Chapter 3

Members and their rights and duties.

Article 8

Article 9

1. Decisions on including among the members are made by the Board of the Association upon consideration of application of the interested entity.
2. An interested business entity applying for membership of the Association shall submit a membership declaration, a document stating the legal status of the entity and shall undertake to pay membership fees and the registration fee.

Article 10

1. A member of the Association who is a natural person performs his rights and duties either personally or by proxy.
2. A member of the Association who is a legal person is represented in the Association by a natural person authorised to represent that legal person, delegated by a body of the legal person authorised for that.

Article 11

1. active and passive electoral rights to Association bodies;
2. participation in all forms of Association activities;
3. using all forms of Association assistance.

Article 12

1. observance of the provisions of the Articles of Association and resolutions of Association authorities;
2. participation in performing objectives and tasks resulting from the Articles of Association of the Association;
3. observance of the principles of professional ethics and good mercantile customs;
4. taking care of the Association good reputation by actions and attitudes;
5. regular paying of membership fees

Article 13

1. The Council of the Association in agreement with the Board, upon a written motion of an Association Member, may suspend its membership for a period not longer than two years.
2. The suspension may occur only for important, justified and documented in writing reasons, existing on the side of the Association Member.
3. In the case of suspension, the Association Member is not obliged to pay the membership fee.
4. A suspended Association Member is deprived of membership rights, excluding passive participation in the General Meeting of Members.
5. A suspended Association Member cannot use free-of-charge services of the Association.

Article 14

1. As a result of cancellation on the date of valid expiration of the permit for performing a business activity or quitting this activity or cancelling an entry from appropriate registers;
2. As a result of a written notice of Association membership termination, with the elapse of a 3 month period of notice, which starts on the 1st day of the month following the month, in which a member of the Association handed in the notice to the Board of the Association.
3. On the date when the decision on exclusion from the members of Association becomes final.

1. Taking the membership away by exclusion from the members of Association may occur at the Board motion obtained by the Council of the Association, if a member:
   1. performs activity contrary to the principles of ethics or good mercantile customs;
   2. breaches the duties of a member of the Association;
   3. does not pay membership fees for a period of at least 3 months.
2. Business entities are vested right to file an appeal from this decisions within 6 weeks since the date of its receiving together with the reasons. The appeal shall be heard by the nearest General Meeting.