The European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 1. Membership shall end by resignation. The Board has a maximum of 15 members. The Boards of ISCA and EACL each have the right to appoint one member to the Board. The term for a Board member is four years.
Consecutive appointments are limited to two terms.
Apart from the Board members appointed by ISCA and EACL, Board members will be elected by secret ballot. The Board elects among themselves an Executive Committee of three persons. One member of the Executive Committee will be Chairperson and one Secretary. The Board meets as often as necessary but at least once a year, convened by its Chairperson 4.4. Decisions are made by absolute majority of votes.