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--- statutes:draft:membership [2012/08/31 13:59] – krishna
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 //Admission of new members//
+To be eligible to become a Member of the Association, any aspiring party, organisation or individual needs to send an application to the Secretary General of the Association to the address of the official seat. An email will suffice.
+The application shall be distributed to all Board members and Council delegates. If the application is not from an individual aspiring to become a Supporting Member, the application shall be published on the official website of the Association.
+The Secretary General sends a letter or email of acknowledgement of the application to the applicant, as well as the procedure that will be followed as regards its application. At the same time, the Secretary General sends general information on the Association, a copy of the Statutes and the Common Manifesto. The applicant is asked to confirm its consent to the contents of the Statutes and the Common Manifesto or to confirm that it shares in general the political goals of the Association, if the applicant applied for an Observer Member status which does not require to acknowledge the Common Manifesto. The applicant, if not an individual, should translate into English its own political programme and its Statutes, if the applicant is not a Supporting Member. If the applicant has less than 500 members, a summary of the structure of its party or organisation and its political programme in English will be sufficient. The applicant should further inform Association of the number of registered members, political representatives as well as the budget and accounts. The Association may request further information (e.g. a short history of the party of the applicant, competing Pirate parties, existing of a youth wing, informations about the electoral system of the state, country or region of the applicant etc.).
+The Secretary General and the Treasurer will assess these and other relevant informations and send the received documents and his recommendation to the other Board members, the Council members and publish them on the Association's website, if the documents received are non-confidential and publication would not be a breach of privacy. The Treasurer will give a recommendation on the amount of the membership fee. Where there is an existing Ordinary or Associate Member in the same country or politico-geographic region as the applicant, that Member shall be consulted on the application and its views included in the supporting documentation.
+If the Council members receive the recommendations and the adhering documents not later than a month before the next Council meeting, they shall vote on the application at the next Council meeting. The names of the applying parties, organisations or individuals on whose application the Council will vote shall be named in the agenda of the meeting sent to all Council members with the invitation to the next Council meeting. If this was not done, the non-attending Council members shall be allowed to send their vote on the applicants after the Council meeting.
+The membership is granted, if the Council decides on it with a two-third majority. The Council need not give reasons for accepting or rejecting applications. As soon as the decision of the Council is valid and the new member has paid its membership fee, it may exercise all its rights and is bound to all obligations of its membership.
+In Annex B to these Statutes all the member parties and member organisations are listed. A register of all the members will be kept at the registered office of the Association. This register lists the surname, first name, place of residence, date and place of birth of members or, in the case of legal persons or de facto associations, the name, legal form, address of the registered office, identity of the representative and, where applicable, the registration number in accordance with existing legislation and/or regulations. The list shall be updated every year by recording membership changes by name in alphabetical order. Any member of the association may consult the list of members at the association’s registered office free of charge. Third parties with an evident serious concern may request extracts, which shall be signed by the Secretary General and shall accordingly be brought to the attention of the persons concerned by letter or email from the Board.
+Within one month of announcement of the statutes, a list must be deposited with the registry of the civil court for the place where the association is established, recording the   name, legal form, address of the registered office, identity of the representative and, where applicable, the registration number in accordance with existing legislation and/or regulations of all the Ordinary members of the association in alphabetical order. The list shall be updated every year by recording membership changes by name in alphabetical order.
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 If a Member Party did not pay their due member fee for two consecutive years until the second year's annual Council meeting, they are deemed to have left the Association by resignation automatically.
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