{"id":263,"date":"2024-10-24T10:17:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T10:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocimara.acorespro.pt\/estatutos-e-regulamento\/"},"modified":"2024-10-29T16:55:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T16:55:06","slug":"estatutos-e-regulamento","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ocimara.acorespro.pt\/en\/estatutos-e-regulamento\/","title":{"rendered":"Statutes and Regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>STATUTES OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTING THE AZORES CONSUMER INFORMATION, MEDIATION AND ARBITRATION CENTER<\/h4>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">CHAPTER I \u2013 General Definitions<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Article 1<br \/>\n(Name and Headquarters)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The association is called Association for the Promotion of the Consumer Information, Mediation and Arbitration Center of the Azores, hereinafter referred to as CIMARA, and has its headquarters at Rua Dr. Jos\u00e9 Bruno Tavares Carreiro, S\/N &#8211; 9500-119 Ponta Delgada, being able to establish delegations or any other forms of representation throughout the Autonomous Region.<\/li>\n<li>CIMARA&#8217;s headquarters may, at any time, be changed by resolution of the General Assembly, after prior consultation with all associated entities.<\/li>\n<li>The establishment of delegations or any other forms of representation of CIMARA throughout the Autonomous Region may, at any time, be changed by deliberation of the Board of Directors, after prior consultation of all associated entities.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Article 2<br \/>\n(Scope and Object)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>CIMARA aims to promote in the Autonomous Region of the Azores, under the terms defined in its Regulations and current legislation:\n<ul>\n<li>Legal information for consumers and providers of goods and services;<\/li>\n<li>Instruction of consumer complaints processes and their forwarding to the competent authorities when they are criminal or administrative in nature;<\/li>\n<li>Promotion of the resolution of consumer conflicts through information, mediation, conciliation and arbitration;<\/li>\n<li>Encourage the adherence of any interested parties to the conventions to be established at the CIMARA Arbitration Court.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Association will operate the Azores Consumer Information, Mediation and Arbitration Center.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Article 3<br \/>\n(Legal Nature)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>CIMARA is a non-profit legal entity governed by private law.<\/li>\n<li>CIMARA will be governed by these statutes, internal regulations and the law.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Article 4<br \/>\n(Institutional Framework)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>CIMARA results from the institutionalization of a partnership, formalized in a protocol, attached to this Statute, and becoming an integral part of it.<\/li>\n<li>The composition of the bodies and the functioning of the associations must reflect in particular and equally the participation and involvement of consumer organizations, business organizations and public administration bodies with responsibilities and competencies in matters of consumer protection.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Article 5<br \/>\n(Duration)<\/p>\n<p>CIMARA is constituted for an indefinite period.<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">CHAPTER II \u2013 Technical-Financial Monitoring<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Article 6<br \/>\n(Technical-Financial Monitoring Committee)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A Technical-Financial Monitoring Committee will be set up made up of representatives of financing entities that are not part of corporate bodies.<\/li>\n<li>The Technical-Financial Monitoring Committee is responsible for issuing an opinion on the proposed activity plan and budget, the report and accounts, the proposed amendments to current regulations and other matters that are submitted for its consideration.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">CHAPTER III \u2013 Associates<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Article 7<br \/>\n(Associates)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>CIMARA members are:\n<ul>\n<li>Autonomous Region of the Azores;<\/li>\n<li>Association of Municipalities of the Autonomous Region of the Azores;<\/li>\n<li>Association of Consumers of the Azores Region;<\/li>\n<li>Portuguese Association for Consumer Protection;<\/li>\n<li>Azores Chamber of Commerce and Industry;<\/li>\n<li>Association of Civil Construction and Public Works Industries of the Azores.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Public or private, non-profit legal entities may also join.<\/li>\n<li>The association of new entities under the terms of the previous paragraph is subject to deliberation by the General Assembly, under the terms of this Statute.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Article 8<br \/>\n(Social Bodies)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>CIMARA has the following corporate bodies:\n<ul>\n<li>General Assembly;<\/li>\n<li>Board of Directors;<\/li>\n<li>Fiscal Council.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>All deliberations of the corporate bodies will be recorded in minutes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Article 9<br \/>\n(General Assembly)<\/p>\n<p>The General Assembly is made up of all members.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Article 10<br \/>\n(Assembly Bureau)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The Assembly will have a table composed of three members: a president, a vice-president and a secretary.<\/li>\n<li>The vice president will ensure the president&#8217;s replacement in his absence.<\/li>\n<li>The secretary will write the minutes of the meetings.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Article 11<br \/>\n(Meetings)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The General Assembly meets ordinarily twice a year, until March 31st and November 30th, to approve the execution report and accounts for the year and the budget and activity plan, respectively.<\/li>\n<li>The General Assembly meets extraordinarily whenever requested by the Board of Directors, the Supervisory Board or by at least one third of the members.<\/li>\n<li>Meetings of the General Assembly will be called by the President of the Board, by means of electronic mail with acknowledgment of receipt, addressed to each of its members, issued at least thirty days in advance of the date of the meeting.<\/li>\n<li>The summons issued under the terms of the previous paragraph must include the day, the<br \/>\ntime and place of the meeting, as well as the respective agenda.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Article 12<br \/>\n(Quorum and deliberations)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The General Assembly operates on first call with the presence of the<br \/>\nall of its members.<\/li>\n<li>If all of its members are not present, the assembly meets regularly 1 hour later, regardless of the number of members present.<\/li>\n<li>The resolutions of the General Assembly, to be recorded in the minutes, are taken by a majority of the votes counted, except in the cases provided for in the Statutes or the law.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Article 13<br \/>\n(Competence of the General Assembly)<\/p>\n<p>The General Assembly is responsible for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elect and dismiss Governing Bodies;<\/li>\n<li>Consider and vote annually on the budget, activity plan, financial statements and execution report, presented by the Board of Directors;<\/li>\n<li>Decide on the admission and exclusion of members;<\/li>\n<li>Approve CIMARA\u2019s internal regulations;<\/li>\n<li>Proceed with the amendment of these Statutes and CIMARA\u2019s Internal Regulations;<\/li>\n<li>Decide on changing the headquarters of CIMARA;<\/li>\n<li>Provide an opinion on any subject proposed to it and exercise other duties resulting from the law.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Article 14<br \/>\n(Board of Directors)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The Board of Directors is made up of three members, one of whom is president and two members.<\/li>\n<li>The Board of Directors, convened by the President, meets ordinarily, at least once a month, and meets extraordinarily, whenever one of its members deems it necessary.<\/li>\n<li>This body can only deliberate validly if the majority of its members are present.<\/li>\n<li>Decisions are taken by simple majority, with the President having the tie-breaking vote.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Article 15<br \/>\n(Powers of the Board of Directors)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The Board of Directors is responsible for representing CIMARA and exercising the powers necessary to carry out activities that fall within the scope of CIMARA, namely:\n<ul>\n<li>Enter into personnel contracts and establish the respective working conditions;<\/li>\n<li>Enter into contracts with a view to providing CIMARA with the necessary means to carry out its activities;<\/li>\n<li>Present the budget proposal and financial statements to the Fiscal Council, in order to issue the necessary opinion;<\/li>\n<li>Prepare the activity plan, budget, report and accounts to be presented for consideration for voting by the General Assembly;<\/li>\n<li>Collect revenue, if any, and authorize expenses;<\/li>\n<li>Propose to the General Assembly the amendment of CIMARA\u2019s Statutes and Internal Regulations;<\/li>\n<li>Execute and enforce the deliberations and recommendations of the General Assembly;<\/li>\n<li>Define the establishment of delegations or any other forms of representation of CIMARA throughout the Autonomous Region;<\/li>\n<li>Appoint the Director of CIMARA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The joint signature of at least two members of the CIMARA Board of Directors is required to bind the Association.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Article 16<br \/>\n(Fiscal Council)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The Supervisory Board is made up of a president and two members.<\/li>\n<li>The Supervisory Board meets whenever necessary and at least twice a year, in order to prepare and issue the necessary opinion on the financial statements and budget proposal presented by the Board of Directors.<\/li>\n<li>The convening of meetings of the Fiscal Council will be the responsibility of the respective president.<\/li>\n<li>In exercising its powers, the Supervisory Board may request information from any corporate body.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Article 17<br \/>\n(Competences of the Supervisory Board)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The Supervisory Board is responsible for:\n<ul>\n<li>Issue an opinion on the financial year accounts, budget proposal, presented by the Board of Directors;<\/li>\n<li>Issue an opinion on all matters submitted to it by the General Assembly and the Board of Directors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Fiscal Council may participate in meetings of the Board of Directors at its request.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Article 18<br \/>\n(Elections and mandates of Governing Bodies)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The term of office of the governing bodies is three years.<\/li>\n<li>After the mandate in the previous paragraph ends, the chairman of the outgoing General Assembly has a period of 30 days to call all members to the election.<\/li>\n<li>The electoral act referred to in the previous paragraph must be defined in specific regulations, to be approved by the general assembly.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">CHAPTER IV \u2013 CIMARA Coordination<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Article 19<br \/>\n(Director)<\/p>\n<p>CIMARA is coordinated by a director appointed by the Board of Directors, who is responsible for ensuring the technical, administrative and financial management of CIMARA, as well as exercising the powers delegated to him by the Board of Directors.<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">CHAPTER V \u2013 Heritage<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Article 20<br \/>\n(Heritage)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>CIMARA&#8217;s assets are made up of all assets and rights that may be transferred to it by members or third parties and also those resulting from acquisition for consideration or free of charge.<\/li>\n<li>The movable assets acquired and allocated to CIMARA, duly inventoried, become part of the assets.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Article 21<br \/>\n(Financing)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The association&#8217;s financing results from cooperation protocols granted or other subsidies that may be awarded and possible own revenues.<\/li>\n<li>The commitments assumed or to be assumed by entities or departments governed by public law or similar, regarding financing to the association and the reciprocal obligations in which it is constituted appear in an autonomous instrument.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Article 22<br \/>\n(Revenues)<\/p>\n<p>CIMARA\u2019s revenue constitutes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Financial compensation, defined in \u00a7 1 of the previous article;<\/li>\n<li>Donations from any non-profit individuals or legal entities governed by public or private law;<\/li>\n<li>Income from own assets and the proceeds from their disposal as well as those resulting from the activities carried out by them;<\/li>\n<li>Members\u2019 dues;<\/li>\n<li>Any others resulting from CIMARA&#8217;s activity from publications or reports prepared by CIMARA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Article 23<br \/>\n(Dissolution and Liquidation)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>CIMARA is extinguished by deliberation of the General Assembly taken by a majority of at least three quarters of the number of its members.<\/li>\n<li>In the event of extinction, CIMARA&#8217;s assets will be allocated as determined by the General Assembly, respecting the commitments made with a view to creating CIMARA.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">CHAPTER VI \u2013 Final Provisions<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Article 24<br \/>\n(Amendment of Statutes)<\/p>\n<p>These Statutes can only be amended at a General Assembly called expressly for this purpose and with the favorable votes of three quarters of the members present.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Article 25<br \/>\n(Subsidiary Application)<\/p>\n<p>In everything that is not expressly provided for in these Statutes, CIMARA will be governed by the internal regulations and, in the absence of any, by general law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STATUTES OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTING THE AZORES CONSUMER INFORMATION, MEDIATION AND ARBITRATION CENTER CHAPTER I \u2013 General Definitions Article 1 (Name and Headquarters) The association is called Association for the Promotion of the Consumer Information, Mediation and Arbitration Center of the Azores, hereinafter referred to as CIMARA, and has 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