Members
- A producer of audiovisual works is the one who has the initiative and responsibility of first material integration (recording) or presentation of a series of images or events, with or without sound. In other words, the person who organizes the implementation of an audiovisual work, takes care of the supply of all the necessary means and assumes responsibility for the technical and economic issues that are linked to its production.
- Members of the Association may become those natural persons who are actually engaged in their own interest in the profession of producer of audiovisual works, as defined above and are independent of broadcasters, as well as the President or The Ceo and only two members of the Board of Directors of an Anonymous Company, the President and the Ceo of the Board of Directors of the Cooperative and up to two of the managing partners ltd, provided that they do not engage in any profession other than that of the audiovisual producer and if the legal person they represent is intended to produce audiovisual works.
- Members are distinguished in Regular, Cadet and Honorary.
(a) Regular members shall be registered: natural persons who fulfil the conditions laid down in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article and who have already produced in a professional manner; (a) three (3) feature films or (b) five (5) feature films as co-producers or (c) thirty (30) hours of dramatisation or (d) ten (10) documentaries over 30 minutes each or (e) three (3) plays which have been shown to have performed at least thirty (30) public performances or (g) six (6) plays; projects as co-producers which have also been proven to have performed at least thirty (30) public performances or (h) have been shown to have carried out the last two (2) years one hundred (100) broadcasts either on private or public radio stations.
(b) Probationary members may register natural persons who satisfy the conditions laid down in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article but who do not fulfil the conditions for their registration as regular members in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 3 above.
- c) Honorary members may be declared by decision of the General Assembly, natural persons, Greek or foreign, who: a) Have given material and moral assistance to the achievement of the purpose of the Association and b) have with their activity contributed to the development and progress of the O/A things in our country. Honorary members shall not be required to pay a financial contribution.
REGISTRATION PROCEDURE
- The registration of a regular or cadet member requires a written application from the person concerned, addressed to the Board of Directors. The person concerned must also note in his application that he has become aware of the terms of the Statute of the Association.
- The Board of Directors shall decide at its first meeting on whether or not to register the candidate and shall be accepted if it obtains the conditions laid down in Article 5 hereof. If the application is rejected, the person concerned, irrespective of his ability to appeal to the first Ordinary or Extraordinary General Meeting, which, by secret ballot and by a majority of three quarters of those present, decides whether or not to register the applicant.
- For the re-registration of a deleted or post-registration member, the same procedure shall be followed.
- The applicant shall be considered a member of the Association from the day on which the Board of Directors or the General Assembly took the relevant decision to register him or 30 days after the finality of the court decision ordering the registration. Then it is registered in the Register of members of the Association.
RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF MEMBER STATES
- Rights: All members of the Association are equal to each other. They have the right to participate in the meetings and other events of the Association and enjoy the benefits of its action. In particular, the right to appear, to participate, to vote in the G.S. and the right to vote and to stand as a candidate, have only the regular members who are arranged cash. Members representing or participating in joint legal entities (Companies) appoint a representative of theirs vis-à-vis the Association, who will naturally be a producer and will have the right to vote and stand as a candidate. These have the right to speech, control, criticism in the General Assemblies. They also have the right to regular information on the entire course of the Association’s affairs, to take note and to obtain copies of the Books of the Association at their expense.
- Obligations: The members of the Association are obliged to: (a) Make every effort to achieve the objectives of the Association, (b) Do not interfere in the professional activity of the other members of the Association in general, (c) Willingly carry out any work entrusted to them, (d) To fulfil regularly, without omissions and within the time limit, their financial obligations to the Association and (e) To indicate the titles of the works they produce and below or next to their name , their status as members of the Association.
The services of the members to the Association, in their capacity (as members), are provided without remuneration.
REQUIREMENT – TRANSFER OF MEMBER STATES
- Each member may freely renounce this status by a simple statement to the Board of Directors After one month of the declaration to the Board of Directors, the resigning member ceases to be a member of the Association.
- It is transferred at any time from the Regular Members to the Cadets, a member who does not meet all the conditions.
POINTS – DESCRIPTION – DECISION OF MEMBER STATES
- A member whose conduct is incompatible with the provisions of the statutes and the law, whose actions, especially in the exercise of his profession, may harm the interests of the members of the Association or are not disciplined in the decisions of the institutions of the Association, is controlled by the Disciplinary Board of the Association. This is an independent body of the Association, consisting of 3 members elected directly by the General Assembly of the Association. Their election takes place together with the election of the other institutions of the Association and their term of office is two years. Together it meets after a complaint to the Board of Directors about a member. The Board of Directors is obliged to bring the complaint to the Disciplinary Board. The penalties provided for are:
(a) Reprimand, (b) Complaint by the press and (c) Deletion.
The member is notified by a document of the Disciplinary Board, which summarises the charge, 15 days before the case is dealt with and is invited to appear in the P.S., to present his views and to defend his position. If his defence does not come or convince him, the P.S. proceeds to the adoption of the decision and the imposition of the sentence, which is communicated to him (as long as he is not present) without delay. If the sentence is a remission, it shall apply until any decision of the General Council or the Court of Justice to the contrary. A member who, by decision of the P.S., has the right to appeal against the decision to the G.S. by letter within 15 days of the notification to the Board of the decision to delete it. The Board of Directors is obliged to bring the member’s appeal to the first Board of Directors as the first item on the agenda. The member is invited to attend to it and to set out his views briefly. The above applies regardless of the member’s right to appeal to the competent court.
- The Board of Directors may decide on the expulsion of a member: (a) If the member who has been irrevocably convicted of deprivation of his civil rights and for as long as the deprivation lasts or who has irrevocably been sentenced to prison for any offence or to imprisonment for theft, embezzlement, fraud, extortion, forgery, counterfeiting and counterfeiting. b) If the member ceases to have the conditions to register with the Association.
- For the transfer or expulsion of a member decides the Board of Directors The member who is expelled or transferred may challenge the decision of the Board of Directors by recourse to the Board of Directors, by means of a written declaration to be submitted to the Association within 15 days of the service to him of the decision following expulsion or transfer. In the event of a timely appeal, the Board of Directors shall introduce it as the first item on the agenda of the first Board of Directors, which shall take a final decision. Against the decision of the Board of Directors, which upholds the decision of the Board of Directors, the member who is transferred or expelled may appeal to the President of the Courts of First Instance pursuance to Article 88 of the Board of Directors within two months of the notification of the decision.
Continuity of transfer or expulsion is the deletion of the member from the registers of regular members or members in general respectively. It shall take place either on the expiry of the above deadlines or on the adoption of a final decision of the competent court.