STRUCTURE
OF THE ESC
Members
of the Society can be all professionals; doctors and non-doctors,
effectively working within the field of contraception and Reproductive
Health Care and nationals of a European country and who have paid their
yearly subscription.
A
professional wishing to become a member of the Society, must be proposed
by a regular member to the Secretary General of the EC, who is entitled to
assess that the conditions (as said previously) are met.
Professionals
from outside Europe can become associate members of the ESC.
The
right and duties of ordinary members and associate members will be defined
in the Rules of Procedure of the Society.
The
affiliation of other organisation is possible. The rights and duties of
these organisations will be defined in the Rules of Procedure of Society.
Each
country may have one representative on the Board Directors, if there are five
paid up ordinary members from that country. A second member for any one country can be
elected onto the Board if there are 20 or more paid-up members from that
country. If
the Board of Directors is likely to have more than 24 members, the Executive
Committee will examine the current Statutes and Rules of Procedure and suggest
ways in which they can be changed so that the Board does not become so big
that it is no longer financially viable.
No country may have more than two elected
representatives.
These members are elected by simple majority, for six years, at the General
Assembly. The members of the Board of Directors chooses from amongst its
members, by secret ballot, by simple majority, a working body called the
“Executive Committee”