The current Statutes and Bye-Laws were extensively re-written and approved at the Sydney GA in 2003 in order to streamline many of the processes of the IAU and to bring the IAU more into conformity with the structure of other ICSU unions. These revision have generally been well received, however there have been several changes to the Statutes and Bye-Laws that Individual Members and National Members have deemed desirable in the past three years and which have been brought to the attention of the EC.