Stephane Malbos writes:

The CIVL Plenary Agenda:
http://www.fai.org/civl-news/42732-civl-salzburg-plenary-agenda-published

The CIVL Plenary Program:
http://www.fai.org/civl-news/42788-civl-plenary-programme

The CIVL President report to the Plenary:
http://www.fai.org/civl-news/42787-civl-president-report-to-the-plenary

Competition Timeline Calendar:
http://www.fai.org/civl-news/42750-welcome-to-the-civl-competition-timeline

You have to dig down to find the actual documents. Clicks
"AGENDA," for example.

http://www.fai.org/downloads/civl/CIVL_2017_Agenda_Ax13

From the hang gliding agenda:

Discussion about WPRS seasonal fluctuations and geographical
differences: There has been some discussion proposing that we may want to slow
down the devaluation of WPRS points to account for seasonal fluctuations
(Australian competition season effects on ranking) and fewer competitions. The
Belgian delegate may come to the Plenary with a proposal.

This would make it more difficult for Jonny to jump to the world
number one spot by winning the Australian competitions starting in October.

‘Harmonizing’ HG and PG GAP rules: There was an informal proposal
discussed on Basecamp regarding doing as much as we can to make rules
consistent/the same with respect to both the hang gliding and paragliding
competition worlds. In the end, the consensus seems to be that there are some
limited areas where the rules can and should be the same, but many more areas
where, because of the many differences between our aircraft and competition
culture, it isn’t always going to be possible and we should maintain the
distinctions between the respective rules. Those include the use of goal lines
versus cylinders, FTV, ‘jump the gun’ rules, etc.

There is little to no reason to harmonize paragliding and hang
gliding GAP scoring.

2019 World Air Games: Stephane Malbos has met with the organizers
preparing a bid for the 2019 World Air Games in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. If
this bid wins, the organizers would like both hang gliding and paragliding
events to be included. However, in light of the specific goals of the WAG,
traditional cross-country events wouldn’t likely be suitable unless they were
modified to provide better visibility for spectators. The committee has been
discussing possible WAG-specific hang gliding events, such as match racing,
short/close distance cross country tasks, swooping and spot landing.

All for show.

Low Lockouts: After a fatal accident resulting from a low lockout
at a Category 2 competition in the US, the CIVL safety director opened the
discussion of improved aerotow release systems in competition. Although there
was a lot of good discussion surrounding safety, in the end it was agreed that
there were no new rule changes needed at this time.

This refers to the 2016 Quest Air Open (Part 2) and Jeff Bohl's
death. As the release system had nothing to do with the incident one wonders
what they discussed. I am assuming that they were aware of the cause of this
incident.

Referring to the 2017 World Championships in Brasilia:

In addition, the allocation procedure needs to be clarified as it
appears that at least some female pilots believe that the teams for Brasilia
will be X + 2 (x being the number of ‘overall pilots’ and 2 being spot
specifically reserved for female pilots). This was never the intention of the
organizers, nor was it approved or contemplated by the original bid. So, this
needs to be clarified and announced so that pilots/teams can plan for the event.

With so few women attending the pre-Worlds they haven't decided
what to do with them.

2018 Hang Gliding Class 5 Worlds and Class 1 Europeans: This event
was cancelled by the organizer due to lack of support/sponsorship. We are
currently looking for another organizer/bid for this Cat 1 event.

Sponsors? What are sponsors?

Following an issue that came up during the pre-worlds in Brasilia
this year, the Bureau and several experts have examined certain instruments and
determined that they may not meet the IGC requirements with respect to altitude
measurements recorded in the IGC file. It may be necessary to carefully review
the current approved flight instrument list to determine if some instruments
must be removed from the approved list unless and until changes are made so that
they conform with IGC recording rules.

This refers to the new Digifly instrument. I have looked very
closely at this matter especially the issues that occurred in the pre-Worlds
(thanks to the publishing of the IGC track logs). I doubt the work of their so
called experts, but there may indeed be an issue with the instrument in that it
has a feature that saves your track log and continues it if you have to reboot
it in the air.

Instrument Downloads The Bureau will bring a proposal that
requires the scorekeeper or competition official to download tracks to verify
all pilots’ flights during a Cat 1 event. This would specifically prohibit
competitors from emailing their tracklogs after a task. This is necessary
because we have found that it is not always possible to verify the legitimacy of
a track if it isn’t downloaded directly from the instrument.

Ridiculous. Use the validation programs.