Statute of the Fondazione Lombardia per l'Ambiente
Foundation established on may 22, 1986
Corporate body acknowledgment
Regione Lombardia, august 26, 1986
DPR n° 14/R/86



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Art.1 [ ^ ]
It is hereby established in Milan the foundation named Fondazione Lombardia per l’Ambiente (hencefort – the Foundation) no profit juridical entity of private law.
Art.2 [ ^ ]
In the context of the protection of the man-environment relationship in Lombardia, the foundation aims at studying topics related to the protection of the environment against pollution, with special attention paid to issues related to the production, use and disposal of chemical substances.
With the aim of enhancing and extending the cultural, technical and scientific knowledge acquired by the Seveso Special Office, created by the Regione Lombardia after the dramatic accident which caused a (TCDD) dioxin contamination over an area located in the Milan province, the foundation intends to promote, in the context of the Regione Lombardia, the systematic collection of data, information and knowledge on whatever polluting agents, on their composition, hazard features, effects on men, animals and the environment, on sampling, survey, decontamination and safety techniques, on sanitary investigations performed on subjects exposed to contamination, on environmental contaminations occurred and on any other related aspect.
The foundation will use these data, information and knowledge in order to set up an environmental database available to industries, institutions, associations and public and private institutions. In order to achieve its aims, the foundation can perform consulting actions in the abovementioned fields.
The foundation mainly focuses its research activity on sludge and solid, liquid and gaseous chemical substances emissions, updating its knowledge with the aim of representing a study, information and social promoting centre. Besides abovementioned initiatives, the Foundation promotes investigations on all topics related to the environment with particular attention paid to human health.
In order to promote environmental training initiatives, the Foundation plans the scheduling of courses, meetings, seminars and initiatives aimed at contributing to the creation of an updated environmental awareness and culture.
The Foundation will also be active in communication and publishing by promoting initiatives aimed at making studies, research, projects useful to a more complete awareness of environmental concerns and of human health by the community.
In order to pursue its statutory aims, the Foundation can sign agreements aimed at the acquisition and exchange of scientific, technical, economic, social, juridical or other information with Italian and foreign universities, all this related to its aims, participate in institutions, associations, be them Italian or international, with similar or complementary aims, and also perform all financial, movable estate and real estate operations which are necessary or useful to achieve its statutory aims.
Art.3 [ ^ ]
The are bodies of the foundation.
Art.4 [ ^ ]
The Board of Directors is made up of twelve members identified as follows: The Board of Directors is appointed by decree of the President of the Regione Lombardia Board.
The members of the Board of Directors, who can be re-appointed several times, have a 5 year office from the date of the act of appointing and anyway, according to the prorogatio regimen, until the takeover of successors.
The Secretary of the Board of Directors is appointed by the Board itself.
Art.5 [ ^ ]
The Board of Directors meets every two months in the headquarters of the Foundation or somewhere else, provided the place of meeting is in Lombardia. The Board of Directors meets whenever its President thinks it is necessary or when the majority of its members or the Account Auditors Board forwards written request.
The Board of Directors appoints its President and Vice President among its members.
The meetings of the Board of Directors are appointed by the President or by the Vice President in case the latter participates in place of the President, by means of a written notice clearly stating the place, date and time of meeting and also the agenda of the day to be sent to the Board members and to the Account Auditors Board by certified letter or by fax at least 10 days before the date of meeting.
In case of urgent communication, the members can be given communication by telegram or by fax at least three days before the date of meeting.
The meetings of the Board of Directors are valid in the presence of the majority of Board of Directors members and resolutions are taken by absolute majority among participating members’ vote. In case of equal votes, the vote of the meeting’s President prevails.
The meetings are presided by the President of the Board of Directors or, in case he is not available, by the Vicepresident of the same Board or, in case he’s not available as well, by the elderly Counsellor.
The meetings’ reports are written on a specific book which is stamped and signed in compliance with current laws. The meetings’ reports are signed by the President of the meeting and by the Secretary.
Art.6 [ ^ ]
At least four months before five years after the Board of Directors members’ appointing are over, the President of the Board of Directors must ask the institutions listed in art.4 to appoint the counsellors.
In case one Counsellor place is vacant, the President of the Board of Directors asks for his/her replacement to the Institution which appointed him/her; the newly appointed Counsellor, appointed by decree of the President of the Regione Lombardia Board, is in charge until the office of the counsellor he/she has replaced expires.
Art.7 [ ^ ]
The Board of Directors is given the widest power to run the Foundation, with no limit of action. It can therefore:
  1. approve the Statute and related modifications or transformations;
  2. approve internal rules and related modifications;
  3. approve the budget and the balance sheet;
  4. approve plans and programmes of the Foundation, even in coherence with related regional programme acts;
  5. approve the alienation and the purchase of real estates, the acceptance of donations, legacies, general “liberalities” and of inheritances;
  6. approve the staff;
  7. appoint the Director;
  8. propose the liquidation of the Foundation and request the appointing of the Liquidator;
  9. deliberate with regard to the estate of the Foundation and to the use of its incomes;
  10. promote financial transactions with private and public credit banks included the opening and the closing of bank and postal current accounts;
  11. determine the credit bank to which entrust the treasury service.
The Board of Directors can delegate to the President and/or to one or more of each members part of its own powers and/or specific competences except for those stated in lett. a), b), c), d), e), f), g), h), i).
Delegates will inform the Board of Directors about their decisions.
Annual individual emoluments higher than those established in the related laws in force, cannot be given, as function allowance, to the members of the Board of Directors.
Art.8 [ ^ ]
The President of the Board of Directors is the legal representative, and represents officially the Foundation before any third parties and in trial and has the faculty of appointing lawyers and attorneys to represent the Foundation legally and defend it in trial before any courts and also to revoke them. The President convenes and presides over the Board of Directors and proposes the arguments to discuss and deliberate. In particular:
  1. proposes the budget and the balance sheet;
  2. proposes plans and programmes related to the institutional activities of the Foundation;
  3. proposes internal rules;
  4. proposes the staff;
  5. proposes the appointing of the Director;
  6. assures the application of the resolutions of the Board of Directors;
  7. controls the patrimony administration of the Foundation.
The President, in case of urgencies, can adopt resolutions and perform acts included in the duties of the Board of Directors then submitting all documents to the Board of Directors in its first meeting for approval and ratification. The Vice-President of the Board of Directors can also officially represent the Foundation before any third parties and also in trial. He can, with no commission, substitute the President in case the latter is absent or hindered from participating.
Before third parties, the signature of the Vice-President is full prove of the absence or impediment of the President.
Moreover, the Foundation can be represented before third parties also by the Counsellors to which the Board of Directors has given commission of parts of its own powers.
Art.9 [ ^ ]
The Director is appointed by the Board of Directors, on proposal of the President, among persons with the requisites indicated by the Board of Directors itself in relation with the specification of the role and in coherence with the aim of the Foundation.
The contents of the labour agreement of the Director are established by the Board of Directors. In any case the contract concludes with the renewal of the Board of Directors and the appointing of a new Director. The Director assures and controls the carry out of ordinary administration according to the indications established by the Board of Directors and by the President. On request of the President, the Director partecipates, voteless, to the meetings of the Board of Directors.
Art.10 [ ^ ]
The Account Auditors Board is composed of three Operating Auditors and two Deputy Auditors; two among the Operating Auditors and one of the Deputy Auditors are appointed by the Regione Lombardia Board. The third Operating Auditor and the second Deputy Auditor are appointed by other institutions listed in art.4 in compliance with a decision adopted by majority.
The Account Auditors are in charge for three years and can be appointed again only once.
The members of the Account Auditors Board whose charge has expired can remain in charge until, following appointing by the proper institutions allowed to do it, they are confirmed or their successors are appointed.
The President of the Board of Directors, in case one of the account auditors’ place is vacant, demands for its replacement to the administration or administrations which once appointed the vacant auditor; the newly appointed auditor is in charge until time of office of the previous auditor expires.
The President of the Account Auditors Board is elected by majority by its members. The Account Auditors Board and its single members who have replaced vacant auditors are appointed by Decree of the President of the Regione Lombardia Board.
Art.11 [ ^ ]
The Account Auditors Board controls the Foundation management and vigilates on its compliance to the law and to this statute; it assesses the proper management of bookkeeping; it assesses balances conformity to account books and account entries, it assesses the compliance to regulations established for the assessment of the patrimony and writes the account report on the basis of results of final account.
The account auditors can participate, voteless, to the meetings of the Board of Directors.
Art.12 [ ^ ]
The fiscal year of the institution begins on jan 1st and ends on dec 31st each year.
The budget of each fiscal year must be approved by the Board of Directors within dec 31st each year.
The final balance of each fiscal year, completed by the report of the Account Auditors Board, must be approved by the Board of Directors within four months after the closing of the fiscal year.
Art.13 [ ^ ]
The patrimony of the Foundation is composed as follows:
The patrimony and its capital income are totally assigned to support the institutional aims of the Foundation, thus excluding any other possible destination of use.
Art.14 [ ^ ]
Incomes of the Foundation are composed by:
Incomes of the Foundation must be entirely destined to the achievement of its statutory aims.
The treasury service is performed by a Credit institution.
Art.15 [ ^ ]
The Foundation extinguishes in case its statutory aims expire or are impossible to attain due to a lack of funds or other reasons.
The net patrimony resulting from liquidation must be given to other entities with statutory aims similar to those of the Foundation, except for specific different dispositions established by the Board of Directors at the moment of application to the competent Authority on the appointing of the Liquidator.
Art.16 [ ^ ]
As for what not expressly stated in this statute, current law dispositions established by the Italian civil code for registered foundations are valid.

Statute modified by the Board of Directors of the Foundation on june 26, 2003 and ratified by resolution of the Regione Lombardia Council no. 12371 on July 24, 2003.