Meeting Method Clause Samples

Meeting Method. Biennial general meetings will normally be held face to face, but business may also be conducted under urgency through teleconference (a meeting method in which signatories simultaneously join an active method of communication such as teleconference), or electronic polling (a meeting method in which signatories either vote to agree or disagree with a proposal put to the vote). Mentee The jurisdiction being mentored which is committed to gaining provisional status or become a signatory of one or more of the Accords. Mentor A signatory assigned by the Committee to act on behalf of an Accord and work with an applicant through a program of visits and advice in order to assist the applicant with its progress to provisional status and / or to being a signatory subsequently. The term ‘mentor’ may also refer to mentoring team appointed by the Committee of the relevant Accord. The mentoring team will consist of two or three representatives from full signatories of the Accord to which the mentee is committed to applying for provisional status or to become a signatory. Note: a Mentor can act as a Nominator but not as a Reviewer. Mentoring A process by which an appointed mentoring team provides support and guidance to an accreditation / recognition body that wishes to apply for provisional status or to become a signatory to one or more of the Accords. The mentoring role will focus on providing advice and guidance on the accreditation / recognition policies and procedures and education standards of the mentee so that the mentee is given every opportunity, on application, to gain provisional status or become a signatory of the relevant Accord. Monitoring The process by which an existing signatories accreditation / recognition system is evaluated by other signatories to ensure that it is still substantially equivalent to other signatories. Nominator A Nominator shall have detailed knowledge of an applicant’s accreditation / recognition system. By choosing to act as a nominator the signatory concerned is stating that in its opinion the applicant’s accreditation / recognition system meets the criteria for admission to provisional status. In support of its nomination it shall supply other signatories with information on how its appraisal that led to the decision to nominate was performed. Provisional Status An applicant will achieve provisional status having demonstrated that the accreditation / recognition system for which it has responsibility appears to be conceptually s...