By-laws of the Chinese Taipei APEC Engineer Monitoring Committee
Approved and revised by the 11th Committee Meeting
held on 4 January 2008
Article 1 Under authorization of the Central Government Agency in charge of the professional engineers (hereinafter referred to as the Government), the Chinese Institute of Engineers (hereinafter referred to as the CIE) has organized and established the Chinese Taipei APEC Engineer Monitoring Committee (hereinafter referred to as the Committee), to act as a sole official representative of Chinese Taipei Economy in charge of all matters relating to APEC Engineer.
Article 2 The purposes for establishment of the Committee are to develop and maintain register of local APEC Engineers; and to promote mutual recognition of APEC Engineers among the member economies.
Article 3 The major responsibilities of the Committee as commissioned shall be:
(1) To conduct local APEC Engineers qualification recognition under the authorization of APEC Engineers Coordinating Committee;
(2) To collaborate closely with APEC Engineer Coordinating Committee in managing matters relating to APEC Engineers, and to engage in the operations of the Coordinating Committee, sponsor, co-sponsor and participate meetings or seminars related.
(3) To register, issue, renew, audit and control APEC Engineer Registry of local engineers after recognition of their qualification.
(4) To assist the Government in expediting sign of bilateral or multi-lateral agreements relating to mutual recognition of APEC Engineers.
(5) To register and conduct the practice of foreign APEC Engineers recognized in other economies, according to bilateral or multilateral agreements signed.
(6) To maintain contacts with APEC Engineer Monitoring Committees of other economies and exchange with them the information and materials related to APEC Engineers.
(7) To handle any other business related to APEC Engineers.
Article 4 The office of the Committee shall be located in the office of the CIE. However, the Committee may establish its office in other location, if required for its operations.
Article 5 The operations of the Committee shall be financed from the following sources:
(1) Annual subsidies from the Government;
(2) Donations from private sectors;
(3) Fees and charges collectable through various operations and services.
Article 6 Administration, accounting and financial related operation of the Committee shall be independent from the CIE and shall be subject to yearly joint auditing by Government and private sectors, if they donated. The Committee shall pay to the CIE administrative charges as reasonably determined between the CIE and the Committee.
Article 7 The Committee shall comprise of nine to twenty-one members and one Supervisor, who are appointed jointly by the Government and the CIE with qualifications and composition provided below. The Chairman and two Vice Chairmen shall be mutually elected by the Committee members:
(1) Senior professionals and scholars from related disciplines within the Economy of Chinese Taipei to comprise no less than two thirds of the total Committee membership, and one half of whom shall be professional engineers.
(2) Members of the related officials designated by the Government.
The position of the Supervisor will be filled by the representative assigned by the competent authority of the Central Government as defined in the Professional Engineers Act.
The tenure of the Chairman, Vice Chairmen and Supervisor is two (2) years, which may be subject to succeeding extension, as long as they are so elected.
Except for one half of the first term of the Committee members whose tenure shall be two (2) years, the tenure of all other Committee members shall be four (4) years, and subject to succeeding extension as long as they are so appointed.
The tenure of Committee members appointed by the Government in accordance with (2) of this Article shall be subject to the same tenure of their office at the Government. Committee members representing engineer associations (or federations) will be nominated by the respective national professional engineers association (or federations) involved.
The Chairman, Vice Chairmen, Supervisor and all other members of the Committee shall be unpaid for their service in the Committee.
Article 8 Regular meetings of the Committee shall be held at every three months with the Chairman convening and presiding at the meetings.
The Chairman may convene special meetings, when deemed necessary or requested by a minimum of two thirds of the Committee members.
Article 9 Resolutions of the Committee Meeting shall be effective with a minimum of one half of the Committee members present and voted affirmative by a minimum of two thirds of the attendance. However, for matters relating to the following important issues, the resolution shall be effective with a minimum of two thirds of the Committee members present and voted affirmative by a minimum of three quarters of the attendance:
(1) Amendment of the By-laws.
(2) Change of the purpose for establishment of the Committee or dissolution of the Committee.
Article 10 For assessment operation regarding to APEC Engineers, the Committee may establish an Assessment Panel, an Appeal Panel, an Audit Panel, and a Specialists Data Bank; Assessment Panels and Preliminary Review Teams for each of the APEC Engineer disciplines may be formed from time to time on a task-force basis. The regulations governing the establishment of such panels, teams as well as Specialist Data Bank shall be separately established by the Committee.
Article 11 The Committee shall have one Executive Secretary and one Deputy Executive Secretary, and may add one more Deputy Secretary as required. Any nomination and removal of the Executive Secretary or Deputy Executive Secretary shall be proposed by the Chairman and subject to the approval of the Committee. The Executive Secretary shall manage all of the Committee matters under the direction of the Chairman. To handle financing, accounting and general affairs of the Committee, an Administrative Team may be formed with its operation rules to be separately determined by the Committee.
Article 12 If required by operations, the Committee may hire full-time or part-time advisers, accountants and general staff as proposed by the Executive Secretary and approved by the Chairman.
Article 13 Should it be affected by international situation, or should the purposes for which the Committee was established no longer exist, the Committee may be dissolved subject to the approval of the CIE and the Government. The remaining properties of the Committee as a result of dissolution shall belong to CIE.
Article 14 Any amendments to these By-laws shall be subject to the adoption of the Committee and shall become effective upon approval by both CIE and Government.
