[Acct-Legal] Request for advice on Swiss law

[Mathieu Weill]

Dear Counsel and colleagues,

Maybe to focus the question a bit and avoid too large a research in a 
first step, the key assumption we would like to test is whether Swiss 
law would enable the SOs and ACs to act with all powers described in our 
report WITHOUT the need to establish a legal entity associated with the 
SO or AC.

Thank you for your help

Mathieu

Le 11/05/2015 23:42, León Felipe Sánchez Ambía a écrit :
> Dear Counsel,
>
> A comment has been made in the forum which states:
>
> In some countries (in particular in Switzerland), non-profit associations
> are, by law, accountable to their membership, in the sense that the
> membership has full powers to amend the bylaws (called statues in
> Switzerland), elect and revoke the Board, approve and review the budget,
> etc.  See articles 60 ff. of the Swiss Civil Code at:
>
>    https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classified-compilation/19070042/index.html
> If we accept the principle that accountability is ensured by the members,
> then I don't understand why the members of ICANN should not have full powers
> to amend the bylaws, set the budget, etc.
> We would like to test the accuracy of this comment. To get the 
> complete picture, you can find the full comment here:
>
> http://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-ccwg-accountability-draft-proposal-04may15/msg00000.html
>
> This is not urgent so I please ask you kindly to address the 
> outstanding questions identified before addressing this comment.
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> León
>

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