Article 1. – Legal Capacity, Management and Duration

1. The Association, named "Association of Federations and Associations of Businesswomen of the Mediterranean", from hereon referred to as AFAEMME, is a coordinator of non-profit matters, with its legal capacity, constituted for an indefinite period, protected with the aid of article 22 of the Spanish Constitution and the Organic Law 1/2002, of 22^nd March, regulator of Association Law, together with the norms that complement these Statutes.

2. For the fulfillment of its objectives, the Association has its own and complete legal identity and capacity and therefore may possess, record or transfer assets and exercise all types of functions and contracts, exercise rights and actions or exhibit the collective representation to all private and public organisms, Official Chambers, Confederations, Federations, Unions and Associations of professional circles superior to its own, Professional Colleges and Companies or entities of whichever nature.

3. The organization, function and legal regime of AFAEMME are in line with democratic principles.

Article 2. – Duration

The duration of AFAEMME is indefinite.

Article 3. – Address and Territory

AFAEMME resides in C/. Muntaner 340, 1º 1ª, 08021 Barcelona, Spain. It will be able, with the agreement of the General Assembly, to changes its offices.

Equally, it will be able, with the agreement of the Joint Directive, to open, change or close its offices or delegations in whichever place that, for the obtainment of its objectives, AFAEMME considers convenient.

The working area of AFAEMME is that of those countries, autonomous communities or regional areas that form a politically determined and differentiated territory of the whole of the Mediterranean Basin. Also included are those Associations or Entities of Businesswomen of a non-profit nature, connected with the work and activities of AFAEMME.

Article 4. – Official Languages

The official languages of AFAEMME are Spanish and English.

Article 5. – Objectives

The ultimate objective of AFAEMME is to reunite the Associations and Federations of Businesswomen and Female Executives, established in the Mediterranean Basin and to represent its Associations and Federations, with the desire to promote and coordinate the activities in endeavor of their common objectives, tending to:

1. Contribute to the cultural development of Businesswomen and women in general, and aid its complete formation, remaining conscious of its responsibilities of obtaining a large number of women who are in a position to carry out, wholly, the role incumbent on them.

2. Promote equality at work and improve the conditions for women in their socio-economic, technical and professional lives, eliminating all discrimination.

3. Promote the development of relations among Mediterranean businesswomen, to maintain a permanent closeness among them and specifically within the frame of International Treaties and those countries, which belong to the Associations and Federations of AFAEMME.

4. Coordinate and unite the individual efforts of the distinct and dispersed Associations and Federations of Mediterranean Basin businesswomen, which are connected to advancement and progress, promoting common activities and projects which multiply the day-to-day activities and specific tasks, overcoming isolation and strengthening solidarity.

5. Promote, to the Associations and Federations, opportunities that allow them training and capacity in leadership, and support those already in such a position so that they may be able to collaborate, with effectiveness, in the distinct activities of society.

6. Exercise influence on public opinion, through work, campaigns and presentations to the authorities, with the objective of perfecting the legal, social and professional conditions of women.

7. International cooperation with development, directed at the integration of the principles of equal opportunities of men and women.

Article 6. - Activities

For the fulfillment of the objectives outlined in Article 5, AFAEMME will develop the following activities:

1. Aid the creation of structures which widen the role of women in development, by way of improving their life condition and the offer of means with which to participate wholly in the activities of production and community development, removing those obstacles which make their complete economic, political and social integration difficult.

2. Increase investigations, which deepen the socio-professional profile of businesswomen and female executives in their professional career, for more effective solutions to their problems.

These said investigations, moreover, must make available the ratability of female business activity for the creation of new employment.

3. The carrying out of action plans that promote the professional and career expansion of women, that favour the orientation of training towards better preparation in business and commercial techniques, as well as new productive activities.

4. Support the work of members of the Associations and Federations, via the establishment of services of common or specific interests, which they require to complete their tasks in the best condition.

5. Push for the creation of new Association and Federations and their integration into AFAEMME, providing them with unity and solidarity to intensify, at the same time, relations with Associations not federated, finding for them meeting points and paths of common action in terms of specific action in terms of specific objectives, which coincide with those of the Association.

6. Support all those actions and programmes, which from the world of public and private institutions, collaborate with the complete incorporation of women in society.

7. Represent and manage, in general and for the common interests trusted to the Associations and Federations of AFAEMME, to representative levels of management or decision-making on socio-economic and cultural issues.

8. Establish, maintain and protect relations with international bodies.

9. Favour collective negotiation among members, as well as advise in social dialogue and institutional participation.

10. Hold, among all or some of its members, congresses, seminars, round table meeting, specific seminars and promotional campaigns related to economic, social or other themes.

11. Push for agreements and treaties, which serve the purpose of the Association.

12. Facilitate reciprocal use of services to its members, which offer each and every one of them, access to all information, which is useful for the carrying out of the work of AFAEMME.

13. Whatever else is related to the work and objectives of AFAEMME.