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ADMINISTRATION AND OPERATION
CESP shall be administered by an Executive Committee made up of the President, Vice-President, Secretary-General and Treasurer. The Executive Committee members shall be elected at the Annual General Meeting. These positions may be considered supranational, but may be combined with that of delegate. The President and Vice-President shall have a 2-year mandate, which may be renewed once. The Secretary-General and Treasurer shall have a 3-year mandate, which may be renewed twice. The Executive Committee may invite individuals with special expertise to attend a meeting. In the case of a vacancy arising from the death or resignation of an Executive Committee member, a replacement from the delegates of the full member countries shall be co-opted as soon as possible to sit until the next statutory election. The Executive Committee shall hold all the management and administrative powers not exclusively held at the Annual General Meeting. It shall delegate the day-to-day management to the Secretary-General. In normal circumstances the Executive Committee shall be represented to third parties by the President or Secretary-General. CESP may create subspecialty sections within its association. CESP shall be responsible to the Management Council of UEMS and regularly report on its activities and shall not enjoy any specific autonomy. The activities of CESP shall be developed within the terms of reference specified at the Annual General Meeting. CESP shall not have direct relations with third parties external to UEMS without the express agreement of the Executive or Management Council of UEMS, these forming the obligatory intermediaries for referring any motion to third parties or for any action taken in the broadest sense of the term. The languages used in CESP shall be English or French. The text of any report submitted to CESP should be sent to the Secretary-General at least 3 months in advance and drafted in English or French. |