Constitution of the society

Preamble

The Bonusnorm undertaking is based on the awareness and evaluation of appreciation and value-relevant reward from a variety of views and theories about an understanding promoting public welfare.
The Society shall be dedicated to a concept of sustainable stability of ecological, economic and social balance on the basis of non-profit governance.

§ 1 Name and objektive of the Society

The name of the society shall be Bonusnorm Institution für Belohnwert Normen der
Nachhaltigkeit (which translates to Institution for Reward Value - Standards of Sustainability) and shall have its registered office in Stuttgart, Germany. Upon entry in the Register of Associations, Societies and Clubs, the name Bonusnorm will be supplemented by “e.V.” (registered society). The Society's objective shall be to exclusively and directly promote non-profit objectives within the meaning of the subsection ?Tax-privileged Objectives? of the German Fiscal Code (Abgabenordnung, AO). In accordance with section [§] 2, the Society’s objectives are to promote:[list=1][/list]
2.1.Science and research

2.2.Public health and healthcare

2.3. Youth welfare and old person assistance

2.4. Preservation of nature, protection of environment and maintenenance of the countryside within the meaning of the German Federal Nature Preservation Act (BNatSchG) and the nature conservation laws of the states

2.5. International dispositions and tolerance in all fields of culture as well as the idea of international understanding

2.6. The advancement of citizenship and community development in England and Wales

The Society shall fulfill the above-mentioned aims by their own action and direct donations or by raising funds (particularly by receiving
contributions) that shall be made available to other tax-privileged corporate bodies or public corporations or corporate bodies with
limited tax liability for the direct realisation of the above tax-privileged purposes. Insofar, the Society is a fund-raising body within the
meaning of Sec. [§] 58 No. 1 German Fiscal Code (AO). The Society shall be entitled to make available for tax-privileged purposes
part of their funds to other tax-privileged corporate bodies or legal entities under public law. The Society shall also be entitled to
engage helpers for the performance of their tasks.

§ 2 Realisation of the objectives of the Constitution

The Society’s initiatives are designed to fund the cognitive processing of tangible and intangible rewards and motivators in all fields of development and value creation to pave the way for understanding and sustainability in people’s aspiration towards free development, security and recognition in keeping with the UN Convention on Human Rights within the whole spectrum of both biological and social life. In this spirit, the Society realises the implementation of the project tasks.
The publication of the results of the Society’s tasks and projects or the outcomes from science and member forums as well as other activities shall exclusively be disseminated in generally accessible media and on the internet. This shall also include distribution via publications, lectures, seminars and conferences as well as distribution via radio and TV.

2.1 Science and research
The objectives of the Constitution shall particularly be realised by own action, the promotion of scientific analysis and empirical examination in the field of behavioural research. It is the Society’s aim to develop a normative classification and expertise that imparts a standard of values to the population of plural societies, putting them in a position to evaluate, conceptionally create and sustainably secure rewards of a tangible and intangible nature (bonus points, vouchers, distinctions, academic grades, etc.) granted in relation to the purchase of goods and services or to a certain behaviour.
The objectives of the Constitution shall particularly be realised by own action, the promotion of scientific analysis and empirical examination in the field of behavioural research. It is the Society’s aim to develop a normative classification and expertise that imparts a standard of values to the population of plural societies, putting them in a position to evaluate, conceptionally create and sustainably secure rewards of a tangible and intangible nature (bonus points, vouchers, distinctions, academic grades, etc.) granted in relation to the purchase of goods and services or to a certain behaviour.
In order to realise this aim, the Society shall set up a project organisation, a science forum and a member forum.
The project organisation shall be part of the society’s organisational and operational structure. This also includes the transfer and the realisation of insights and findings in science and research. The project organisation concerning hierarchical tasks and interdisciplinary key issues shall be coordinated by a work group the Society calls ARGE Bonorm.
The tasks of the science forum shall comprise the assessment and valuation of neuronal stimuli of motivators through scientific examination. The tasks of the member forum shall include characterising the assessment and valuation of rewards in respect of their ecological, economic and social qualities and quantities via internet forums, etc.
In this sense, the Society shall conduct examinations on cognitive processing, conditioning and motivation in the behavioural and social research field of psychology to support the development of the populace in terms of ecological, economic and social sustainability by pieces and papers, input and ideas. This shall be done by:

• Promoting member initiatives on the safeguarding of sustainability and the future within the meaning of the Brundtland report of the UN World Commission on Environment and Development (an organisation of the United Nations)
  
• Research on interdisciplinary action relating to value validity
  
• Exchange of experiences, collaboration and co-operation with other societies, institutions and NPOs (non-profit organisations)
  
• Promoting and advancing of undertakings aiming at the collection of experiences in relation to the Society’s objectives and tasks by scientific penetration and by actual application to ecological, economic and social sustainability.
  

Bonusnorm shall nationally and internationally represent the assessment of the value, quality, certification and standardisation of rewards in scientific, qualitative and quantitative respects as well as by determining the sustainability of ecological, economic and social factors. Based on its aims and focus and in realisation of its objectives and tasks, the Society shall develop normative system and values analyses and valuation methods from achieved research results.
Any formative influence on the further development of ecological, economic and social sustainability by advanced ideas on the part of the Society shall be documented by the Management Board in agreement with the Presidium.

• By assigning purposes and changing the name of the Society
  
• By assigning purposes and changing the name of the Society
  
• By expedient co-operation with other institutes, organisations or NPOs (non-profit organisations)
  
• By founding an NPO, non-profit organisation
  
• By founding a non-profit interest group or umbrella organisation within or outside the European Union.
  

2.2 Promotion of public health and healthcare

The Society shall organise information campaigns for a better understanding of preventive healthcare and conduct research concerning the economic aspects of the healthcare system. This may also comprise:

• Promoting and co-creating procedures for structural change and adaptation of all the relevant fields of the health-care, social welfare and educational system of the Federal Republic of Germany, for example, co-operation and representation in committees, work groups and alliances serving patient safety and the safeguarding of healthcare services.
  
• Feasibility studies and pilot projects for the control of expenditure and financial relief of the public healthcare system, also in co-operation with the organisations and professional societies and associations of the healthcare system and the parties and political interest groups. This shall also include free counselling of political committees at federal level in all issues of health and healthcare, just like giving free advice to professional nurses, geriatric nurses and the populace in order to discuss and build a consensus for sustainable healthcare services and the cognitive incentives pertaining to them.
  
• Promoting information exchange among researchers, doctors, patients and the public to increase medical service quality and health economics and to conceive new approaches to healthcare.
  
• Safeguarding the interests of outpatient and inpatient recreation parks specialising in medical prevention, rehabilitation and self-help and capacity-building and other care providers, and the leading head associations at federal level. This shall also include interdisciplinary information campaigns in all issues of health, wellness, regeneration and security within the social community and particularly by the public healthcare system.
  

2.3 Promotion of youth welfare and old person assistance

The Society shall take on tasks concerning all classes of the population - from the life cycles of adolescent personality formation of childhood and youth to that of the elderly in a gerontological, geriatric field. In the project tasks, the neuronal coordination of reward and motivation shall serve as the key to both biological and social development and the social responsibility. The Society shall communicate reward and motivation within the scope of the social understanding of the intergenerational contract and shall form subsidiary initiatives in relation to the demographic development. Most important among this is project work with the educational aim of social competence and responsibility. Moreover, the Society shall develop campaigns like:

• Reaching an understanding between young and old by exchanging experience-based knowledge and participating in the tasks and ideas of the modern society. This also includes the interconnection, moderation and the mentoring for the co-operation and the knowledge transfer between people of all age groups, social backgrounds and cultures. It is also aimed at creating incentives to train the preservation of physical and mental activity by self-reward and motivation.
  
• Advocating the interests of youth welfare, old-age and pension security in both audits and political discourses.
  
• Promoting social communities of interpersonal and cross-generation relationship, using the example of families and living communities taking the form of students’ flat-sharing communities/senior living communities. Included in this is also the promotion and representation of intergeneration living projects to the public, such as the use of barrier-free, age-appropriate living space and joint neighbourhood housing projects. Moreover, the representation introduction thereof to political committees and public decision-makers to improve basic social conditions.
  
• Quality-oriented care of the people by introducing the occupational profiles in the fields of youth welfare and old person assistance, as well as co-operation in health profession committees to structurally advance the old-age care and nursing-care insurance system.
  

2.4 Preservation of nature, maintenance of the countryside, protection of the environment

The Society shall disseminate the motivational background for the protection of nature and the environment in a reward-relevant conservation of the biosphere and the eco system. In this context, the Society shall find ways to persuade people to assume more responsibility for the protection of nature and the environment and to have a formative influence on the appreciation of a healthy environment as the basis of all life and to the benefit of mankind and nature itself. This objective of the Society shall be realised by:

• Furnishing information through the publication of scientific research work from all fields of nature and environmental protection, e.g. climate, forest and water protection, as well as the subjects pollution, global warming, conserving resources and environmentally oriented sustainable management within corporate structures.
  
• Promoting interdisciplinary exchange of experiences by setting up forums, internet portals and by organising lecture programmes, seminars and discussion groups.
  
• The Society shall contact institutions, associations and renowned personalities or experts following similar aims to achieve a close co-operation on an international scale.
  

2.5 Promoting an international disposition and tolerance in all fields of culture as well as the idea of international understanding

The Society shall address the examination of reward systems within the cultural assets of man, their impact on the socio-cultural key factors of the different cultures and their formative influences. Firstly, this concerns culture in a broader sense, i.e. living, tradition and customs (socio-cultural key factors) and secondly its influence on the development of an individual, a society or a state. In connection with culture and development, this subject-matter also touches the issue of human rights and, among other things, gender equality. Realisation shall be effected by:

• Advancing cognitive processing of reward and motivation in the neuronal control procedure of human organisation and its embedding in the ideas of tolerance among nations;
  
• Promoting a new culture of understanding, appreciation and recognition of sovereignty;
  
• Granting of scholarships to people from developing countries to enable them a sojourn in Germany for studying or internship/work placement purposes;
  
• Financing activities strengthening and supporting community spirit, political, social and ecological responsibility and the respectful coexistence of individuals, peoples and nations;
  
• Promoting mutual understanding among peoples, nations and paradigms by understanding and being responsible for each other’s cultural and political positions;
  
• Communication, meeting and inter-cultural learning to remove the barriers existing between the various groups and to enablea cultural (as well as scientific) exchange.
  

2.6 The advancement of citizenship or community development

Developing and inspiring civic values and encouraging voluntary and community activity. Regenerating communities through physical,
social and economic improvements. For example, the promotion of social inclusion and social investment.


§ 3 Non-profit and charitable character

The Society shall be a non-profit organisation; it does not primarily pursue its own financial interests. The Society’s funds shall only be used for purposes incidental to the Constitution.
no member shall receive any financial benefits from the Society's funds, and no person shall be favoured by expenses and outgoings which are alien to the Society's objectives, or by unreasonably high remunerations or compensations.
Members of the Management Board and the Presidium may be remunerated. Whether they shall receive remuneration for their activities shall be decided by the General Assembly of Members.
Should the Society be dissolved or the tax-privilege be lost, any assets of the society shall pass into the possession of a legal entity under public law or other tax-privileged corporate body to be used for the non-profit objectives of the Society.

§ 4 Membership

There shall be the following categories of membership:
ordinary membership, extraordinary membership, special membership.

4.1 Ordinary members

are individuals under Secs. 1 et seq. German Civil Code [BGB] and legal entities under Secs. 21 et seq. German Civil Code. Upon joining Bonusnorm, a member’s status shall be determined by assessing their social, economic and executive activities within public society. Thereupon, each member shall be assigned to one of the 8 member groups below:

1. Individuals whose personalities are not assignable to any other member group
   
2. Individual freelancers of the professions, in the healing arts and the service sector
   
3. Sole traders, businesspeople and partnerships
   
4. Interested people and interest groups not assignable to any other member group or legal entity
   
5. Legal entities taking the form of companies limited by shares or corporations
   
6. Corporate bodies that are not companies limited by shares or corporations
   
7. Corporate bodies under public law
   
8. Other institutional juristic authorities not represented in any other member group
   

Each member group shall elect individuals from their midst by simple majority to act as their delegates. The minimum and maximum number of delegates shall be determined by the Presidium after consultation with the respective member group.
Should a second ballot be required, then a relative majority shall suffice; any third ballot shall be decided by drawing lots. The delegates shall commit themselves to the Society’s objectives and interests. A delegate’s term of office shall be 2 years, with re-election being possible. Members and delegates shall not be entitled to vote in the General Assembly of Members.
Any extraordinary removal from office of a delegate shall require good cause or a vote of no confidence by a qualified majority voting on the part of the members. In case of a forthcoming General Assembly of Members, any removal from office of a delegate or the revocation of their mandate shall require the immediate appointment of a new candidate for delegation, such appointment date being no later than 6 weeks before a General Assembly of Members.
The delegates of a member group shall elect a representative from their midst. The representatives shall exercise the ordinary members’ rights in the General Assembly of Members and shall be entitled to one vote each in the General Assembly of Members. Any assignment of voting rights among the representatives shall be excluded.
Representatives shall be nominated for a one-year mandate which shall automatically be renewed for another year, unless new candidatures should be mandated 3 months before a General Assembly of Members or mandate renewal.
Any extraordinary removal from office of a representative shall require good cause, like a grave breach of duty or fiduciary duty or behaviour that is detrimental to the Society, and the unanimous decision of the Presidium or a vote of no confidence by qualified majority voting on the part of the delegates. In case of a forthcoming General Assembly of Members, any removal from office of a representative or the revocation of their mandate shall require the immediate appointment of a new candidate for representation, such appointment date being no later than 3 weeks before a General Assembly of Members.

4.2 Extraordinary members

are visitors, guests, supporting members and honorary members.

• Visitors are non-contributory interested people without member status who did not apply for membership. Upon application or request, visitors shall be allowed to take surveys.
  
• Guests are temporary members with limited rights. Guest members shall be obliged to pay membership fees.
  
• Supporting members are members supporting the Society’s exercising of its objectives and tasks by making contributions, donations or grants as well as by getting involved themselves.
  
• Honorary members distinguish themselves by their exceptional merit in supporting, contributing to and realising the Society’s objectives.
  

Appointment as honorary member may be offered to ordinary and extraordinary members as well as to non-members. Honorary membership shall be awarded by the assembly of members entitled to vote. The rights and duties of extraordinary members shall be regulated in the Society’s rules of procedure and adopted by the Management Board in agreement with the Presidium. Extraordinary members shall not have a voting right of their own in the General Assembly of Members.
Bonusnorm shall implement its actions and work similarly to the responsibility and development of a learning organisation. Members who have been entrusted with tasks concerning project work and quality assurance or are engaged in advancing innovations shall serve the Society as special members.


4.3 Special members

fall into two groups:

Special members I.)
who support and advise committees, bodies, etc. and have been mandated by an election or resolution or appointed to an office. This particularly includes members of the Society’s bodies for self-discipline and self-control, like

• the Ethics Council
  
• Data protection
  
• members of the Bonus Council *
  
• Commission of enquiries
  
• Auditing
  
• Members of the Board of Trustees
  
• Members of the Steering Committee
  

* being on the bonus council shall exempt the members from paying membership fees

Special members II.)
taking a significant interest in creating and developing the Society by input of ideas and realisation competence or deserving special recognition for forward-looking ideas about themes and subject-matters the Society pursues shall be transferred a permanent voting right; such transferral shall be delegated to the presidium by qualified majority of the General Assembly of Members giving legal personality to the Society, who also instructs the Presidium to allocate up to two votes instead of one. The special members who have been allocated a permanent voting right in the General Assembly of Members giving legal personality to the Society are ex officio members. A vote granted by a permanent voting right shall be transferable by written assignment or testamentary disposition. These voting rights shall exist independently of the exercise of an office.

§ 5 The Society´s The Society’s bodies, their competences and structures

Save for the Management Board and the Presidium, the Society’s bodies need not yet be appointed once the Society receives legal personality. The Society's bodies may adopt their own rules of procedure. The Society’s bodies shall not be entitled to vote in the General Assembly of Members, unless this is explicitly provided for in the Constitution.

The General Assembly of Members (tier 1)
The General Assembly shall meet once each year. The members entitled to vote shall decide by:



The representatives’ voting rights may only be transferred to other members entitled to vote. According to Sec. 34 German Civil Code (BGB), a member shall not be entitled to vote, if the passing of a resolution should concern the performance of legal transactions with them as a party or the institution or settlement of a legal dispute between them and the Society.

5.1.1. Participation and volition of the General Assembly of Members

The Society and the members shall collectively design the Bonusnorm project in terms of young, dynamic stakeholder participation in accordance with the interests, tasks and objectives of a modern society.
Due to the particularities of the assessment of reward and sustainability, the members shall contribute to the conditions of the Society’s project in a fluent process. In this spirit, the members shall support the Constitution-relevant dialogue by direct and indirect volition (realisation competences within the decision-making process).

5.1.2. Indirect and direct co-determination and participation

Indirect co-determination shall be made by the representatives in delegation of the member groups.
All members of the Society shall be entitled to participate in direct co-determinations. According to the model of ? Liquid Democracy ?, co-determination can contribute as a fluent process for the formation of opinions and volition to support the Society in realising its non-profit objectives and the tasks pertaining thereto.
The Society shall set up an electronic forum for the General Assembly of Members where all the Society’s members may upload posts or suggestions concerning the experiences with the realisation of their charitable tasks. The acceptance of posts to the forum for the General Assembly of Members shall require that the interests and the development of the Society shall be strengthened and promoted, and that the improvement of the realisation competence shall be explained.
This shall also include improvements according to the effet utile.

• Supervision of direct co-determination and the forum for the General Assembly of Members shall rest with the work group ARGE Bonorm. To do so, ARGE Bonorm shall be entitled to call in the science and member forum and to transfer tasks to the Society’s bodies or a non-profit organisation or to found such an organisation.
  
  

ARGE Bonorm is the co-operative of members for hierarchical coordination of project organisation. Its work also comprises the establishing of a recruiting commission for the nomination and filling of the offices of the Society’s bodies as well as dissemination measures and the conveyance of this to promoters and sponsors.

• Participation in the ARGE Bonorm shall require a readiness for continually active co-operation. The Assembly to give legal personality to the Society shall discuss the admission criteria for participation in ARGE Bonorm and then choose the ARGE’s members from the attendees by relative majority. If necessary, these members may admit or invite as assistants or subordinate work groups of the ARGE Bonorm further members from the member groups as well as extraordinary and special members.
  
• The rules of procedure of ARGE Bonorm shall be adopted by the Management Board in agreement with the Presidium.
  

As a work group composed of the Society's members supporting project organisation, ARGE Bonorm shall exert a formative influence on people's learning process of interdisciplinary knowledge and formation of values through their forums and participation to direct co-determination, with such process being based on 9 underlying key issues. These key issues consist of promoting:

1. Personality and the sphere of privacy
   (including the protection of personality and privacy)
   
2. Information, individual and international interests (also includes innovative interests)
   
3. Networks concerning norms and nationalities (also networks of nature and neuronal net and nerve systems)
   
4. Solidarity, sustainability and social competence
   
5. Compliance with conformity, communication, conception and competition
   
6. Rights, rules and responsibility concerning rewards, rankings and ratings
   
7. Individuality, independence, and progress (in the sense of improvement)
   
8. Philanthropy and wealth (also in psychological and philosophical terms)
   
9. Transparency and tolerance
   

for freedom, peace and international treaties. Promoting these 9 key issues is a right of initiative for the understanding among nations and development assistance to which the Society opposes guidelines for the formation of values:

1. To convey the ideas and conceptions of the societal values of peoples and nations by assuming responsibility for values.
   
2. To motivate the public into disseminating this responsibility for values and promoting a paradigm of value reference..
   
3. To manifest the paradigm of value reference in the cognitive organigram of reward for safeguarding sustainability.
   
   

By establishing guidelines for value formation on the basis of the 9 key issues, the Society shall form empowerment as the self-competence of the populace to strengthen personal responsibility and self-determination, to promote the creative leeway for action and to assume responsibility for the resources of the global habitat.
From the Society’s responsibility for sustainability and reward there also accrues the task of creating an individual licence to intellect and freedom in keeping with equity, fairness and justice to the benefit of societies and nations, qualifying for an unlimited claim to solidarity. The Society shall transfer the realisation of this task to the work group ARGE Bonorm with the aim and the requirement to: Find new ways to stabilise social security that are suitable for cultivating the dialogue within family ties, public society and the co-operation among peoples and nations about the creation of values in health maintenance, education and social competence by means of trans- and supranational understanding.
The Society’s activities, and particularly the extent of readiness for realisation competence developed by its members, shall contribute to allegorically associate and reference examinations, assessments and standardisations of people’s value formation for the safeguarding of sustainability, comparable to a “lifebonus”.

• The work group ARGE Bonorm shall prepare a script and design for the realisation of the tasks in compliance with the non-profit requirements and non-profit governance, and add a legal status of its own to it.
  

The Society shall develop the reward in the script detailing the Society’s interests also to realise tasks of the ARGE Bonorm; with respect to this, it shall be possible to offer voting rights for co-determination or in the General Assembly of Members.

• The 9 key issues determined in accordance with the guidelines shall be offered at 1 vote per key issue as a prize.
  
• A number of up to 9 votes may be achieved by those who can give proof of the realisation of the 9 key issues determined by the guidelines pursuant to the given requirements and the objective of the tasks by description and feasibility based on the underlying rules and standards of both national and international treaties in accordance with the UN Convention on Human Rights.
  

ARGE Bonorm shall be entitled to represent voting rights in the General Assembly of Members or within co-determination and vote for motions, suggestions or contributions of its own with up to 9 votes. The voting rights of ARGE Bonorm shall be transferable.

• The members of ARGE Bonorm shall not have a voting right of their own; they shall, however, exercise the voting rights of ARGE Bonorm in the General Assembly of Members. All further particulars shall be regulated by the rules of procedure.
  
• ARGE Bonorm shall submit to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations a report about the project stages, insights and findings in the thematic complex of sustainability or other thematic fields.
  
• Direct co-determination shall imply that, in order to achieve 1 vote in the General Assembly of Members, at least 10 out of 100 members and at least 1000 members shall substantiate a suggestion in the forum for the General Assembly of Members.
  
• In the General Assembly of Members, all members entitled to vote may either support the representatives (of the 8 member groups) by direct participation with 1 vote to one of the 9 key issues or contribute to the realisation of the Society’s charitable objectives of their own uploaded posts.
  

Supervision regarding questions of the organisational and operational structures and the definition of the project scope shall be incumbent on the Steering Committee. The Ethics Council shall be the only body entitled to impose a veto or enter an objection against the decisions or legal acts of the ARGE Bonorm.


5.2 The Presidium (tier 2)

The Presidium shall determine the Society’s self-interested objectives and be responsible for the Society’s strategic direction.
For the benefit of effective realisation, the General Assembly of Members shall elect a project society to the chair of the Presidium. The Presidium shall be composed of 3 to 11 members; should the number of the Society’s tasks increase, it may have up to 21 members and be entitled to fix the number of members in accordance with the effet utile. The Presidium shall be elected for a 4-years’ term of office by a relative majority of the General Assembly of Members. The members of the Presidium shall rotate in accordance with the rules of procedure and elect a president, an project society and two vice presidents from their midst. Re-election shall be possible. The project society, the president and the two vice presidents shall ex officio have one vote each.
The Presidium shall represent the members in the formation of volition concerning issues of the socio-political, socio-economic and commercial education and counselling, unless this task should be assigned to the Management Board. The Presidium shall appoint the Management Board and supervise the Management Board’s activities. The Presidium shall recommend a candidate for the position of privacy officer to the Management Board. The Management Board shall appoint the privacy officer in accordance with the Management Board's rules of procedure.
The Society shall publish their activities on a public relations, press (PR) and media platform. By means of the PR and media platform, the Society creates a communication interface for internal and external publications of the Society. In their PR work, the Society shall document their communication concerning objectives, tasks and key interests as well as the project planning on reward-relevant topics through interpretations, information and tendering. To do so the Presidium may appoint a PR and media council.
The Presidium shall assemble as required and at least once in every year; this shall not apply to the start-up phase when the Presidium shall sit at regular intervals of 4 - 6 months. The convening of a meeting, the presence of a quorum of voting members of the Presidium and the minutes shall require written form. Any deviation from the requirement of written form shall not be admissible. The meetings of the Presidium shall either be meetings by personal attendance or electronic meetings. The resolutions of the Presidium shall be made by simple majority of the attendants. Attendance and adoption of resolutions in electronic meetings shall be verified by capturing each member’s PIN and ident code. The Presidium shall be entitled to order the personal appearance of members and participants of work groups whose interests or plans are being discussed.

5.3 The Management Board (tier 2)

The Management Board shall manage and conduct the Society’s affairs. The Management Board shall be composed of 3 - 8 members; it shall be appointed by the Presidium for a 2-years’ term of office. The Management Board shall elect from their midst a chairperson, two vice chairpersons and a treasurer. The chairperson and the two vice chairpersons shall represent the Society towards third parties within the meaning of Sec. 26 German Civil Code (BGB). The chairperson of the Management Board shall ex officio have 1 vote in the General Assembly of Members.
After consultation with the Board of Trustees, the Management Board shall be entitled to grant limited commercial power of attorney to groups and individuals. It shall be at the Management Board’s discretion to have individually authorised representatives entered in the register of societies, associations and clubs as special Representatives of the Society.
After consultation with the Presidium, the Management Board shall be entitled to amend and modify the Constitution, should matters relating to the fiscal non-profit status require so. This may also include amendments of the Constitution prescribed or required on the grounds of country-specific conditions or regularities related to the fiscal non-profit status, of the laws governing non-profit organisations or charities or of other provisionson charitable entities. No amendment and modification may be made that would have the effect of making the Society cease to be a charity under UK law.
The Society shall ensure the safeguarding of its interests and protect the confidentiality of information, findings and results by privacy. Within in the scope of its privacy policy, the Society shall store, transfer and modify personal and processing data on the members’ personal and factual circumstances or scientific and official findings, results, contributions and information of the Society relating to the performance of the objectives, tasks and interests of the Society incidental to its Constitution in accordance with the German Federal Data Protection Act as amended by the European Data Protection Ordinance.

5.3.1 The Treasurer (tier 4)

The Treasurer shall be a member of the Society’s Management Board and the Financial Board. The Treasurer shall also keep the bonus cash and the bonus accounts.

5.3.2 The Special Representative (tier 5)

The Management Board shall be entitled to appoint up to 11 special Representatives to conduct certain business transactions.

5.3.3 The General Manager (tier 5)

The General Manager shall represent the Society in public and perform the Society’s duties by handling the day-to-day business in accordance with the guidelines and instructions of the Management Board.

5.3.3.1 The Branch Manager (tier 6)

If necessary, the Management Board shall set up branch offices. The Board may engage in branch and field office networks. The branch offices of non-profit organisations and the public centres for citizens’ advice, economic and social counselling shall be given priority over participations in market-based, profit-oriented branch and field office networks.

5.4 Board of Trustees (tier 3)

The Board of Trustees shall be appointed by the Presidium. It shall comprise 7 to 21 members. The Board of Trustees shall be composed of a speaker and the same number of Presidium members and members of the Society who are engaged on economy, science or politics. The Board of Trustees shall monitor the Society’s activities and counsel its bodies.
The Board of Trustees’ project tasks shall be the reviewing, monitoring and discussing of studies and group work as well as coordinating the preparation and editing of applications for the examination, assessment, standardisation and certification of rewards, with the filing of such applications being restricted to the groups and bodies within the Society. Applications filed by commercial enterprises shall not be acceptable.


5.4.1 The Steering Committee (tier 4)

The Steering Committee shall manage the planning, steering and control by project and quality management. The Steering Committee shall comprise a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 21 members.
The member groups shall nominate the candidates for the Steering Committee. The members of the Steering Committee shall be appointed equally by the Presidium and the Management Board. Appointments made by the Presidium shall be based on ecological and social criteria whilst appointments by the Management Board shall be based on the economic competences of those nominated.
The Steering Committee shall determine the size of the standards committee the Society designates as the Bonus Council.


5.4.1.1 The Bonus Council (tier 5)

The Bonus Council is the Society’s expert committee and is responsible for the standardisation and certification of rewards by expertise. The Bonus Council may consist of up to 27 members with credentials and experience-based knowledge in the specialist scientific fields of:

• Psychology and behavioural research
  
• Health care and rehabilitation
  
• Pensions and social security
  
• Social and family policy
  
• Food and agricultural economics
  
• Economic policy
  
• Finance and money market stability
  
• Consumer and investment goods
  
• Industry, commerce, trade and serviceprovision
  
• Property industry and real estate management
  
• Sustainability science and management
  
• Renewable energies and ecological policy
  

The prerequisite for membership in the Bonus Council shall be the ability to evaluate, condition and certify in a sustainable conception the relation of value creation and reward within the counselling and educational issues of the plural society by technical competence and experience-based knowledge.
The members of the respective member groups shall nominate the candidates for the Bonus Council. The Presidium shall elect the members of the Bonus Council by qualified majority. The members of the Bonus Council shall become ordinary members of the Society upon accepting their election at the latest. Any membership in other bodies of the Society shall be suspended while being a member of the Bonus Council. There shall be no membership fee. The Presidium shall be entitled to remove members of the Bonus Council from office for cause, with any such removal, however, being subject to the Board of Trustees’ prior consent. The member concerned shall have the right to object to their removal. Decision on the objection shall rest with the Ethics Council.

5.5 The Advisory Council (tier 3)

The Advisory Council is a counselling committee of experts specialising in all topical and scientific fields the Society pursues.
The activities of the Advisory Council shall encompass the Society’s projects and forums. The Advisory Council shall make recommendations to the Society bodies. The bodies thus addressed shall discuss the recommendations and inform the Advisory Council accordingly.
The members of this expert committee are characterised by their expertise in scientific and economic issues, and particularly in the disciplines of ecological, economic and social sustainability. The members of the Advisory Council shall pledge themselves to the objectives and aims of the Society; they need not be members of the Society. The Advisory Council may be comprised of up to 33 members. The members of the Advisory Council shall be appointed at the suggestion of the Society’s bodies or members of the Presidium after consultation with the Management Board by simple majority of votes. All further particulars shall be regulated by the Society's rules of procedure.

5.6 The Social Council (tier 3)

The Social Council shall advise the Steering Committee in questions of nominating and certifying rewards in terms of their social acceptability. The appointment of the Social Council rests with the Presidium. The Steering Committee shall decide on the recommendations of the Social Council and notify the Social Council about their decision and the reasons their decision is based on.

5.7 The Auditor of Annual Accounts and Cash Auditor (tier 3)

The Presidium shall elect a Cash Auditor. The Cash Auditor should be a qualified tax consultant, balance sheet accountant, Diplom-Finanzwirt (comp. to MSc Taxation and Finance) or should possess professional expertise in these fields. The Cash Auditors task shall comprise the auditing of the income and expenses throughout the financial year in terms of an economical management of the Society. The Cash Auditor shall audit the bonus cash and the bonus accounts. These tasks may also include the auditing of the compliance with relevant fiscal provisions ensuing from the law governing non-profit organisations and other tax acts as well as the auditing of the valuation of assets and liabilities. Should the Cash Auditor be unable to perform these audit duties, they may also be outsourced to external experts. The Presidium shall ascertain the need for outsourcing and choose an appropriate auditor.

5.8 The Ethics Council (tier 3)

The Ethics Council shall advise all bodies of the Society on issues of ethical requirements and behaviour within society and medicine, natural science and paradigm, as well as in the foreseeable consequences for individuals and societies.
After reviewing decisions of the bodies of the Society, the Ethics Council shall refer such decisions back to the bodies involved for further decision on the comments of the Ethics Council. The Society’s bodies shall publish their decisions and the reasons their decisions are based on in the Society’s internal media. The Ethics Council shall be entitled to apply to the Arbitration Tribunal and/or convene a panel of expert like, for example, the Commission of Enquiries. The Ethics Council shall be entitled to order the personal appearance of members and participants of work groups whose interests or plans are being discussed.
The Ethics Council shall be composed of 3, 5 or 7 members. The member groups shall nominate the candidates for the Ethics Council. The appointment of the members of the Ethics Council from the nominated candidates shall rest with the Presidium.
Only members who have actively contributed to the Society’s activities for at least 3 consecutive years can be nominated as members of the Ethics Council. During the Society’s start-up phase, the number of members and the proof of a 3-years’ activity shall be reduced to the period of time from the foundation of the Society to the then present day. The mandate on the Ethics Council shall be awarded for a two-year term. Members shall be eligible for re-election for a consecutive term; re-election after a break of 2 years shall be admissible. no more than one third of the members of the Ethics Council shall be fully qualified lawyers or judges. Removal from Office shall require a qualified majority from the Ethics Council themselves or the General Assembly of Members.

5.8.1 Commission of enquiries (tier 4)
This panel of experts shall be composed of 6 members with equal representation of the fields of

• Behavioural research and social services
  
• Healthcare
  
• Finance and economy
  
• Jurisprudence
  
• Politics and new political economy
  
• The media
  

The Commission shall be entitled to inspect project work and to evaluate or conduct empirical and demoscopic examinations. The activities of the Commission of Enquiries shall take the form of an audit documented in a written investigation report. The resulting report and the pertaining comments shall be published in the Society’s internal media.

§ 6 Membership fees, liability to pay fees

The General Assembly of Members shall adopt Membership Fee Regulations. The Management Board shall be entitled to claim special contributions for special activities on the part of the Society. Membership fees may vary in accordance with the kind of membership. Monthly fees may be suspended in case payment is provided by sponsors or funding initiatives. This procedure shall be shown in bonus accounting.


§ 7 Work groups

Work groups are teams, study groups or workshops with more than 5 participants evaluating reward and bonus assessment. A group shall elect and authorise a representation/moderation by simple majority of votes. Setting up a group shall require the completion of a proposal form to be found in the Society’s electronic system, justifying the project proposal. The concluding decision on the proposal shall rest with the Board of Trustees by simple majority of votes.
Work groups shall submit reports and interim reports at regular intervals. The authority to instruct and the supervision of work groups shall be incumbent on the Board of Trustees. Work groups shall be entitled to set up a group structure of their own and request support by subordinate study groups. In addition to staffing the group with members, the representation/moderation shall also be entitled to assign extraordinary members and/or non-members to the group. The conditions concerning project objectives, staffing and group work shall be regulated by the group-work rules in agreement with the Board of Trustees.


§ 8 The bonus system

Collaboration in the work groups may be remunerated by translating time into bonus points. The Bonus Council shall determine the value of bonus standardisation for the purposes of expense reimbursement within the Society. The working hours credited until standardisation or the certification of such standardisation shall be recorded in bonus accounting.


§ 9 Decision-making

9.1 91. Elections concerning
Persons, bodies, administrative decisions and decisions under administrative law, and the resolution of the General Assembly of Members. The Society understands and acknowledges the general accepted rules of majority qualification in the decision-making process. The following rules shall be applied to the decision of the Society’s bodies:



Committee by absolute majority of votes, if the General Assembly of Members should decide against a ballot rerun.
Notwithstanding the majority generally required by statute, ballots concerning decisions having an impact on the continuance of the Society or far-reaching amendments of the Constitution shall require at least 75 out of 100 votes. In cases of a parity of votes in open ballot the vote of the first chairperson of the Management Board shall be decisive. With respect to further stalemates or continuing invalidity, the Presidium shall take the final decision by relative majority. If the counting of votes after a ballot rerun or progress to a second stage ballot, like, for example, appeal to the Steering Committee, should not bring forth a result meeting the requirements, the Management Board shall be entitled to order ballot by drawing lots by simple majority.

9.2 Ballots concerning

1. Assessments, inspections, evaluations and value-awarding of normative consensus and the essence of quality shall not be validated by finding majorities, but rated in open ballot of disciplines in relation to reference values.
   
2. The Society shall constitute Society-specific rules of value qualification. The ballot shall be held by proportional weighting. All assessments, inspections, evaluations and normative decision-making processes shall be subject to the Society’s developmental work.
   

§ 10 Eletronic mail

The Society shall provide forum software for information and communication purposes. The Society’s members shall be allowed to use this forum software. Login and registration shall be made by entering a personal email address known to Bonusnorm’s system as an electronic mailing address for the Society’s news and messages. The mailing software in Bonusnorm's server will communicate with the software on the respective server providing the user’s email address. All communications will be recorded which is referred to as a communication protocol hereinafter.

• By order of the user, the Society may allocate or generate an alternative email address for login and registration.

10.1 Delivery

The Society shall be entitled to deliver public and internal messages like memorandums, notices or decisions by transmission to the email addresses of members, bodies and groups known from login and registration.
The transmission and the delivery result can be accessed by a communication protocol can be seen in a time window, by which delivery can be confirmed. In case of doubt, this procedure can also be tracked on the receiving side.


§ 11 Arbitration tribunal

The Society has an arbitration tribunal which shall be competent for any dispute arising between the Society’s members and the Society, between the Society’s members and its bodies as well as among its bodies or its members. The arbitration tribunal shall be entitled to order the personal appearance of members and participants of work groups whose interests or plans are being discussed.

11.1 Arbitration agreement

Any dispute arising between the Society’s members and the Society, between the Society’s members and its bodies as well as among its bodies or its members shall be settled by final and absolute award of the arbitration tribunal designated below to the exclusion of the courts of record, and excepting decisions that do not come under the jurisdiction of arbitration tribunals by operation of law.

11.2 Competence and jurisdiction

The arbitration tribunal shall be the court of competence for all legal disputes arising in relation to voting rights, participation rights, the special rights of the Society’s members, the nature and scope of the rights of the Society’s bodies, members’ claims for expense reimbursement, the Society’s or its members’ claims for payment of membership fees against other members, the acquisition or the loss of membership, the scope and limitations of the rights of the Society’s bodies and their actions. The arbitration tribunal shall also be the competent tribunal for actions requesting a change of a legal right or status (Gestaltungsklage) of members as well as for disputes concerning the effectiveness and construction of this Arbitration Agreement.

11.3 Composition of the arbitration tribunal

The arbitration tribunal shall be composed of two arbitrators and a presiding arbitrator. The arbitrators shall be members of the Society. They shall, however, have no part whatsoever, whether direct or indirect, in The arbitration tribunal shall be composed of two arbitrators and a presiding arbitrator. The arbitrators shall be members of the Society. They shall, however, have no part whatsoever, whether direct or indirect, in

11.4 Appointment of the arbitrators and the presiding arbitrator

Each party shall appoint an arbitrator. The party instituting the proceedings shall notify both the opposing party and the Ethics Council via the Society’s electronic mailing system that they have appointed an arbitrator and present their claim, requesting the opposing party to appoint an arbitrator of their own within three weeks’ time. Time begins to run on the mailing date of the electronic message to the email address. The Ethics Council shall appoint the presiding arbitrator within the same three-week period form the mailing date of the electronic message to their email address.
Should the opposing party fail to meet the request for appointing an arbitrator within the period specified, then the Ethics Council shall also appoint the opposing party's arbitrator. Should the Ethics Council fail to meet the obligation of appointing a presiding arbitrator despite a grace period of an additional three weeks’ time having been granted, the Society’s President shall appoint the presiding arbitrator upon the motion of a party or an arbitrator. Should a party consist of several people, they shall agree on an arbitrator. Sec. 1034 Subsec. 2 German Code of Civil Procedure (ZPO) shall apply supplementarily.

11.5 Falling away of an arbitrator or the presiding arbitrator

Should an arbitrator fall away, then the party who appointed them shall appoint a new arbitrator within three weeks’ time, notifying the opposing party thereof by electronic mail. Should the opposing party fail to meet this obligation, then the Ethics Council shall appoint the new arbitrator. Should the presiding arbitrator fall away, then the Ethics Council shall appoint a new presiding arbitrator within three weeks’ time.

11.6 Seat of the arbitration tribunal

The arbitration tribunal shall have its seat at the seat of the Society.

11.7 The arbitration tribunal shall have its seat at the seat of the Society.

The provisions of Secs. 1025 et sec. German Code of Civil Procedure (ZPO) governing arbitration proceedings, and in particular Sec. 1042 ZPO, shall apply. Other than that, the arbitration tribunal is entitled to conduct the proceedings at their own discretion.

11.8 Position and tasks of the presiding arbitrator

The presiding arbitrator shall notify the parties in writing of the constituting of the arbitration tribunal, requesting the claiming party to submit their request for arbitration to the presiding arbitrator within two weeks’ time. The statement of claim shall be served to the respondent party, requesting them to submit their response to the request for arbitration within one week’s time. Each subsequent statement shall be served to the respectively opposing party. The preparation and conduct of the proceedings shall be incumbent on the presiding arbitrator. After consultation with the parties or their appointed representatives, the presiding arbitrator shall fix the dates, summon the parties to attend, call in a recording clerk, preside over the hearing and vote of the arbitration tribunal, and draft the arbitration award stating the reasons for the award.

11.9 Award by consent

The arbitration tribunal shall attempt to reach an award by consent between the parties of the dispute at all stages of the proceedings, however prior to making the arbitration award at the very latest. The award by consent shall be signed by the members of the arbitration tribunal and the parties and deposited with the President.

11.10. Arbitration award

The arbitration award shall state the reasons for the award and shall be signed by the members of the arbitration tribunal. The parties shall be served an executed copy of the arbitration award to their email address; a copy thereof shall be deposited with the President.

11.11. Cost of the proceedings

The presiding arbitrator shall be entitled to receive a reasonable compensation for their activities. The associate arbitrators are honorary arbitrators; they shall, however, be reimbursed for their expenses. The arbitration tribunal’s decision as to cost shall be based on Secs. 91 et seq. German Code of Civil Procedure (ZPO). The value of the matter shall be decided by the arbitration tribunal in a tribunal order. In the operative provisions of the arbitration award, the arbitration tribunal shall specify the amount of cost to be paid by the losing party to the prevailing party. The lawyers’ fees, if any, shall be governed by the Lawyers’ Compensation Act of Germany (RVG).

11.12. Supplementary Provision

In case of doubt, the provisions of the German Code of Civil Procedure (ZPO) shall apply supplementarily.