Section. 6 - Objective
1. Laboratorio DAGAD is a secular and unaligned voluntary organisation. Its associative structure  is based on the principles of democracy and cultural progress. It does not have any purpose of profit.
2. Laboratorio DAGAD commit itself to aims and objectives of knowledge, divulgation and promotion of architecture quality, in particular to the work and ideas of young architects and designers. Therefore its objectives are:
a) Creating and updating periodically a public archive in which the collection of projects of young architects and designers - no more than 40 years old - will be available. These projects must distinguish themselves for their quality and accuracy of the research and function involved. 
b) Disseminating projects and works selected in the fields of design and architecture in order to increasingly improve their circulation and to enhance the value of the contribution offered by young Italian architects and designers.
c) A more general cultural project of architecture and design whose premise is the awareness of the collective value brought to the environment and man's life by those disciplines. Moreover, this project is developed through the integration of the contribute given by young architects and designers.
d) Confronting at international level, in order to identify in the different local approaches those  conditions of high quality regarding the architectural project which could act as a stimulus for our culture and profession.
e) Sensitizing public and private customers to the production of projects of young designer an architects, in particular to the opportunities offered by open competitions and other forms of selection.

Section 7 - Activities
1. According to its own logistic and organisational possibilities, Laboratorio DAGAD in order to achieve its purposes will carry out the following activities:
a) knowing, analysing, and monitoring the Italian architectural and design production in order to identify young architects and designers which will be added to our archive.
b) Obtaining the documentation of projects and works, cataloguing and filing it so as to it will be easily accessible and usable by both the people of the organisation and the public.
c) Advertising, making known by all means considered suitable, the existence of the archive in order to promote its consultation by potentially interested subjects such as universities, research institutes, specialized publishers, private and public institutions, professionals, companies connected with architecture, construction, design, industrial production, and professionals' associations.     
d) Disseminating and promoting the knowledge of the catalogued works, as much in Italy as abroad, with publications, exhibitions, videos and other medias.
e) Organising meetings, conferences, seminars, courses whose contents are consistent with this statute  f) Supporting, promoting and stimulating the use of open competitions for the assignment of works related to architecture and design, paying particular attention to the participation of young architects and designers in these competitions. 

Section 8
1. Laboratorio DAGAD performs its activity mostly at national level. However, profit is excluded from the purposes of the organisation.
 

3. MEMBERS

Section 9 - Admission
1. Any person who agrees with the objectives of the organisation and can offer his positive contribute to the cultural progress and the dissemination of architecture, can be a member of Laboratorio DAGAD, particularly by young people.
2. Young architects and designer not over 40 years old who are selected and catalogued in the documentation centre's archive, automatically become members.
3. People who are at least 18 years old and pay for the subscription according to the amounts and terms yearly indicated by the Board of Directors, can be members of Laboratorio DAGAD,
4. The admission is formalised by the president after a written request of the applicant.

Section 10 - Rights
1. Laboratorio DAGAD's members have the right to elect the Board of Directors.
2. They have the right of information and check according to law an the Statute.
3. Laboratorio DAGAD's members can:
a) participate to the life of the organisation according to the rules indicated by this Statute and the regulations resulting from it.

b) demand Assembly summoning according to the terms indicated by this Statute.
c) make proposal to the directing organs, about the programmes of the organisation and in relation to the aims indicated by this Statute.

Section 11 - Obligations
1. Laboratorio DAGAD's members must:
a) carry out their activity for free in a personal and spontaneous way without any profit.
b) obey the rules of this Statute and the decision taken by the organs of the organisation.
c) act in a manner which will not cause any damage to immovable and movable properties as well a the organisation's image.
2. The behaviour towards other members and is moved by fairness, good faith, honesty, probity and moral rigour. 
3. May also be a member whoever carries out similar Laboratorio DAGAD's activities as long as they will not compete or clash with the organisation.
4. Whoever has a working relationship of any form with the organisation cannot be a member.

Section 12 - Exclusion
1. Membership terminates:
a) if a request of payment for the membership is unfulfilled.
b) because of the incompatibility with the obligations.
c) because of exclusion.
d) because of death.
Membership terminates if the subscription it is not paid within the term indicated by the assembly.
Membership terminates if a member is in the condition expressed in the above mentioned Section 11 par. 4
Membership terminates because of exclusion if a member violates this Statute and its result is an incompatibility of the  relationship with the organisation. 
2. If a member violates Section 12 par. 1, he must be informed and must have the possibility to defend himself. Members can appeal within one month from the notification. Measures expressed in Sec.12 par 1 are effective after the notification.
 

Section 13
1. This organisation is formed by the following organs :
- ASSEMBLY;
- BOARD OF DIRECTORS
- PRESIDENT
- SELECTION BOARD

Assembly
Section 14 - Composition
1. The assembly is formed by every member of Laboratorio DAGAD.
2. The assembly's chairman is the president.

Section 15 - Summoning
1. The assembly of members summons:
a) if it is requested by the president or the board of directors.
b) once a year within April 30 in order to vote the balance sheet and other obligations.

c) if it is requested by at least 1/10 ( one tenth ) of its members.
d) also for advisory, for periodical plans verification and on the occasion of important initiatives concerning organisational and associative development.
2. The assembly is convened by the president with a written communication including the agenda, which must be displayed at the headquarter at least 10 days before the date of the meeting.
3. Members who duly paid for their membership can participate.
4. The assembly's meetings may become public whenever subjects of general interest are in the agenda.
The president has the power to allow to speak people who are not members.

Art. 16 - Validity and functions of the assembly.
1. The first meeting is valid when half-plus-one of the voting members are gathered. It is not required for the second meeting a particular number of members.
It is required between the first and the second meeting an interval of at least one hour .
Proxy is admitted with the exception of Statute modifications and dissolution of the organisation.
2. At the first meeting, assembly elects a president and a secretary.
If needed it appoints at least three pool clerks for the vote with ballot-paper.
3. The assembly can perform the following actions:
a) approval of the balance sheet for the financial year closing on December 31st and the budget for the year to come.  
b) approval of the board of directors' report.
c) approval of the organisation's plans.
d) approval and modification of the organisation's general rule according to its associative nature.

e) election of the board of directors among the members of the organisation.
f) approval of the Statute modifications.
g) deliberating about any matter subjected for its approval.

Section 17 - Vote
1. The assembly deliberates with the majority of the member present.
2. The deliberation of dissolution is valid with the majority of 3/4 (three quarters) of the members.
3. The assembly deliberates with recorded vote.
Secret ballot is adopted when the assembly elects organisation's members or when the deliberation  involves a private person.

Section  18 - Minutes
1. Discussions and deliberations of the assembly are resumed in the minutes edited by the secretary and signed by the president.
2. Minutes are kept, under the president's responsibility, at the Laboratorio DAGAD headquarter.
3. Every member of Laboratorio DAGAD has the right to check the minutes.

Board of directors
Section 19 - Composition and duration
1. The board of directors members range from a minimum of 5 (five) to a maximum of 15 (fifteen). The assembly must determine its number before proceeding with the election.
2. The board of directors remain in office for 5 (five) years and its members are re-eligible.
3. The board of directors is gathered whenever the president deems it is opportune or it is requested by at least one third of its members.
Board of directors meetings are convened with the following methods:
a) "Ordinary" meeting: through a written notification which has to be sent at least 5 (five) days before the date determined.
b) "Urgent" meeting: trough a verbal notification (by telephone as well) at least 24 (twenty four) hours before
4. Minutes of the meetings are edited by the secretary and under the president's responsibility.

Section 20
1. Whenever the board of directors, because of vacancy, will have to proceed with the substitution of one or more members, its new members will be elected by the assembly.  
2. Vacancy of half plus one of the board of directors' members will lead to its cessation.
The cessation of the board of directors involve the cessation of the selection board as well.
In the case of cessation of the organisation's organs, the president will immediately convene the assembly in order to re-elect the same organs.

Section 21 - Functions
1. The functions of the board of directors are:
a) approving the draft and the report of the balance sheet for the year closing on December 31st and for the following year.
b) approving and modifying the amount of subscriptions and determine their payment terms, as well as other reasons which can determine the exclusion from this obligation.
c) identifying, approving and modifying the valuation criteria for the candidates which will be included in the organisation's archive, according to the contents and the spirit of this statute.
d) preparing, approving and modifying the evaluation file which it is an operative instrument relating to the preceding paragraph.
e) arranging the proposals which will be presented to the assembly in order to comply the preceding section 16.
f) executing the deliberations of the assembly.
g) adopting all the needed measures in order to manage the organisation.
h) signing contracts, conventions, agreements in order to achieve the organisation's objectives.
i) joining in organisations in order to achieve purposes and objectives of this statute.
j) complying to the measures indicated in the preceding section 12 (members exclusion)
k) hiring employees or other forms of employment according to the dispositions of this statute. 

l) deliberating about the use of proceeds resulting from the organisation's economic resources.
 

Section 22 - Validity of board of directors' meetings
2. Board of directors' meetings are valid with the participation of half plus one of its members.
3. Board of directors approves its deliberations with recorded vote. Secret ballot is adopted when the assembly elects organisation's members or when the deliberation  involves a private person.
4. Same rules of validity for the assembly apply for the board of directors.
5. Associative regulations indicate the advisory participation forms during the board of directors' meetings.

The president, the vice-president, the secretary and the treasurer.
Section 23 - Election
1. The board of directors, at the same time of its election by the assembly, or during the following meeting, nominates.
The President.
The Vice-president, who substitutes the president in the case of his absence or impediment.
The Secretary.
The Treasurer.

Section 24 - President's functions
1. The president has Laboratorio DAGAD's proxy and he represents the organisation in court in order to protect its moral and material interests. He can nominate attorneys and prosecutors for active and passive disputes.
2. The president signs every contract on behalf of Laboratorio DAGAD and he collects, on the organisation's interest, money from third parties issuing a receipt of payment.
3. The president can delegate to the vice-president or another member of the board of directors some of his powers.

Section 25 - Treasure and secretary's functions
1. The functions of the treasurer and the secretary are determined by Laboratorio DAGAD's general rule.

The selection board
Section 26 - Composition, duration, functions and selection criteria
1. The selection board's members range from is a minimum of 5 (five) to a maximum of 9 (nine). Its duration is of 5 (five) years and its members are re-eligible.
Members of the selection board can be selected either inside and outside of the organisation and must be chosen among important people in the cultural and economic field. 
The appointment of the members made by the board of directors takes place after a nomination made by the assembly or the board of directors or after a self-nomination.
2. The selection board is led by the president of Laboratorio DAGAD who must be counted in the number of the members indicated in the preceding paragraph.
3. The selection board, with unquestionable decision, deliberates on the inclusion of architects and designers in the official Laboratorio DAGAD's archive.
Evaluations will be regulated by a specific document, the evaluation card, in which all the parameters of reference for the evaluation will be identified. The evaluation card will be drawn up and adopted by the board of directors.
The selection will have to be inspired to the following criteria:
1) The candidate must be no more than 40 years old at the time of the application.
2) The candidate must have created at least an architectural or design work.
3) The candidate's activity must be inspired to the criteria of professional propriety and the respect for the law and ethics.
4) The candidate must have carried out high quality projects and works according to the purchaser's requirements but also to the quality principles of the architectural or industrial product. These projects must take their cues from research and in-depth examination compared with technological aspects, formal and aesthetical, historical or any other, during their architectural or industrial production process. 
5) Projects, which have won architecture and design awards and contests, are more likely to be included in the archive. 

6) Projects cannot be excluded because of their architectural school of thought, their tendency to a particular style, their affiliation to any organisation related to the architecture field or any other feature which is discriminating towards the other candidates.
The board of selection draws up the minutes of its meetings. Laboratorio DAGAD's president communicates the board's deliberations to the person concerned.

Section 27
1. The regulation of the organisation determines the advisory participation forms of the board of selection.
 

5. ECONOMIC RESOURCES

Section 28
1. The economic resources of Laboratorio DAGAD are formed by:
a) movable and immovable properties.
b) contributions made by public and private organisations.
c) donations and legacies.
d) refunds derived from conventions.
e) incomes derived from commercial marginal activities.
f) public and private securities.
g) incomes, according to section 5 law 11/08/91 n.266, assigned to the organisation in order to achieve its objectives and purposes or specifically assigned to a project.
h) any other kind of income.

Section 29
1. Laboratorio DAGAD's properties are immovable, movable properties and registered movable properties.
2. immovable and registered movable properties can be owned by Laboratorio DAGAd and are registered in its name.
3. Movable properties owned by associates and third parties are delivered to the organisation under a bailment agreement.
4. Immovable and movable properties are listed in the inventory  and deposited at DAGAD's headquarter. Any organisation's member can consult the inventory. Consumer goods and those goods daily used in the organisation's activity are not included in this inventory.

Section 30
1. Member's contributions are formed by the annual subscription whose price is set by the board of directors.

Section 31
1. Free contributions and donations are accepted by the president who uses them according to the purposes of Laboratorio DAGAD's statute.
2. Legacies are accepted, with reservations, by the president who uses them according to the purposes of Laboratorio DAGAD's statute.

Section 32
1. Refunds of the costs for activities derived from conventions are accepted by the president.
2. The president decides about the use of these refunds according to convention agreement and the purposes of Laboratorio DAGAD's statute.
 

Section 33
1. Incomes derived from commercial and productive marginal activities are included in a specific line in the balance sheet.
2. The president decides about the use of these incomes according to the purposes of Laboratorio DAGAD's statute.

Section 34
1. In the case of dissolution, Laboratorio DAGAD's assets will be given to other subjects, giving priority to those who share similar purposes, according to the board of directors' guidelines.