MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION

Membership of the European Paediatric Association (EPA/UNEPSA) is open to any natural person with full legal capacity certified as a paediatrician in Europe who is a personal member of a Paediatric Society/Association Member of EPA/UNEPSA. Individual membership is offered on an annual basis starting on the 1st January of each year and ending on the 31st of December. Members shall pay a membership fee. The Council shall pass a resolution to determine the amount and the date on which the fee is due.

Membership shall arise upon a member joining the Association. The above written membership application shall be submitted. The Council shall decide upon the admission of new members by majority vote. Membership shall become effective upon written declaration of acceptance.

Applicants have no legal right to be accepted as a member of the Association.

Membership may cease due to withdrawal, exclusion or cancellation of membership.

Members are entitled to leave the Association. Members who wish to withdraw from the association must observe a three-month notice period before leaving at the end of a calendar year. A written declaration announcing the member’s withdrawal shall be submitted to the Council. The notice period has been observed when a Councillor has received the member’s declaration in due time.

Members can be excluded from the Association for good cause. Upon the Council’s application, the General Assembly shall decide upon the exclusion by simple majority. The Council shall inform the respective member of its application in writing no later than two weeks before the respective assembly. A detailed written statement by the respective member shall be read out at the assembly that decides upon the exclusion. The exclusion of a member shall become effective upon the passing of the respective resolution.

Furthermore, membership of the Association may be cancelled. This occurs in cases whereby a member is six months in arrears with the membership fee and has failed to settle the outstanding amount within three months of receiving a written reminder from the Council (three months from the date of posting/e-mailing). The reminder shall be sent by registered post to the member’s last address known to the Association and/or by elecronic mail to the member’s last known elecronic address. The reminder shall notify the member of the imminent cancellation of membership. The reminder shall remain effective even if it has been returned as unclaimed and/or if the electronic mail is undelivered.

Individual members who are in arrears with the payment of the membership fee are not allowed to exercise their member rights so long as such arrears of the membership fee exist.

If the European Paediatric Association of (EPA/UNEPSA) becomes aware that any information in the membership application is untrue, or if circumstances change after the date of application and affect ethical and professional standards, it may be grounds for exclusion from the Association. 

Members acknowledge and accept that their subscription to the “Evidence-based Child Heath: A Cochrane Review Journal” through the EPA/UNEPSA membership will be for personal use only, may not be placed in institutional or university libraries or other libraries and/or organisations.

The European Paediatric Association (EPA/UNEPSA) reserves the right to include the names of its members on Council approved mailings.