===== Draft structure=====

===== PREAMBLE =====


===== GENERAL STATEMENTS =====

  * Purpose of the organization
  * Jurisdiction
  * Founding country
  

===== COMPETENCES =====
  * What to take care of?
    * Fund generation
    * Election support
  * What not to take care of?
    * Provide own candidates
    * Create programme on its own
  * Extension of competences  
  * Procedure in case of unlawful action

===== STRUCTURE =====

  * Board, chambers, secretaries, representatives, observers
  * Assembly procedure, 
  * Criteria for capability of making decisions
  * 


===== MEMBERSHIP =====
  * Membership classes with representation, competences and duties (founder, full, selected rights, observer,...)
  * Admission of new members
  * Termination of membership
  * how to register new members (e.g. who are not founding members)
  * how to unregister members? can everyone be unregistered?

===== VOTING MECHANISM =====
  * which election mode will be the best for the first assembly of the founding of PPEU?

===== ARBITRATION =====
  * Mediation
  * Court

===== PROGRAMME =====

  - what is the process for dealing with changes to a nation's programme? 
    - check conflicts / parallels
    - what is the criteria to make it "common"? Can everyone vote and call it so? At least 60% must agree (or no conflict sufficient?) to call it common?
  - should (changes to) national programmes be automatically proposed to PP-EU? Which fraction of it (e.g. if Luxembourg votes on a new bridge or Switzerland on increasing the toll fee for St. Gotthard that may not be of PP-EU interest)
  - should all proposals by any pirate be translated into other languages or should translation progress according to its acceptance?
    - what is the threshhold for translation into all languages? 15% acceptance in at least 25 % of the member countries?
     - what are the criteria to join subsume proposals?
   - what are the coordination areas and competences? Any decision power? 
     - At what time has one coordination terminated?


===== ELECTION SUPPORT =====



===== RESSOURCES =====
  * Funding
  * Fees
  * Distribution
  * Treasurer
  * Distributution of funds
  * Time consumption
  * Working staff / coordinators

===== DISSOLUTION =====


===== SIGNATORIES =====


===== AMENDMENTS =====
  * Links to relevant texts / laws
  * Excerpts of relevant texts / laws


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Other potential topics:

  - who declares the statutes and who might change the statutes in the future?
  - "code of conduct"? "pool of principles"?