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Pursuit of Sustainable Development Goals SDGs

Decentralized Semi-Autonomous Organization DSAO with Basic Governance

Member Economic Participation Grounded in a Blockchain Based Protocol

Education, Access to and Sharing of Information

Connecting the Dots: Synchronization of Member Activities

T Corp Members must take reasonable care regarding the collection, storage and use of personally identifiable information (including the data of employees, business partners, cus-

'''Responsibility for Developed Software'''

2b) FULL ACADEMIC MEMBERS w. Voting Rights - Natural persons

FULL ACADEMIC MEMBERS w. Voting Rights - Natural persons shall be individuals that agree to abide by the obligations set forth in the T Corp Membership Rules, including, without limitation, the requirements set forth on Exhibit B of the T Corp Membership Agree- ment. Full Academic Members with Voting Rights shall be permitted to vote with the Membership At-Large, as set forth in the Bylaws. As Member Participants of a Working Group (WG), these individuals can participate and will have voting rights with respect to WG matters as outlined within each group’s charter. This could include including scheduling meetings and activities, access/participation in the development of all materials produced in the WG, Marketing Programs, Material development, mailing lists and wikis.

In case prospective Members aiming to join the T Corp, bring in sufficient in-kind contri- butions, the T Corp Board of Directors can discount the Membership fee or waive the fee as appropriate, based on the in-kind contribution of the prospective Members.

All Members pay Membership fees whose amount and due date are determined by the contribution regulations. For the year 2019 the defined contribution regulations apply. For the subsequent years, the Membership fee is decided by the general assembly on the proposal of the Board of Directors for the following financial year.

All T Corp Members agree to abide by the rules of as set forth by the T Corp Code of Conduct.

The T Corp aims to apply general, free, equal, secret and blockchained-based voting sessions within the entire Association.

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2.4.1 Late Fees

Members agree to abide by, and shall have all applicable rights and obligations as set forth in, the European Blockchain European Blockchain Associations bylaws, the European Blockchain European Blockchain Associations Intellectual Property Rights Policy (the IPR Policy), and all additional policies and procedures adopted by the European Blockchain As- sociation, as may be amended from time to time in accordance with the European Blockchain Associations bylaws.

Members review, and agree to abide by, and shall have all rights and obligations as set forth in the European Blockchain Associations Intellectual Property Rights Policy (IPR Policy), as may be amended from time to time in accordance with the T Corps bylaws. Members agree to follow all licencing procedures as set forth in the European Blockchain Associations Intellectual Property Rights Policy, unless otherwise agreed to in accordance with the T Corps bylaws and IPR Policy.

The General Meeting takes place at least once a year at the invitation of the Board of Di- rectors, but for the first time in the calendar year 2019. An extraordinary General Meeting shall be convened if the Board of Directors resolves the convocation for urgent and important reasons. All Members of the European Blockchain Association are entitled to participate in the General Meeting.

The General Meeting elects the Members of the Board of Directors individually and with a simple majority of the Members present. If there is a tie, another ballot takes place. If there is a new tie, the tie will be broken by the drawing of lots.

In the event that a Member does not pay their annual Membership dues and all compounded late fees within ninety (90) days of the invoice due date (Dues Delinquent), the Membership of such Member shall, without further action by the Board of Directors or the Membership At-Large, be terminated.

The Membership of any Member shall terminate upon the occurrence of any one or more of the following:

Upon the completion of any acquisition or merger involving a Member in which the Member is not the surviving entity, the Board, in its sole discretion, may permit such Members Membership to be transferred to the surviving entity.

A new member shall assist the European Blockchain Association in publicly announcing such new members Membership therein within ninety (90) days of joining the Association. A Member may make public announcements or press releases concerning its own activities as a member. Unless otherwise required by law, any press release concerning a Member made by the European Blockchain Association or another Member shall be subject to that member’s prior written consent. Once approved, the press release statement may be used by the European Blockchain Association and other Members for the purpose of promoting the Association (or such purpose as is designated in the member’s consent) and reused for such purpose until such approval is withdrawn with reasonable prior written notice. Any use of a Member’s name shall be subject to the applicable usage guidelines of that Member.

The Member agrees by joining the association that all personal data disclosed or become known within the framework of the Membership may be stored, processed and used by the European Blockchain Association exclusively in strict connection to the purpose of the European Blockchain Association.

Each Member agrees that the name, address, email address and telephone of Members as well as Members of tax advisory and legal professions, which are required to professional secrecy, may be disclosed and allow them to use the same, solely in the interest of orientation on the purpose of the European Blockchain Association to promote and support the implementation of the European Blockchain Association’s goals.  

3.1 §1 Name, Registered Office, Fiscal Year

• The General Meeting • The Board  

3.5 §5 Rights and Obligations of the Members

Should individual provisions of these Articles of Incorporation be wholly or partially inef- fective or unenforceable or become ineffective or unenforceable as a result of changes in the legislation after the of conclusion of the contract, the remaining provisions and the validity of the Articles of Association as a whole remain unaffected. The invalid or unenforceable provision shall be replaced by an effective and enforceable provision that comes as close as possible to the meaning and purpose of the invalid provision. If the articles of incorporation prove to be incomplete, the provisions which correspond to the meaning and purpose of the contract and would have been agreed upon in the case of being taken into consideration shall be deemed agreed.  

The European Blockchain Associations (T Corp) Working Groups (hereafter: ’WGs’) are es- tablished to facilitate the collaboration between the European Blockchain Associations Mem- bers. WGs are industry task forces that focus on building domain-specific blockchain PoCs and co-creating respective standards. WGs consist of experts for all relevant aspects within each respective domain. A WG is a special-purpose consortia of T Corp Members interested in supporting a certain technology domain. WGs are intended to complement the activi- ties of a collection of the T Corps open source projects. T Corp WGs are self-governing entities that set their own technical agendas and plans. WGs and their Steering Committees are intended to complement the work happening in the open source projects (maintained under the umbrella of the T Corp with activities that lead to greater adoption, market presence, and momentum. Specifically the role of the Working Group is to foster the creation and growth of the ecosystem that surrounds the projects.

The work product of a WG can include code or non-code material. Any code material developed in relation to the activities of the WG must be open source as per the guidelines set forth in the Intellectual Property Rights Policy of the T Corp.

Any code outputs shall be open sourced through the T Corp github organization. Individual Members contributing code to the organization and/or their representatives must request permissions from the appropriate administrators and maintainers of the GitHub organiza- tion. Conversely these administrators and maintainers are report to various levels of the T Corp as appropriate and described below.

* Can authorise writing permissions for committing code to the specific repositories of a Working Group for Members and their representatives  Further technical details are described on the wiki of the T Corp github organization.

Working Groups may produce non-code materials and assets. Non-code materials is used to describe assets that are not code. Such assets could be a technology roadmap, test suite, documentation, specification, or a marketing program (i.e. a set of activities which may be undertaken by a WG to promote T Corp technology and Members companies in a specific market or geography. Example Marketing Programs could include participation in a trade show, joint press release put out by the T Corp, the creation of a logo to identify the Working Group, co-sponsored webinars to create leads for WG participants, etc.).

Unless otherwise approved by the T Corp Board of Directors, any third party content used by a WG in the creation of non-code materials must be adhere to common standards the standards for intellectual property protection applicable in the jurisdiction of Germany. Plagiarism or unauthorized usage of third party materials protected by applicable IP protections such as trademarks, copyright and patent law are prohibited and such infringement my result in the sanctioning of an offending Member by the Board of Directors.

Only Institutional Members with voting rights of the European Blockchain Association (i.e. Full Members with Voting Rights or Full Academic Members with Voting Rights) are allowed to propose a new Working Group. These Members are hereafter referred to as Initiating Members.

A member of the Steering Committee shall be deemed to be in good standing, and thus eligible to vote on issues coming before the Steering Committee, if the member has attended (in person or telephonically) a minimum of three (3) of the last four (4) meetings (if there have been at least four meetings), unless such absence has been approved by the other Members of the Steering Committee. The term of a Steering Committee Member lasts as long as the member is active and in good standing. A Member of the Steering Committee shall be removed after a vote of 2/3 of the other Members if the Member is not in good standing. The Steering Committee should then co-opt another Member. Steering Committee Members must be full Members with voting rights or the representative of a full Member with voting rights.

The proposal for the formation of each new Working Group shall include the proposed char- ter of such WG and name the groups Steering Committee as well as the Members that initially desire to participate in such WG. The WGs Steering Committee is responsible for writing and maintaining a WG Charter consisting of the following:

* GitHub. Upon the T Corp Board of Directors approval of the draft Charter, the Executive Director will do so, and an email will be circulated announcing the availability of the draft Charter for review. The Proposal Phase will commence upon the distribution of that email. A WG may modify their WG Charter. Any modifications to a Charter must be approved by: 1) a super-majority (two-thirds) vote of the WG Steering Committee and 2) the T Corp Board of Directors. This process may be modified by the Board of Directors with thirty (30) days written notice to the T Corp Membership-at-large.  4.5 Membership of a Working Group  Participation in WGs is open to all Members of the European Blockchain Association. Each WG will have two types of participants: Steering Committee Participants and Member Participants (collectively, ’Participants’):  Member Participant is a Member of the T Corp who agrees to actively participate in the WG and meets the Member Participation Guidelines. Any Member that satisfies the Member Participation Guidelines of a WG must be permitted to be a Participant in the WG. Any Member wishing to join the WG would contact the WG Steering Committee to indicate their interest and describe how they fulfill the Membership Participation Guidelines. The Steering Committee is responsible for maintaining the list of all Participants on an ongoing basis.  All Participants in a WG, whether Steering Committee Participants or Member Partici- pants, can participate and will have voting rights with respect to WG matters as outlined within each group’s charter. This could include including scheduling meetings and activi- ties, access/participation in the development of all materials produced in the WG, Marketing Programs, Material development, mailing lists and wikis.  There is no additional charge or Membership fee for T Corp Members to be a Participant in a WG. However, it is expected that WG Participants may require additional financial or development resources to undertake Marketing Programs or Material development, all as set out in the Charter. It is the Steering Committee’s responsibility to articulate the policy for how these additional resources are raised from the Participants.  4.6 Participation Fees  Participation Fees are those annual fees (if any) for participating in a Working Group, as established by the Working Groups Steering Committee and set forth in the Working Groups Charter, as adopted and amended from time to time pursuant to the Working Group Process. At its discretion, each Working Group Steering Committee may, pursuant to the Working Group Process, establish different tiers of participation and associated fees for each organization participating in the Working Group.  4.7 Working Group Lifecycle  Following is a description of the lifecycle of a WG.

The WGs Initiating Member can draft a draft WG Charter and request the T Corp to make it available in the appropriate area on europeanblockchainassociation.org/. Upon the T Corp’s Board’s approval of the draft Charter, the Board will do so, and an email will be circulated announcing the availability of the draft Charter for review. The Proposal Phase will com- mence upon the distribution of that E-Mail.

* Recruit WG Chairs (at a minimum Chair and Vice Chair). The Chairs must be employees of an T Corp full an institutional member with voting rights.  At the end of the Proposal Phase, subject to the Initiating Member’s compliance with the terms of this Policy, and the T Corps Executive Director’s approval of the Charter, and based on the feedback from the T Corp community and in consultation with the proposed WG Steering Committee, the T Corp Executive Director will determine whether to create the WG. Once the WG is created, a notification will be sent to the Members with the initial list of Participants and an invitation to other Members to participate. At this time, the IT infrastructure for the WG will be established. At this point, the Implementation Phase for the WG shall commence.

Working Groups may raise their own funding or request funding from the T Corps general budget. Working Groups may submit a proposal with a milestone-based plan to requisition funding from the T Corps general budget. Such a plan must be made publicly available via the respective entities T Corp github. The T Corp Board of Directors may or may not support this milestone-based plan and fund the respective project out of the T Corps general budget. If the Working Group does not fulfill the milestones as described in the milestone-based plan, the Board of Directors may stop funding.

Working Groups may appeal decisions by the T Corp Board of Directors in relation to funding requests to the Blockchain Arbitration Forum.

The majority of a WG’s work is intended to be accomplished during its Implementation Phase. The development of the outputs for each WG is undertaken by its Participants during this phase. The WG Steering Committee shall provide regular systematic status reporting to the T Corp Board of Directors. The WG Steering Committee will provide overall coordination, will monitor progress of the WG against the WG Charter milestones and schedules, provide attention to issues involving dependencies between WG, and publish all plans, documents, reports, and interactions to the Participants in the WG as needed.

It is expected that some WGs will exist for a specific period of time to accomplish a specific objective and some WGs will continue for an extended period of time. Regardless, at some point in time the operation of WGs may need to be terminated. Two events may trigger the termination of a WG: 1) A super-majority (two-thirds) of the WG Steering Committee requests to the T Corp Board of Directors that the WG be terminated, or 2) the WG is deemed inactive or non-compliant with the WG’s Charter by the T Corp Board of Directors in their sole discretion. The T Corp Board of Directors may terminate a WG by putting a public notice on the WG mailing list.

A WG may modify their WG Charter. Any modifications to a Charter must be approved by: 1) A super-majority (two-thirds) vote of the WG Steering Committee and 2) the T Corp Board of Directors.

This process may be modified by the T Corp Board of Directors with thirty (30) days written notice to the T Corp Membership-at-large.