Pursuant to Articles 10 and 11 of the Law on Associations (Official Gazette 70/97) and on the occasion of the inaugural session of the Croatian Genetic Society, held on December 17th 1997 in Zagreb, we hereby pass


THE STATUTORY OF THE CROATIAN GENETIC SOCIETY I. GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1

The name of the Society shall be as follows: the Croatian Genetic Society (abbreviation: CGS); in Croatian: Hrvatsko genetièko društvo (abbreviation: HGD). The Society shall be granted a status of a legal entity.  
The mark of the Croatian Genetic Society is round in shape, with the following text embossed:CROATIAN GENETIC SOCIETY - ZAGREB.
The operational area of the Society shall be the Republic of Croatia.
The Head Office of the Croatian Genetic Society shall be located at: 25 Kršnjavoga Street, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia.

Article 2

The Croatian Genetic Society (hereinafter referred to as: the Society) shall be entitled to become a member of other scientific societies operating both in the Homeland and abroad. 

Article 3

The goals to be reached by the activities undertaken by the Society, shall be the promotion, advancement and development of the research conducted in the field of Genetics.
Article 4

The international collaboration established by the Society shall be realised in accordance with Article 8 of the Law on Associations. The Society is a member of the following:  

1. the International Genetic Federation (IGF)
2. the European Environmental Mutagens Society (EEMS)

• via publishing annual reports on the activities and financial transactions undertaken by the Society;
• via openness of the sessions of its Assembly and other managerial bodies to the media representatives and other interested parties.  

• to gather experts in Genetics and analogous lines of expertise, in order to improve each and every field of the Genetic Science;
• to provide expert and scientific aid in improving the university tuition in Genetics and popularising the Genetic Science;
• to hold public meetings, lectures, seminars and courses;
• to organise scientific meetings and congresses;
• to inform the general public on the activities undertaken by the Society throughout media, scientific publications, or in any other suitable manner;
• to offer an expert aid and prepare sets of rules, expert opinions and expert analyses, when required.

II. SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP

Article 9

Each citizen of the Republic of Croatia who has been allocated his/her civic rights and who adopts the Statutory of the Society, shall be entitled to become its member, provided that he/she fills in the application form, taking by that means upon himself/herself all rights and obligations imposed by the Society. The Society’s Managerial Board shall be entitled to deny a person his/her right to become a member of the Society, while the person who was denied that right shall be entitled to file a complaint with the Society’s Assembly. The decision taken by the Assembly shall be final. Scientists or experts, who are not citizens of the Republic of Croatia, may also become Society members.

Article 10

The membership of the Society shall consist of regular, honorary and collective (supporting) members.
Regular and collective members shall be obliged to pay a membership subscription, the amount of which shall be set by the Society Assembly.
The honorary members shall be elected by the Society Assembly, acting on the proposal of the Managerial Board.
Retired and honorary members of the society do not need to pay a membership fee.

Article 11

Each and every member of the Society shall be entitled to equality in rights and obligations.
Rights and obligations of the Society members shall be as follows:

• to pay the membership subscription on regular basis;
• to elect and be elected into the Society managerial bodies;
• to willingly participate in the activities undertaken by various sections of the Society;
• to come forward with proposals and objections on the performance of the Society’s managerial bodies;
• to fulfil their commitments on regular basis, in line with the provisions laid down in the Statutory of the Society and the decisions taken by its Assembly;
• to attend every session of the Society Assembly and take active part during its course, in terms of discussing, putting forward ones own proposals and voting on the proposals made and decisions taken;
• to attend lectures given by other lecturers and to give their own;
• to participate in the performance of tasks and activities carried out by the Assembly and the Managerial Board of the Society;
• to take active part in expert meetings, courses, publishing of various materials and performance of other duties, tasks and activities undertaken by the Society;
• to preserve and defend the honour of the Society.

• ·passing and amending the Statutory of the Society;  
• submitting the financial plan and the concluding balance;  
• setting the amount of the membership subscription;  
• electing, dismissing and recalling of the Managerial Board members, accompanied by the evaluation of their performance, as well as that of other Society members;  
• taking under consideration the reports submitted by the delegates representing the Society in other organisations operating in the Homeland and abroad;  
• taking decisions on the organisation of scientific meetings, and electing the member who shall preside over the Organising Committee;  
• taking decisions on the foundation, abolition and merge of sections acting within the Society frameworks;  
• taking decisions on the designation of awards and letters of recognition to meritorious scientists and Society members;
• arbitrating the complaints filed by the Society members;  

• coordination of the activities undertaken by various sections acting under Society frameworks;
• coordination of joint activities launched in cooperation with analogous organisations operating in the Homeland and abroad;  
• proposal for the delegates who shall represent the Society in organisations, commissions, conferences and congresses held in the Homeland and abroad;
• preparation of reports on activities and financial transactions undertaken by the Society, which are to be communicated to the Assembly;
• proposal for the financial plan and closing balance, which are to be submitted to the Assembly;
• taking decisions on membership exclusions;  
• taking decisions on the organisation of expert meetings, seminars and symposia;

1. the Environmental Mutagenesis Section  
2. the Molecular Biology Group
3. the Organisms Refinement Section

V. FINANCIAL MEANS  Article 27

Incomes raised by the Society shall be as follows:

• The membership subscriptions, paid in by the Society membership;
• In-aids, financial contributions, inheritances;  
• Incomes raised on the grounds of symposia, conferences, scientific and expert meetings;
• Incomes raised on the grounds of publications;  
• Interest accruals for the deposited cash held in possession of the Society;
• Incomes raised on the grounds of  compensation for the fulfilment of the envisaged program; 
• Incomes gained from other sources.

TRANSITIONAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS

Article 28

The Society shall cease to be operational under the following conditions:

• Based on the decision taken by the Society Assembly;  
• Based on the decision taken by the body that entered the Society into the appropriate registry;  
• Provided that the regular session of the Assembly hasn’t been held for two consecutive years;  
• Provided that the number of the enlisted members decreases bellow minimum deemed as mandatory for the foundation of an association.

Article 29

In case the Society ceases to be operational, all its possession shall be placed at disposal of the University of Zagreb.

Article 30

Based on the decision taken by the Assembly, the Society may be engaged in publishing activities, which shall be carried out in conformity with the provisions laid down in Article 68 of the Law on Scientific and Research Activities, published in the Official Gazette No. 59/96 dated July 17th 1996.

Article 31

The Statutory outline, as well as any statutory amendments, shall be prepared and established by the Managerial Board, and subsequently presented before the Society membership in order to initiate a public discussion.
A public discussion shall last no longer than 30 days.
Objections and proposals put forward during the course of a public discussion shall be taken under consideration by the Managerial Board, which shall take positions in this regard and set up the proposal of the Statutory, which shall be communicated to the Assembly for adoption.
The amendments to the Statutory, and other general legal acts concerning the Society, shall be passed in duly manner and in conformity with the procedure established for such cases.

Article 32

This Statutory has been adopted during the course of the Assembly convened on December 17th 1997 in Zagreb, and shall enter into force eight days following that of its authorization by the competent body.
Article 33

The legal power to provide mandatory explanations concerning the provisions laid down in this Statutory, shall be conferred to the Society’s Managerial Board.
The Secretary of the
Croatian Genetic Society Ðurðica Ugarkoviæ, PhD

The President of the
Croatian Genetic Society
Prof. Dražena Papeš, PhD

Done at Zagreb on December 17th 1997


     The amendment of the Statutory of the CGS
Pursuant to Article 11 of the Law on Associations (Official Gazette No. 88/01) and Article 16 of the Statutory passed on December 17th 1997, the Assembly of the Croatian Genetic Society, at its session held on March 31st 2003, adopted the following

AMENDMENT OF THE STATUTORY OF THE CROATIAN GENETIC SOCIETY

Article1

Article 22 of the Statutory shall be amended as follows:

Within the Society frameworks, sections dealing with issues covered by specific research fields or narrow specialties, shall be founded. Unless decided otherwise by the Assembly, the section coordinator shall be elected by public voting taken by the Assembly members. Section coordinators shall be bound by obligations to prepare a progress report and submit it to the Society Assembly on the occasion of its regular session.
Upon request of the membership dwelling outside the Head Office location, branches and subsidiaries of the Society may be founded, but shall be denied a legal entity status. Each branch or subsidiary shall elect its own president and secretary.
The sections acting within the frameworks of the Society shall be founded and abolished based on the decision taken by the Society Assembly, acting on the proposal of the Managerial Board.
 
Within the Society frame, the following sections shall be active:

1. the Molecular Biology Group
2. the Environmental Mutagenesis Section
3. Organisms Refinement Section