA.NEWS.COM
Since we established the official "Flag Counter" on the 11th of September 2014, over 200.000 pages have been seen from readers of 145 different countries.

STAMPONTHEWEB – A NEW PHILATELIC PORTAL
On 18 January AICPM, the largest Italian postal history association, launched a new philatelic Portal, www.stampontheweb.com . Stampontheweb is a portal for everyone sharing our hobby, designed to make life easier as far as searching for information in the web is concerned.

Special Regulations for the Evaluation of the new FEPA Class: THE PICTURE POSTCARD
The Special Regulations for the Evaluation of Picture Postcard Exhibits at FEPA Exhibitions were approved by the FEPA Congress in Athens, on 15 November 2015. They are subject to review by the 2018 FEPA Congress. These Regulations apply to all those exhibitions granted FEPA patronage, support or recognition at, or following, the 2015 FEPA Congress.

New Board of the ZSF – Union of Philatelists of Slovakia
The new Board (Rada) of ZSF is formed by 7 members: 4 delegates from the regions and three members included the President, elected at the Council of ZSF (previously general assembly).

Considerations on the “3rd Continental Philatelic Exhibition” in Cairo
The just finished "3rd Continental Philatelic Exhibition", organized by the Philatelic Society of Egypt on the occasion of the 150 year of first Egyptian Stamp, has resulted in a great success, its third successful event in one year!

Great promotion of Philately in Cairo at the “3rd Continental Exhibition” with FEPA Recognition
From the 31st of December 2015 to the 6th of January 2016, Cairo hosted the “3rd Continental Exhibition” with FEPA Recognition. Were exhibited 223 frames of 11 classes and 71 exhibits from 8 countries: Egypt, Bahrain, Cyprus, Great Britain, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates.

January 2016 Newsletter from the FIP Postal Stationery Commission
The Commission Chairman, Lars Engelbrecht has kindly sent us the Commission Newsletter nº 14 of January 2016. In his message he says “ We see more and more postal stationery exhibits: 85 postal stationery exhibits have been entered at the international exhibitions in 2015. And the exhibits become better and better”...
