STATUTES APPROVED AT THE GENERAL MEETING OF 10 DECEMBER 2021
FIRST CHAPTER
Incorporation and purposes of the Society
First Article
(Nature, Establishment, Head Office and Duration)
One - The Portuguese Society of Ophthalmology (SPO) is a collective entity under private law, not for profit, therefore endowed with legal personality.
Two - The Portuguese Society of Ophthalmology was founded in 1939, has its Head Office at Campo Pequeno, no. 2, 13º, in Lisbon and will last for an indefinite period.
Article Two
(Purposes)
The aims of the Portuguese Society of Ophthalmology are
A - The Portuguese Society of Ophthalmology has as its purpose of developing ophthalmology through:
A - Promotion and contribution to the development of Ophthalmology in its different aspects: community and prophylactic, assistance and curative, scientific, educational and research, with respect for ethics and professional deontology, end that will be pursued with the
i. Promotion of research projects;
ii. Continuing education in ophthalmology;
iii. Development of educational and support activities for the population and patient groups with a view to their involvement and participation;
iv. Creation of accredited training programmes;
v. Granting of scholarships and grants for training and research grants to be awarded under the terms of the Regulation to be to be defined;
vi. Promotion of scientific and professional exchange with entities and professionals from other countries.
B - Contribution to the correct consideration of of a health policy in the field of Ophthalmology, with guaranteeing standards of quality and competence in accordance with the demands of Medical Science.
C - Collaboration in the preparation of Standards of Clinical Orientation protocols that aim to improve the health of the population, collaborating with scientific of the population by collaborating with scientific, governmental governmental and regulatory entities.
D - Editing, financing and dissemination of scientific publications publications.
E- To ensure that people's health is not put at risk people, in particular through the practice of medical acts by non-medical professionals involved in purely instrumental merely instrumental in relation to ophthalmology.
Two - The Portuguese Society of Ophthalmology may also organise scientific meetings, provide The Portuguese Society of Ophthalmology may also organise scientific meetings, provide space (virtual and physical) to the same; promote the publication and marketing of books, manuals, magazines and other publications of a scientific-didactic nature in electronic or physical electronic or physical support, namely through the SPO's website.
Three - The revenue generated from the events and publications organised should be used exclusively to financing the above-mentioned purposes.
Four - The OPS may also be affiliated and establish protocols with other scientific and intervention societies with interest for Ophthalmology.
Article Three
(Means of Action)
The means of action of the Portuguese Society of Ophthalmology
One - The promotion of annual scientific and administrative meetings with previous deliberation of the General Assembly and under the conditions that will be determined; in it, if possible, a monograph will be presented, a monograph, if possible.
Two - Active Participation in Ophthalmic Congresses and Meetings Ophthalmological Congresses and Meetings held in Portugal or abroad.
Three - The presentation to the competent authorities of opinions or proposals about problems that are of interest to Ophthalmology or Portuguese Ophthalmologists.
Four - The diffusion, by the adequate means, of the activities of the Society and Portuguese Ophthalmology at home and abroad. abroad.
Article Fourth
(Membership Categories and Admission)
The Portuguese Society of Ophthalmology shall have the following following categories of membership :
One - All ophthalmologists admitted as such are full members. admitted.
Two - All physicians attending the Internship of the Specialty and admitted as such of the Specialty and admitted as such.
Three - Corresponding Members are foreign Ophthalmologists and other Portuguese or foreign graduates, admitted as such admitted as such.
Four - Honorary members are Ophthalmologists or not, and people or entities, national or foreign, who by their merit and category or by the services rendered to the to the Society or to Portuguese Ophthalmology, have been proposed by the General Assembly and admitted as such.
Five - Collective members are national or international scientific societies with international scientific societies with similar purposes to those of the Portuguese Society of Ophthalmology
Six - Benevolent members are commercial, industrial or private entities or private entities with an interest in promoting the development of Ophthalmology
Seven - The admission of new permanent, casual and corresponding members and correspondent members is made through a proposal addressed to the President of the Portuguese Society of Ophthalmology and subscribed by at least two effective members. The President of the Society may temporarily admit the application for membership until its approval, which will have to be made in the first General Assembly.
Eight - The admission of honorary members should be presented to the General Assembly, by means of a proposal from the Board of the Society subscribed by at least ten effective members. Its approval requires two thirds of the votes.
Nine - The admission of collective and meritorious members shall be submitted to the General Meeting, by means of a proposal from the Society's Board of Directors subscribed by at least ten members. Its approval requires two thirds of the votes
Ten - The specific requirements for the categories of collective and meritorious categories will be defined by internal regulations. and shall not be entitled to vote.
Article Five
(Contribution rates)
One - The effective, casual and correspondent members shall pay an annual fee set by the General Assembly and subject to reviewable, when such review is included in the respective notice convening the meeting.
Two - The quota of casual members shall be fifty per cent of that of full members percent of that of full members, as long as they have not completed their Specialisation Internship. The following shall be exempt from the payment of members who are over eighty years old or disabled, those who who stopped practicing medicine after the age of seventy-five, and and honorary members.
Article 6
(Loss of Membership)
Membership is lost, in any category, in the following cases the following cases:
One - At the request of the member.
Two - For non-payment of dues for two consecutive years years, after evaluation by the Board.
Three - For a reason considered to be fair by the General Assembly after reasoned proposal of the Board of Directors, being the vote carried out by secret ballot and the proposal is approved by three quarters of the votes cast.
SECOND CHAPTER
Organs
Section One
Management and Operations of the Society
Article Seven
(Organs)
The SPO will have the following bodies:
Governing bodies:
a) Management
b) Fiscal Council
c) General Assembly
Others:
a) Specialised Sections of the Portuguese Society of Ophthalmology.
Only the following will be elected to the governing bodies of the SPO members in full possession of their membership rights will be elected .
Article Eight
(From the Directorate)
One - The Society is directed and managed by a Board of Directors composed of seven full members, one of whom is the General Secretary.
Two - For the election of the members of the Board of Directors, the General Assembly will take into account the representation of the three main areas of areas of the country - North, Centre and South - being Therefore, the Board shall be composed of at least two members from each one of those areas.
Three - The General Assembly will ordinarily meet every two years for the election of the seven members of the Executive Board.
Four - Members of the Board of Directors may not be elected for more than than two successive terms
Five - At the first meeting of each term of office, the members of the Board of Directors shall shall choose from among themselves a President, a Vice-President, a Secretary General, Deputy Secretary General, Treasurer and two Treasurer and two members.
Six - In the event of re-election of all or part of the members of the Board of Directors, the distribution of the positions referred the same or a different distribution.
Article Nine
(Representation of the Society)
The Company is represented in and out of court, actively and and passively, by the President of the Board of Directors and in his by the Vice-President or by the Secretary General, whichever is deemed more convenient by the Board.
Article Tenth
(From the Secretary-General)
It is the Secretary-General's responsibility:
a) - Organise the Congresses;
b) - to coordinate the activities of the Society and to disseminate them to all the members of the Society;
c) - to draw up an annual report on the Company's activities to be submitted to the General Assembly;
d) - When elections are held, send to the members forty-five days in advance an five days in advance, an invitation to present lists of candidates lists of candidates to the Social Bodies to be elected and, fifteen days in advance, the lists of candidates to the fifteen days in advance, the lists of candidates to the Corporate Bodies and of the Section Coordinators.
Article Eleven
(From the Treasurer)
The Treasurer shall be responsible for:
a) - Promote the collection of quotas;
b) - To pay the expenses authorised by the Board of Directors, and the cheques and documents relating to the Company's expenditure must be signed by him and by the President or the the General Secretary;
c) - to prepare annually the financial report of the Company. This report shall be approved by the Supervisory Board and sent to all members at least fifteen days before the General Meeting, so that it may be discussed and approved.
Article Twelve
(Principle of Gratuitousness)
No partner shall be remunerated for the functions or positions he or she they hold in the Company.
Article Thirteenth
(From the Journal)
One - The Portuguese Society of Ophthalmology (SPO) is the owner of the Journal of the Portuguese Society of Ophthalmology.
Two - The Revista da Sociedade Portuguesa de Oftalmologia is the peer-reviewed scientific journal of the SPO and publishes primarily basic and clinical and clinical research works, such as original articles, review review articles, clinical cases, related to ophthalmology in its its different specialties, as well as frontier knowledge subjects with frontier knowledge areas with interest for medical-surgical medical-surgical practice and clinical process in the perspective of clinical governance in ophthalmology.
Three - The Management of the magazine will include, inherently, the President, as the Director of the journal.
Four - The Editor-in-Chief selected on the basis of a competition shall this position for three years
Five - The Company shall pay the Magazine's expenses, in accordance with the the respective Regulations, to be approved by the General Assembly.
Six - Amendments to the Regulations of the Revista da Sociedade Portuguese Society of Ophthalmology shall always be subject to deliberation deliberation of the General Assembly.
Section Two
The Audit Board
Article Fourteen
(Constitution and duties)
One - The Supervisory Board is composed of three effective members, preferably one from each of the three areas of the country - North North, Centre and South - who shall distribute among themselves the positions of Chairman, Secretary and Vogal.
Two - The members of the Supervisory Board may not exercise any other any other position in the Company.
Three - The members of the Supervisory Board are elected at a General Meeting for a two-year General Meeting, for a period of two years, and may be re-elected in whole or in part.
Four - It is incumbent upon the Supervisory Board:
a) - Supervising compliance with the law and the Statutes of the Portuguese Society of Ophthalmology;
b) - Supervising the administration of the Portuguese Society of Ophthalmology;
c) - to verify annually and whenever it deems convenient, and in the manner he/she deems appropriate, the financial situation of the Portuguese Society of Ophthalmology;
d) - to request the Board of Directors the collaboration of an expert accountant to examine the books and accounts, whenever he/she deems it necessary;
e) - requesting the Chairman of the Board of the Shareholders' General Meeting to convening an Extraordinary General Meeting, for duly justified reasons duly justified reasons;
f) - To issue an annual opinion on the Company's financial report presented by the Treasurer to the General Meeting
Five - The resolutions of the Supervisory Board are recorded in the Board Minute Book. Minutes of the Supervisory Board.
Section Three
From the General Assembly
Article Fifteen
(Type, convening and operations of the General Meeting)
One - The General Assembly is made up of the effective and members in the full use of their rights and may be ordinary or Ordinary and Extraordinary.
Two - The Ordinary General Meeting meets at least once every each year to approve the balance sheet.
Three - The Extraordinary General Meeting shall be held whenever the Board of Directors Board deems necessary or at the request of a minimum of fifty made by a minimum of fifty effective members, without Without prejudice to the provisions of article fourteen, number four, paragraph e). four, paragraph e).
Four - The call for the Annual General Meeting will be made in written in paper and/or digital format (email and publication on the web page) to each effective and eventual member, at least thirty days in advance. at least thirty days in advance.
Five - The Extraordinary General Meeting shall be convened in writing in paper and/or digital format (email and publication in the web page) to each effective and eventual member, Both notices must mention the day, time and place place of the meeting and the subject or subjects to be discussed. A notice of meeting shall be given at least fifteen days in advance, fifteen days prior to the meeting.
Six - Decisions taken on a matter that is the agenda, unless all members attended the meeting and all agreed on the attended the meeting and all members agree with the addition.
Seven - Meetings of the General Assembly may only be held with the participation of at least half of the members members. On second call, the General Meeting may meet, half an hour after the time initially scheduled, with any number of full members, except in cases covered by articles seventeen and nineteen.
Eight - In the event of a tie, and an absolute majority or other qualified majority of votes is required, the resolution is rejected.
Nine - The Order of Business shall be determined by the Board of Directors of the of the Company, except in the case of article thirteen, number four, paragraph e), in which case it shall be determined by the Supervisory Board.
Article Sixteen
(From the Board of the General Meeting)
One - At the meeting for the election of the Managing Bodies, the following shall be elected The members of the Board of the General Meeting for the corresponding two-year period shall be elected from among full members. General Meeting for the corresponding two-year period, consisting of President, Vice-President, First Secretary and Second Secretary. Secretary and a Second Secretary. or, in his/her absence, to the Vice-Chairman to call the General Meetings. General Meetings.
Two - The work of the General Meetings shall be conducted by the Bureau elected under the terms of this article.
Article Seventeen
(Statutory Amendments)
One - The General Assemblies whose purpose is the modification of the Statutes may only take place, either in the first or in the second second call, with the presence of at least fifteen percent of the effective and fifteen per cent of the effective and casual members, the only ones who can vote. shall be allowed to vote.
Two - Decisions on such matters shall require the approval of approved by at least three quarters of the permanent and eventual members and eventual members present.
Article Eighteenth
(Elections)
A - The elections of the office holders of the Corporate Bodies of the Company (of the the Board of the General Meeting, the Executive Board, the Supervisory Board) and of coordinators of the Sections shall be carried out by the members, by simple majority, through secret ballot, at an Ordinary General Meeting. secret ballot, at an Ordinary General Assembly.
Two - The company bodies referred to in the previous subsection shall be elected for a period of two years.
Three - The members of the Board of the General Meeting, Executive Board and Supervisory Board may not be elected for more than two successive periods for the same position, for a maximum total of two two successive mandates.
Four - In elections under the provisions of paragraph one of this article, the members may vote by electronic means, under terms to be defined in to be defined in the Electoral Regulations.
Article Nineteen
(Dissolution of the Portuguese Society of Ophthalmology)
In addition to the other cases envisaged by law, the Company the Company shall be dissolved by resolution of the General specially convened for this purpose and with the favourable vote of three the favourable vote of three quarters of all members.
THIRD CHAPTER
The Sections of the Portuguese Society of Ophthalmology
Article Twenty
(Specialised Sections)
One - Members of the Portuguese Society of Ophthalmology may organize study groups that will constitute Specialized Sections Specialized Sections, each one devoted to an important of Ophthalmology or area of work relevant to the to the aims of the Society
Two - Each Section shall have a Co-ordinator elected by the General Assembly General Assembly. The Coordinator shall be an effective member, maintaining the representation by region of the country (North, Centre and South) in the total number of Section Co-ordinators. The duration of his term of office will be for the two-year period for which he was elected.
Article Twenty One
(Private designation)
Each of the Sections must have a particular designation and should use as subtitle - "Section of the Portuguese Society of Ophthalmology". If you use a logo it should be associated with the emblem of the Portuguese Society of Ophthalmology.
Article Twenty-Second
(Constitution)
To form a Section, a proposal signed by at least ten signed by at least ten effective members, which should be sent to the Board of the Portuguese Society of Ophthalmology.
Article 23
(Approval)
The Board of the Portuguese Society of Ophthalmology may provisionally approve the constitution and the regulation of the Section in order for it to immediately in office, with definitive approval depending on ratification The definitive approval will depend on the ratification in the first General Assembly to be held, requiring a favourable vote of two thirds of the two thirds of the voting members present.
Article Twenty-Four
(Activity Plans and Reports)
The Section Coordinators shall submit to the Board of the Portuguese Society of Ophthalmology, thirty days after their election and their election and at the beginning of the second year of their mandate, the plan of their scientific activity. At the end of each year will present annual reports of the activities of the Sections.
FOURTH CHAPTER
Symbols
Article Twenty-Five
(Emblem)
The emblem of the Society is made up of a Disc of in the centre is a ship with the bow turned to the left left, with full sails and in the centre the Cross of Christ Christ; at the top of the central mast, and facing the prow an unfurled flag. Around it, the words Societas Ophthalmologica Lusitana.
Article Twenty-Six
(Flag)
The Society's flag is made of white silk cloth, rectangular in shape rectangular shape and having in the centre a reproduction of the emblem.
