NATIONAL ALLIANCE

 

OF THE

 

Magyar Járműalkatrészgyártók Országos Szövetsége

 

Association of the Hungarian Vehicle Component Manufacturers

  

 

H-1119 Budapest XI. ker. , Bártfai u. 5/B Tel./Fax: +36 1 203-8144

E-mail: majosz@mail.datanet.hu

FUNDAMENTAL RULE

 

Section 1

Legal status of the Alliance:

1.   The Alliance is an autonomous business federation acting with independent entity.

2.   The Alliance is a legal entity. It was founded as a national social organization on April 21, 1993, on the basis of the 2nd Act of 1989.

3.   Seat of the Alliance: Budapest, VIII., Könyves Kálmán Krt.76.

4.   Signet: National Alliance of the Hungarian Vehicle Component Manufacturers, Budapest - round rubber stamp.

5.   The Alliance may be a member of all business federation organization representing its interests.

Section 2

 

1. Aim of the Alliance:

 

-       To assure the professional, economical interest reconciliation of its members acting in the fields of vehicle part and component manufacturing, vehicle industry, and to represent the interest enforcement consequently and regularly, to promote the realistic social, economical and administrative estimation of these branches, moreover to represent its members within the Hungarian industry in the fields of technical development, trade and others of the economy.

 

-       It reconciles and represents its interests in professional and economic respects. 

-       It promotes free undertaking.

-       It initiates, establishes and maintains international economic relations in professional level.

 

2. Authorities of the Alliance:

It manages the interest representation, interest reconciliation, interest mediatory and contact keeping tasks in its special field in compliance with the following:

2.1        It initiates, co-ordinates and organizes the harmonized intervention in every question that arises in any field in the round of the special field and the enforcement of the entrepreneur's interest.

2.2       Based on the harmonized opinion of its members it takes up a position in connection with the drafts of decisions and normatives involving professional undertakings. It mediates its attitudes towards the economy directing and social organizations.

2.3       It keeps track the practical success of laws concerning professional undertakings, and initiates revision and modification of normatives, provisions rendering the undertakings more difficult at the competent economy directing as well as other interest representing organs.

2.4.      It takes part in the elaboration of economical and undertaking conversion provisions.

2.5.      It elaborates and maintains ethical standards characteristic of the branch, takes care of their observance and comes forward against entrepreneurial behaviour differing from the generally accepted standards. In relation to this it makes run an entrepreneurial professional ethical committee.

2.6.      It promotes co-operation between and among its members and other entrepreneurs.

2.7.      It promotes activity of the members by publishing general conditions, recommendations and guidance concerning the entrepreneurs' professional questions.

2.8.      It builds and maintains informational conciliatory, decision preparation co-operation with all those governmental, social and economic organizations and concerns where it is justified and required by the assert of the members' interests 

2.9.      It provides - to the required extent - the employers' business federation. In this activity it co-operates with national and local employers' as well as competent employees' business federal organizations being formed for such a purpose.

2.10.     For the international economic relations:

 -      It assists the members to develop their foreign economical relations, contributes to the extension of marketing knowledge by relating professional information, arrangement of professional days, organization and reception of branch delegations,

 -      It keeps contact with foreign branch and chamber organizations, with which it assists the establishment and extension of inter-company direct relations within the frame of agreements based on mutuality,

 -      In the international alliances and forums it represents the members acting in the special field,

 -      It takes part in the work of professional mixed committees.

2.11.     It keeps the members continuously informed about long‑term and topical general economic development purposes, economic policy conceptions.

2.12.    It promotes knowledge and spreading of the professional technical development.

2.13.     It does professional press and propaganda work to assist the work of members acting in the special field.

2.14.     In the settlement of disputed matters between and among the members it manages conciliatory, goodwill tasks upon request.

2.15.     It is not the Alliance's duty to harmonize the members' activity related to normal management - with especial regard to provisions of the effective competition laws concerning price cartel and abuse of economic superiority. Activity of the Alliance is based on the members' equal rights.

 

 

Section 3

 

Activities of the Alliance

 

Ø  Publishing

Ø  Publishing periodical issues

Ø  Data bank activity

Ø  Market and public research

Ø  Advising in bussiness management

Ø  Advertising

Ø  Secretarial activity, translating

Ø  Other nowhere else classified services helping economical activities

Ø  Adult and other education

 

Membership of the Alliance:

1.      According to the legal status of the members it may be:                                            Normal member,

                                   Supporting member,

                                   Associated member.

2.      Enrolment of the members into the branch alliance is voluntary.

3.      Normal member of the Alliance can be an economic organization (economic association), individual firm, institute, institution acting in the field of any profession, which does the entrepreneurial activity with a domestic seat, accepts the Alliance's Fundamental Rule as mandatory, accepts to pay the subscription.

4.      Joining the rank of the Alliance takes place by a written statement addressed to the Alliance's Presidium, in that the new member states that he accepts the Alliance's Fundamental Rule and the ethical standards of the members' co‑operation and market behaviour as mandatory. Membership begins by the acceptance of the statement by the Alliance's Presidium.

5.      Members pay an annual subscription to the bank account of the Alliance in two instalments before the end of the 1st and the 3rd quarter, respectively, of which extent is approved by the General Meeting on the basis of the Presidium's suggestion.

6.      The member gives a notice of the intention of resignation in written form to the Presidium at least 3 months before the end of the calendar year. The membership comes to the end on the last day of the calendar year.

 

Section 4

 

  1. Duties and rights of the members of the Alliance

1 The normal members has the right to have representatives, who can:

            attend the meetings of the association

            in case of election should be ready to hold an office

            make proposal reading the convening of the General Meeting and regarding its agenda

            have proposals to the General Meeting or to the Presidium

            have the right to take part in discussing the proposals submitter at the associations meetings, and to take part in making decisions by voting

            take the initative to the recalling of any officals of the association

            making use of the services of the association

            the state of the membership shell be indicated in the company’s official papers with heading

2. Duties of the normal member of the Alliance:

2.1.       To assist the aim of the Alliance and to take part in its work.

2.2.      To comply with the Alliance's Fundamental Rule and the resolutions of the Alliance meetings, to consider its recommendations.

2.3.      To put information not harming business secret required to the co‑ordinating and safeguarding work at the Alliance's disposal.

2.4.      To strengthen the spirit of collaboration in its economic work having the interests of other members of the Alliance in sight.

2.5.      To comply with the ethical standards determined by the Alliance.

2.6.      To pay the annual subscription.

3.          Associated member can be any economic organization or its local agency having individual legal entity. Rights and duties of the associated members of the Alliance are determined by the agreement between the Alliance and the associated member.

 

Section 5

 

The Alliance's leading organs are:

General Meeting

Presidium

 

1. The General Meeting:

1.1.       The supreme organ of the Alliance is the General Meeting that consists of the whole of the Alliance's members. The General Meeting has to be convened once a year minimum or as circumstances may require. General Meeting for the re‑election of the officials has to be hold once in each third year.

1.2.      The members have to receive the invitation for the General Meeting as well as the written agenda before the General Meeting at least 14 days.

1.3.       Valid decisions can be made in questions only which are included in the written agenda of the General Meeting.

 1.4.      The followings belong to the exclusive sphere of authority of the General Meeting:

 1.4.1.       Approval and modification of the Fundamental Rule of the Alliance.

1.4.2.       Acceptance of the Presidium's annual report and the approval of the next year's schedule, of which parts are report about the economic activity and plan, respectively.

1.4.3.       Election and release of the Alliance's Presidium, leading functionaries (President, Co‑presidents). The election has to be conducted by secret vote.

1.4.4.       Attitude in questions about which the General Meeting decided in the schedule.

1.4.5.       Any task of which discussion is relegated by the Alliance's Presidium to the General Meeting.

1.4.6.       Acceptance of federal recommendations and attitudes significantly affecting the economic interests of the members.

1.4.7.       Decision about fusion of the Alliance with other social organization, ceasing (dissolution) and distribution of the property.

1.5.       In the General Meeting a quorum is if at least half of the members are present. Resolutions of the General Meeting are passed by simple majority. In case of a tie vote the casting vote is given by the Alliance's President.

If the General Meeting has no quorum, it has to be re‑convened within 15 days for the discussion of the given agenda. Then, independently of the number of those attending, in the General Meeting there is a quorum respecting the original points of the agenda. Written standpoints concerning the agenda have to be considered as valid votes.

1.6.       The General Meeting and the extraordinary General Meeting are convened by the Presidium and they are presided over by the President or Co‑president.

1.7.      To the convocation of an extraordinary General Meeting convocation suggestion of at least 10 per cent of the members is required. The extraordinary General Meeting has to be convened within 30 days reckoned from the arrival of the suggestion to the Presidium.

2. The Alliance's Presidium:

2.1.       Tasks of the Alliance's Presidium are:

2.1.1        It directs the Alliance's activity and between two General Meetings with the exception of stated in 1.4.1 and 1.4.7 it asserts its rights, anticipating the subsequent approval of the General Meeting 

2.1.2       It directs and by delegate controls the economy of the professional alliance.

2.1.3       The Alliance's Presidium asserts employers' rights over the acting Secretary-general.

2.2.       The Presidium consists of 7 members 

2.3.      Delegates of the Alliance's members can be elected into functionaries of the Alliance.

2.4.      Members of the Presidium can be substituted by their proxy delegates.

2.5.      Election of the President, Co‑president and members of the Presidium is for three years.

2.6.      The Presidium can set up sections by special branches or regions from the Alliance's members.

2.7.      Functional rules of the sections are included in their organizational and functional statutes.

2.8.      Resolutions are passed by simple majority. In case of a tie vote the casting vote is given by the President.

Two-thirds majority is needed to the passing of resolutions, under 60 per cent participation of the Presidium to the followings:

-        To the acceptance of suggestions concerning the ethical codex and its modification, and

-        In case of decision concerning delegation and withdrawal of delegation of the Secretary‑general.

 

3. Administration organization of the Alliance:

3.1.       To conduct the tasks, the Alliance has an own administration organization (office), directed by the Secretary‑general.

3.2.      Order of business is approved by the Alliance's Presidium.

3.3.      Scope of activity and duties of the Secretary‑general are defined by the Presidium.

 

Section 6

 

Representation of the Alliance:

1.      In the presence of third parties the Alliance is represented in the name of the Alliance's Presidium by the Alliance's President or by two presidium members.

2.      The Alliance keeps direct contact via the Presidium with the competent highest authorities, organs with national function, social and other organizations.

3.      Among the elected leading officials the President can be a Hungarian citizen only. The officials - with the exception of the Secretary‑general - do their job unpaid. Depending on the management - on the basis of a resolution passed by the General Meeting - they can receive a fee.

 

Section 7

 

Management of the Alliance:

1.      The Alliance manages from the subscriptions and other incomes according to the regulations concerning the social organizations.

2.      The General Meeting stating the ceasing of the Alliance decides about distribution of the Alliance's property 

In absence of this the property has to be expended for professional business federation purposes.

 

Section 8

 

Closing provision:

In questions not regulated in this Fundamental Rule regulations of the 2nd Act of 1989 are decisive.

The Fundamental Rule was accepted by the General Meeting at April 21, 1993, and the Court of Budapest took it into registration of the social organs by order dated 18.June 1993, under No. 5264.

The General Meeting has amended the statues on its meeting of May 12, 1999.

Scope of activity: business federation.

 

Herbert Rupp
President



APPENDIX

 

RULES OF PAYMENT OF SUBSCRIPTION

 

Basis for the fixing of payment of subscription is the net return of sales originating from 70 per cent of vehicle part manufacturing activity of the enterprise

Rate of subscription has to be established on the basis of subscription classes formed according to this net return of sales; 

Members not having separate return of sales (educational institutions, organizations financed by state budget, alliances, newly formed companies) pay their subscription according to subscription class I.

 

Subscription class

Ranges of net return of sales (Million forints)

Annual subscription (Thousand forints)

I

   0 -   10

26

II

  10 -  100

33

III

 100 -  200

40

IV

 200 -  400

53

V

 400 -  600

74

VI

 600 -  800

93

VII

 800 - 1000

113

VIII

1000 - 1500

132

IX

1500 - 2000

153

X

2000 - 3000

192

XI

3000 - 4000

232

XII

4000 - 8000

271

XIII

 above 8000

340

 

* Values accepted at the General Assembly on 22th April 2008.