Statutes & Internal Regulations EPP - International Non-Profit Association Approved by the EPP Congress on 21 October 2015 in Madrid (Spain), and by the EPP Political Assembly on 2 June 2015 in Oslo (Norway) epp european people’s party www.epp.eu Statutes epp european people’s party EUROPEAN PEOPLE’S PARTY STATUTES I 01 PREAMBLE 02 Article 12 10 POWERS – CHAPTER 10 15 RESPONSIBILITIES PRIVACY AND DATA PROTECTION CHAPTER 1 04 Article 13 10 NAME – ADDRESS MEETINGS Article 22 15 – OBJECTIVES DEFINITON – DURATION Article 14 11 DECISION MAKING Article 1 04 PROCESS NAME – LEGAL BASE – LOGO CHAPTER 11 15 FINANCIAL YEAR – Article 2 04 ANNUAL ACCOUNTS ADDRESS CHAPTER 5 11 POLITICAL ASSEMBLY AND BUDGET Article 3 04 Article 23.1 15 PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES Article 15 11 DEFINITION – FINANCING Article 4 05 COMPOSITION Article 23.2 15 DURATION Article 16 12 MEMBERSHIPS FEES POWERS - Article 24 15 CHAPTER 2 05 RESPONSIBILITIES FINANCIAL YEAR – ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP Article 17 12 ACCOUNTS AND BUDGET Article 5 05 MEETINGS - DECISION MEMBERS WITH MAKING PROCESS CHAPTER 12 16 VOTING RIGHTS INTERNAL REGULATIONS Article 6 06 CHAPTER 6 13 AND MODIFICATION OF OTHERS CONGRESS INTERNAL REGULATIONS Article 7 07 Article 18 13 Article 25 16 MEMBERSHIP FEES DEFINITION - POWERS INTERNAL REGULATIONS - MODIFICATION Article 8 07 REGISTER & EXCLUSIVITY CHAPTER 7 13 Article 9 07 SECRETARY GENERAL CHAPTER 13 16 RESIGNATION SUSPENSION MODIFICATIONS Article 19 13 AND EXCLUSION OF THE BY-LAWS ELECTION – POWERS Article 9 bis 08 Article 26 16 STATEMENTS AND BY-LAWS - MODIFICATION MEMBERS LIST CHAPTER 8 14 REPRESENTATION CHAPTER 14 17 Article 20 14 DISSOLUTION CHAPTER 3 08 PROCEDURE ORGANS OF THE Article 27 17 ASSOCIATION REGULATION Article 10 08 CHAPTER 9 14 ORGANS WILFRIED MARTENS CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN CHAPTER 15 17 STUDIES TRANSITIONAL CHAPTER 4 08 PROVISION Article 21 14 PRESIDENCY DEFINITION Congress resolution to Article 11 08 perform actions required in COMPOSITION – ELECTION the light of the anticipated – INCOMPATIBILITIES – European and Belgian INVITEES – VOLONTARYTY legislation – REPLACEMENTS 02 I STATUTES EUROPEAN PEOPLE’S PARTY Statutes PREAMBLE — Political Parties at European level contribute to forming European political awareness and to expressing the will of the citizens of the Union. — (Article 10.4 of the Treaty on the European Union-Lisbon Treaty and Article 12.2 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EuropeanUnion-the Charter). EUROPEAN PEOPLE’S PARTY STATUTES I 03 EUROPEAN PEOPLE’S PARTY INTERNATIONAL NON-PROFIT ASSOCIATION ON THE BASIS > of the Christian view of mankind and the Christian Democratic concept of society, > of their joint will to create a federal European Union as a Union of free peoples and citizens conscious of their own responsibilities, the Christian Democrat, Centrist and like-minded parties of the European People’s Party as heirs of Europe’s Founding Fathers accept these responsibilities and create an association. This association will be a member of the Christian/ Centrist Democrat International (CDI), a worldwide organisation of Christian Democrats and like-minded political parties and the International Democrat Union (IDU), a worldwide organization of Conservative, Christian Democrat and like-minded political parties of the centre and centre right. 04 I STATUTES EUROPEAN PEOPLE’S PARTY Article 2. ADDRESS The registered office of the association 1. is established at rue du Commerce 10, NAME – ADDRESS – 1000 Brussels, in the Brussels judicial OBJECTIVES - DURATION district. The Presidency is authorized to transfer the registered office of the association to another location within this judicial Article 1. district and to establish other offices NAME – LEGAL BASE - LOGO and/or subsidiaries within or outside this judicial district. The association, an alliance of political parties at European level, is named “Parti —— populaire européen / Europese Volkspartij / Europäische Volkspartei / European Article 3. People’s Party”, abbreviated as “PPE/EVP/ PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES EPP”). This name must always be preceded or followed by the words “association The purpose of the association is to: internationale sans but lucratif / • promote and foster close and ongoing internationale vereniging zonder collaboration among its members for winstoogmerk” or the abbreviation the purpose of implementing their AISBL / IVZW. common policy at European level; • encourage and organise unanimous The EPP pursues its aims, carries out action by its members at European level; its activities and is organized and financed • work (i) to achieve free and pluralistic in conformity with the conditions laid democracy, (ii) for respect for human down in the Regulation (EU/EURATOM) rights, fundamental freedoms and the N° 1141/2014 of the European Parliament rule of law on the basis of a common and of the Council of 22 October 2014 programme; on the statute and funding of European • promote the process of unification and political parties and political foundations. federal integration in Europe as a constituent element of the European For the matters not regulated by the Union. referred European Regulation the association is governed by title III of the In order to realize this purpose and in law of 27 June 1921 on the non-profit order to establish, develop, implement associations, the foundations and the and promote its policies, the association international non-profit associations. organizes several discussion and decision forums, major events and fact finding The logo of the association is defined in missions according to strict democratic ANNEX 1 to the statutes. principles and issues publications of all sorts. The association is also authorised to execute all legal instruments (including real estate transactions) directly or indirectly useful or necessary for the promotion and achievement of the above-mentioned aims. EUROPEAN PEOPLE’S PARTY STATUTES I 05 Through their national policies the member They shall comprise a statement on parties of the association support positions the adoption of the Political programme taken by the association in the context and by-laws as well as the internal of the European Union. In the context of regulations of the association, in addition national responsibilities, they shall maintain to a copy of the by-laws and programme their own name, their identity and their in its original language and in English freedom of action. The association of the applicant party. The EPP should is represented in the European Parliament be notified of any change in the by-laws by the Group of the European People’s of any member. The Presidency will Party (Christian Democrats) (Group of transmit the application to the Political the EPP in the European Parliament). Assembly following the recommendation of the Working Group EPP Membership. Member parties oblige parliamentarians elected to the European Parliament on Without prejudice to article 6 and subject their list, and/or sent to the like-minded to what follows, the Political Assembly is or associated Groups at the Parliamentary authorised to grant, at its own discretion, Assemblies of the CoE, the OSCE and the applicant one of the following member NATO, the Committee of the Regions, status in the EPP: Ordinary Member Union for the Mediterranean and Party, Associated Member Party, Member EURONEST, to join the EPP Groups Association or Individual Member therein. (as defined here below). —— Ordinary Member Parties The Political Assembly is authorised to Article 4. grant member status in the association DURATION to any Christian Democrat or like-minded party, based in the European Union, which The association is incorporated for an subscribes to the association’s political indefinite duration. programme and accepts its by-laws and internal regulations (hereinafter referred to as “Ordinary Member Parties”). Associated Member Parties The Political Assembly is also authorised to grant member status to any political 2. party of Christian Democrat or like-minded MEMBERSHIP orientation, based outside the European Union, from states whose applications for membership of the European Union have been introduced and / or states belonging to the European Free Trade Association Article 5. (EFTA), which subscribe to the objectives MEMBERS WITH VOTING RIGHTS referred to in article 3 of the by-laws and to the association’s political programme, The number of members is unlimited, and which accept its by-laws and internal but may not be less than two. Requests regulations (hereinafter referred to as for membership shall be submitted to the “Associated Member Parties”). President and Secretary General in writing. 06 I STATUTES EUROPEAN PEOPLE’S PARTY They shall not participate in decisions of the association is immediately informed involving the policies and structure of the in writing. European Union nor of its institutional system. If the state in which the Associated Associated Member Parties Member Party is established effectively The Political Assembly is also authorised becomes a member of the European to grant member status to any political Union, such Associated Member Party shall party of Christian Democrat or like-minded automatically become an Ordinary Member orientation, based outside the European Party as from the date of the adherence of Union, from states whose applications for such state to the European Union. membership of the European Union have been introduced and / or states belonging Member Associations to the European Free Trade Association The status of Member Association can be (EFTA),