Slovak Medical Association, Bratislava, Cukrová 3, 813 22

Contribution Order

Of the Slovak Medical Association (SkMA)

Article I

Registration fees, basic annual membership contributions and

advantageous rates to pay them

  1. Registration fee
  1. Regular members (physical persons) of the organisational units and collective members – also due to renewing of membership………………………………..100,- SKK
  2. Collective members (legal persons)……………………………………………..2,000,- SKK
  3. Affiliated members (legal persons)………………………………………………2,000,- SKK
  1. Basic annual membership contribution(except members of the Slovak Society of Nurses and Midwives, Slovak Society of Laboratory Technicians and Assistants in Health Care)
  1. Regular members (physical persons)

The basic annual membership contribution of the individual members shall consist of:

  • fixed contribution for work of SkMA 300,- SKK

and

  • contributions for the activities of the professional societies (PS) and physicians’ guilds (PG) or pharmacists’ guilds (PhG), in which they are members, otherwise in one organisational unit and one PG or PhG, and the amount of which for a calendar year shall be specified by a respective committee at least (for one membership) in the amount of 50,- SKK
  • contributions for work of the section of a professional society in which they are members, at least 30,- SKK.
  1. Collective members (legal persons)

For the membership of collective members, the method to specify the basic annual membership contributions shall be the same as a procedure stated in Article I letter B, item 1 of the Contribution Order of SkMA.

  1. Affiliated members (legal persons)

The annual membership contribution of the affiliated members and method of payment shall be specified individually, in an agreement concluded at their admission, otherwise it shall amount at least to 5,000,- SKK.

  1. Advantageous rates to pay the basic contribution
  1. Honorary members of SkMA and honorary members of the former Czechoslovak Medical Association of J. E. Purkyně shall not pay an annual membership contribution.
  2. Honorary members of a professional society shall not pay a part of the basic annual membership contribution for the membership in the professional society, which has proposed a honour for them.
  3. The basic annual membership contribution of non-working pensioners shall consist of:
  4. fixed contribution for work of SkMA150,- SKK

and

  • contributions for the activities of professional societies (PS), physicians’ guilds or pharmacists’ guilds (PG / PhG) and section of the professional societies where there are members; the amount shall be specified by the respective committees.
  1. The students preparing for medical or other health care jobs shall pay the annual contributions in the amount of 50,- SKK, if they present at admission to SkMA – together with a membership application – a document proving attendance of school. Such an advantage shall be valid only until the end of a calendar year in which they complete the studies.

Article II

Additional membership contributions

Committee of a respective professional society, section or guild may, in the case of lack of financial resources for their activities (issuing the journal or pay of for a collective membership in an international non-governmental organisation), decide to collect additional membership contributions.

A decision on the amount of additional membership contributions shall be communicated to membership and the Secretariat of SkMA by a written notice, and the Secretariat shall issue a variable symbol for that purpose and ensure registration of the received payments.

Article III

General provisions

  1. This contributions Order shall not relate to the Slovak Society of Nurses and Midwives, Slovak Society of Laboratory technicians and Assistants in Health Care and their professional sections.
  2. This Contribution Order was approved at the Extraordinary Correspondence Meeting of SkMA on 6 November 2006 and should come into force on 1 January 2007.

Bratislava, 2006

Prof. MUDr. Peter Krištúfek, CSc.

President of SkMA