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Timestamp: 2019-04-25 17:55:41+00:00

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Art. 1º – The Brazilian Academy of Sciences, founded on May 3, 1916 under the name of Brazilian Society of Sciences, is a non-profit association of private law, constituted for an undetermined period of time, with headquarters and forum in the city of Rio de Janeiro, with the objective to contribute to the development of science and technology, education and the social well being of the Country.
§ 1º– In compliance with its objective, the Academy shall promote solemn sessions, seminars and other meetings; shall issue publications and establish covenants to enable the execution of projects, including those of scientific exchange with public or private entities, national, foreign or international with which they hold common interests with.
§ 2º – The solemn sessions will be destined to the induction of new members to the Academy, to celebration of milestones of the evolution of knowledge and to perform tributes to prominent figures of science.
§ 3º – The activities of the Academy shall be developed with a faithful observance of the principles of legality, impersonality, morality and the economy, with an ample advertisement of its acts, projects and missions.
Sole Paragraph – The Board of Directors, after hearing the Selection Commission, shall define the subjects which integrate each of the specialized areas.
Sole Paragraph – In the first three categories the academics shall be elected under a permanent nature, unlimited in numbers.
Art. 5º – The Full Members will be Brazilian, native or naturalized, and foreigners living in Brazil for more than 10 (ten) years, with outstanding scientific performance.
Art. 6º – The Corresponding Members shall be foreign researchers with recognized scientific merit, who have provided relevant collaboration to the development of science in Brazil.
Art. 7º – The Collaborating Members shall be personalities who have rendered outstanding services to the Academy or to national scientific development.
Art. 8º – The Affiliated Members shall be young promising researchers, living in the regions specified in art. 3, indicated and chosen by the Full Members who work in the same regions.
§ 1º – It is the Board of Director’s responsibility to designate and induct the Affiliated members, of up to 5 (five) per region per year.
§ 2º – The Affiliated Members will have the right to participate in the activities of the Academy for a period of 5 (five) years, non-renewable.
Art. 9º – The Academy, through the decision of the Board of Directors, may grant the title of Associated Institutional Member to legal entities interested in the development of science and technology who are willing to financially contribute to the performance of common activities.
Sole Paragraph – The title of Associated Institutional Member will be of a temporary nature, needing to be validated on an annually basis as per the Board of Directors.
c) honor the Academy, individually or collectively, seeking to collaborate, in the quality of Academics, towards scientific, technological and social development of the Country.
Sole Paragraph – The Full members and the Associated Institutional Members shall contribute financially towards the maintenance of the activities of the Academy. The Board of Directors, by means of delegation of powers of the general Assembly, will periodically determine the value of the respective annual fees.
b) resort to the General Assembly against actions of the Board of Directors and the Audit Committee.
Art. 12 – The general Assembly, the sovereign body of the Academy, is constituted exclusively by the Full Members, gathered in session of a deliberative nature, under the presidency of the President or the Vice-President of the entity. In the absence of the President or the Vice-President, the present members shall elect the President of the general Assembly.
Art. 13 – The general Assembly meetings shall be ordinary and extraordinary.
d) appraisal of the opinion of the Audit Council about the accountability and the general balance sheet of the Academy for the previous financial year.
d) the candidate for Corresponding and Collaborating Members who obtain the majority of the valid votes.
§ 2º – If there is a draw in the election with regards to the first two points, we shall consider elected, in the case of point a, the integrants of the plate headed by the Full Member who has been there the longest, and if the draw persists, by the oldest; and in the case of point b, the oldest candidate.
Art. 15 – The quorum for the opening of the Ordinary General Assembly shall be of half of the total number of Ful Members, both for the first convocation as for the subsequent convocations, which shall be scheduled with an interval of a maximum of 20 (twenty) days.
§ 1º – Upon verifying the existence of a “quorum”, one shall consider the voters who are present as well as those who send in their votes electronically or by mail.
Art. 16 – The Extraordinary General Assembly will be destined to any other purpose not specified in art. 14, will be conducted at any time and shall be called by the President or by an application of a minimum of 20 (twenty) Full Members.
§ 1º – The agenda of the Extraordinary General Assembly shall be clearly defined upon its convocation.
d )for the dissolution of the institution.
b) in all other cases, half of the total number of Full members in the first convocation, and a third, in subsequent convocations.
§ 4º – The interval between the convocations shall be of at least twenty days and at the most forty days.
§ 5º – The maximum number of convocations of Extraordinary General Assemblies, for the discussion of the same agenda, is three. In the event of not attaining the necessary number to deliberate during the third convocation, the assembly will only be allowed to be convened, to discuss the same issue, in the following year, after a period of at least six months.
§ 6º – When the agenda of the Extraordinary General Assembly cannot be voted upon in one meeting alone, it can be taken into consideration in permanent sessions and subsequent meetings can be held until a final decision is reached.
Art. 18 – The Board of Directors of the Academy shall be composed by a President, Vice President, 5(five) Directors and 6(six) Regional Vice-Presidents, all Full members, elected with a mandate of 3(three) years and vested in the month of May.
Sole Paragraph – The regions where the Regional vice Presidents perform are those defined in art. 3rd.
Art. 19 – The election process of the Board of Directors will start with the opening of the registration of the plate of competitors, which shall be formally presented by the candidates running for president.
Sole Paragraph – The Board of Director shall publish the dates of the beginning and the end of the registration period of the plates, which cannot be inferior to 30 (thirty) days.
i) establish the annual financial contribution of the Full Members and Associated Institutional Members.
e) annually present the activities report and the accountability of his management.
Sole Paragraph – The Vice-President, aside from the attributions established for him by the Board of Directors, shall substitute the President in his occasional or permanent impediments. In the last case, in a new vacancy occurs, a General Assembly shall be called for the election of a new President.
Art. 22 – The Audit Council shall be composed of 5 (five) Full members, elected for a period of 3 (three) years and effective in the month of May, and needs to elect its president in the first meeting they perform.
Art. 23 – The Audit Council shall meet once a year in the first trimester, and extraordinarily when convened by 2 (two) or more Full members, to appreciate issues strictly defined.
Sole Paragraph – The Audit Council will only be allowed to deliberate with the presence of a minimum of 3 (three) of its members.
d) speak-up about the disposal of assets and about the acceptance of donations either with an equal value or a superior value of 500 (five hundred) times the current minimum salary of the country.
Art. 25 – The Selection Commission shall be constituted by the President of the Academy who will preside, and by 12 (twelve) Full members, elected by a simple majority, through the General Assembly, for a period of 3 (three) years, with at least one representative of each specialized area listed in art. 2.
§ 1º – The Selection Commission will have a third of its members renewed annually, by means of election performed during the second trimester, and the elected shall be sworn in the first meeting following the end of the mandate of his antecessor.
§ 2º – The election process of the Members of the Selection Commission will initiate with the registration of the candidates interested in applying for the specialized areas in which vacancies may come up, upon which one shall publish the starting and the ending of the period of registration, which may not be inferior to 30 (thirty) days.
d) prepare the voting ballot for the election of new Full Members, choosing two candidates per vacancy, and for new corresponding Members, indicating the candidates who, based on his criteria, fulfill the conditions established in art 7.
Art. 27 – The form for the indication of candidates shall only be accepted when properly filled-out.
§ 1º – The proposals for the admission of Full Members need to be endorsed by one or more Full Members.
§ 2º – The proposals for the admission of Corresponding Members need to be endorsed by 10 (ten) or more Full Members, of which at least 5 (five) are from the specialized area for which the candidate is applying, and shall present the candidates “curriculum vitae” together with the list of work he has published.
§ 3º – The proposals for the admission of Corresponding Members shall be presented by the Board of Directors, fully justified and accompanied by the candidates “curriculum vitae”.
Art. 28 – The quorum to deliberate in the Selection Commission meetings is of 9 (nine) of its members, in which decisions are made by simple majority.
§ 1º – The President of the Selection Commission will only have a vote in case of a draw.
§ 3º – In the event of any of the specialized areas not having the presence of a representative at the Selection Commission, the President may convene another Full Member, of the same area, to substitute him in the quality of “ad hoc” representative, without the right to vote.
Art. 29 – The heritage of the Academy is constituted of its rights and assets, movable and immovable.
Art. 30 – The disposable of assets of the Academy may only be done through the unanimous proposal of the Board of Directors, properly substantiated and authorized by the General Assembly, by absolute majority of its members.
Art. 31 – One may dispose, by decision of the Board of Directors of material considered obsolete, non recoverable or unserviceable, in accordance to the opinion of the inspection commission and the writing off, to be composed of 3 (three) Full Members to be chosen by the President of the Academy.
Sole Paragraph – The revenue of the Academy will be fully applied to the maintenance and the development of its statutory objectives, being prohibited for the Directors and the Audit Council to perceive remuneration, advantages or benefits of any kind.
Art. 33 – The Members of any category of the Academy, even in the positions of the Board of Directors or the Audit Council, are not responsible for, not even alternatively, for the charges and social obligations of the Association.
Art. 34 – The Full Members can request to be transferred from the Specialized area for which they were elected, yet in order to make this effective it need to previously obtain the approval of the Selection Commission.
Art. 35 – The cases not considered in this Statute shall be resolved by the Board of Directors, except for those discussed at the General Assemblies.
Art. 36 – In the event of the dissolution of the Academy, its’ assets shall be destined to the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
Art. 37 – We assure to maintain the rights and obligations determined at the times of election, of the members of the category of Associate Members, extinct at the Ordinary general Assembly of September 23, 1999.
Art. 38 – The current Foreign Members now become part of the category of Corresponding Members.
Art. 39 – The current regional Vice-Presidents, designated through the decision of the Board of Directors in the meeting held on May 28, 2007, shall exert their functions until the next election of the Boart of Directors.
Art. 40 – The first Audit Council shall be elected, exceptionally, in a General Assembly to be convened within 20 days, and the members will take office in the week following the election, with a mandate to last until May 3 2010.

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