Consortium Agreement, general assembly quorum

November 19th, 2007 — fp7discussion

A Coordinator is worried to find himself in meetings of the General Assembly not reaching the 2/3 quorum of members (DESCA 6.2.3) and thus unable to deliberate validly, with all present parties incurring travel costs for nothing.
What about “a member that is neither present nor represented at the meeting becomes irrelevant for the quorum”?

Posted in Consortium Agreement, Project management, financial planning.

2 Responses to “Consortium Agreement, general assembly quorum”

  1. Annika Thies Says:
    November 23rd, 2007 at 5:56 pm

    As the Grant Agreement gives Beneficiaries the obligation to attend meetings, reaching a 2/3 quorum should normally be feasible.
    An option for you might be to lower the quorum to 50 %, but the danger is that decisions then are made by a minority (a 2/3-majority of those 50 % is all you need for a decision - and that’s 1/3 of your consortium)

  2. Paul Drath Says:
    November 30th, 2007 at 6:38 pm

    I guess the reference to the Grant Agreement is to II.3h “take part in meetings concerning the supervision, monitoring and evaluation of the project which are relevant to it”, so the reluctant attendess could claim the meeting is not relevant, and in any case the meetings would be those with the Commission, not just the consortium. But DESCA paragraph 6.2.1 says that any member of a consortium body (eg General Assembly) should be present or represented at any meeting, so eventually they could be accused of breach.

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