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May 17, 2013.

Executive Summary from the Interbull Steering Committee

An Interbull Steering Committee (SC) web and conference call occurred on April 22, 2013. Main discussion points and decisions are summarized below.

GMACE Implementation

As previously advertised, GMACE regular services will start being offered in conjunction with the August 2013 routine run and more details about this important implementation are given here:

Publication Policy Proposal

The “Guidelines for minimum requirements for advertising genetic merit of dairy animals” was reviewed to include publication of GMACE results and it is available at https://wiki.interbull.org/public/CoPAppendixV?action=print&rev=7.

Budget for GMACE

Adding GMACE to the service portfolio significantly increases the workload at the Interbull Centre. Therefore, the Steering Committee approved a modification to the service fees in order to cover the associated costs. The adopted fees are expressed in Table 1.

Table 1. Fee per service category expressed as a proportion of the fee for MACE - production traits.

MACE

GEBV test + Truncated MACE

GMACE

Production

Conformation

Udder Health

Longevity

Calving

Female Fertility

Workability

1.00

0.30

0.15

0.15

0.15

0.20

0.05

0.15

0.35

Additional information:

New Service Contract

As new items are added to the Interbull service portfolio, a new service contract template was approved by the SC to replace the current contracts and agreements between the service users and the Interbull Centre. The proposed text aims to:

The new service contract is meant to replace all the current contracts and agreements which will be considered no longer valid after November 30, 2013. The template for the new contract can be found at https://wiki.interbull.org/public/New%20Service%20Contract%202013?action=print.

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