Rules in SIAA's Articles of Association 3
Confidentiality Level D

Membership Provisions
These detailed rules stipulate the rules concerning membership of this society by Article 11 of theArticles of Incorporation.
1. The categories, definitions, and rights of members of this society are shown in the table below.
Type ofmembership
Category

Definition of typeof members

Regular members

Supporting members

Special members

Associate members

A regular member
shall be acorporation thatendorses theobjective of thissociety,manufactures ormarkets anantibacterial
product, antifungal
product,
antibacterial agent
and antifungal agent
or provides anantibacterial productas a service and isqualified as being
eligible foradmission to thissociety by fulfillingthe criteria
separatelyformulated by theBoard of Directors.

A supporting
member shall be an
institution thatendorses theobjective of thissociety, is interested
in the manufacture,utilization
technology andevaluation
technology ofantibacterialproducts, antifungalproducts,
antibacterial agentsand antifungalagents, and hasobtained approval of
the Board ofDirectors.

A special member
shall be a learned
person belonging to
an educationalorganization such asa university, orpublic organization
or institution, or aperson much
experienced inbusiness, and who isable to provide
advice on theadministration ofthis society, and isrecommended at a
meeting of theBoard of Directors.

An associate
member shall be a
corporate entity orperson who hasapplied foradmission althoughsubmitted data etc.,
is not acceptable andis correcting thedata, a corporate
entity or person who
wishes to apply foradmission, but isunable to prepare a
set of admission
application
documents because
its product does notmeet this society'sdefinition as anexisting antibacterialagents, antifungalagents, antibacterial
products or
antifungal products,
or because no
established test
method etc. of thissociety is available,a corporate entity or
person who isscheduled to launch
an antibacterial
agent orantibacterialproduct, and wishes
to join this society toobtain findings on
antibacterial agentsand antibacterialproducts, or a
corporate entity or
person who isinvolved in
distribution etc., anddeals with a broad

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Participation in activities

Participation in administration

range ofantibacterialproducts orantifungal products,
and wishes to join
this society to obtainfindings, and thosequalified as eligible
for admission to thissociety by fulfillingthe separately
formulated criteria.
Attending
generalassemblies

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
(as observers only)

Executives(directors,supervisors)(Nomination by the
Board of Standing
Directors)

(Nomination by the
Board of Standing
Directors)

(Nomination by the
Board of Standing
Directors)

(Nomination by the
Board of Standing
Directors)

(Nomination by the
Board of StandingDirectors)

(Nomination by the
Board of StandingDirectors)

DELETED

DELETED

DELETED

DELETED

Admission/
Voluntary
Management
Committee

(Approval of theBoard of Directors
is required;appointed fromamong learned
persons and others)(Approval of theBoard of Directors
is required;appointed fromamong learned
persons and others)(Approval of theBoard of Directors
is required;appointed fromamong learned
persons and others)

Chairpersons andvice-chairpersons ofindividual
centralcommittees(Approval of theBoard of Directors
is required)(Approval of theBoard of Directorsis required)
(Approval of theBoard of Directors
is required)

Members ofindividual
centralcommittees(Approval of thechairperson of thecommittee isrequired)
(Approval of thechairperson of thecommittee isrequired)
(Approval of thechairperson of thecommittee isrequired)

Executives(chairperson,vice-chairpersons,managingdirector)
Congress ofcommittee
chairpersons, presiding
officer anddeputy
presiding
officer

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Chairpersons andvice-chairpersons ofindividual
technical
committees
Individualtechnicalcommittees
Information
ExchangeGroupSIAA brand marklabeling(Approval of theBoard of Directors
is required)(Approval of theBoard of Directors
is required)
(Approval of theBoard of Directors
is required)
(Approval of thechairperson of thecommittee isrequired)
(Approval of theworkshop manager
is required)）(Approval of thechairperson of thecommittee isrequired)
(Approval of theworkshop manager
is required)）(Approval of thechairperson of thecommittee isrequired)
(Approval of theworkshop manager
is required)）

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

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Formulated : June 24, 1998
Amended : June 02, 1999
Amended : June 09, 2004
Amended : May 21, 2007
Amended : May 19, 2008
Amended : May 11, 2012

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