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Membership Bylaws

With the current legal status of the  Europe of Cultures Forum: Adriatic & Ionian Chapter as a non-profit civil organisation, full members of the Forum are considered, formally, only the founding partners of the non-profit civil organisation. Until the final modification of the charter all perspective members are classified provisionally as “Provisional Members”, who include all the supporting members, friends and supporters of the organisation. The provisional members when th statutes are official will be automatically transferred in the appropriate member categories to be defined by the new charter. i.e.

• Regular Members (Individual or Corporate)
• Youth - Studens

Provisional Members Bylaws (July 2008)

Today besides the partner-members, there is a provision for the existence of provisional members which include all persons / entities (physical or legal) among friends, supporters and volunteers, that may be any person regardless of sex, age, nationality, or even legal entities or groups with an assigned representative, regardless of nationality, that satisfy the following criteria:

• They are actively contributing or/and are interested in the objectives and aims of the organisation, or related to them, which they accept in their entirety.
• They are willing to work voluntarily for the implementation of the aims of the organisation.
• They accept the universally acknowledged ethical and cultural principles, values and human rights.

For someone to become a provisional member of the organisation, he or she must introduce an application to the Board of the organisation, specifying the category for which he/she applies:

Members categories

The new adjustments concerning the members of the citizen group “Europe of Cultures Forum: Adriatic & Ionian Chapter”, are as follows:

MEMBERS

The members of the organisation are classified in three categories:

A) Regular Members, which according to their origin are either individuals or legal entities or groups.

The following can become regular members:

Individual regular member

• Every individual regardless of sex, age, nationality as long as:

• They are actively contributing or/and are interested in the objectives and aims of the organisation, or related to them, which they accept in their entirety.
• They are willing to work voluntarily for the implementation of the aims of the organisation.
• They accept the universally acknowledged ethical and cultural principles, values and human rights.
• They submit a individual member application form that is accepted by the Board and is validated by the General Assembly of the regular members.
• They regularly pay their annual fees.

Collegial regular member

• Every legal entity or association of individuals with an assigned representative, that expresses his interest for the objectives of the organisation and supports its efforts by whatever means, as long as:

• They - as an entity, accept the universally acknowledged ethical and cultural principals and values and human rights.
• They submit a collegial member application form that is accepted by the Board and is validated by the General Assembly of the regular members.
• They regularly pay their fees.

Regular member registration procedure

 Submission of written application to the Board. In the application, the following information must be specified:

• I.D. Information
• A brief resume
• Home/Contact address

The Board  of the organisation is obliged to discuss the application in its first meeting and no later than thirty days after the date of application's submission. If the perspective member fulfils the criteria set by the law and the organisation's charter, the Board is obliged to approve the application and proceed to the registration of the new member.

If the application is rejected or the thirty day limit is exceeded, the applicant can form an appeal in the One-Member Court of First Instance within one month from the announcement of the rejection or the thirty days expiration.

The member status is acquired after the decision of the Board or the finalisation of the decision that directs the registration.

B)  Honorary Members are the individuals or associations that have been recommended by a member of the Board and have been approved by the General Assembly of the partners, due to their distinction in matters related to the objectives of the organisation. Honorary members, while they are not regular member, can participate in the General Assemblies; can express their opinions only in a consultative manner without the right to vote. Honorary members are either individuals or legal entities or groups of individuals with assigned representative that pursue aims related to those of the organisation.

C)  Student and Youth Members

Every individual regardless of sex, nationality, between the age of 18 and 28, as long as they:

They submit a Youth member registration application that is accepted by the administration of the organisation.

Payments ame preferably made by bank transfer to our bank account:

EFG Eurobank : GR1102603740000720200074858

To become a Member please download the Membership Application Form for obtaining the "Membership Application Form" please click here.