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The Board of Administrators is in charge of general management of the SDA. It currently includes the following representatives: the President (John Monks, ETUC General Secretary), the Vice President (Reiner Hoffmann, ETUC Deputy General Secretary), and the SDA Managing Director (Claudio Stanzani) who also acts as Treasurer and Secretary. The administrators act jointly and are elected by the General Assembly every four years. The Board has the following responsibilities: - it manages the affairs of the Agency; - it appoints the members of the Executive Committee; - it defines internal procedures; - it drafts the Agency’s annual budget and accounts. Board’s decisions are taken by a simple majority voting. The General Assembly consists of all the full members of the SDA and it is chaired by the SDA’s President. Associate members may also attend General Assembly meetings, but only with a consultative role. The General Assembly has competence over the following issues: any modification of the statute; appointment and removal of the administrators; approval of the Agency’s draft annual budget and accounts; voluntary dissolution of the Agency; exclusion of member(s); approval of the internal procedures; transformation of the Agency into a Société à finalité sociale. The General Assembly meets at least once a year and whenever the Board of Directors or 1/5 of the SDA members ask for its convocation.

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