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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thank you Mathieu and Leon for forwarding this message. It’s a helpful narrowing of the question.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">If we understand you correctly, you are asking us what is required of a “member” under Swiss nonprofit law. Can a member be an individual, a legal entity,
and more importantly a non-cognizable, or non-legal, entity?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">We will reach out to our colleagues in Sidley’s Geneva office to see if we can get some help answering this question.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> ccwg-accountability5-bounces@icann.org
[mailto:ccwg-accountability5-bounces@icann.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mathieu Weill<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 11, 2015 2:49 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> León Felipe Sánchez Ambía; ccwg-accountability5@icann.org<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Steve DelBianco; Cheryl Langdon-Orr<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Acct-Legal] Request for advice on Swiss law<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Dear Counsel and colleagues,<br>
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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. <br>
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Thank you for your help<br>
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Mathieu<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Le 11/05/2015 23:42, León Felipe Sánchez Ambía a écrit :<o:p></o:p></p>
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<pre style="margin-left:.5in">In some countries (in particular in Switzerland), non-profit associations<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:.5in">are, by law, accountable to their membership, in the sense that the<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:.5in">membership has full powers to amend the bylaws (called statues in<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:.5in">Switzerland), elect and revoke the Board, approve and review the budget,<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:.5in">etc. See articles 60 ff. of the Swiss Civil Code at:<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre style="margin-left:.5in"> <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.admin.ch_opc_en_classified-2Dcompilation_19070042_index.html&d=AwMDaQ&c=Od00qP2XTg0tXf_H69-T2w&r=PyftdYkqjEDMIx5o_kyQ1bCTTkOV655ea67oiCGUI9M&m=6sGTf8nFJj0Gz6vttHAI3fBzb8hh_t7l4-vBxEcineY&s=hBJJyn1Gmi5dc2rrck5odVoUmMBlzT9Nd_jR74ZHXr4&e=">https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classified-compilation/19070042/index.html</a><o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre style="margin-left:.5in">If we accept the principle that accountability is ensured by the members,<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:.5in">then I don't understand why the members of ICANN should not have full powers<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:.5in">to amend the bylaws, set the budget, etc.<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">This is not urgent so I please ask you kindly to address the outstanding questions identified before addressing this comment.<o:p></o:p></p>
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