STATUTE

Art. 1
Name, headquarters and duration of the Organization

A free international association is constituted in Rome, with the headquarters in Rome care of C.E.U., Via Antonio Bertoloni 29, whose name shall be "IUS PRIMI VIRI" and whose acronym shall be IPV, herein referred to as IPV or the Association. The duration of IPV shall be unlimited.

Art. 2
Aim

The Association is non profit making and is neither related nor supported by any political party and is open to all the citizens of the world when they, overcoming all political, ideological and economic barriers, intend to cooperate towards the integration of people and propose adequate instruments to political institutions for the implementation of joint programs not only in Europe but throughout the world. The Association is based on the "Declaration of Intents for a Joint Strategy" by Michele Trimarchi and Luciana Luisa Papeschi which is annexed as corollary to this Statute.
Every member undertakes to co-operate actively in the pursuit of the principles formulated in the Declaration.

Art.3
Activities

The Association shall pursue its aims through any initiative aimed at achieving its ends such as conferences and seminars, lectures, studies, research projects, scientific consultation to graduate and post-graduate university institutes and rely on the integrated studies and advice offered by C.E.U. (Centre for Human Evolutions Studies).
Standing Study Committees shall be instituted on the following issues:
- justice
- education
-health
-environment
-economics
-politics
-labour
The Steering Committee may institute new commissions, committees or advisory or technical departments whenever it might deem necessary.

Art.4
Membership

The underwriters of the Memorandum of the Association constitute the Founding Members.
The Steering Committee may also grant the status of Founding Member to those who, having contributed with their active participation to the constitution of the Association, apply for it within 30 days from the date at which the Memorandum of Association was stipulated.People expressing or sharing interest in the Association's aims can apply for membership as Ordinary Members if deemed to be deserving from a human, social, scientific and cultural standpoint by the Steering Committee and subsequently their membership must be ratified by the General Assembly.
The Steering Committee can also appoint Honorary Members among people deserving special merit. The appointment must subsequently be submitted to ratification by the General Assembly. People interested in the activity of the Association can apply for membership as Supporters to the Steering Committee which must subsequently be ratified by the General Assembly.
The Steering Committee can also grant the status of Contributing Member to people who might have acquired very high merits by contributing work to the Association, services or assets of particular importance for the implementation of the institutional aims.
The above-listed status of members do not require the member to be a natural person. The status of Founding Member, Contributing Member, Ordinary or Supporting Member can also be granted to Corporations or to different types of organizations, whether they be public or private, in individual or group representations of an office as long as they legally hold title to do so in compliance with internal rules and regulations.
The organization that is granted membership to the "Ius Primi Viri" Association can exercise rights and duties envisaged in the foregoing Statute through its legal representative.
The Founding, Ordinary and Supporting Members are held to pay annual fee in the amount and terms set by the General Assembly. Should a member not fulfill his/her financial duties, the Board of Arbiters will be entitled to suspend them from exercising their rights.
The Founding and the Contributing Members are entitled to hold permanent membership in the General Assembly.
All Ordinary Members are members of the General Assembly for the first phase of application of the foregoing Statute that is due to last two years. Subsequently, the Ordinary Members shall be represented in the General Assembly for the exercise of their rights by their representatives who shall be appointed for four-year terms.
The procedure for the appointment of the Ordinary Members' representatives as well as their number shall comply with a special regulation issued by the Steering Committee and ratified by the General Assembly. Honorary and Supporting Members are not members of the Assembly although they are entitled to attend and speak without however having the right to vote.

Art. 5
Withdrawal and expulsion of members

Membership cannot be transferred either mortis causa or inter vivos.
Members can withdraw from the Association after having submitted a written statement to the President and withdrawal becomes effective at the end of the year of membership during which it was requested.
The expulsion of a Member can be ratified by the General Assembly
with a majority of votes with the attendance of at least 50% of all the members in the following cases:
a) for inequivocal indifference to the Association
b) for incompatibility with the aims of the Association
c) for behaviour that might be detrimental to the Association and, more generally; for serious reasons or violations of Art. 2 of the Statute.
The expulsion resolution shall become effective only after official written notice has been submitted to the Member by the Board of Arbiters which - prior to possible precautionary suspension for reasons of serious incompatibility - once the term (not less than 5 days) granted to the Member in order to rebut the accusation has expired, and having evaluated any eventual justification for the member's behaviour, may decide, on the basis of a majority of votes, not to proceed if the claims made against the member appear to be obviously ungrounded; in the opposite case, it shall proceed to a timely presentation of the issue to the General Assembly, which shall convene to this purpose and which then deliberates with the majority of votes envisaged in Sub-section 3 of this Article.
The withdrawn or expelled members cannot claim repayment of the fees nor do they hold title to the mutual funds.

Art. 6
Organization of the Association

The Association shall comprise the following bodies:
- The General Assembly;
- The Steering Committee;
- The President of the Steering Committee;
- The Vice President;
- The Secretary General;
- The Assistant to the Secretary general;
- The Executive Committee;
- The Board of Arbiters;
- The Local Delegations;
- The International Committee of the Secretaries of the Delegations;
- The Standing Study Committees.

Art. 7
General Assembly

The General Assembly, in addition to the Founding and Constituting Members, shall also comprise Ordinary Members or their designated representatives in compliance with Art. 4, subsection 7.
The General Assembly shall be the deliberating body of the Association. It shall decide on the Association's general strategies and approve the budget and balance.
The General Assembly is to be convened at least once a year, within three months from the beginning of every fiscal year.
The General Assembly can also be convened by the Steering or Executive Committees whenever deemed necessary or when a request is motioned by a tenth of the General Assembly itself or by the majority of the Board of Arbiters regarding issues of its competence.

Art. 8
General Assembly Resolutions

The General Assembly shall deliberate with a majority of the votes and with at least a 50% attendance of its members; in the second convocation, which can be set also in the course of the same day as the first, the resolution shall be valid whatever the rate of attendance.
In order to amend the Statute of the Memorandum of Association, it is necessary to have an attendance of at least a third of the members of the General Assembly and a two-third majority vote.
In order to decide on the dissolution of the Association - due either to the impossibility of achieving its aims or to the incompatibility between its activities and the statutory ends -on the liquidation and disposal of the mutual fund and assets according to the forthcoming Art. 18, it is necessary to have an attendance equal to four-fifths of the Assembly and a unanimous vote of the members convened.
Notice of the convocation of the Assembly - containing the date, time and place of the meeting and the agenda - must be given at least 15 days in advance and hung on the Association's notice board for all the members to see or sent by letter or printed by bulletin periodically issued by the Association for those members who live outside the Association's municipal jurisdiction.
Members shall be able to delegate other members to represent them in a General Assembly by means of a written proxy. No one member shall receive more than two such proxies.
The Assembly shall be presided over by the President of the Association or by someone appointed by him.
The President of the Assembly shall be sided by the Assistant to the Secretary General or, in his absence, by a person appointed by the Assembly.
The minutes of the Assembly shall be recorded in the Book of Assembly Meetings.

Art. 9
The Association's Steering Committee and President

The Association shall be presided over by a Steering Committee that is elected by the Assembly and comprises two members who, in view of their impartiality and proven scientific competence, might be judged capable of fulfilling all the tasks aimed at achieving the Association's institutional ends and of guaranteeing the Association's compliance with its stated strategy over time and space.
The Steering Committee shall implement the Association's strategy by promoting and co-ordinating its activities. It shall analyse the most suitable ways of implementing the aims of the Association and disclose them to both the Executive Committee and the General Assembly.
The Steering Committee shall issue the internal regulation of the Association. The Steering Committee shall be elected for a four-year term and may be re-elected.
The members of the Steering Committee may also be designated sine die in consideration of special merits except for the case of annulment for unfulfillment of the abovementioned prerequisites for appointment.
In order to appoint or annul the appointment of the Steering Committee, the General Assembly must pass a resolution with the attendance of at least two-thirds of its members and a majority vote of two-thirds of the Assembly. The members of the Steering Committee shall also be by right members of the Executive Committee.
Ordinary, Supporting and Honorary Members of the Association shall be appointed following a motion of the Steering Committee which is subsequently passed by the Assembly. The Steering Committee shall designate one of its members to be President who constitutes the competent body to act on behalf of the Association.
The President of the Steering Committee shall preside over the Executive Committee.
The President shall work and supervise with the most appropriate means to guarantee compliance with and enforcement of the statutory norms, the achievement of the Association's aims and strategies also by means of special appointments.

Art. 10
The Vice President

The Vice President shall be apppointed by the Steering Committee among its members.
The Vice President is appointed for a two-year term and can be re-elected.
The Vice President shall fulfill the tasks assigned to him by the Steering Committee within the limits set by the power of authority.
He shall also be member by right of the Executive Committee. More than one Vice President can be appointed.

Art, 11
The Secretary General

The Secretary General shall be appointed by the Association's Steering Committee.
The Secretary General shall be appointed for a two-year term and can be re-elected.
He shall be member by right of the Executive Committee. He shall promote and maintain the public relations of the Association in view of keeping it efficient.
He shall also supervise the internal organization of the Association.

Art.12
Assistant to the Secretary general

The Assistant to the Secretary General shall be appointed by the Association's Steering Committee. He shall be appointed for a two-year term and can be re-elected.
His tasks shall include the keeping of the minutes of the Assembly and keeping record of the administrative documents as well as fulfilling any other bureaucratic task connected to the Association's institutional activity. He shall be a member by right of the Executive Committee.

Art. 13
Executive Committee

The Executive Committee shall be composed by the members of the Steering Committee, the Vice President, the Secretary General and the Assistant to the Secretary General and by two members of the General Assembly that are appointed by the latter every two years.
The Executive Committee shall be presided over by the President of the Association.
Its task shall be to administer the Association and thus to formulate the annual budget and report on its managment to the Assembly.
The Esecutive Committee may delegate part or all of its tasks to one or more of its memebers.
The Executive Committee shall adopt its own internal and financial regulation.

Art. 14
Board of Arbiters

The Board of Arbiters is made up of three Association members, at least one of which should be an expert in legal matters. They are appointed by the Assembly with the majority of votes envisaged in Art. 9, subsection 7 of this same Statute.
The Board of Arbiters shall settle any dispute that may arise between the members connected to the Association's activities and it fulfills the duties envisaged in Art. 5 of this Statute. The Board of Arbiters shall rule with a majority vote of all its members. The members shall hold office for a two-year term and can be re-elected.
The Arbiters cannot exercise any other duty within the Association.

Art. 15
Local Delegations

Local Delegations are instituted by means of an act of the Steering Committee and are aimed at promoting the Association's relations with local authorities and implement its ends in a capillary way.
The Steering Committee shall regulate the internal organization of the single Delegations, in strict compliance with the Italian and international currency restrictions and in consideration of the peculiarity of the local situations. It shall also appoint a Delegation Secretary and assign him the tasks necessary to achieve the Association's aims within the particular territorial frame work.
The power of authority of the local Delegation's Secretary shall be restricted to the territorial framework of the single Delegation and shall be specifically determined in the deed of appointment.

Art. 16
Internationsal Committee of the Secretaries of the Delegations.

It shall comprise the Secretaries of each one of the local Delegations and it shall co-ordinate the Association's international activities.
The single members of the International Committee of the Secretaries of the Delegations can delegate representatives by written proxy to attend the meetings convened by the President of the Association.

Art. 17
Income and revenues

The revenues of the Association are represented by the annual membership fees which are set by the General Assembly and any possible proceeds from the Association's activities, from donations or legacies on the part of members or third parties, from subsidies allocated by public organizations or private corporations, from research and project-oriented funding. The Association's property shall be constituted by all its assets. It shall be administered by the Executive Committee in full compliance with the Association's aims. Any surplus profit on the annual balance of the Association shall be re-invested in the following fiscal year in view of improving and enhancing the Association's activities without however dividing any of the surplus out among the members. The single member cannot request division of the mutual fund or assets.
The Association's balance sheet shall be annually submitted to the approval of the General Assembly in compliance with the provisions set out by the financial regulation. The Executive Committee shall submit to the General Assembly any request for extraordinary interventions entailing greater allocations that are provided for by the budget.

Art. 18
Liquidation or termination

In case of liquidation or termination of the Association, the remaining assets shall be transferred in favour of similar purposes with a resolution of the General Assembly with the majority of votes as envisaged in Art. 8, subsection three of the foregoing Statute.

Art. 19

The Founding, Ordinary, Honorary and Suppporting Members shall offer their services in the achievement of the Association's aims free of charge. It will however be possible to apply for refund for expenses borne in the pursuit of institutional activities prior to authority from the Executive Committee.

Art. 20

The Association can award recognitions and awards.

Art. 21

For anything not specifically provided for in the foregoing Statute reference should be made to the civil code and all other legal provisions currently in force.

REGULATION FOR THE ELECTION OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ORDINARY MEMBERS AT THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

The Steering Committee shall open elections for the representatives of the Ordinary Members at the General Assembly at least sixty days prior to the date of expiry of the term of office of the Ordinary Members' representatives.
The voting procedures shall have to be concluded within sixty days after the date of expiry.
An Election Board shall be set up within the Board of Arbiters with the task of supervising, regulating and activating election operations and shall be composed of the members of the Board of Arbiters themselves.
A single international Election Board shall be set up for the election of the representatives of the Ordinary Members.
All Ordinary Members can take part in the election of their representatives at the General Assembly.
The elections take place by personal, free and secret vote. The number of the representatives of the Ordinary Members shall be in the proportion of one for every one hundred Ordinary Members, following the official numbers provided by the Association. In order to determine the number of representatives, the overall number of Ordinary Members is rounded off to the higher hundred.
The candidatures of the Ordinary member's representatives shall be submitted, also in separate documents, to the Election Board by no less than three members between the twentieth and the tenth day prior to the election date. No elector shall be able to vote for more than one candidate.
The candidatures shall be accompanied by statements of acceptance signed by the candidates.
The votes shall be expressed on forms containing the names of all the candidates.
The voter shall bar out the name or the box containing the name of the candidate whom he wants to elect with a pencil. The candidates receiving the largest number of votes shall be declared elected until the number of Ordinary Member's representatives is reached in compliance with provisions made in foregoing subsection seven.
In case of parity, the candidate with higher membership seniority shall be elected representative.
The implementation procedure relative to the foregoing regulation shall be issued by the Board of Arbiters.

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