Membership
1) Types of membership
a. The Association has ordinary and supporting members.
b. Ordinary members of the Association may be: European NLP associations that are exclusively active on a non-profit basis and do not pursue their own economic interests.
c. The founding members are full and supporting members. They may be ordinary or supporting members.
d. The supporting founding members are exempt from the obligation to pay obligations.
e. Supporting members can be Natural persons, legal entities, national NLP legal entities, national NLP associations, as well as public corporations public law that have an interest that recognises the purpose of the association and wish to support the Association.
f. The ordinary members are represented at the General Meeting by two authorised delegates. Each full member nominates two delegates and two deputies in writing to the EANLP Presidium. At least one of the previously nominated delegates of a full member must belong to the board or or another body of the member association.
g. Supporting members, insofar as they are not national NLP associations, may be admitted to participate in the General Assembly to participate. However, they have no voting rights there.
h. National NLP associations that are supporting members may be admitted to the General Assembly upon request with up to two delegates without voting rights. The admission will be given by the EANLP board.
2) Admission as a member
a. The general meeting decides on applications for ordinary membership and supporting membership.
b. Admission shall be upon application.
c. The prerequisite for membership is recognition of the current Curricula of the DVNLP e. V., or proof of corresponding competence-based curricula. In addition, the legal requirements and the status of an association or institution, the Code of Ethics of the EANLP must be recognized and proof of at least 50 full members must be provided. Deviations from this are possible. The General Assembly decides on this.
d. The admission procedure is otherwise governed by the rules of procedure of the association.
e. There is no entitlement to admission. The applicant has no right of appeal applicant has no right of appeal against a negative decision.
3) End of membership
(1) Membership shall expire upon dissolution, termination of legal personality, resignation or exclusion from the association.
(2) Resignation shall be effected by written declaration to the Executive Board. Resignation can only be declared at the end of a calendar year, whereby a notice period of three months to the end of the year must be observed.
(3) An exclusion can take place if there is a reason for exclusion. This may be the case:
a. if the Association member is three months in arrears with the payment of three months in arrears with the payment of one annual membership fee,
b. in the event of a gross or repeated breach of the statutes of the Association or against contracts concluded with the Association,
c. in the event of behaviour that is detrimental to the association within or life of the Association.