The Affiliate Membership of the European
Crystallographic Association
The ECA will provide an entry in the ECANEWS www
pages denoted: "Affiliate Members". This
entry will appear in the block giving the contents of ECA
NEWS . The corresponding Affiliate Members List will show
the LOGO and the name of each Affiliate Member and
will also provide a LINK to the home page of the
Affiliate Member.
Similar entry will be included at the anonymous ECA
ftp site.
The list of Affiliate Members will also appear on
ECA circulars or folders which are printed on behalf of
the Executive Committee. If circulars and/or program
booklets of the European Crystallographic Meetings
(ECM's) contain an entry describing the activities of the
ECA in some length, a list of Affiliate Members will be
included.
The Affiliate Member has the right to appoint at
most four of its employees as ECA Individual Members.
These employees have the same rights as "normal"
Individual Members, such as the right to vote for
representation in the Council and reduction of
participation fee for European Crystallographic
Meetings (ECM's.)
The Executive Committee will ask the organisers of
the ECM's to discuss technical details regarding
commercial exhibitions at ECM's, in an early stage with
the Affiliate Members. As the organisation if the ECM's
is independent of the ECA this cannot be guaranteed.
The annual fee will be 250 Euro (1 January - 31
December). Affiliate Members will be notified of any
change in this amount, approved by the ECA council, at
least three months before this change will become
effective. The annual fee has to be paid before April 1st
of the corresponding year.
The application for Affiliate Membership will be
considered by the Executive Committee, and put
forward for approval to the Council. The Affiliate
Membership is accepted if the Council approves and takes
effect as soon as the membership fee has been paid.
The present agreement can be cancelled at any time
by the ECA Council or by the Affiliate Member; if the
agreement is cancelled before the first of August, half
the annual fee paid by the (ex)Affiliate Member will be
refunded.
The ECA is at an early stage of its development, and
many details of its organisation have not yet been fixed
properly. Therefore the present agreement should be open
for developments.
