Statutes
Friends of Greece
§ 1. Name and domicile
- The name of the association is Grækenlands venner – used with its
English name – Friends of Greece, abbreviated FoG.
- Its registered office is Sandbakken 2, 4550 Asnæs, the Municipality
of Odsherred, Denmark
- The association is International with members from Europe and other
countries.
§ 2. Purpose
- The purpose of the association is:
a. To help Greece and the Greek people in building a future for the Greek
society and its economic development
b. To assist Greece, independently of EU, the Greek and other governments
and independent of economic and political interests
c. To assist Greece to promote the country’s export, production, education
and health systems, and to engage its people actively in the future development
through studies, media, communication and international exchanges and
educations.
$ 3.
Membership
- As member is accepted everybody who has the desire and will to work
for the purpose of the association, independent of whether the person
lives in or outside Denmark, and it is aimed to create as international a
membership circle as possible.
- Entry as a member happens in writing by e-mail to the first
chairman of the association – Niels Jørgen Thøgersen – and is valid, when
the entry has been registered and confirmed by the chairman.
- Exit from the association happens in the same way by e-mail to the
chairman.
- The members pay currently no dues for the membership.
§ 4 The General Assembly
- The general assembly is the highest authority of the association.
- An ordinary general assembly takes place once a year before the end
of December and is and summoned with at least a three weeks’ notice
including agenda sent by e-mail to the members. The general assembly takes
place online through online communication systems like Skype, e-mail or in
other electronic form.
- Entitled to vote at the general assembly are all members who latest
the day before have had their membership confirmed.
- The agenda for the ordinary general assembly at least includes the
following points:
- Election of vote counters
- Election of chairperson for the meeting
- Report by the chairperson of the association
- Accounts
- Received proposals
- Approval of budget
- Election of chairperson for the association
- Election of deputy chairperson for the association
- Election of 3-7 members of the board and 2 substitutes
- Election of 2 auditors and 1 substitute
- Any other business.
- Proposals to be discussed at the general assembly must be received
by the board latest 8 days before the general assembly. Proposals for
changes of statutes, which are wished to be discussed must be received by
the board latest a month ahead the end of the month in which the ordinary
general assembly takes place
- The general assembly is moderated by a chairperson who may not be a
member of the board.
- The general assembly takes its decisions with simple majority (one
more than half of the the correctly given votes).
§ 5. First general assembly after the establishment
- First ordinary general association after the establishment has
besides the agenda in §4.4 as its primary tasks to:
·
Discuss and approve
revised, full and detailed statutes that will form the basis for the
association’s future work.
·
Discuss and approve a
plan of action for the first year after the general assembly and a strategy for
the association’s future work.
·
Elect chairman, deputy chairman and 3-7 other
members of the board as well as 2 substitutes
·
Elect the
association’s accountant and his/her substitute
- First ordinary general assembly after the establishment must take
place before the end of 2015.
§ 6. The management of the
association
- The management of the association is until the first general
assembly after the establishment constituted by the founders. Hereafter
the management of the association will be the board, which besides the
chairperson has 3-7 members. The Board is elected by the general assembly
for a 2-years period in such a way that each year three members are
elected.
- The board manages the association in accordance with the statutes
and the decisions of the general assembly.
- Latest 14 days after new elections to the board a constituting
meeting takes place, at which the board among its members elect a deputy
chairman, an accountant and a secretary. All positions will be valid until
next general assembly.
- The board decides about its own order of business and can establish
sub-committees and work groups to take care of defined tasks.
- The chairperson and in his/her absence the deputy chairperson
summons and leads the meetings of the board. Invitation to board meetings
take place in writing when the chairperson finds it necessary or when
three members of the board in writing expresses a wish to have a meeting
to the chairperson. In such cases the meeting must take place latest two
weeks after it has become known for the chairperson.
- The board has a quorum when at least half of its members take part
in the meeting. The meetings can take place online.
§ 7.
Economy, accounts and auditing
- The accounts of the association follow the calendar year.
- The board is responsible towards the general assembly for budget
and accounts
- The accounts of the association is managed by the accountant who
also manages the association’s registry of members.
- The accounts are audited by the auditors elected at the general assembly.
§ 8. Provisions of authority and liability
- The signature of the chairperson and at least one additional board
member commits the association. By entry of loans and by sale/pledging of
property the full board signs on behalf of the association. Until the
first ordinary general assembly after its establishment the association is
however committed through its chairperson and one additional founder.
- There is no personal liability for the members of the association to the commitments made by the association.
§ 9. Dissolve
- The association can be dissolved by a majority of 2/3 at a general
assembly.
- By dissolve the actives of the association are given to another
association with a non-profit purpose and in accordance with the decisions
of the general assembly.
§ 10. Date
- As agreed at the founding general assembly for the association the
22.8.2015
Signature of the chairperson of the meeting
Bent
Nørby Bonde
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