Articles of Association

How the Association is run.

SCFCEA holds no commercial registration and charges no membership fees. Everything below is drawn from the Articles of Association adopted at the founding meeting on 30 December 2025 in Zurich.

Art. V

Bodies

General Assembly

The supreme authority. Every member carries a vote, exercised in person.

Committee

At least three people including the President, elected for renewable one-year terms. Founders may hold a permanent advisory seat.

Auditors

Not mandatory — appointed only if the membership chooses to, or the law requires it.

Art. VIII

Sponsorship & conflicts of interest

No fees, ever, by default. Resources are limited to voluntary member contributions toward basic meeting costs.
Sponsorship needs unanimity. Any sponsorship must benefit every member, stay non-intrusive, and introduce no conflict of interest — approved unanimously by the Committee and General Assembly.
Disclosure is proactive. Members raise conflicts of interest with the Committee themselves; PEP status is disclosed the same way and weighed in membership decisions.
Contact details are never for sale. No sponsorship may involve sharing or selling member or participant contact details without unanimous consent.

Art. XI

Confidentiality

Free use of what is said. No use of who said it.

All roundtables run under the Chatham House Rule. Anything discussed can inform your own practice — nothing can be attributed to a speaker, participant, or their employer outside the room without the Committee's explicit prior authorisation, and separately, the individual's own consent for anything raised bilaterally. Breaching this is grounds for review and expulsion.

Art. XII

Data protection

Handled under the Swiss Data Protection Act (DPA) and, where relevant, the EU GDPR. Vendor propositions may only be presented to members at the Committee's discretion, and only where they benefit the Association.

Art. X

Dissolution

Requires a two-thirds majority of the General Assembly. Any remaining assets pass to a non-profit with similar objectives — never to members personally.