In order to become a member of the Network the interested subject must:

 

1. be a Regional Authority (or other Local Authority of regional level) with Political decisional Organs recognized by its Member State;
   
2. possess a clear political will, shown in written form [i.e. a law, a resolution or declaration (or anything adequate and comparable) of the regional parliament and/or regional government and/or the responsible minister and/or any other political competent authority body]; as an alternative this will could be expressed by a decision of the government to join the Network recognising the principles contained in the "Charter of Florence";
3. inform beforehand the secretariat of the Network sending a letter/fax/email with the political will;
4. fill in, both in english and french, the adhesion paper and send it via ordinary mail to:

  

The Steering Committee will evaluate any formal candidature and will communicate the results of the adhesion process.

 

Possible reasons for a negative answer are:

• clear evidence of active pro-GM local policies;
• insufficient/wrong information about the institutional profile of the person that submitted the request of adhesion on behalf of the Regional/Local Authority.