A Member Country which has been denied a transfer to category A by the Bureau may appeal at the next meeting of the Council. A shall cease to be a Member Country following the next Council meeting after its request to the Bureau for a transfer. Every Associate Membership will be reviewed at each General Assembly. Member Countries which have been Associates from the beginning of their membership, will be asked subsequently to consider entering a paying category. In the event of the dissolution of any Association, its assets shall be ceded to the Union.
Associates have no voting rights.
On questions of scientific nature, or of administrative nature, or of a character partly administrative and partly scientific not involving matters of finance, the voting shall be in Council by Member Countries, each Council Delegate having one vote, provided that the subscription of the Adhering Body has been paid up to the end of the calendar year preceding the voting. On questions involving finance, the voting shall be in Council by Member Countries with the provision that a voting country must have paid its subscriptions up to the end of the calendar year preceding the voting in Council. The number of votes allotted to each Member Country shall then be equal to the number of its category of membership. Questions on admission of new Member Countries and appeals against denial of transfer to Associate membership shall be decided by a two-thirds absolute majority vote of the Council Delegates meeting in Council, each Council Delegate having one vote. A Council Delegate may represent only one Member Country.