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VII. ECI Council Policy Statements
Guidelines for the Organization and Operation of the ECI Council
Version 2.0, 10 April 2006, revised during ECI Council meeting in May 2008
A. Membership
1.
professional expertise relevant to the goals and programmes of the Earth Charter Initiative.
2. Council members shall be elected for a three-year term and may serve two three-year terms after which
members with staggered terms so as to ensure some continuity in membership.
3.
with the understanding that he or she may not participate in the deliberations of the Council or vote on
4. In the case of any vacancy on the Council for any cause, the Council may elect a new member to hold
B. Officers
1.
example, a vice chair, treasurer, and secretary.
2. Meetings will be chaired by the chair or co-chairs. In the absence of the chair or co-chairs, the vice chair
will chair a meeting, if a vice chair has been elected.
C. Meetings
1.
chairs, or Council.
2. Notice of meetings will go out to Council members at least one month prior to the meeting and
urgent issue, notice may go out only ten days in advance of the meeting.
3.
elected.
4. Additional meetings of the Council may be called by the chair or co-chairs, the Council, or a group of
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