PPI Internal Regulations

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PPI Rules of Procedure
The Board has passed the rules of procedure on its meeting on the 03. May 2010, changed on 28. September 2010.

§1 Board meetings
 * 1) Regular board meetings will take place no less than once a month. At the end of each meeting the date and time of the next meeting will be announced.
 * 2) Extraordinary meetings can be called by any member of the board for urgent matters.

§2 Agenda
 * 1) The provisional agenda of the regular board meetings shall be published in the PPI wiki the day before the meeting at the latest.
 * 2) New items to the agenda can be brought in during the meeting and will be discussed at the end of the scheduled agenda.
 * 3) Every member of the Pirate Parties International can propose an agenda item to the board.

§3 Publicity
 * 1) The meetings are public unless one third of the members of the Board vote in favor of a non-public meeting. The decision to hold a secret meeting has to be motivated.
 * 2) Guests are allowed to speak up during a meeting if requested to do so by the chairman.
 * 3) Guests that disrupt the meeting can be excluded by the chairman.

§4 Procedure
 * 1) At the beginning of each meeting a chairman and secretary will be appointed.
 * 2) The secretary of the meeting will write the meeting minutes and make sure they are published.
 * 3) The chairman of the meeting moderates the discussions and makes sure the rules of procedure are respected.

§5 Votes
 * 1) Only members of the board are entitled to vote.
 * 2) A vote is only valid if four or more members of the board are in favor of the proposal.
 * 3) Board members not present at the meeting can vote on a proposal published in the provisional agenda by citing the proposal and expressing their vote in an e-mail sent to board@pp-international.net (postal vote).
 * 4) The postal votes shall be added to the votes casted at the meeting if the proposals are exactly the same.
 * 5) The postal votes shall be mentioned in the provisional agenda and can be repealed before they are added by a different postal vote or by a vote casted at the meeting.

§6 Meeting minutes
 * 1) The minutes of the meeting will be published before the next meeting and not later than two weeks after the meeting.

§7 Tasks
 * 1) At the end of each regular meeting the board members will present a report with all the new developments concerning their respective tasks.
 * 2) The person responsible for a specific task can take minor decisions concerning that task without prior voting by the board.

§8 General provisions
 * 1) These rules of procedure can be modified at any time by the board.
 * 2) These rules of procedure are immediately applicable.