Articles of Russian Dental Association

I. GENERAL PROVISIONS

1.1. The association of public associations "Russian Dental Association" (further called "Association") is an association of interregional and regional public associations - legal persons united for realization of there general purposes and tasks.

1.2. The association carries out it's activity according to the authorized purposes on the territory of the whole Russian Federation.

The Association in it's activities is guided by modern Russian legislation and the present Charter. The association closely cooperates with commercial and noncommercial organizations, with state bodies of management of public health services, organizations and establishments of public health services, including with foreign ones.

1.3. The activity of Association is based on principles of goodwill, equality, self-management and legality.

1.4. The association becomes a legal person since the date of it's state registration. It owns the detached property which is taken into account on it's independent balance, bears responsibility under the obligations by this property, can on it's own behalf get the property and personal non-property rights and carry out certain duties, to be a claimant and a respondent in a court.

The association has the civil rights which appropriate to the purposes of activity, stipulated in it's constituent documents, and bears the duties, connected to this activity.
The association has the right to open the bank accounts in the territory of the Russian Federation and over it's limits, should have a round stamp containing it's name, forms with the name registered and taken into account symbolic, and also legally registered emblem.

1.5. The association can create branches and open representations in territory of Russian Federation according to the legislation of Russian Federation, and also in the territory of the foreign states on the basis of the conventional principles and norms of international law, international contracts of Russian Federation and legislation of these foreign states.

A branch of the Association is it's detached division located outside of the place, where the Association is situated which carries out all or part of it's functions, including the function of representation, or part of them.

The representation of the Association is it's detached division located outside of the place of it's presence, which represents the interests of the Association and carries out their protection.

The branches and the representations carry out the activity on behalf of the Association, which bears responsibility for their activity. The branches and representations are not the legal persons, are allocated by the Association with property and work on the basis of the Rule, authorized by the Association.
The property of branches and representations is taken into account on their separate balances and a balance of the Association in whole.

The chiefs of branches and representations work on the basis of the power of attorney given by the Association.

1.6. The association does not bear responsibility under the obligations of the members.

1.7. The state does not bear for obligations Association, and the Association does not bear for obligations the of the state.

1.8. A full name of the Association in Russian is "Stomatological Association of Russia ".

The abbreviated name of the Association is - Stomotological Association of Russia (STAR).

1.9. A full name of the Association in English is

- Association of public unions " Dental Association of Russia ".

The abbreviated name of the Association in English is

- Dental Association of Russia (DAR).

1.10. The site of a constantly working managing body of the Association is - Moscow, Russian Federation.

II. THE PURPOSES and TASKS of the ASSOCIATION

2.1. The purposes of creation and activity of the Association is the assistance to professional and scientific activity of the experts of stomatological structure, decreasing of the number of illnesses of the population and strengthening of it's health, development of medical science and practice in the area of stomatology and adjacent disciplines; protection of the social and professional rights and interests of the members of the Association.

2.2. For fulfilling out the specified purposes according to the current legislation the Association carries out the following tasks:

a) participates in definition of ways of development of stomatology and carries out forecasting and preparation of the programs of development of stomatological help to the population and in training of personnel on stomatology;

b) promotes to the bodies of state authorities and management in perfection of organization of management by stomatology service and both basic forms and methods of rendering of stomatological help to the population;

c) propagandizes achievements of stomatological science and experience which have stomatological establishments, promotes to introduction of the results of scientific researches in the area of stomatology and adjacent specialities;

d) analyzes and gives an estimation to means and methods of preventive maintenance, diagnostics and treatment of stomatological diseases, develops the recommendations for their practical application, promotes the termination of using out-of-date or not false methods;

e) renders the organizational-methodical help and renders necessary advices for the legal persons and citizens on the questions connected with stomatology;

f) together with the interested legal persons participates in development of the recommendations on manufacturing of stomatological equipment and materials;

h) renders international assistance to development and introduction of voluntary and obligatory medical insurance;

i) promotes to development of international communications in the area of stomatology;

g) works out methodical recommendations for perfection of stomatological help to the population;

k) studies domestic and foreign experience in the field both of development of manufacturing and production of materials for stomatology;

l) gives to the interested legal and physical persons the appropriate information on expediency both of development of manufacturing of new materials and products; carries out researches in the field of market condition on medical preparations and engineering;

m) assists in formation of the programs and educational plans and in selection of the experts on replacement of vacant posts of professor-teaching and administrative board;

n) promotes to development of criteria on realization of accreditation (licensing and certification for accredited, license and qualifying commissions) created in the order established by the current legislation at direct participation of the Association;

o) provides the tax, analysis and distribution of the information concerning questions of stomatology;

p) carries out seminars, scientific conferences, symposiums, "round tables", organizes propagation of medical and hygienic knowledge by taking part in lectures, scientific courses, exhibitions, fairs;

q) organizes test laboratories which are necessary for practical realization of the tasks of the Association;

r) sends abroad and accepts the foreign representatives for the decision of questions connected with the activity of the Association.

2.3. The purpose of extraction of the profit does not coexist with the activity of the Association. The incomes of enterprise activity can not be redistributed between the members of the Association and should be used only for achievement of the authorized purposes.

III. KINDS of ACTIVITY of the ASSOCIATION

3.1. For achievement of the authorized purposes and tasks the Association according to the current legislation carries out the following kinds of activity:

- External economic;

- Publishing information, advertising, research, educational activity by organization and realization of educational work on postdiploma and additional education;

- Cultural - educational;

- Advisory;

- Legal;

- Charitable;

- Certification of services, materials and equipment in special order.

- Certification of the staff in the order established by the law.

- Works out and distributes mass media, printed, audio and videoproduction within the framework of Authorized activity;

- Organizes courses of improvement of qualification of the experts in stomatology;

- Participates in the order, established by the law, in licensing and accreditation of stomatological medical establishments;

- Carries out other kinds of the activity which has been not forbidden for the current legislation for public associations.

3.2. The association can carry out it's business only as far as, it serves to achievement of the authorized purposes, for the sake of which it is created, and appropriated to these purposes.

3.3. The association can be engaged by separate kinds of activity which list is defined (determined) by the law only on the basis of the special sanction (license).

IV. THE RIGHTS and DUTIES of the ASSOCIATION

4.1. The Association for maintenance of it's activity according to the current legislation has the right:

- to distribute the information on the activity freely;

- to participate in manufacturing of the decisions of bodies of state authorities and bodies of local self-management in the order and volume stipulated by the current legislation;

- to held congresses, symposiums, exhibitions and other measures, stipulated by the law;

- to establish mass media and to carry out publishing activities;

- to represent and to protect the rights, lawful interests of it's members in bodies of state authorities, bodies of local self-management and public associations;

- to act with the initiatives on various questions of public life and to bring in the offers to bodies of state authority;

- to carry out in complete volume of acts stipulated by the law for public associations;

- to make any bargain and other legal acts not contradicting to the law and presenting Charter of the with the physical and legal persons as in the territory of Russia, and abroad;

- to build, to buy, to alienate, to give and to receive in usage or in rent a building, a structure, equipment, vehicles, stock, raw material both other movable and immovable property, and also to write off own property from the balance, if it is worn out or is morally obsolete;

- to attract the necessary experts on trade agreements and contracts of civil-law character for performance of works, services, scientific researches and development, to form temporary creative and other collectives for performing separate works under the contracts;

- to transfer material and money resources to other organizations and private persons who carry out works and services for the Association, including means for encouragement of their employees;

- to receive the loans, credits and guarantees for getting valuable papers;

- to enter the international public associations, their unions and associations, to support direct international contacts and connections, to conclude the appropriate contracts, to participate in international symposiums, conferences, exhibitions;

- to establish public associations, their unions and associations (including participating in establishment of trade-unions of public organizations uniting in it's lines voluntary members from various regions according to professional interests (paradontology, endodonty, orthopedy etc.));

- to establish economic societies and economic companies with the right of a legal person;

- to establish noncommercial organizations, educational establishments;

- to cooperate with bodies of state authority and management, international organizations, financial-credit, insurance, bank establishments other legal persons and citizens on Authorized activity.

4.2. Duties of the Association.

The association is obliged:

- to observe the legislation of Russian Federation conventional principles and norms of international law concerning spheres of it's activity, and also rules stipulated by the present Charter;

- to publish the report on use of the property or to provide access for acquaintance with the specified report annually;

- to inform the body which had registered the Association, about continuation of the activity, specifying the valid site of a constantly working managing body, it's name and data on the chiefs of the Association included in the uniform state register of the legal persons annually;

- to give on inquiry of a body recording the Association, the documents with the decisions of managing bodies and officials of the Association, and also annual and quarter reports on the activity in a volume of the items of information directed to tax bodies;

- to admit the representatives of the body which had registered the Association, on activities, organized by the Association;

- to promote the representatives of a body which had registered the Association, in acquaintance with the activity of the Association in connection with achievement of the authorized purposes and observance of the legislation of Russian Federation.


V. RIGHTS and DUTIES of the MEMBERS of the ASSOCIATION

5.1. The members of the Association can be Russian and foreign public associations - legal persons who are carrying out the activity in stomatology. Their charters must not contradict the purposes and tasks of the Association.

Any subject of Russian Federation can be submitted to the Association only by one regional public association.

5.2. The members of the Association keep their independence and rights of a legal person.

The members of the Association bear subsidiary responsibility about the obligations of the Association at a rate of and order stipulated by the present Charter.

5.3. The reception to the Association is carried out on the basis of the decision of the Council of the Association.

For acceptance of the decision about reception into the Association the public association submits the following documents:

- an application of the authorized body of public association about joining the Association;

- a copy of the certificate about registration of the public association;

- a copy of the Charter of the public association;

- a receipt on payment by the public association an entrance fee.

5.4. The members of the Association have equal rights and bear equal duties.

5.5. The members of the Association (proxy representatives of the members) have the right:

- to use the possibilities of the Association gratuitously (i.e. to receive administrative, marketing, consulting and other similar services without the conclusion of the civil-law contracts between the Association and it's members);

- to form (to select or to assert) managing bodies of the Association to be elected in the bodies of the Association, to participate in the work of the Association;

- to bring in the offers, to address to all bodies of the Association;

- to use methodical, scientific and information development of the Association;

- to use equipment and stock of the Association;

- to receive the information on activity of the Association:

- to leave from the members of the Association at one's decision upon termination of financial year.

5.6. The members of the Association (proxy representatives of the members) are obliged:

- to observe rules of the present Charter;

- to promote realization of the Authorized purposes and tasks of the Association;

- to pay introductory, annual and target payments;

- to represent to the Association the information necessary for performance of the purposes and tasks of the Association;

- to carry out the decisions of managing bodies of Association.

5.7. The public association voluntary left from the members of the Association bears subsidiary and the responsibility under the obligations of the Association proportionally it's payment (including introductory, member and target) within two years from the date of an exit from the Association.

5.8. The member of the Association can't be excluded from it according to the unanimous decision of Council of the Association from the date of acceptance of such decision. Thus the representatives of the excluded member do not participate in voting at the session of the Council on the question of exception.

The member of the Association can be excluded from it in the following cases:

- Regular or rough infringement of the Charter of the Association;

- Non-payment of member payments;

- Drawing damage, or harm to business reputation of the Association.

The decision of Council of the Association on exception of a member can be cancelled under the decision of congress of the Association, or may be appealed in the order, stipulated by the legislation.

5.9. Concerning the responsibility of the excluded member of the Association the rules stipulated in items 5.7 of the present Charter are applied.

5.10. In a case of a voluntary exit or at exception from the Association the introductory, member and target payments are not the subject to return.

5.11. The sizes of introductory and member payments are established annually by the Council of the Association.

VI. THE ORDER of MANAGEMENT of the ASSOCIATION. STRUCTURE and COMPETENCE of BODIES of MANAGEMENT.

6.1. Bodies of management of the Association are:

Congress;

Council;

The president;

Government.

6.2. The bodies of management of the Association are formed in the order stipulated by the present Charter.

6.3. The main managing body of the Association is the Congress, which is hold as required, but not less than once per 3 years.

6.4. The date, place and the order of holding of the Congress is established by the Council of the Association.

6.5. The information about the congress distributes by the Council to the members of the Association not later than for 6 months before the date of it's realization by sending to them letters and publication of the appropriate information in "STAR Bulletin". The information should contain the items of the information stipulated in item 6.19.

6.6. During the preparation for Congress Council approves the list of the members of the Association with the indication of quantity of the delegates representing each public association to participate in the Congress.

6.7. The member of the Association - a public association on it's general meeting has the right to select the delegates on congress in the quantity which was established according to the norm of representation of the member in the work of the Congress.

6.8. Each delegate on the Congress has one vote.

6.9. Transferring the powers of the delegate to other person is not supposed.

6.10. For participation in the work of the Congress the member of the Association - a public association gives out to the delegate one copy of the protocol (extract from the protocol) general meeting (conference) about his election as the delegate.

6.11. During registration the delegate shows the appropriate extract from the decision of public association on his election as the delegate on the Congress and a passport. On the basis of the concerned documents the registration of the delegate is made and he receives the mandate.

6.12. The definition of necessary number of delegates of the Congress, checking out the correctness of registration of the delegates and their powers is carried out by a mandatory commission in quantity of 10 persons.

6.13. The President of the Association organizes the work of the congress.

6.14. The congress is considered to be competent, if more than a half of general number of the delegates, elected by the members of the Association are present on the Congress.

6.15 The decision of the following questions concerns to the exclusive competence of the Congress:

a) Statement of the Charter of the Association, adding into it some changes and additions;

b) Definition of priority directions of activity of the Association, the principles of formation and using it's property;

c) Statement of the Council of the Association;

d) Statement a schedule of the Congress;

e) Acceptance of the decision about liquidation or reorganization of the Association;

f) Statement of the reports of the Council of the Association;

g) Election of working bodies of the Congress: mandatory, accounting, editorial commissions and secretary body;

h) Election of the President;

i) Preschedule discontinuance of the President's powers;

j) Election and preschedule discontinuance of powers of a control-auditing commission;


k) Election of a liquidating commission;

l) Statement of the Rules about a Control-auditing commission, the Council of the Association, President and Government;

m) Statement of the Rules about mandatory, accounting, editorial commissions and secretary;

n) Decision on assignment of a rank " of the Honourable President ".

The questions referred to the exclusive competence of the Congress can not be transferred for the decision of the Council and other managing bodies of the Association.

6.16. The right of a vote on the Congress on the questions put on voting, have the delegates elected by the members of the Association.

6.17. The decision of the Congress on any question put on voting, is accepted by the majority of votes from total number of the delegates, registered on the Congress, if for acceptance of the decision the Charter of the Association does not stipulate greater number of votes.

6.18. The decision on questions specified in items "a" and "e" ' item 6.15 are accepted by two thirds of votes of total number of the delegates, registered on the Congress.

6.19. After the statement by the Congress a schedule of the day, no changes and additions in it can be brought in. On questions which were not included in the authorized schedule of the day the Congress has no right to accept the decisions.

6.20. Voting on the Congress can be either open or secret. The open voting is carried out by raising by the delegates the mandates depending on variants of voting "for", "against".. "Has refrained".

In case of secret voting a bulletin for secret voting is filled by the delegate and he gives it to an accounting commission.

6.21. Each member of the Association has the right to bring his offers into the schedule of the day of the Congress with the indication of motives of his statement in written form not later than for 8 months before the date of the Congress.

6.22. The Council of the Association during 2 months since the date of receipt of the offers is obliged to study them and accept the decision on inclusion them in schedule of the day of the Congress or about refusing in inclusion them into schedule of day.

6.23. There are some cases when a written proposal of a member of the Association can be refused in inclusion in a schedule of day of the Congress:

If the member of the Association did not observe the term for entering the offers and promotion of the delegates;

If the offer of the Member of the Association is not in the competence of the Congress.

6.24. Any member of the Association have the right directly during the Congress include his proposals in it's schedule before it is adopted by the Congress.

A member of the Association may get a refuse in inclusion in the schedule of day his offer in the following cases:

- If the offer is not included into the competence of the Congress;

- If "for" inclusion of the given offer in schedule of day less than a half of the registered delegates have voted.

6.25. During preparation for holding the Congress, the Council of the Association or the persons, determining the date of the Congress define:

The date, the place and the time of holding the Congress;

Prospective schedule of day of the Congress;

The date of presentation by the members of the Association the lists of the delegates, chosen for taking part in the Congress;

The list of the information given to the members of the Association during preparation for holding the Congress;

The order of acquaintance of the members of the Association with the information and materials necessary for working during the Congress.

6.26. The protocol on results of voting on questions of schedule of day of the Congress is made by an accounting commission. The protocol is subscribed by the members of an accounting commission and is a subject to familiarizing to the protocol of the Congress.

6.27. The protocol of the Congress is conducted by the Responsible secretary and is made not later than 10 days after the Congress. The protocol is subscribed by the President and Responsible secretary.

6.28. The protocol of the Congress of the Association should contain:

The place and the time of realization of the Congress;

Total number of votes, which the members of the Association have;

The quantity of votes, which the delegates, participating on the Congress have;

Schedule of day of the Congress;

The basic ideas of speeches, the questions put on for voting, the results of voting, the decisions accepted by the Congress.

6.29. The extraordinary Congress is convoked under the decision of the Council of the Association on the basis of it's own initiative, on demand of a Control-auditing commission. The president, Governments or 1/3 of the whole quantity of the members of the Association.

6.30. The extraordinary Congress is hold not later than after 3 months from the date of acceptance of the decision by the Council of the Association.

6.31. The Council of the Association carries out a general management of activity of the Association, excepting the decision of questions referred to the exclusive competence of the Congress.

6.32. For participation in the Council the member of the Association - a public association selects two representatives for the period of three years. Each representative has one vote on the Council of the Association.

Any member of the public association (including it's chief) can be a representative.

At any session of the Council any proxy representative works on the basis of the decision of public association on his election into the Council as the proxy representative.

The president, the members of the Russian academy of medical sciences on stomatology, the honorable Presidents of the Association according to the rank or their post can be authorized by the Congress of the Association as the members of the Council with the right of a vote.

6.33. The decision of the following questions concerns to the exclusive competence of the Council of the Association:

a) Convocation of the next and extraordinary Congresses;

b) Preparation the schedule of day of the Congress of the Association;

c) Definition of the date of representation by the members of the Association the lists of the delegates, chosen for participation on the Congress;

d) Definition of quantitative structure and statement of personal representation of the Government;

e) Election and preschedule discontinuance of powers of the Vice-presidents and the Responsible Secretary;

f) Statement of the annual report and annual accounting balance;

g) Statement of the financial plan of the Association and filling into it some changes;

h) Creation of branches and representations of the Association;

j) Participation in the activities of other organizations;

k) Development and presentation for the Congress the program of activity of the Association;

l) Definition the order of creation, sizes and using of target and special funds acquired shares and other valuable papers;

m) Decision about joining other members of the Association;

n) Decision about exception from the members of the Association;

o) Establishment the sizes of introductory, member and target payments in the current year;

p) Coordination of the activity of the members of the Association;

q) Statement of seals, stamps, emblem, letters, diplomas and other essential elements of the Association;

r) Decision on rewarding by Honorable marks authorized by the Congress of the Association;

s) Preliminary consideration and representation to the Congress the recommendations on modification and additions into the Charter;

t) Listening to the information on activity of the organizations, created by the Association;

u) Established norm of representation of public associations on the Congress of the Association.

The questions referred to the exclusive competence of the Council can not be transferred on the decision of the Congress, the President and the Government.

6.34. The decision of the Council on a question put on voting, is accepted by the majority of votes of the members participating in the session of the Council.

6.35. The Council of the Association hold the sessions as required, but not less often than two times per one year (next sessions).

The first session not earlier, than in 3 months and not later than in 5 months after ending of the financial year.

The second session not earlier, than in 9 months and not later than in 11 months after ending of the financial year.

Besides the planned sessions of the Council it's extraordinary sessions can be hold.

6.36. At the first next session of the Council the annual reports, annual balance are examined, the financial plan of the Association and change in it are affirmed.

6.37. The date and order of realization of the session of the Council, the order of the informing about it the members of association, the list of the materials (information), given to the members of the Association, during preparation for holding the Council is established by the Government.

6.38. Extraordinary sessions of the Council are convoked on the basis of the decision of 1/3 members of the Association, on demand of a Control-auditing commission, the president or the Government.

6.39. The sessions of the Council are competent, if more then a half of it's members were registered on them. Each member of the Council has one vote. The form of voting is determined by the Council.

The decisions of the Council accepted within the limits of it's competence according to the current legislation, are obligatory for performing by all the members of the Association.

6.40. The Council has no right to accept the decisions on questions not included in the schedule of day of the Council, and also to change the schedule of day after it's statement.

6.41. Message to the members of the Association about holding the Council is carried out by direction to them a notice in written form. The message on session of the Council should contain:

the name and the place where the Association is situated;

the date, time and place of holding the Council;

the items included in schedule of day of the Council;

the date of the last time of reception of the offers in the schedule of day;

the order of acquaintance of the members of the Association to the information and materials necessary for work at session of the Council.

6.42. Any member of the Council and any member of the Association, Control-auditing commission, the President and the Government have the right to bring in their offers into the schedule of day of the Council.

6.43. The items into the schedule of day of the Council are brought in writing form with the indication of the motives of it's statement.

6.44. The government of the Association in a month's term is obliged to consider the adopted offers and to accept the decision on inclusion them into the schedule of day of the Council or about refusal in inclusion them into the schedule of day.

6.45. The protocol is conducted at the session of the Council, and it should be completely made not later than after 10 days from the date from the Council. The protocol is subscribed by the Chairman of the Council, which bears responsibility for correctness of it.

The protocol of session of the Council should specify:

the place and the time of holding of the Council;

total number of the members of the Council;

quantity of the registered members of the Council;

the schedule of day of the Council;

the basic ideas of speeches, the questions put on voting, the results of voting, accepted by the Council.

6.46. The President or during his absence, the Vice-president of the Association fulfilling his duties organizes and conducts the session of the Council.

6.47. The commissions organized of the members of the Council for fulfilling of the Authorized purposes and tasks in the Council whose activity is carried out on the basis of a Charter about the commissions of the Council authorized by the Council can be created.

The chairman and structure of the commission is affirmed by the Council. In the cases stipulated by the decision of the Council the highly skilled experts who are not the members of the Council, can be attracted to work of a commission.

6.48. Constantly working executive bodies of the Association are the President and the Government. The executive bodies carry out a management of the current activity of the Association.

6.49. The president of the Association is selected by secret voting for the period of three years and is preliminary released from the post by the Congress of the Association. It can be re-elected on the appropriate post no more than 2 terms in succession.

The candidate in the Presidents can be the person adequate to the following requirements:

- having higher stomatological education;

- being the member of interregional or regional public association;

- having no restrictions concerning employment of the appropriate post.

The self-promotion of the candidate, or promotion of the candidate by any member of the Association is supposed.

The candidates put forward in the Presidents are included in the bulletin for secret voting.

The elected President of the Association is considered the person who has collected more a half of votes of the delegates, registered on the Congress.

In a case if no of the candidates for the President place, has collected more than a half of votes from the delegates, registered on the Congress, the second round of voting will be carried out. Thus the two candidates for the post of the President who have collected the greatest number of votes in comparison with other candidates are brought into the bulletin for secret voting.

The elected President of the Association in the second round considers the person who has collected more then a half votes of the delegates, registered on the Congress.

6.50. The president has the right:

- without the power of attorney to represent the Association in mutual relations with the bodies of state authority, legal and physical persons of Russia and foreign states;

- to carry out the management of the Council and the Government directly;

- to provide performance of the programs, projects, plans and other measures;

- to sign the documents, including power of attorney;

- on behalf of the Association to conclude the agreements, contracts, bargains;

- to open settlement and other accounts in rubles and in currency in any bank establishments;

- to issue the orders;

- to have the right of the first signature on the financial documents;

- to carry out reception and dismissal of the permanent members of the staff of the Government, to establish the sizes of the official salaries according to the working labor legislation;

- to dispose of property and means of the Association within the limits of the competence;

- to decide other questions of activity of the Associations which are not included in the exclusive competence of other bodies of the Association;

- to create constant departments of the Government and temporary working commissions of the Government;

- to approve the structure, staffs, charges on the contents of the Government.

6.51. During absence of the President (in connection with business trip, illness, holiday etc.) his duties are carried out by nominated according to the order of the President Vice-president.

6.52. The government is formed in quantity determined by the Council of the Association, and in personal structure authorized by the Council of the Association. The structure of the Government includes: the President, Vice-presidents Responsible secretary, chiefs of founded by the Association special public organizations uniting in their numbers staff on he voluntary beginnings stomatologists from various regions according to their professional interests (parotontology, endodonty, ortopedy etc.).

The vice-presidents and Responsible secretary are elected by the Council of the Association for the period of three years by open voting and can be re-elected unlimited number of times.

The candidate for election on the specified posts can be any person adequate to the following requirements:

- having higher stomatological education;

- being the member of any interregional or regional public association;

- having no restrictions concerning occupation the appropriate post.

The candidates for election on the post of the Vice-president and Responsible secretary are offered by the President or any member of the Association. The self-promotion of the candidate is supposed.

The responsible secretary conducts and makes out the protocols of the Congress, the Council and the Government, represents the Association in other organizations, conducts business correspondence with the international and Russian public organizations.

6.53. The government is a joint executive body which carries out operative maintenance of activity of the Association. The sessions of the Government are convoked by the President, and during his absence by the Vice-president. Periodicity of holding of the sessions of the Government is not less often than once per one month.

6.54. Competence of the Government includes the decision of the following questions:

a) preparation and realization of the next and extraordinary session of the Council;

b) preparation of the schedule of day of the session of the Council of the Association;

c) preliminary discussion of the annual report and annual accounting balance, financial plan of the Association and entering some changes in them;

d) recommendation for creation of branches and opening the representations of the Association, participation in activities of other organizations;

e) decision of questions of administrative, economic, financial activity of the Association on presentation of the President;

f) maintenance of performance of the decisions of the Council and the Congress;

g) organization of development of the perspective and current plans and programs of activity of the Government;

h) development of the offers about the order of distribution of means of the Association for the subsequent granting them on consideration them on the Council;

i) preparation for consideration at sessions of the Council the offers on perfection of management and organizational structure of the Government;

j) Realization of other functions, not referred to the exclusive competence, of the other bodies of the Association.

6.55. The work of the Government is regulated by a Rule about the Government of the Association.

6.56. For performance of the Authorized purposes and tasks of the Association the President can create constant departments of the Government and temporary commissions working on the basis of a Rule about constant departments of the Government and temporary commissions. The chiefs of constant departments are nominated by the President with the subsequent statement on the Council, organize the work of constant departments and work on the basis of a Rule about constant departments and temporary commissions authorized by the Council of the Association.

6.57. The permanent members of the staff of the Association are the subject to social and medical insurance, social maintenance in the order and on conditions stipulated by the current legislation.

VII. CONTROL-AUDITING BODIES.

7.1 A body of the control of financial-economic activity of the Association is the Control-auditing commission.

7.2. The control-auditing commission is selected in a quantity of 5 persons by the majority of votes from the total number of the delegates, registered on the Congress, for the period of three years.

The Chairman elected by the members of the Control-auditing commission for the period of three years supervises the activity of it.

7.3. Competence of the Control-auditing commission:

- Carries out the control of financial-economic and business activity of the Association, and also of observance of the current legislation and the present Charter;

- Annually carries out auditings of financial-economic activity;

- At it's own discretion has the right to carry out some separate target checks of financial-economic activity.

7.4. The members of the Control-auditing commission can not be included into the Council, in the Government, in the structure of working bodies of the Congress.

7.5. The managing bodies of the Association and regular employees are obliged on demand of the members of the Control-auditing commission to represent the financial-economic and other documents at realization of auditings and checks.

VIII. THE ORDER of ADOPTING MODIFICATIONS and ADDITIONS into the CHARTER of the ASSOCIATION

8.1. The information on changes and additions into the Charter under the decision of the Council is declared up to the members of the Association not less than 8 months prior to date of holding of the Congress.

8.2. The members of the Association have the right in 2 monthly terms from the date of reception of the appropriate information to bring in the Council of the Association their offers on the formulations of changes and additions into the Charter.

8.3. The Council of the Association should consider the offers of the members and give the motivated answer about acceptance or failure in acceptance of respective alterations and additions into the Charter not later than 6 months before the date of holding of the Congress.

8.4. The question on modification and additions in the Charter is brought in the schedule of day of the Congress only after preliminary consideration by the Council of the Association.

8.5. The changes and additions into the Charter of the Association are accepted under the decision of the Congress accepted by 2/3 votes from the total number of the delegates, registered on the Congress.

8.6. The changes and additions in the Charter are the subject of state registration in the order, established by the legislation.

IX. PROPERTY and MEANS of the ASSOCIATION.

9.1. The Association can have in the property the ground areas, building, structure, structures, housing fund, transport, equipment, stock, property cultural and improving assignment, money resources in roubles and in currency, actions, other valuable papers both other movable and immovable property, objects of the intellectual property and copyrights necessary for material maintenance of authorized activity of the Association.

9.2. According to the purposes and tasks of the Association the establishments, publishing houses, mass media created and bought at the expense of means of the Association according to it's authorized purposes can be in the propety of the Association.

9.3. The property of the Association is formed at the expense of the following sources:

- introductory and member payments;

- voluntary payments and donations;

- receipts from lectures, exhibitions, lotteries, auctions and other measures;

- incomes of enterprise and other activity not forbidden by the legislation;

- incomes of the civil-law bargains;

- foreign trade activities;

- other receipts which are not forbidden by the current legislation (including target payments from the members of the Association).

9.4. The proprietor of property is the Association as a whole. The members of Association have not the right of the property to a share of property belonging to the Association, and the Association has no property rights to the property of it's members.

9.5. The Association can make any bargains concerning it's property which do not contradict to the legislation of Russian Federation and the present Charter.

9.6. The Association answers under the obligations for all it's property, on which the collecting can be inverted according to the present legestation.

9.7. The association conducts book keeping and reporting in the order established by the legislation of Russian Federation.

X. LIQUIDATION and REORGANIZATION of the ACTIVITY of the ASSOCIATION. THE ORDER of DISTRIBUTION of PROPERTY REMAINING AFTER LIQUIDATION.

10.1. The discontinuance of activity of the Association can be carried out by liquidation.

10.2. The reorganization (merging, connection, division, allocation, transformation) and liquidation is carried out in conformity and in the order stipulated by the civil legislation.

10.3. The reorganization and liquidation of the Association is made under the decision of the Congress accepted by 2/3 number of votes from total quantity of the delegates, registered on the Congress.

10.4. In the cases and in the order established by the legislation of Russian Federation, the liquidation of the Association is made under the decision of the appropriate court.

10.5. The property and the means which have stayed as a result of liquidation of the Association, after satisfaction of the requirements of the creditors, are directed into stomatological establishments and organizations at the decision of the liquidating commission.

10.6. The liquidating commission is nominated by the Congress. From the moment of it's assignment the powers on management of businesses of the Association pass on it. At forced liquidation the liquidating commission is nominated by court (arbitration court).

10.7. The decision on use of the remaining property is published by the liquidating commission in a mass-media.

10.8. The association provides the account and safety of the documents of the regular employees and at the discontinuance of the activity transfers them to the state storage in the order, established by the law.