<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div>On 8/18/14, 7:33 PM, "Tom Dale" &lt;<a href="mailto:tom@acig.com.au">tom@acig.com.au</a>&gt; wrote:</div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div><br></div><blockquote id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE" style="BORDER-LEFT: #b5c4df 5 solid; PADDING:0 0 0 5; MARGIN:0 0 0 5;"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Dear Alissa
<div><br></div><div>On behalf of the GAC Chair, please find attached a reply to the ICG's correspondence of 18 July 2014.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Regards<br><div><span class="x_Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Century Gothic'; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:normal; letter-spacing:normal; line-height:normal; orphans:2; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px"><span class="x_Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-variant:normal; letter-spacing:normal; line-height:normal; orphans:2; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class="x_Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-variant:normal; letter-spacing:normal; line-height:normal; orphans:2; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class="x_Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-variant:normal; letter-spacing:normal; line-height:normal; orphans:2; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class="x_Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-variant:normal; letter-spacing:normal; line-height:normal; orphans:2; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class="x_Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-variant:normal; letter-spacing:normal; line-height:normal; orphans:2; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px"><div style="margin-top:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm; margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font class="x_Apple-style-span" color="#1f497d"><br class="x_Apple-interchange-newline"><span class="x_Apple-style-span" style="font-size:12px">Tom Dale</span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm; margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125); font-size:12px">ACIG GAC Secretariat</span></div><div style="margin-top:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm; margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125); font-size:12px"><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm; margin-bottom:0.0001pt"></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></span></div></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div><span class="x_Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Century Gothic'; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:normal; letter-spacing:normal; line-height:normal; orphans:2; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px"><span class="x_Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-variant:normal; letter-spacing:normal; line-height:normal; orphans:2; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class="x_Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-variant:normal; letter-spacing:normal; line-height:normal; orphans:2; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class="x_Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-variant:normal; letter-spacing:normal; line-height:normal; orphans:2; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class="x_Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-variant:normal; letter-spacing:normal; line-height:normal; orphans:2; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class="x_Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-variant:normal; letter-spacing:normal; line-height:normal; orphans:2; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px"><div style="margin-top:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm; margin-bottom:0.0001pt"></div><div style="margin-top:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm; margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125); font-size:12px">&nbsp;</span></div><div style="margin-top:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm; margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">ACIG - Australian Continuous Improvement Group</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(54,95,145)"></span></div><div style="margin-top:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm; margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span class="x_Apple-style-span" style="font-size:12px"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(31,73,125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