The General Assembly Clause Examples

The General Assembly. 4.1 The General Assembly, hereinafter “GA” is the governing and decision-making body of the GENERA Network. Each Member may appoint one representative on the GA. 4.2 The GA elects a chairperson, hereinafter “Chair”, from the Membership in the GA for a term of two years. Re-election of the Chair will be possible, but not for consecutive terms. The GA may elect a Deputy Chair among the Membership of the GA to serve on the same terms as the Chair. The Chair will be supra partes and will not have a right to vote. 4.3 The GA shall be convened face-to-face or remotely by the Chair at least once a year. 4.4 Quorum is met with participation or representation of at least half of the Members. 4.5 Quorum is required for the GA to deliberate or make a decision.

The General Assembly. Composition

The General Assembly. 1. The General Assembly shall be the highest decision-making body of ATAF. It shall meet at least once every financial year. 2. The General Assembly shall consist of the Heads of the Tax Administrations of the Parties or their authorized representatives. 3. The powers and responsibilities of the General Assembly are to: (a) elect the Chairperson, Vice Chairperson, and members of the Council; (b) approve or amend the future Work Programmes and annual budget as proposed by the Council; (c) note the appointment and conditions of service of the Secretariat, and the extension or termination of the employment of the Executive Secretary, by the Council; (d) receive, consider and adopt, with or without modification, reports from the Council on the activities of ATAF since the last General Assembly, incorporating audited annual accounts for each year under review which shall be certified by the External Auditors; (e) approve or amend the minutes of the previous General Assembly; (f) consider and approve the financial report for the past year; (g) review annual Membership fees and Associate Membership fees; (h) amend this Agreement; (i) approve and amend the Rules and Procedures; (j) review the decisions of the Council; (k) provide the Council with the mandate to engage with Development Partners on the financing of ATAF Work Programmes; (l) approve the admission requests for membership of ATAF submitted by the Council; (m) take note of the termination of membership; (n) approve the venue of every annual General Assembly; (o) provide a platform for discussions on tax-related technical areas; (p) delegate to the Council such authority necessary to facilitate the operation of the affairs of ATAF between meetings of the General Assembly; (q) deal with any other issues relating to the objectives of ATAF; and (r) decide on the dissolution of ATAF in terms of the provisions of Article 26.

The General Assembly. 4.1 The General Assembly is the strategic, decision-making and supervisory body of APPEC. 4.2 Each Participating Institution of APPEC may appoint one (1) representative to the General Assembly (hereafter “Partner of the GA”). The representative will normally be the director of its major astroparticle physics Institute/Agency or a manager of a major national astroparticle physics program/funding agency. The Participating Institution reserves the right to change its representative to the General Assembly at any time. The Chairperson of the Scientific Advisory Committee and the General Secretary shall be invited to attend the meetings of the General Assembly without voting rights. The legal entities having acquired the observer status according to article 8 of the MoU shall attend the meeting of the General Assembly without voting rights.

The General Assembly. The General Assembly shall be the representative body of all the members of the IFSB referred to in Article 6.

The General Assembly. 4.1 The General Assembly is the strategic, decision-making and supervisory body of APPEC. 4.2 Each Participating Institution of APPEC may appoint one (1) representative to the General Assembly (hereafter “Partner of the GA”). The representative will normally be the director of its major astroparticle physics Institute/Agency or a manager of a major national astroparticle physics program/funding agency. The Participating Institution reserves the right to change its representative to the General Assembly at any time. 4.3 The General Assembly will elect a Chairperson among the Partners of the GA (hereafter “Chairperson of APPEC”) to serve for two years. Re-election will be possible once, including consecutively. 4.4 The General Assembly shall be convened by its Chairperson at least twice a year. 4.5 The General Assembly may invite international organizations and other appropriate nonPartner organizations with which APPEC shares common objectives and which have not acquired the observer status according to article 8, to attend the meetings with an advisory role.

The General Assembly. 6.2.1 The General Assembly shall consist of one representative of each Party (hereinafter referred to as “Member”). 6.2.2 Each Member shall be deemed to be duly authorised to deliberate, negotiate and decide on all matters listed in Article 6.3.6 of this Consortium Agreement. 6.2.3 The General Assembly decides about a chairperson that shall chair all the meetings. If no such decision is made, the Coordinator shall be the Chairperson and chair all meetings of the General Assembly. 6.2.4 The Parties agree to abide by all decisions of the General Assembly. 6.2.5 This does not prevent the Parties from submitting a dispute for resolution in accordance with the provisions of settlement of disputes in Article 11.8 of this Consortium Agreement.

The General Assembly. The General Assembly is the Supreme Organ of the Organization and it is make up by Full Members, Associate Members and Permanent Observers. The General assembly shall meet at least once a year without prejudice of gathering in Special Sessions requested by the Executive Council or by a decision taken by a majority of Full Members. 1. To establish the general policy of the Organization. 2. To elect the seat of the Organization whose representative will assume the Presidency 3. To elect the other members of the Executive Council. 4. To determine the location for the Sessions of the General Assembly. 5. To approve the budget for the following year. 6. To establish the ways in which Full, Associate Members or cooperating entities shall contribute to the Organization. 7. To give opinion about the Annual Activities Report submitted by the Executive Council. 8. To give opinion about the Annual Financial Report submitted by the Executive Council. 9. To give opinion about the Working Plan programmed for the following year. 10. To approve or reject the accession of new members. 11. To approve the regulation of this Establishment Agreement, the rules of procedure for the conduction of its sessions, amendments, as well as, the regulations as it deems necessary. 12. To approve amendments to the provisions of this Establishment Agreement. 13. To approve the dissolution of the Organization in accordance with the provisions established in this Agreement. The reports referred by in this article, which must be submitted to the General Assembly for any kind of pronouncement, shall be distributed among Full Members, thirty calendar days before the relevant Session.

The General Assembly. Responsibility: The General Assembly is the decision-making body of the Consortium. Decision power will extend to all important issues, in particular: Composition: The General Assembly will consist of one representative of each Party. The Coordinator will chair all meetings of the General Assembly, unless otherwise decided by the General Assembly.