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MEDITERRANEAN FENCING CONFEDERATION
The National Fencing Federations of Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Spain, France,
Greece, Italy, Malta, Principality of Monaco, Tunisia and Turkey, joined
together in Marsala (Italy) on April 8, 2003, decided to regroup as an association
regulated by the Italian law, and to adopt the following statutes:
STATUTES
ADOPTED AT THE TIME OF THE
CONSTITUTIVE ASSEMBLY
FROM MARSALA ON APRIL 8, 2003
MODIFIED ON ZRENJANIN (SRB) JANUARY 31 2010
CONTAIN 1 - CONSTITUTION
Art 1 The National Fencing Federations of the Mediterranean basin, signatories of these statutes and the Federations which will decide to belong, decided to form an association regulated by the Italian law, named
MEDITERRANEAN FENCING CONFEDERATION (Co.M.Es.).
Contain 2 - DEFINITION, AIMS, REGISTERED OFFICE, COMPOSITION
Art 2 The Confederation is a geographical group made up of the National Fencing Federations of the countries bordering the Mediterranean sea, and only the countries being under the same geographical conditions will be able to make a request for adhesion in the future.
Art 3 Its duration is unlimited.
Art 4 The purpose of Co.M.Es., is:
4.5 The solidarity in the sporting activity
between the belonging national fencing federations, in ensuring respect
of national identities
and a common sporting policy within the framework of the FIE.
4.6 Co-operation and the co-responsibility
in common interests.
4.7 The dialogue and the internal and external
interaction allowing a source of knowledge deepening and development of
the fencing.
4.8 The development of our sport ethics.
Art 5 Co.M.Es has, therefore, for goals:
5.1 To promote and develop fencing around the
basin of the Mediterranean.
5.2 To ensure the friendly and technical mutual
aid between the belonging Federations.
5.4 To organise technical, administrative and
training courses, and to create a staff of technicians and organisation
which one will
be able to consult for the organisation of major fencing events.
5.5 To organise the Mediterranean Championships
reserved to the cadets and juniors.
5.6 To organise, in collaboration with the
International Federation of Fencing (FIE) “experimental” championships,
opened to the
athletes of the adherent countries to the Confederation.
5.7 To study and coordinate proposals relating
to the organisation of the various federations.
5.8 To take part in the FIE activities in accordance
with its Statutes.
Co.M.Es has a nonlucrative
goal.
Co.M.Es works towards its ends without consideration
or discrimination of political, religious or social nature.
Art 6 Co.M.Es has its registered office at the President’s home. It can be transferred in any other country from the Confederation by decision from the Extraordinary General meeting (AGE). For practical reasons the administrative office is at the Secretary General’s home.
Art 7 The Confederation is made up of all Fencing Federations of countries bordering the Mediterranean which are recognised by their National Olympic Committees, are affiliated with the International Federation of Fencing,, belong to the International Committee of the Mediterranean Games (CIJM) and which will have adhered to the present statutes.
Art 8 All members commit themselves collaborating for the realisation of CO.M.ES aims and accept the Statutes and the Rules Co.M.Es. They all deserve the rights which these Statutes confer on the members Federations of the Confederation.
Art 9 It is decided to organise any meeting or action which could allow the Confederation to achieve its goals.
Art 10 The member Federations commit to pay an annual contribution fixed by the Ordinary General meeting (AGO).
CONTAIN 3 - BODIES
Art 11 The bodies of Co.M.Es are:
11.5 The Ordinary General
Assembly (A.G.O.)
11.6 The Extraordinary General Assembly (A.G.E.)
11.7 The Executive Committee (E.C.)
11.8 The President.
Art.12 The Ordinary General Assembly (A.G.O.)
The A.G.O is
the highest body of Co.M.Es. It is made up of delegates elected by their
National Federations and, with advisory
voice, of members of the International Fencing Federation’s Executive
Committee belonging to affiliated federations.
It is empowered to/for :
12.8 approval of management
reports of the past year,
12.9 admission and exclusion of the member
federations,
12.10 election of the president and five members
of the Executive Committee,
12.11 fix the amount of the annual subscription,
12.12 adoption of the action plan
12.13 approval of the budgets and accounts,
12.14 rule on all issues which are submitted
to it by the member federations, or the E.C.,
Deliberations of the
A.G.O are valid only if more than half of the members, up to date of their
contribution, is represented.
Each federation representative has a voice.
When a federation cannot send its own representative it will be able to
give its proxy vote to a delegate of another
federation. A representative will not be able to hold more than one proxy
vote.
All the decisions are reached by a simple
majority of votes cast, except for cases envisaged by the Statutes.
The AGO meets at least one (1) time per year.
Art.13 The Extraordinary General Assembly (A.G.E.)
An A.G.E can take place at the request of
at least a third (1/3) of CO.M.ES members or on the Executive Committee
(EC) decision.
It is qualified for the modifications of the
Statutes or the dissolution of the Confederation.
Art 14 The Executive Committee
The E.C. is
composed of ten (10) members of different nationalities, including six
elected by the A.G for six (6) years.
The E.C. includes
:
- the President,
- seven (7) membres including one Vice President
- A Secretary
General
- A Treasurer
14.1 Any member candidature
for the E.C. must be presented by his national federation.
14.2 The election of the President and the
seven (7) members of the E.C. is conducted by secret ballot.
14.3 The President is elected first: the absolute
majority is required from the first two rounds,
relative majority from the third.
Then
the seven members of the EC are elected : the seven (7) candidates elected
are the ones who received the greatest number
of voices. In the event of equality between two or several candidates, it
will be necessary to proceed to an additional
round. In the event of the new equality, youngest is elected.
14.4 At its first meeting, the E.C. elects from its group:
- The Vice president
- The Secretary general
- The Treasurer
They
must be each of a different nationality also different from the 5 other
members of the EC.
14.5 The President of the F.I.E, is a member by rigth, with advisory vote on the EC
14.6 The EC meets, on President’s convocation,
according to the needs and at least three (3) times
per
year. Its decisions are adopted by a simple majority, the vote of the President
being decisive in case of equality.
14.7 In the event of resignation or death
of a member of the EC it will be proceeded to a complementary election during
the following
AGO.
Art 15 The President
The President represents Co.M.Es in
all the acts of the civil life and in a court of law.
15.1 The President
chairs the A.G and the E.C.
15.2 The President decides with other
members of the E.C. of the actions to be followed up to ensure realisation
of the confederal
goals.
15.3 He manages the expenditure.
15.4 Any financial commitments, beyond
5.000 € must be signed by both the President and the Secretary General.
CONTAIN 4 - COMMISSIONS
Art 16 To ensure the good functioning of Co.M.Es., the E.C. set up commissions (ex: technical commission, refereeing commission, propaganda commission, etc…).
CONTAIN 5 - FINANCES
Art 17 The financial year of Co.M.Es begins on October 1 and ends on September 30.
17.1 The income
of Co.M.Es is supplied by membership fees, the gifts accepted by
E.C.
and all resources generated by its activities.
17.2 The Co.M.Es expenditures are the
expenses necessary for the association’s administration,
The
President’s expenses (or the Vice-president’s ones when he represents
the President). Each federation pays for its
members expenses relating to transportation and stays at the meetings.
CONTAIN 6 - HONORARY MEMBERS
Art 18 The CoMEs can include an honorary President, and honorary members, outside national federation. The Titleof honorary President or honorary member can be given by AGO to any person who dedicated to the Mediteranean Fencing for long , to thank this person, in order to ensure the CoMEs with person's wise advices.
CONTAIN 7 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Art 19 The debates are held in French language.
The official deliberations and documents
are published in French language and traslated in English before transmitting them to all the national Federations..
Other languages can be used as working
language to facilitate the communication between the member federations.
CONTAIN 8 – AMENDMENTS TO THE STATUTES, DISSOLUTION
Art 20 Only the A.G.E can amend the statutes.
20.1 In the event
of amendment proposals, the A.G must be convened three (3) months at least
before
the date of the meeting.
The amendment proposals will have
to appear in an appendix of the A.G.E. agenda and will have to be sent to
all member
federations at least one month before the meeting.
20.2 The decisions are adopted by the
two thirds (2/3) majority of votes cast.
Art 21 The dissolution of Co.M.Es can be declared by the A.G.E only by the three quarters (3/4) majority of the Confederation’s members.
Art 22 In the event of dissolution, the goods having belonged to the Confederation will be transmitted to the FIE.
Modified from ZRENJANIN on JANUARY 31 2010
This verbal lawsuit containing the modalities above, was signed by:
Algerian Fencing
Federation Cyprus
Fencing Federation
Mister LAMARI
Proxy Manuel Katziadakis
Egyptian Fencing
Federation
Royal Spanish Fencing Federation
Mister EL Husseiny
Mister RIOJA Marco
French Fencing
Federation
Hellenic Fencing Federation
Mister Plasterie
Mister KATSIADAKIS.
Italian Fencing
Federation
National Fencing Association Malta
Mister DI BLASI
Mister Juan FORMOSA
Fédération
Royale Marocaine d’Escrime
Monaco Fencing Federation
Mister Zaji Abdeli Doha Proxy
Monsieur PLASTERIE.
Tunisian Fencing
Federation Turkish
Fencing Federation
Mister ZOUARI. Mister
BULBUL.
Fédération
Croate d’Escrime
Mister KOVASCIC
The statute was signed later on, from:
24.05.2005 Royal Maroccan Fencing Federation Zaji Abdeli Doha
07.01.2006 Serbia and Montenegro Fencing Federation Zoran Timic
05.04.2009 Syrian Arabic Fencing Federation Abdulbasit Zakaria
03.12.2009 Fédération Libanaise d'Escrime Ziad El-Choueiri
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