PPI Application

PPNZ applied for admission to, and subsequently joined PPI in 2011. This page was for comments on the paperwork involved.

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Related pages:
 * PPI Statutes
 * PPI Internal Regulations

Eligibility
PPI is an open Organization, that is accepting new membership requests. From the Statutes Section III - Membership
 * (1) Members of Pirate Parties International can become Parties and Party-related organizations that do not have the goal of participating in elections. This includes Parties:
 * Officially registered
 * unregistered (incl PPNZ)
 * regional sub divisions (if they are there own legal entities)


 * Organization may be such as:
 * youth organization
 * student organization
 * women organization
 * professional union
 * foundation
 * Individuals are not allowed for PPI Membership.
 * Individuals are not allowed for PPI Membership.

Comment: PPNZ is eligible as an unregistered Party (Pervach)

Membership / Application Fees
The founding assembly of the PPI has decided that there should be no membership fees. However, this decision has to be revisited on a yearly basis: Statutes Section XVI - Affiliation Fees:
 * (1) The amount of the fee is determined annually by the General

Assembly.
 * (2) The affiliation fees and contributions shall be fixed in relation to the

finances and membership of parties. Note: The determination of fees has to be made by General Assembly with a two third majority of the votes cast. Note2: At the 2010 Conference in Brussels the amount for the affiliation fee was fixed at zero.

Comment: The issue of possible future membership was discussed before the decision to apply was made i.e. this has already been agreed to by PPNZ (Pervach)

Application process

 * (3) Requests for Membership shall be submitted to the Board in

writing. They shall include contact information and a statement on the adoption of the statutes and internal regulations of the association, in addition to a copy of the statutes and by-laws and the political program of the applicant party and information on the background and organization of said applicant. The Board will transmit the application to the General Assembly.

Comment: The PPNZ Executive Council should approve the PPI_Statutes and the PPI Internal Regulations before the application is sent (Pervach)

So, if you want to apply for PPI Membership you need to submit following:
 * Contact information, especially such as:
 * named coordinator (Noel)
 * generic "info" email (pirateparty@pirateparty.org.nz)
 * press contact (Matt)
 * statutes of your organization (the Constitution)
 * by-laws (none)
 * program (The Core Policy)
 * background Information:
 * founding date (Feb 20 2010)
 * board composition (the executive council)
 * members count (40)
 * list of subsidiaries (none, but mentioned PPAk/YPNZ)
 * logo (the current logo)

(Comments by Pervach)

submit this to board (at) pp (minus) international (point) net

If possible please provide an English translation of the submitted documents.