Proposed revisions of the Statutes of the International Committee of Systematics of Prokaryotes

The following revisions of the Statutes (Labeda D, Whitman WB. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015;65:1093–1100) are proposed by the Executive Board of the International Committee of Systematics of Prokaryotes (ICSP) to eliminate some internal inconsistencies and address other issues as discussed below. Comments may be sent to the Secretary of the ICSP, Lenie Dijkshoom at [email protected] for distribution to the delegates at the Plenary Meeting in Valencia, Spain, on July 7–9, 2017.