Rules
Pursuant to Article 6.2, Paragraph 5 of the By-Laws of the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce, at their correspondence session held on December 8th, 2015, the members of the Direct Selling Association adopted the following
RULES ON THE ORGANISATION AND WORK OF
THE DIRECT SELLING ASSOCIATION
Article 1
The Rules on the organisation and work of the Direct Selling Association (hereinafter: the Rules) regulate the organisation and work of the Direct Selling Association (hereinafter: the Association) within the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce.
Article 2
The Association operates under the following name:
Slovenian Chamber of Commerce
Direct Selling Association.
Its registered office shall be in Ljubljana.
When co-operating with international partners and organisations, the Association shall use the following name:
Slovenian Chamber of Commerce
Direct Selling Association.
Article 3
The Association shall use the stamp of the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce.
Article 4
The members have founded the Association with the following goals:
Article 5
The Association will achieve its goals by:
Article 6
The work of the Association and its bodies shall be public and the Association shall inform its members through invitations, notices, minutes and available media within the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce.
III. MEMBERSHIP
Article 7
Membership in the Association is voluntary. Members of the Association can become economic operators which registered direct selling in their activity portfolio.
The Association shall have:
The candidates for membership must submit the following:
1. Written application for membership in the Association;
2. Copy from the court register (firm, activity, company reg. no., director);
3. Statement on activity sub-group (goods group);
4. Total number of full-time employees as at the day of filing the membership application;
5. Number of direct sellers and agents in direct selling;
6. Name of representative in the association;
7. Date of introduction of direct selling;
8. Copy of purchase agreement used in direct selling (door-to-door selling);
9. Evidence of paid membership fee.
The application shall be deemed complete if all attachments specified in Paragraph 3 hereunder and the statements stipulated by Article 8 of the Rules have been enclosed.
The President of the Association shall check the completeness of the application. The President of the Association shall submit the application of a candidate that meets the prescribed criteria to the Board of Members which shall decide on the admission of the candidate by a 2/3 majority of votes of those present at the Board meeting.
Regular members of the Association
To be admitted as regular member, a candidate for membership must meet the following conditions:
Article 8
The members of the Association must:
Upon admission to the Association, a candidate must sign a statement on acceptance of the Rules on the organisation and work of the Direct Selling Association and the European Direct Selling Code of Conduct. The admission fee is the membership fee for the first year of membership in the Association.
Article 9
Regular members of the Association
Regular members of the Association shall have the right to:
Regular members of the Association shall have the obligation to:
• Meet the duties stipulated by these Rules and the resolutions adopted by the bodies of the Association;
• Participate in the work of the Association;
• Regularly pay the membership fee;
• Provide data to the Association to facilitate its work.
Article 10
Associated members / Service providers of the Association
Associated members are legal companies who are the members of the Chamber of Commerce and direct selling is not the part of their business within the registered businesses but they offer services which support and encourage the work of regular members of the DSA.
The candidates for membership must submit the following:
1. Written application for membership in the Association;
2. Copy from the court register (firm, activity, company reg. no., director);
3. Name of representative in the association;
4. Evidence of paid membership fee.
The President of the Association shall check the completeness of the application. The President of the Association shall submit the application of a candidate that meets the prescribed criteria to the Board of Members which shall decide on the admission of the candidate by a 2/3 majority of votes of those present at the Board meeting.
Associated members of the Association shall have the right to:
Associated members of the Association shall have the obligation to:
Article 11
The membership in the Association shall be terminated in the following cases:
Article 12
A member that no longer wishes to participate in the work of the Association shall inform the Association of its voluntary exit in writing. Membership shall be terminated at the end of the calendar year in which the Association received a written notice of the member’s exit.
Article 13
A member that has severely violated the Rules or the resolutions adopted by the bodies of the Association, the European Direct Selling Code of Conduct or whose actions have damaged the work or reputation of the Association in relation to state authorities or the public can be excluded from the Association.
A resolution on the exclusion of a member shall be adopted if 2/3 of the members present at the meeting of the Association Board vote in favour of it. The date of the termination of membership shall be determined in the resolution.
Article 14
Membership in the Association shall be automatically terminated on the day a member failed to comply with the provisions from Articles 7, 8 and 10 hereof. In such case, the Board of Members shall adopt a declaratory resolution at its next meeting.
Article 15
Following the termination of membership in the Association, the member shall have no right to file any claims in relation to the Association’s assets or refund of the membership fee for the current calendar year.
Article 16
The Association shall have:
Board of Members
Article 17
Board of Members of the Association is the highest body of the Association. It shall be composed of the representatives of all members of the Association.
Article 18
The Board of Members shall have the following competences:
Article 19
The Board of Members of the Association shall meet at least once a year. It shall be conducted by the President of the Association or the Deputy President, if the former is absent.
The Board of Members shall be convened by the President of the Association upon own initiative or upon the request of at least 1/3 of the members.
The Board of Members shall have quorum if more than one half of members are present.
Each member of the Association shall have one vote. A resolution shall be adopted if more than one half of the members present vote in favour of it, unless otherwise stipulated by these Rules. Board voting shall be public. Minutes shall be kept of the work of the Board Members and shall be signed by the chair. In exceptional cases, the Board may convene a correspondence meeting.
President and Deputy President
Article 20
The Association shall have a President and a Deputy President.
The President and Deputy President of the Association shall be elected by the Board of Members.
President and Deputy President shall be elected for a term of office of two years, with unlimited possibility of re-election.
Article 21
The President of the Association shall have the following competences:
If absent, the President of the Association shall be substituted by the Deputy President.
Article 22
The administrative, technical and coordination tasks shall perform the Secretary General of the Association. If the Association doesn’t has the Secretary General, the administrative, technical and coordination tasks for the Association shall perform the Chamber of Commerce.
Article 23
The special membership fee paid by the members of the Association shall be used for financing the Association’s activities which are not the usual services provided by the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce and are thus not included in its annual action plan and budget, in particular:
Article 24
The Association shall have the following sources of funding:
The annual action plan and cost budget or the amount of membership fee shall be adopted by the Board of Members of the Association.
Article 25
The members of the Association undertake to regularly pay the membership fee for the membership in the Association. Changed membership fee shall apply as of the month following the adoption of the resolution by the bodies of the Association.
If a member of the Association, in spite of being reminded, fails to regularly pay the membership fee or its share of costs for individual agreed activities, its membership shall be terminated.
Article 26
The Slovenian Chamber of Commerce shall in the context of its activities provide adequate rooms for the occasional meetings of the Association, administrative and technical assistance and accounting services for the Association’s appropriated funds.
Article 27
Specialised services which are not part of regular advisory services provided by the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce or not included in the budget of the Chamber shall be organised by the Association itself, in accordance with the adopted action plan. Individual members of the Association will be obliged to provide equal or proportional shares of funding for the implementation of specific activities of the Association not included in the action plan and budget of the Association but associated with material costs. Members shall confirm their participation in individual specific activity in writing.
All financial transactions for the needs of the Association shall be processed by the accounting service of the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce, limited to the amount of separately collected funds and subject to the approval of the President of the Association. Financial operations of the Association must be in line with the Rules on Financial Operations of the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce.
Article 28
Any disputes arising between the members of the Association and disputes arising from these Rules shall be resolved by the Management Board of the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce. The decisions of the Management Board shall be final.
Article 29
These Rules shall apply as of the day they are adopted by the Board of Members and shall enter into force on the day they are approved by the Management Board of the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce.
With the date when the new Rules come into effect expire the Rules on the organization and work of the Direct Selling Association which were adopted on February 29th, 2012.
Ljubljana, __8.12.2015_____
Matjaž Marinšek
Deputy President of the Association
The Management Board of the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce approved these Rules on December 17th, 2015.