1 - The General Assembly consists of all the Members that have regularly paid their membership fees. The Group Members are represented by a delegate.

2 - The General Assembly meets at least once a year, within 30 June, to approve the final balance, that is, the economic and financial statement of accounts.

Moreover, it

- nominates the Council;

- sets broad outlines for the Association's activity;

- makes decisions on alterations to this Statute;

- approves the possible Regulations that control the Association's activity;

- makes decisions about the possible destination of profits or surplus advancing from operating costs, whatever they are called, and of funds, stocks or capital during the life of the Association, when this is allowed by the law and by this Statute;

- makes decisions about the dissolution and liquidation of the Association and the devolution of its assets.

3 - The General Assembly is called by the President whenever he deems it necessary, or when a request is made by at least a tenth of the members of the Association, or at least a fifth of the Councillors.

4 - The General Assembly must be called by means of a registered letter, telefax or E-mail sent 30 days before the sitting and a notice to be put up in the premises of the Head Office at least 30 days before the sitting, containing the agenda, the place (in the Head Office or elsewhere in Italy, or also abroad), the date of the first and second convocations, of which the second must be fixed at least 24 hours after the first.

If the above procedure is not followed, the General Assembly considers itself to be rightly constituted when all the Members with a right to vote, all the members of the Council and all the members of the Executive Committee, if nominated, are either present or represented.

5 - The General Assembly is rightly constituted at the first convocation when the majority of the entitled parties are present. At the second convocation the General Assembly is constituted whatever the number of parties are present.