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16Paragraph 10ASSOCIATION AND DISASSOCIATION OF PARTICIPANTS1. Association of ParticipantsAssociation with GBIF is open to any country, economy, inter-governmental,international organisation or organisation with an international scope or to an entitydesignated by them as described in Paragraph 1.2. Such association becomes effectiveupon signature of this MOU.2. Participant Status(a) A country that has signed the MOU becomes a Voting Participant on the GoverningBoard by deciding to make a Basic Financial Contribution and making the financialarrangement negotiated with the GBIF Secretariat, as described in Paragraph6.4(c). This arrangement sets out the Voting Participant’s financial contributioncalculated on the basis of the approved Guidelines for calculating Basic FinancialContributions (See 4.6(g)) and the period for which the arrangement is valid.(b) In order to retain voting rights a Voting Participant is requested to make itsfinancial contribution each year within the first three months of the GBIF financialyear, unless the Executive Committee has approved a later payment arrangementfor the financial year.The voting rights of a Voting Participant that is more than one financial year behindpaying its basic financial contribution in accordance with the financial arrangementwill be suspended until it has made all outstanding financial contributions.3. Disassociation of Participants(a) Any Participant may disassociate itself from this MOU by advising the GoverningBoard in writing of its intention to do so and of the effective date ofdisassociation.(b) In the event of disassociation of a Voting Participant, the Governing Board maydecide by consensus to adjust the Work Programme and the Budget to takeaccount of such disassociation or, again by consensus, may decide to adjust thecontributions of Participants to the Budget in accordance with the approvedGuidelines for calculating Basic Financial Contribution (See 4.6(g)).
171. DurationParagraph 11OTHER MATTERS AND SIGNATURE PAGEGBIF is intended to be an open-ended long-term cooperative endeavour in order tosustain the benefits of access to biodiversity data.2. DiscontinuationThe Voting Participants, acting by consensus, may discontinue this MOU at any time.In a situation where discontinuation has been so decided the GBIF Secretariat, actingin accordance with the laws of the jurisdiction in which it is located will arrange forthe liquidation of the assets of GBIF; property held by the GBIF Secretariat for thebenefit of the Participants is to be regarded, for this purpose, as assets of GBIF. In theevent of such liquidation, the GBIF Secretariat, so far as practicable, will distributeany assets of GBIF or the proceeds there from, in proportion to the Basic FinancialContributions which the Participants have made from the beginning of the operationof GBIF.3. ModificationsExcepting paragraph 2 (5), this MOU may be modified at any time by the GoverningBoard through a consensus vote of all the representatives of all the VotingParticipants.Signing the MOU to become/continue as a Voting Participant (countries only)Signing the MOU to become/continue as an Associate ParticipantOfficial GBIF Participant name 1 : ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Signature: _________________________________________________________________Date: _______________________Place: _____________________________________1 Country or organisation name as you would like it to appear in all official GBIF correspondence; letters, website, etc.
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