Statutes of the association
CZECH FILM AND TELEVISION ACADEMY, registered association
Basic regulations
SECTION I – NAME AND ADDRESS
1. A society called Czech Film and Television Academy, registered association is founded (hereinafter referred to as the Academy).
2. The address of the Academy is: Praha 2 - Nové Město, Karlovo náměstí 285/19, PSČ 120 00
SECTION II – PURPOSE AND ACTIVITIES OF THE ACADEMY
1. The Academy brings together natural persons working in the area of Czech audiovision without any restriction as regards citizenship or nationality.
2. The main purpose and aim of the Academy’s activities is to meet the common interest of the members in supporting and promoting Czech audiovisual art both in the Czech Republic and abroad and in creating the conditions for the development of Czech audiovisual art.
3. The main activities of the Academy in meeting its aim are as follows:
a) Awarding the Czech annual film or as the case may be television awards;
b) Nominating Czech audiovisual works of art for international or foreign film awards;
c) Cooperating with state bodies and subjects operating in the area of audiovision, for example, in the area of discussion and initiation of legal regulations.
4. The Academy may engage in supplementary business activities that do not require a licence in the following areas:
a) Operating cultural, educational and entertainment facilities, organizing cultural events, entertainment, exhibitions, fairs, shows, trade events and similar;
b) Publishing activities, printing, bookbinding and copying work;
c) Producing, reproducing, distributing, selling and renting out audio and audio-visual recordings and producing data and recording media.
5. The purpose of the supplementary activities is solely to support the main activities, and the profit derived from the supplementary activities may be used only for the activities and operation of the Academy.
6. The Academy shall perform its activities on a permanent basis and has been established for an indefinite period of time.
Membership
SECTION III – COMMENCEMENT AND TERMINATION OF MEMBERSHIP
1. A natural person of at least 18 years of age may become a member of the Academy if they fulfil the conditions for membership mentioned hereinbelow in Section III. Membership is attached to a natural person and is not transferable to their inheritors.
2. Membership of the Academy is voluntary. Those who express their interest to become a member of the Academy, apply for membership of the Academy or accept the offered membership of the Academy demonstrate thereby their willingness to be bound by the Statutes of the Academy from the moment they become members of the Academy.
3. The following persons may become members of the Academy:
a) The winner of the Czech Lion annual film awards conferred from 1994 to 2013;
b) The winner of the Czech Lion annual film awards conferred by the Academy from 2014;
c) The holder of at least three nominations for the awards mentioned in article a) or b) above, the nominations mentioned in a) and b) being aggregated;
d) The winner of an annual award conferred by the European Film Academy (EFA), the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) or the Hollywood Foreign Press Association – HFPA Golden Globe – or the holder of a nomination for any of these awards;
e) The holder of an annual award conferred by the main jury of a competitive international film festival which is accredited to the Fédération Internationale des Associations de Producteurs de Films (FIAPF);
f) The holder of a national annual award in the area of audiovision conferred in a foreign country (“Slnko v sieti” in Slovakia, “Lola” in Germany, “Orły” in Poland, “Goya” in Spain, “César” in France, “David di Donatello” in Italy, the BAFTA awards in Great Britain etc.);
g) A person who became a member of the Academy in the past on the basis of Section VIII of the Statutes of the Czech Film and Television Academy, charitable trust (company reg. no. 25740377), regardless of whether they meet the other conditions in this paragraph;
h) An important personality of Czech or world audiovision who has significantly contributed to the development of Czech or world audiovision on condition their membership is proposed by the Presidium by a majority of the votes of its members, or their membership has been approved based on the vote of the majority of the members of the Presidium ensuing the application of such a person for the membership.
4. The conditions mentioned in Paragraph 3, Articles a) to f) are met only when the nominations or awards are conferred in connection with a Czech or Czechoslovak audiovisual work of art or if they are awarded to a Czech citizen in connection with other than a Czech or Czechoslovak audiovisual work of art. In the event of an award or a nomination under Paragraph 3, Articles a) to f) in the “Best Film” category, the holders of the award or nomination are considered to be the main producer (main producers) and the director of the audiovisual work of art.
5. Those interested in membership of the Academy and who meet the conditions under Paragraph 3, Articles a) to g) shall submit a written announcement, which manifests their interest to become a member and confirms the fulfilment of the conditions; their membership commences on the day of the submission without further delay. A personality proposed by the Academy under Paragraph 9, Article h) will become a member of the Academy on the day when they confirm to the Academy in writing that they agree with the proposed membership. A personality who applies for the membership of the Academy under Paragraph 3 Article h) delivers a written application to the Academy; the membership commences on the day when such an application gets approved by the Presidium.
6. The membership is terminated when:
a) A member leaves the Academy, with effect from the moment when the written announcement of such an act is delivered to the address of the Academy; any member of the Academy has the right to leave the Academy at any time and terminate thus their membership;
b) The Presidium decides to expel a member based on the Statutes of the Academy or the law;
c) A member dies.
7. A member of the Academy can be expelled from the Academy based on the decision of the Presidium if (i) they seriously violate their duties related to the membership in the Academy or (ii) they do not pay the membership fees which they are obliged to pay and if they do not pay the debt even after a written demand for payment from the Academy within an alternative period of 30 days from the moment the demand for payment was delivered (the membership cannot be terminated based only on not paying the membership fees). The decision of the Presidium on terminating the membership is then scrutinised based on the proposal of the expelled member by the General Meeting.
8. The Academy administers the list of the members in an electronic form, the list contains the name and surname, the permanent residence address, the date of birth, profession in the area of audiovision and the necessary contact details (telephone number and email address) of each member; the director enters and deletes the data on the members in the list. The Academy publishes the list of its members in a way that enables remote access; however, this list contains solely the name and surname of each member, their photograph and their profession in the area of audiovision; publishing of any other data as mentioned in the above sentence is prohibited. Any person who applies for the membership in the Academy or accepts such a membership, agrees that the Academy will administer their data in the above mentioned extent and that the Academy will publish the data in the above mentioned way and extent, providing that the agreement lasts as long as the membership in the Academy.
SECTION IV- RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE MEMBERS
1. Apart from the rights mentioned elsewhere in the Statutes and apart from the rights resulting from the law, any member of the Academy has the right to:
a) Participate in the General Meeting, propose the agenda of the General Meeting and vote on the resolutions of the General Meeting;
b) Convene (on their own or in cooperation with other members, based on the conditions stated in these Statutes) the General Meeting;
c) Be elected to the Presidium or Executive Committee in accordance with these Statutes;
d) Participate in the activities organised by the Academy, unless they are in arrears with their payment of the membership fee in any of the previous years;
e) Be informed about the activities of the Academy, participate in its activities and take advantage of the membership, including using an identification that proves the membership of the Academy;
f) Vote on the annual film awards presented by the Academy and on the works of art nominated for the international or foreign film awards in accordance with the internal regulations of the Academy;
g) Have an access (on request) to all the documents of the Academy, such as namely the minutes of the Presidium meetings, documents related to the business activities of the Academy and at the same time be obliged to maintain confidentiality on the content of these documents, while the confidentiality does not have to be maintained when dealing with other members of the Academy;
2. Apart from the obligations mentioned elsewhere in the Statutes and apart from the obligations resulting from the law, a member of the Academy has the following obligations:
a) To abide by the Statutes, other internal regulations of the Academy and respect the decisions of the General Meeting, Presidium and Executive Committee;
b) To behave and act in accordance with the mission and aims of the Academy and not to harm the interests, reputation and good name of the Academy;
c) To perform the functions in the bodies of the Academy into which they have been elected conscientiously and properly;
d) To pay the membership fees in the amount and by the due date in accordance with the decision of the General Meeting; however, this obligation is not applied to the members proposed by the Presidium under Section III, Paragraph 5, Article h);
e) Inform the Academy about any changes of the data administered in the list of the members under Section III, Paragraph 8.
Organisation of the Academy
SECTION V – BODIES OF THE ACADEMY
1. The bodies of the Academy are:
a) General Meeting
b) Presidium
c) Executive Committee
d) Managing director
SECTION VI – GENERAL MEETING
1. The General Meeting is the highest body of the Academy and it consists of all its members.
2. The dealings of the General Meeting are not public, unless the General Meeting resolves otherwise.
3. The General Meeting takes decisions about:
a) Changes of the Statutes;
b) Election or dismissal of the members of the Presidium;
c) Cancellation of the Academy and it approves of decisions related to property settlement and/or liquidation;
d) Merger or division of the Academy under the conditions stated by the law;
e) Implementation or cancelling of the obligation to pay the membership fees and about the amount and due date, at the same time unless the General Meeting decides otherwise the membership fees are due annually by 30th June of the calendar year for which they are due;
f) Basic concept questions about the activities of the Academy, it takes decisions about such questions and the decisions are then binding for the Presidium and the Executive Committee.
4. The General Meeting is quorate regardless of the number of the present members and takes the decisions by simple majority of the present members. Unless stated otherwise in these Statutes each member has one vote. In the matters under Paragraph 3, Article a) the General Meeting decides by the two-third majority of the present members and in the matters under Paragraph 3, Articles c) and d) the General Meeting decides by the two-third majority of all its members.
5. A member of the Academy exercises the right to vote in the General Meeting personally, voting by proxy is not permissible.
6. The General Meeting debates those issues in the agenda proposed by the Presidium as well as such an issue which had been proposed to the Executive Committee by at least 10 members of the Academy provided it had been delivered to the Academy at least 10 days before the date of the General Meeting. The General Meeting is chaired by a charged member of the Executive Committee or they can be substituted by another person who the General Meeting appoints by a vote to be the chairman of the General Meeting.
7. The General Meeting is held at least once per year and the Executive Committee convenes the meeting by sending an invitation to all the members of the Academy. The convened General Meeting cannot be cancelled by the convenor. The Executive Committee is obliged to convene a General Meeting if at least 50 members of the Academy propose the convention of such a meeting including the agenda of the meeting in question. The General Meeting has to be convened within a sixty-day period after a written requirement of at least 50 members had been delivered to the Academy. If the Executive Committee does not do so within the given period, any member of the Academy who had required such a meeting can convene it. The invitation to the General Meeting has to contain the place, date and time of the General Meeting and the agenda which is known by the day when the invitation is sent; during the General Meeting it is possible to debate questions and take decisions about questions that had not been included in the proposed agenda on condition according to the first sentence of Paragraph 6. The invitation to the General Meeting has to be sent to the members of the Academy at least 30 days before the General Meeting is to be held.
8. The General Meeting can approve of its rules of procedure if considered appropriate.
9. Following the decision of the Presidium, The General Meeting can take a decision about particular questions also by correspondence, based on the materials sent to all the members of the Academy in a written or electronic way and/or published via an electronic application. In this way it is namely possible to vote about passing or refusing a resolution or about electing a member of the Presidium. Accepted are those votes that the Academy obtains within the period designated for such a vote in the appeal to vote, while the period cannot be shorter than one week. The day of the vote or election is considered the last day of the period designated for such a vote in the appeal to vote. Further details might be determined by an internal rule of the Academy.
SECTION VII – PRESIDIUM
1. The Presidium is an collective body of the Academy, is responsible to the General Meeting and it manages the activities of the Academy between the individual General Meetings.
2. The Presidium constitutes of 15 members. The members of the Presidium get elected and dismissed by the General Meeting. The membership in the Presidium does not constitute any financial rewards or perquisites. The election to the Presidium is organised so that out of the candidates standing for the election, the one who obtains the most votes from the members of the Academy becomes the member of the Presidium. In case of the annual alteration of one third of the members of the Presidium, those five candidates who obtain the most votes are elected; in case of the equality of the votes the decision is made by drawing lots.
3. The members of the Presidium are elected for the period of 3 years. The membership in the Presidium commences on the day of the vote if it is done in person during the dealings of the General Meeting, or on the last day of the period that is stated for the correspondent election. However, the membership can commence on the day when the tenure of the previous members finishes at the earliest, should the election happen earlier than that. Every year the tenure of one third of the members of the Presidium finishes. When the General Meeting votes for the first Presidium, it is decided by drawing lots which 5 members are elected for 1 year, which 5 members are elected for 2 years and which 5 members are elected for 3 years. In case of the termination of a membership of the Presidium during the tenure, the new member of the Presidium, who is elected instead of the member whose membership was terminated, is elected only until the end of the tenure of the member whose membership was terminated.
4. Any member of the Academy can become a member of the Presidium. A member of the Presidium can be elected into their function repeatedly. Any member of the Presidium performs the rights and obligations of the member of the Presidium in person, any dealings in proxy are not permissible.
5. The membership of the Presidium is terminated in case of the end of the tenure, in case of a resignation of the member, in case the General Meeting dismisses a member as well as in case the membership of the member in the Academy is terminated. The resignation of a member of the Presidium becomes effective when the announcement about the resignation in writing is delivered to the Academy or when it is announced in person at the meeting of either the Presidium or at the General Meeting.
6. The Presidium convenes for a meeting usually four times a year. The Presidium is convened by the Executive Committee, the director on behalf of the Committee or any three members of the Presidium. The meetings of the Presidium are not public, unless the Presidium resolves otherwise.
7. The Presidium is quorate provided that absolute majority of its members are present and it takes resolutions by simple majority of votes (in case of equality of votes the vote of the President of the Academy has the decisive power if they are present); unless stated otherwise in the statutes. The Presidium can take decisions by correspondence based on the initiative of the Executive Committee or any member of the Presidium. However, the proposed resolution is valid only if it has been approved by absolute majority of all the members of the Presidium within the period stated for the voting.
8. The Presidium appoints one of its members to become the President of the Academy who then represents the Presidium in public. The function of the President is terminated when the membership in the Presidium is terminated.
9. The Presidium:
a) Approves the internal rules of the Academy, including the rules for awarding the annual film and television awards;
b) Approves the budget and the final accounts based on the proposal of the Executive Committee; the General Meeting is informed about the results of the business activities of the Academy on the earliest occasion;
c) Is responsible to the General Meeting for the administration of estates and handling the financial resources of the Academy;
d) Decides about the admission or dismissal of a member on the basis of these Statutes and deals with all the other matters regarding membership on the basis of these Statutes;
e) Takes decisions about the business activities of the Academy within the framework of supplementary business activities;
f) To the General Meeting it presents proposals regarding changes in the Statutes, the dissolution of the Academy, the merger or division of the Academy or any other proposals or initiatives;
g) Is bound by the resolutions of the General Meeting.
10. The Presidium can present a resolution about any question to the General Meeting.
11. If the number of the members of the Presidium descends under eight, the Executive Committee convenes the General Meeting within the period of thirty days in order to elect new members of the Presidium into the vacancies. If the Executive Committee fails to do so within the stated period, any member of the Academy can convene the General Meeting. If such a situation occurs that the Presidium does not have any member, any member of the Academy can convene the General Meeting. The rules about the convention of the General Meeting stated in Section VI. are applied appropriately in the cases herein mentioned in the two sentences above.
SECTION VIII – EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
1. The Executive Committee is a statutory collective body of the Academy which is responsible to the Presidium, keeps the records of the Academy and represents the Academy outwards.
2. The Executive Committee is comprised of three members. The members of the Executive Committee are elected out of the members of the Presidium. The membership in the Executive Committee does not constitute any financial rewards or perquisites, unless the Presidium decides otherwise.
3. A member of the Executive Committee can be elected to this function repeatedly; however, the total period of the membership in the Executive Committee cannot be longer than 6 years for any member. The membership in the Executive Committee is terminated in case of a resignation of the member, in case the Presidium dismisses a member, in case the maximum possible period of membership has passed according to the previous sentence as well as in case the membership of the member in the Presidium or Academy is terminated. The resignation of a member of the Executive Committee becomes effective when the written announcement about the resignation is delivered to the Academy or when it is announced in person at the meeting of either the Presidium or at the General Meeting.
4. The membership in the Executive Committee also terminates every year to all members of the Committee on the day of the first meeting of the Presidium which is quorate following the meeting of the Presidium when the third of the members of the Presidium had been elected within the framework of the annual election of five members of the Presidium. The Presidium at such a meeting elects the new members of the Executive Committee while the candidature of the current members of the Presidium is possible as long as the condition in the first sentence of Paragraph 3 is fulfilled.
5. The election to the Executive Committee takes place in the form of a secret vote in such a way that the individual present members of the Presidium vote from the suggested candidates and those who obtain the most votes become the members of the Executive Committee. If all the members of the Executive Committee are about to be elected, e.g. in accordance with Paragraph 4, those of the suggested candidates that obtain the most votes will become the members of the Executive Committee. In case of the equality of the votes, the election is repeated and if there is equality of the votes again then the decision is made by drawing lots. The suggested candidates are meant to be those members of the Presidium who expressed their interest in becoming a member of the Executive Committee or those who had been proposed for the position by another member of the Presidium and expressed their approval of the membership in the Executive Committee. Neither the candidate nor the proposer has to be present in person at the meeting of the Presidium in question.
6. Regarding the members of the Executive Committee who had been performing their function before the change of theses statutes which introduces the rule of the longest possible total period in function in the Executive Committee according to the first sentence of Paragraph 3 was approved, it applies that the longest possible total period of membership in the Executive Committee counts from the day the change of the statutes in question was approved. This provision is of the nature of a transitional provision.
7. The Executive Committee is convened as necessary and the members of the Committee communicate with each other incessantly to deal with the day-to-day agenda of the Academy.
8. At least 2 members of the Executive Committee represent the Academy by adjoining their signatures to the title of the Academy.
9. The Executive Committee:
a) Is responsible to the Presidium for the administration of estates and handling the financial resources of the Academy and for the results of its actions;
b) Proposes to the Presidium for approval the internal regulations of the Academy and rules in accordance with Section VII, Paragraph 9 Article a);
c) Processes, prepares and presents the budget and final accounts of the Academy to the Presidium for approval;
d) Takes decisions about the way the profit is handled and the ways in which the loss is settled;
e) Represents the Academy while exercising the authority of the Academy as a business associate in trading companies;
f) Takes decisions about establishing the funds of the Academy and about the way these are structured and used;
g) Convenes and prepares the General Meetings;
h) Presents proposals on changes in the Statutes, on dissolution of the Academy, on the merger or division of the Academy or any other proposals and initiatives to the General Meeting;
i) Is bound by the resolutions of the General Meeting and the resolutions of the Presidium approved within their bounds;
j) As a statutory body it is in charge of any other issues related to the activities of the Academy, unless these are attributed to the General Meeting or the Presidium.
10. The Executive Committee can present the resolution about any question to the Presidium.
11. If the number of the members of the Executive Committee descends, the remaining members of the Executive Committee convene the meeting of the Presidium within the period of 30 days in order to elect members of the Executive Committee into the vacancies. If they fail to do so within the stated period, any member of the Presidium can convene the meeting of the Presidium. If such a situation occurs that the Executive Committee does not have any member, any member of the Presidium can convene the meeting of the Presidium in order to elect the Executive Committee. If the Presidium does not have any member, any member of the Academy can convene the General Meeting in order to elect the members of the Presidium and consecutively to elect the Executive Committee.
SECTION IX – MANAGING DIRECTOR
1. The director is a facultative administrative authority of the Academy, they are appointed and dismissed by the Executive Committee. The performance of the director is not related to a reward or perquisites unless stated by the Presidium otherwise.
2. The director fulfils the administrative tasks they are appointed to do by the Executive Committee. The director can be also empowered by the Executive Committee to represent the Academy in a stated extent.
Principles of the business activities
SECTION X – FISCAL PERIOD AND FINAL ACCOUNTS
1. The fiscal period is, in accordance with the provisions under §3 of the act No. 563/1991 of the legal code, on accounting, as subsequently amended, the accounting year determined as the period of twelve months starting on the 1st July and finishing on the last June of the following calendar year.
2. The Academy keeps the accounting books in a prescribed way and in accordance with the legal rules of accounting. The Executive Committee is responsible for the book keeping.
3. After the end of each fiscal period the Executive Committee ensures the final accounts are processed in due course. The regular final accounts are approved by the Presidium.
4. The regular final accounts have to be compiled in a way that corresponds with the generally obligatory legal regulations and the regular principles of accounting so that they provide complete information about the property and financial situation in which the Academy is and about the amount of profit or loss in the previous fiscal period.
SECTION XI – BUSINESS ACTIVITIES OF THE ACADEMY
1. The Academy covers its needs and expenses from the income that is obtained from the membership fees, accepted donations and obtained grants as well as from the income obtained from the supplementary business activities.
2. If the business activities of the Academy result in showing profit at the end of the fiscal period, the total profit after the tax has been deduced is transferred into a reserve fund. At first the Academy uses the reserve fund to cover the loss shown in the subsequent fiscal periods. The decision about using the reserve fund is made by the Executive Committee.
3. The Executive Committee can take a decision about constituting other funds and state the rules for forming those as well as the drawing rights.
4. The Academy does not establish organisation units.
5. The members of the Academy are not liable for the debts of the Academy.
Conclusion of the Academy
SECTION XII – CONCLUSION OF THE ACADEMY
1. The Academy concludes by its voluntary termination (dissolution) based on the resolution of the General Meeting or in the other ways of doing so stated by the law or in these Statutes.
2. The termination of the Academy by a merger, division or amalgamation is done in accordance with the current legal regulations; the actions of the Academy related to that are approved by the General Meeting.
SECTION XIII - LIQUIDATION
1. If the Academy is terminated without any legal successor in title, the liquidation is done on the basis of the legal regulations.
Final and temporary provisions
SECTION XIV – THE EFFECT OF THE STATUTES
1. The Statutes come into effect from the day of the registration of the Academy done by the relevant administrative body of the state, with the exception in the following sentence. The provisions under Section VI, Paragraph 3, Article d) and Section XII, Paragraph 2 come into effect on the day when the Act No. 89/2012 of the legal code, the Civil Code, comes into force.
2. The Academy adapts the regulations of correspondence between the Academy and its members by setting an internal rule.
3. The founder members listed under Paragraph 6 hereinbelow are the members of the Academy at the moment of its foundation and at the same time they constitute the first Presidium of the Academy; the tenure of all of them in the Presidium will be terminated on the day when the General Meeting of the Academy elects fifteen members of the Presidium in accordance with these Statutes, provided that it will not be terminated for different reasons earlier. The founder members declare that they fulfil the conditions for the membership in the Academy listed in these Statutes.
4. The first General Meeting shall be convened within the period of 12 months after the Academy had been registered.
5. The founder members constituted the preparatory committee of the following members: Ivo Mathé, Jan Mattlach, Pavel Strnad.
6. The list of the fourteen founder members of the Academy:
a) Jiří Bartoška, DOB: 24th March 1947, permanent residence: Praha 1 - Josefov, Maiselova 41/21, PSČ 110 00
b) Jaroslav Bouček, DOB: 16th January 1951, permanent residence: Praha 6 - Dejvice, Na Pískách 1157/62, PSČ 160 00
c) Marek Epstein, DOB: 30th September 1975, permanent residence: Praha 5 - Lipence, Nad Jezem 423, PSČ 252 28
d) Alois Fišárek, DOB: 7th January 1943, permanent residence: Praha 2 - Nové Město, Trojická 1912/11, PSČ 128 00
e) Čestmír Kopecký, DOB: 11th November 1952, permanent residence: Praha 2 - Vinohrady, U Havlíčkových sadů 7, PSČ 120 00
f) Václav Marhoul, DOB: 30th January 1960, permanent residence: Praha 4 - Nusle, Dačického 1227/12, PSČ 140 00
g) Ivo Mathé, DOB: 18th May 1951, permanent residence: Praha 1 - Staré Město, Dlouhá 743/9, PSČ 110 00
h) Jan Mattlach, DOB: 18th September 1963, permanent residence: Praha 2 - Nové Město, Karlovo náměstí 285/19, PSČ 120 00
i) Miroslav Ondříček, DOB: 4th November 1934, permanent residence: Praha 5 - Zlíchov, Nad Pomníkem 503/1, PSČ 152 00
j) Pavel Strnad, DOB: 31st July 1970, permanent residence: Praha 5 - Motol, Brdlíkova 286/1c, PSČ 150 00
k) Jan Svěrák, DOB: 6th February 1965, permanent residence: Praha 4 - Braník, Nad Vinohradem 250/1, PSČ 147 00
l) Ondřej Trojan, DOB: 31st December 1959, Praha 4 - Krč, Nad Ryšánkou 1981/15, PSČ 147 00
m) Helena Třeštíková, DOB: 22nd June 1949, permanent residence: Praha 7 - Holešovice, Kostelní 1103/14, PSČ 170 00
n) Eva Zaoralová, DOB: 28th November 1932, permanent residence: Praha 4 - Braník, Branická 620/124, PSČ 147 00
As amended by the changes approved by the General Meeting convened on 23rd April 2014, by the changes approved by the General Meeting convened on 29th April 2015 as well as the changes approved by the General Meeting convened on 7th April 2026.