PPI Application

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PPNZ applied for admission to, and subsequently joined PPI in 2011. This page was for comments on the paperwork involved.

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Related pages:

• PPI Statutes
• PPI Internal Regulations

Contents 1 PPI Admission General Information 1.1 Eligibility 1.2 Membership / Application Fees 1.3 Application process

PPI Admission General Information

Eligibility

PPI is an open Organization, that is accepting new membership requests. From the Statutes Section III - Membership

(1) Members of Pirate Parties International can become Parties and Party-related organizations that do not have the goal of participating in elections. This includes Parties:

• Officially registered
• unregistered (incl PPNZ)
• regional sub divisions (if they are there own legal entities)

Organization may be such as:

• youth organization
• student organization
• women organization
• professional union
• foundation
• ...

Individuals are not allowed for PPI Membership.

Comment: PPNZ is eligible as an unregistered Party (Pervach)

Membership / Application Fees

The founding assembly of the PPI has decided that there should be no membership fees. However, this decision has to be revisited on a yearly basis: Statutes Section XVI - Affiliation Fees:

(1) The amount of the fee is determined annually by the General

Assembly.

(2) The affiliation fees and contributions shall be fixed in relation to the

finances and membership of parties. Note: The determination of fees has to be made by General Assembly with a two third majority of the votes cast. Note2: At the 2010 Conference in Brussels the amount for the affiliation fee was fixed at zero.

Comment: The issue of possible future membership was discussed before the decision to apply was made i.e. this has already been agreed to by PPNZ (Pervach)

Application process

(3) Requests for Membership shall be submitted to the Board in

writing. They shall include contact information and a statement on the adoption of the statutes and internal regulations of the association, in addition to a copy of the statutes and by-laws and the political program of the applicant party and information on the background and organization of said applicant. The Board will transmit the application to the General Assembly.

Comment: The PPNZ Executive Council should approve the PPI_Statutes and the PPI Internal Regulations before the application is sent (Pervach)

So, if you want to apply for PPI Membership you need to submit following:

• Contact information, especially such as:
  • named coordinator (Noel)
  • generic "info" email (pirateparty@pirateparty.org.nz)
  • press contact (Matt)
• statutes of your organization (the Constitution)
• by-laws (none)
• program (The Core Policy)
• background Information:
  • founding date (Feb 20 2010)
  • board composition (the executive council)
  • members count (40)
  • list of subsidiaries (none, but mentioned PPAk/YPNZ)
  • logo (the current logo)

(Comments by Pervach)

submit this to board (at) pp (minus) international (point) net

If possible please provide an English translation of the submitted documents.