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Bylaws

All members joining the Hellenic Association of Treasurers must adhere to the House Rules 

Code of Ethics

Each HAT member must comply with the articles mentioned below:

  • Act always with diligence, care, integrity, honesty, and respect

  • Seek to advance and maintain all professional knowledge, skills, and competences

  • Observe and adhere fully to local and international legislation, regulation, laws, relevant market practice, and business principles applicable to own activities 

  • Disclose immediately to all stakeholders any conflict of interest

  • Always ensure that issues of race, gender, sexual orientation, age, size,  religion, country of origin, disability, or any other form of discrimination have no place in HAT
     

Should the Board of Association take the knowledge that a member has acted in breach of any part of the code of Ethics, the Board shall take any immediate action it regards as appropriate, having due regard to the relevant member’s legal and civil rights. 

Conflict of Interest

In case of an actual or potential conflict of interest or the appearance of a conflict of interest as a result of HAT membership in relation to his/her employment, the HAT member shall take all appropriate measures to avoid or resolve such conflict. Such measures include, but are not limited to, not receiving relevant documents, not attending meetings, and, if circumstances so require, abstaining from the exercise of any voting rights, and resigning from his/her HAT position or from his/her employment. A HAT member should make clear that he/she is not acting on behalf of their employer but only in his/her personal capacity. For members of the Board, approval from his/her employer is required. 

Membership Fee

Members are obliged to pay an annual membership fee.  The amount of the fee is determined by the General Assembly and is disclosed on the website of the Association. Honorary members do not owe any dues. Members are also required to comply with the statutes, House Rules, and decisions of the Association. In the event that a member has outstanding membership fees, the member shall receive two monthly notifications and otherwise be suspended at the end of the third month. 

Public exposure

A HAT member shall not act as a public spokesman or formal representative by virtue of his/her HAT membership in court proceedings, arbitrations, public hearings or other situations that could create increased public exposure for HAT unless required by law or unless approval has been granted by the Board.

Representation

Despite any authorization he/she may have to represent his/her employer, a HAT member shall not sign agreements, deeds, participate in any decision process, or otherwise represent his/her employer in relation to HAT membership unless approved by the Board and by his/her employer. 

Personal responsibility

A HAT member remains personally responsible for due compliance with applicable (local) laws and regulations related to the exercise of his membership.

Negotiations

A HAT member shall never be involved in - nor use his/her position with his/her company of employment  - to influence any negotiations, casting of votes, agreements or any business decisions regarding the relationship between his/her employer and HAT.

Non-public information

A HAT member shall not use or distribute any non-public information that he/she may have because of his/her professional position in fulfilling his/her role as a HAT member. The rule also applies to any non-public information that he/she may have because of his/her HAT membership.

Voting Rights

Every HAT member has one vote. Below categories of membership have no voting rights:

- Affiliate members.

- All members that are exempted from membership fee payments due to unemployment.

- Professional members

Participation in
Committees and Working Groups

There should be no restrictions in the participation of our members in the Committees/WGs and anyone who expresses
interest can join freely without requiring any approval either from the Board of Directors or from the existing group members (including Professional Members).

Participation threshold  in
Committees/WGs

  •  Introduction of a minimum attendance threshold of 50% at the scheduled group meetings to maintain the membership status in that particular group.

  • The Committee/WG group members will have the option, to exceptionally keep in the group the member who has not met the minimum participation limit.

Participation of Professional members
in Committees /WGs

  •  The participation of Professional (Consultants / Sales) members in the Committees/WGs will be unrestricted.
     

  •  Each group will be able to intervene correctively in cases where it is observed that the participation of the Professional member creates any kind of conflict and, if necessary, the case can be escalated to the BoD.

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