Chapter III: Volunteering regulations

Art.9 - Volunteers and volunteer activity

1. 1. Volunteers are natural persons who share the aims of the Association and who, by free choice, lend their business through it in a personal, spontaneous, and free, non-profit, not even indirect and exclusively for solidarity purposes.
2. The Association must register the volunteers, associated or non-associated, who carry out their activities on a non-occasional basis in a special register.
3. The Association must also ensure its volunteers against accidents and diseases related to the performance of volunteering, as well as for civil liability towards third parties.
4. The volunteer's activity cannot be paid in any way even by the beneficiary. The volunteer can be reimbursed for the costs actually incurred and analytically documented for the activity performed, subject to authorization and within the limits established by the Board.

Art.10 - Volunteers and paid people

1. The quality of volunteer is incompatible with any form of the subordinate or self-employed employment relationship and with any other paid employment relationship with the body of which the volunteer is associated or through which he carries out his voluntary activity.
2. The Association carries out its activities of general interest by making use mainly of the voluntary activity of its members or of the people belonging to the associated bodies.
3. The Association may hire employees, or make use of self-employment or other services, including its members, only when this is necessary for the purpose of carrying out the activity of general interest and the pursuit of the purposes. In any case, the number of workers employed in the activity cannot exceed 50% (fifty percent) of the number of volunteers or 5% (five percent) of the number of associates.