Statutes
Articles of Association for the Foundation Nærøyfjorden World Heritage Park.
In addition to these articles of association, the Foundations Act of 15.6.01, no. 59 applies. If there is a conflict between the articles of association and the law, the law prevails.
§ 1 Creation
The foundation is a general foundation with its seat in Aurland municipality. The foundation was established by Aurland municipality, Vik municipality, Voss municipality, Lærdal municipality and Sogn og Fjordane county municipality in a foundation meeting on 14 September 2007.
§ 2 Purpose
The foundation's purpose is to coordinate and harmonise the overall efforts in relation to the world heritage status of the Nærøyfjord area. The foundation's activities are regulated through a separate Park Agreement. The Park Agreement should be harmonised with a joint municipal sub-plan for the area.
Nærøyfjorden The World Heritage Park will be based on the local community having ownership of the landscape and cultural values and actively promoting international conservation values through local economic, cultural and identity development.
Nærøyfjorden The World Heritage Park will create meeting places and develop partnerships between a diverse range of initiatives that promote the park's purpose.
Nærøyfjorden The World Heritage Park shall work to develop the hosting role so as to promote value-creating communication between the local community and the surrounding world.
§ 3 Share capital
The foundation has a share capital of NOK 300,000.
§ 4 The board
The board is the upper body of the foundation.
Election period
Each member is elected for periods of 2 years at a time. In order to ensure overlap in the board, it must be decided for some of the board members that they retire in the same years, and for the other part that they retire in different years.
Composition
The foundation's board must have 9 members, with personal physicians as alternate members. The board must be composed as follows:
4 board members elected by the park meeting from villages, organizations and networks that are active partners in the park. These are up for election at the first ordinary park meeting after the foundation. At the foundation, these board members are chosen by the founders.
5 board members shall be elected by each of the founders nominating one member each, unless otherwise agreed between the founders.
The board itself has a leader and deputy leader.
The board can select and assign members for working committees.
The daily manager has the right to meet and speak on the board.
Tasks
The board has the following main tasks:
To take care of the responsibility for the operation of the foundation.
To take care of the tasks assigned to the board in the Foundations Act.
To prepare long-term business plans and budgets.
To prepare an approved annual report, annual accounts and to make an annual statement.
To choose any advice and selection.
To appoint daily managers, business managers or other employees and to determine pay and working conditions for them.
To deal with changes to the articles of association and questions about dissolution of the foundation (transformation).
To establish more detailed guidelines for operations and instructions for any subordinate bodies.
Board meeting
The following applies to board meetings:
The board makes decisions at the meeting, cf. nevertheless § 31 of the Foundation Act.
The board is convened by the chairman or when at least two board members demand it.
The board can make decisions when at least five members, including the chairman or deputy chairman, are present.
The board's decision is made by a general majority. In the event of a tie, what the chairman of the board has voted for applies, cf. nevertheless § 33, subsection 2 of the Foundation Act.
A meeting book from the board meeting must be kept. The meeting book must be signed by all the board members who participated in the board meeting.
§ 5 The park meeting
The park meeting is the annual general meeting of the foundation and consists of the founders and partners. Partners are regional administration (state, county, municipality), organizations and companies that have entered into a partnership agreement approved by the board. In accordance with section 36 of the Foundations Act, the park meeting has the authority to elect board members in accordance with section 4 of the articles of association. The park meeting can choose an election committee to prepare for the election and make proposals to board members.
In the park meeting, all partners have the right to attend, the right to speak and one vote. The founders nevertheless did not participate in the election of the board members who, in accordance with § 4, must be elected by the park meeting. Decisions are made with a general majority. A meeting book from the park meeting must be kept.
§ 6 The park agreement
The park agreement is the overall strategy and management document for the park. The park agreement is anchored in the Nature Conservation Act with a conservation plan, management plan and any joint municipal sub-plan. Extended geographical anchoring must be comprehensively laid down in the individual municipality's municipal plan and in the partnership agreement.
Furthermore, the park agreement contains a part of the agreement consisting of partnership agreements between the foundation and the individual partner.
Based on the park agreement, the board can set up thematic working groups and forums. The partners are obliged to undertake tasks with organization and participation in such working groups.
§ 7 Audit, accounting, control, etc
The auditor is elected by the founders.
The foundation has an accounting obligation according to the Accounting Act.
Annual accounts, annual report and audit report must be sent to the accounting register no later than one month after the annual accounts have been drawn up, cf. Accounting Act § 8-2.
§ 8 Daily rental
The day-to-day management of the foundation's operations must be handled by a day-to-day manager. This can sometimes be an in-house director, the chairman, business managers or hired persons.
The day-to-day manager is responsible for ensuring that the business is run in accordance with the articles of association and the board's decisions.
On a daily basis, he prepares matters for the board and ensures that minutes are taken from the board meeting.
The board laid down instructions for the day-to-day manager.
§ 9 External representation
The board represents the foundation externally. The board can give board members or day-to-day managers the right to represent the foundation externally in accordance with Section 38 of the Foundations Act.
§ 10 Transformation
1. Amendment of articles of association
The board adopted changes to the articles of association and thus has the competence to transform.
Before the board makes a decision, the changes must be discussed in the park meeting.
2. Dissolution etc
The board decided with a 2/3 majority to cancel, merge or split the foundation and thus has the competence to transform.
Before the board makes a decision, the changes must be discussed in the park meeting.
3. Approval by the Norwegian Foundations Authority
Amendments to the articles of association, dissolution or other transformation must be approved by the Foundation Supervisory Authority.