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PROVISIONS Izmail 2003 |
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1.1. These Provisions are construed on the basis
of Clause 5.12 Statutory Provisions of the Innovation Projects Support Association
(hereinafter referred to as the Association), approved at the General Meeting of its
Founders, Protocol dated July “1”, 2003 and registered with Izmail Municipal
Executive Committee under No 603, dated May “12”, 2003 and with State Registry
of Ukraine under No 33 dated May “12”, 2003.
1.2. Subject the Board decision Profile Committees
may be established within the Association structure. They are subordinated to the
Association Board and perform their activities under the Board instructions. Profile
Committee may be formed from the members of the Association, willing to work in certain
specific areas of its activities.
1.3. Subject to number, terms and geographical
location of projects being implemented, special, provisional and local Subcommittees
within the framework outlined by a particular profile corresponding to specific projects
supported by the Association.
1.4. The Committee is headed by a Chairman elected
by a simple majority of votes of members of the Committee. The Chairman appointment and
discharge is subject to the Board approval and decision and the Chairman subordinates
directly to the Board Chairman or a person who is acting as such
1.5. The position of a chairman of a Profile
Committee may be occupied by a competent person who has correspondent approved
professional skills and experience of working in the particular profile area for, at
least, three years.
1.6. The Profile Committee performs its activities
on a voluntary basis having as its primary objective to train Coordinators for
implementing the projects approved by the members of the Profile Committee.
1.7. The Committee has its own stamp to certify
its decision adopted under primary expertise of the supported projects and document
associated with the implementation of these projects.
1.8. The Profile Committees build their activities
on the basis of the Statutory Provisions of the Association, Laws of Ukraine On the Public
Organizations, On Copyright, On Enterprises, etc.
2.1. Profile Committees are purposed to elaborate
and to apply optimal solutions in organizational, methodological and economic support of
declared projects subject to the Committees topical orientation.
2.2. The Committees may be formed to encompass the
following areas of the Association activities:
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Committee on Science and
Technology Matters;
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Committee on Culture and
Mass Media Matters;
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Committee on Education
and Certification Matters;
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Committee on Ecological
and Environment Protection Matters;
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Committee on Medical and Hygiene Matters;
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Committee on Physical
Culture and Sports Matters;
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Committee on Commerce and
Production Matters
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Committee on Legal
Protection.
2.3. Committee on Science and Technology Matters
deals with rendering support to authors of scientific discoveries, inventions and their
practical implementation in the sphere of material production.
2.4. Committee on Education and Certification
Matters deals rendering support to the projects of new technologies and methods of
training into modern education practice
2.5. Committee on Culture and Mass Media Matters
deals with rendering support to projects purposed to preserve historical, cultural,
ethnical and folklore tradition of the Lower Danube Region and creative space development
for mass media aids.
2.6. Committee on Ecological and Environment
Protection Matters deals with rendering support to projects aimed to preserve, restore and
develop natural resources of the region.
2.7. Committee on Physical Culture and Sports
Matters deals with rendering support to projects for development and spreading physical
culture among the younger generation, prospective sportsmen training and promotion.
2.8. Committee on Medical and Hygiene Matters
deals with rendering support to projects aimed to develop the matters of health
preservation, material and technical base upgrading and maintaining, bringing up
professional qualification of physicians and auxiliary personnel, and diseases prevention
and prophylactics.
2.9. Committee on Commerce and Production Matters
deals with rendering support to projects aimed to develop the civilized practice of
private activities to meet the requirements of consumption market in satisfactory optimal
manner.
2.10.
Committee on Legal
Protection deals with rendering support to projects aimed to form and develop legal
literacy and protection for the population within the scope of Civil Procedural Laws of
Ukraine.
3.1. Subject of Activities of each Profile
Committee is construed by the organization work to render informational, methodological
and economic support in approved projects implementation.
3.2. The Committee performs following activities:
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Preliminary expertise of
the declared projects and their feasibility from the aspect of support rendering;
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Organization steps
required for its implementation;
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Assistance in sources of
crediting search;
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Defining the scope of
experimental testing it for efficiency;
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Selection and
recommending the Working Group staff for implementation;
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Preparing agreements with
Contractors and Customers with compulsory copyright clausing both for parties declaring
the project and those who implement ideas;
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Coordinating common
efforts of the Author, Sponsor Working Group and Contractors in implementation of the
approved project;
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Preparation and
submitting necessary documentation in compliance with existing national and international
standards provided for business plans and applications for grants;
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Outlines the circle of
entities being financially interested.
4.1. Profile Committee is authorized to:
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Approve or reject
innovative projects applied for expertise from the Board of the Association;
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Adopt decision on
rendering support to approved projects;
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Outline methods,
technologies and ways of promotion for the projects;
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Appoint a Coordinator for
a project being supported;
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Suspend or terminate
support of the project;
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Propose structure of
Working Group for implementing the project.
4.2. Decision to render support to an approved
project is adopted by a direct majority of votes among the members of relevant Profile
Committee. The decision is treated as valid if, at least, a half of the entire members
staff was presented at the meeting. The result of vote is issued in writing and certified
by the Chairman signature and Committee stamp. The Minutes of Meeting of the Committee are
submitted to the Board together with attached proposed plan and estimated measures list
required to implement the approved project.
4.3. The Chairman of the Committee or a person who
acts as such and performs his (her) duties is entitled to:
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Choose a Deputy Chairman
from among the members of the relevant Committee.
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Call, as and when required, the meetings of the
Committee on matters requiring a collegial solution to be adopted;
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Offer candidatures of the
Association members to be introduced into the Committee staff or to be excluded from the
Committee staff;
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Use own vote as a decisive one in case of equity of
votes during the discussion of disputable matters;
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Represent the Association in different
organizations and institutions on matters associated with the Committee activities without
special Power of Attorney;
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Issue orders and instructions stating the terms for
preliminary expertise on projects introduced for study in the Committee and to appoint
persons in charg;
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Approve annual plan of
work for the Committee and terms of completion of individual items of the plan.
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Sign reports on the work
completed to be issued as required by the Board or Supervisory Commission.
5.1. Each Profile Committees is to:
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Forecast and form the
Association Policy in respect to relevant profile with general aim to achieve strategic
targets brought before the Association;
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Study and apply advanced
labour methods to improve efficiency and quality of innovative projects implementation;
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Take steps to reduce the
labour consumption for work to be done by members of the respective Committee;
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To develop cooperative
relation within the staff, to apply knowledge of national and international laws,
regulations and conventions, regulations of Ukrainian Government, other regulations
existing within the scope of activities of the relevant Profile Committee;
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Select and enroll
personnel for the Committee and Working Groups engaged in implementation of projects being
supported;
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Control the competence
and qualification of Coordinators, Contractors and employed experts taking into
consideration variable scope of interests of innovative activities of the respective
Committee;
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Provide normal working
conditions, render methodological, organizational and consultative assistance to the
authors of innovative projects.
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The Chairman of the
Committee must possess at least three years professional work experience in the scope of
relevant Profile Committee and voluntary will to work on a non-beneficiary basis.
6.1. Profile Committee represented by its Chairman
or a person acting as such bears administrative, disciplinary and moral responsibility for
due performance of the delegated functions and for development of the organization of
specific assigned work.
6.2. The Chairman may be resigned from his (her)
position for wrongly adopted decisions, failure to use or misuse of his (her) rights with
suspension of the Committee activities until new Chairman is appointed.
6.3. Should the activities of the Committee affect
the reputation of the Association the Chairman of such Committee may be dismissed from the
Association in compliance with the Association Statutory Provisions. In such a case
activity of the Committee is terminated and the staff dissolved.
6.4. The Chairman of the Profile Committee is
personally liable for:
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Non-competence of the
Committee members to render quality assistance and support to the approved innovation
projects;
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Delay in preliminary
expertise performance for more than 10 extra days since the time of their submission by
the Board;
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Misuse of his (her)
rights to represent the Association in other institutions and organizations, whether with
or without preliminary authorization issued by the Board
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Mischief of the
Coordinator candidature and the latter’s failure to cooperate efficiently with the
author and the sponsor(s) of the project being supported.
6.5. At the first stage the Author addresses in
writing to the Board of the Association with specified request to support his (her)
project attaching the written specimen of essential ideas, purposes, expected results and
required resources.
6.6. At the next stage the Board assigns a
respective Profile Committee to carry on preliminary expertise of the project and adopts a
decision on feasibility to support it. In case of positive decision adopted a Coordinator
is appointed from the staff of relevant Profile Committee. The Coordinator is approved at
the Board session as recommended by the Chairman of the Committee.
6.7. The approved Coordinator together with the
Author works out plan of cooperation in the project implementation. For this purpose they
may engage a Working Group with interested experts both from Association staff as well, as
outside. At the stage when the Working Group is being formed functions and duties of its
members are negotiated.
6.8. The Working Group handles the matters of
informative promotion of the relevant project, searching for sponsors and media for its
experimental tests. The Working Group may include the Coordinator, the Author and the
Sponsor of the respective project.
6.9. The Coordinator cooperates with the Sponsor
and organizes liaison with the Board that provides for legal financing and material
assistance to come through the Association and for legal aspects of hiring the Contractors
to implement the project in question.
6.10.
The Coordinator assists
the Working Group and the Sponsor in updating the financial and economic feasibility of
implementation of the respective project.
6.11.
The Author, the Working
Group and the Contractors prepare and carry on practical experimental implementation of
the first version of the project.
6.12.
The Sponsor, the Working
Group and the Contractors evaluate successful outcome of the experimental implementation
on the comparative basis between the expected and actual results to define whether further
support of the project is reasonable.
6.13.
Further support of the
project is carried on the basis of commercial benefit for the Sponsor and material award
for the Author and the co-Authors in implementation of the Author’s ideas either on
the basis of contractual, or other legal basis to either sell or assign the copyrights for
commercial application of the results achieved.
7. FINANCIAL AND ECOMNOMIC ACTIVITY
7.1. The Chairman of the Profile Committee plans
the usage of the Association financial resources in the interests of rendering support to
the projects being in work with the Committee and agrees it with the Board Chairman.
7.2. Depending on the number of the projects being
under support and the time required for their implementation the economic activity of the
Profile Committee may be of constant, provisional, special or local nature as defined by
the decision adopted by the Board of the Association.
7.3. Financial activities of the Profile Committee
are based on targeted donations from the Association members, Sponsors and parties
providing grants and interested in implementation of the projects applied for support.
7.4. Settlement of accounts with the Coordinator,
Authors, Working Groups and Contractors engaged in the project implementation are effected
through the Association accounts, if no other schemes of financing the project exist.
7.5. The labour spent by the members of a Profile
Committee to carry on preliminary expertise, methodological and informative assistance to
the Authors of innovative projects is an act of charity and is effected on a voluntary
basis.
7.6. Material encouragement of the participants in
support and implementation of an innovative project may be done by the Board of the
Association as recommended by a Chairman of the Profile Committee.
IPSA Board Chairman A.L. Gerashchenko