[Europe] Resurrect legal entity

[Dirk Frigne]

Hi Luis,
Hi Codrina,

The entity registered in Brussels is a non-for-profit organisation. It 
uses the legal structure of a bv. This is one of the general structures 
left after a legal organisation of the different legal structures existing.

I've send the decision of the board meeting of Feb 2022 to dismantle the 
organisation ro the Belgium court, but this decision is not accepted as 
I was not able to provide original signatures.

The alternative are e-signatures, but the chain to complete this process 
never completed.

Maybe a solution could be that we install new board members, whoa are 
able to put a e-signature.
If we publish the list with new board members, we can or re-initiate the 
current organisation with the new board members.

For the moment I also cancelled the bank accounts, as there where costs 
involved in holding these accounts, and there was no income.

Dirk




On 20/03/2023 09:28, Luí s Moreira de Sousa wrote:
> Hi Codrina,
> 
> I welcome this initiative,  hereby raise my hand to take part, within my limited availability.
> 
> Is the legal entity registered in Brussels fully closed? Regarding the new legal entity, what form would it take? Non-for-profit? Foundation? The important thing is to fit it within a tax-free framework.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> --
> Luís
> 
> 
> Sent with Proton Mail secure email.
> 
> ------- Original Message -------
> On Friday, March 17th, 2023 at 3:26 PM, Codrina Maria Ilie <codrina at geo-spatial.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>> Hi, all,
>>
>> In the last past months, I’ve been interacting both with ESA and the European Commission with
>> various occasions and it has become obvious to me that there is tangible interest from both to
>> formally connect to OSGeo, through a European entity. At the beginning of the year, I’ve approached
>> the board of the OSGeo EU to inquiry of the legal status of the initial NGO. Because the chain of
>> signatures to terminate was never completed, the Belgian NGO is dormant. However, given that this is
>> an action initiated in August 2022 and still not done, I believe at this point that it is wiser to
>> find volunteers that are willing to take the challenge to establish and to run a legal entity for
>> OSGeo Europe Local Chapter. The intro, missions and objectives written in the OSGeo Europe wiki page
>> make perfect sense to me https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Europe, we just need to have a more flexible
>> and responsive structure.
>>
>> To make everyone’s life easier, it is highly advisable that this NGO be established in an EU and ESA
>> member country.
>>
>> So, please share your thoughts on this in the following days/week. There is a time constrain because
>> the European Commission is keen in having a formal connection to OSGeo Europe to support also
>> financially both the FOSS4G 2023 in Kosovo, as well as FOSS4G Europe 2024.
>>
>>
>> Cheers from Bucharest,
>> Codrina
>>
>> P.S. 1 All that being said, I’d like to share my - together with the geo-spatial.org people -
>> availability to take on the legal formation of the OSGeo Europe Local Chapter in Romania.
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