<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Kai,</div><div><br></div><div>I am not a lawyer, but I know that legal texts are to be read more formally. Specific words have clear meanings and less room for interpretation than in natural languages.<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div>15.4 b reads "the adoption of the Charging Scheme with respect to
the coming financial year upon proposal of the Executive Board",
15.4 e "<span id="m_9062572301412606984m_7145330881084485380p37R_mc1"><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">other proposals and/or
discussion points put forward by the Executive Board or (a
group</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr"> of) Members of the Association
(pursuant to</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">article</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">15.6) and announced in the </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">convocation for the Meeting".<br>
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There is no exclusivity in 15.4 b that _only_ the </span></span>Executive
Board may suggest a Charging Scheme, but there's an obligation to
the Board to suggest one at least once a year. Nor does 15.4 e
prevent contradicting proposals to what the Executive Board
proposes, especially not on bullet point topics mentioned earlier.
Thus, prohibiting voting on the proposal "Keep current billing
scheme for the next year", which has passed 15.6 requirements, has
no legal grounds AFAICS. There's simply no wording to even suggest
that. I don't expect the legally binding Dutch version to contain
that either.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>To me "upon proposal of the Executive Boards" or "op voorstel van het Bestuur" is pretty clear. There is one defined body to propose the charging scheme which is the EB. And the membership then is to vote on it. <br><div></div><div>It may be an interesting topic to explore what happens on a GM where the EB does not put a resolution on the charging scheme onto the agenda.<br></div><div></div><div><br></div><div>Besides that, I see other formal issues (that's what lawyers and courts do before looking at anything else) with the current proposal that is supposed to keep the charging scheme unchanged:</div><ol><li>According to 15.6 the membership may suggest "other subjects". The topic of charging scheme was already on the agenda, so adding a discussion of the charging scheme is not really an "other subject".</li><li>15.6 also states: "Such an application, accompanied by the verbatim text of the resolutions proposed ..." <br>This is properly modelled into the form to suggest new agenda items: "Proposed text for agenda item (including resolution text if applicable)"<br>And we have a proposal with the title "Keep current billing scheme for the next year" and the text for the agenda item "Keep current billing scheme for the next year."<br>So this proposal does not even mention a resolution to be voted on. What we have is an agenda item to discuss the described topic.</li></ol>With the EB duly adding the topic to the agenda, people backing this proposal get what they asked for.</div><div class="gmail_quote">To me this means, we can stop discussing this topic here -- looking forward to the content presented by Maksym Tuliev at the GM.<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">André<br></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">André Grüneberg, Managing Director<br><a href="mailto:andre.grueneberg@bcix.de" target="_blank">andre.grueneberg@bcix.de</a></div><div dir="ltr">+49 30 2332195 42<br><p>BCIX Management GmbH<br>Albrechtstr. 110<br>12103 Berlin<br>Germany</p><p>Geschäftsführer/Managing Directors: Jens Lietzmann, André Grüneberg<br>Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 143581 B</p><font size="1"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>