Members

1. Membership is open to towns, municipalities and regions as well as institutions and organizations from the member states of the Council of Europe and of the European Union, as well as from candidate countries.
Membership of the Association is not transferable.

2. The Association has the following member categories:

a. Working members.

The following may be admitted as working members: towns, municipalities and regions, national associations, local and regional networks as well as Euregional networks or collaborative undertakings of towns, municipalities and regions.
For the years 2005 and 2006 only, natural persons may also be working members.

b. Associate members.

Associate membership is open to all other interested parties including:
- Organizations such as associations, universities, knowledge centres and academic institutions, which are involved in disaster management in the broadest sense of the term.
- Companies which specialize in disaster management.

c. Advisory members.

These are:

- The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe (CLRAE) and other institutions of the Council of Europe.

- The Committee of the Regions (CoR) and other institutions of the European Union.

-United Nations


3. All members must endorse the objectives, means and activities of the Association.

4. The membership structure will be determined by the General Meeting of Members.

5. The Executive Committee will decide as to whether or not to admit full and/or associate members.
There is no appeal against the decision of the Executive Committee.

6. Associate and advisory members as well as benefactors enjoy no other rights and obligations than those conferred and imposed upon them by these articles of association.

7. In addition to the other rights conferred upon associate and advisory members by or pursuant to these articles of association, they are also entitled to attend the activities organized by the Association, for which they have received a notice of convening or invitation. They do not enjoy the right to vote.

8. The Executive Committee will keep a register in which the names and addresses of all members, honorary members, associate and advisory members are contained.

d. Membership fee.

WORKING MEMBERS

CITIES AND MUNICIPALITIES

number of inhabitants Groupe A Groupe B

< 10.000 € 250 € 150
10.000 - 25.000 € 500 € 300
25.000 - 50.000 € 750 € 450
50.000 - 75.000 € 1.000 € 600
75.000 - 125.000 € 1.250 € 750
125.000 - 175.000 € 1.500 € 900
175.000 - 250.000 € 1.750 € 1.050
250.000 – 500.000 € 2.000 € 1.200
> 500.000 € 2.250 € 1.350


REGIONS/LOCAL, REGIONAL AND EUREGIONAL NETWORKS
< 1 miljon € 3.500 € 2.100
1 miljon – 5 miljon € 4.500 € 2.700
> 5 miljon € 5.500 € 3.300


ASSOCIATE MEMBERS

ORGANISATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS
€ 1.000 € 600

Groupe A
Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switserland, The Netherlands, United Kingdom

Groupe B
Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bugaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine