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REGISTER ASSOCIATION – a legal form of organising citizens (→ association). Establishing a r.a. requires at least seven members – adult Polish citizens who have full public rights. The basis for functioning is set out in the statute containing: name, objectives and measures of the activity, data on the place of business, method of acquisition and loss of membership, rules for receiving remuneration by members of the r.a., rules for the selection of authorities, including internal supervision (mode of appointment/dismissal, competences, the manner of representation and the conditions determining the validity of the adopted resolutions), the rules for amending the statute and the rules regarding the dissolution. R.a. is subject to registration in the National Court Register. R.a. has legal personality. R.a. must obtain REGON and NIP numbers and keep current accounts, prepare annual financial statements for its activities and submit them to the appropriate tax office. In terms of compliance with the law and the statute the r.a. is supervised by the starost/president of the city. R.a. can create local organisational units, carry out paid public benefit activities and economic activity, from which profit should be allocated for the implementation of statutory objectives. R.a. can form unions of associations consisting of at least three r.a. or other legal entities (except for → foundations that cannot independently form a union of associations, but can be supporting members) (→non-governmental organisation; public benefit organisation) [ A. Bejma ].

Literature: E. Hadrowicz, Prawo o stowarzyszeniach. Komentarz, Warszawa 2016.