In accordance with the adopted Statute and the Statute on Changes and Amendments of the Statute the final text of the Statute of the Croatian Medical Association is proclaimed.

The final text of the Statute of the Croatian Medical Association comprises the Statute of the Croatian Medical Association adopted on December 13th 1997 and the Statute on Changes and Amendments of the Statute of Croatian Medical Association adopted on February 28th 1998.

No.: 27/2-98

In Zagreb, March 10, 1998

PRESIDENT OF THE CROATIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Professor Dubravko Orlić, M.D., Ph.D.

The Croatian Medical Association, founded on February 26, 1874, is an organisation of physicians who associate in order to promote the health protection of the citizens, professional and scientific practice, to foster medical ethics and to protect the interests of their profession.

HRVATSKI LIJEČNIČKI ZBOR
CROATIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.

HLZ - CMA.

The Croatian Medical Association (in further text the CMA) was registered as an organisation on July 15th, 1997, according to the attestation of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Croatia Reg.: UP/I-007-02/97-01/419, No.:515-02-02/9-97-1, of October 8th, 1997.
The CMA is a legal entity.
For its obligations, the CMA is responsible with its entire property, in accordance with the law. 

The CMA has a circular seal with 3 centimetres in diameter, with the drawing of the Ban Jelačić Square in Zagreb in the centre; the old Foundation Hospital is placed in the background, with the Jelačić monument in the centre. The seal reads: OSN. (i.e. founded) 1874 - at the bottom, and HRVATSKI LIJEČNIČKI ZBOR (Croatian Medical Association) - at the top.

The CMA operates on the territory of the Republic of Croatia.
CMA activities are being carried through its branches and professional societies.

Voting for all elected offices of the bodies of the CMA, its branches and professional societies is secret. 

The President of the CMA represents and acts on behalf of the CMA. 

The goals of the CMA are to promote professional and scientific work of physicians, improve health protection of the citizens and to protect interests of the profession and foster medical ethics.

1. Professional and scientific improvement;
2. Advancement of research and scientific work, in collaboration with the Croatian Academy of Medical Sciences and other scientific organisations, institutions and societies;
3. Advancement of medical education by means of collaboration with faculties of medicine and stomatology, and organisations of students of medicine and stomatology;
4. Fostering of medical ethics, respect of the code of ethics and medical deontology, elaboration of new ethical principles and respect of general moral and human principles;
5. Advancement of public health and protection of the environment:
•  improvements of public health culture by means of lectures, organisation of days and weeks dedicated to health care, publication of popular books and papers and disseminating information through public media;
• participation of the CMA members in administrative and executive bodies of the health service;
• providing opinions and expertise on bills and acts concerning the organisation of health protection and service, as well as those concerning other issues related to public health;
6. Publishing: “Liječnički vjesnik” (Medical Journal), “Liječničke novine” (Medical Gazette) and Acta Stomatologica Croatica; 
7. Encouragement of social, cultural, musical and sports activities of the CMA members;
8. Co-operation with other medical and related associations in the country and abroad;
9. Care for promotion of social and economic status of physicians and protection of the CMA members in all cases of unjust and unlawful treatment jeopardising their honour and material interests;
10. The CMA may, in accordance with relevant laws, undertake economic activities with a view of realising its goals.

Activities of the CMA are public and transparent.
The CMA is informing its members of its activities through the “Liječničke novine”, “Liječnički vjesnik”, “Hrvatski stomatološki vijesnik” and “Acta Stomatologica Croatica”, as well as, according to the needs, through other means of information.
The principle of transparency in the work of the CMA is being realised through public activities of the bodies of the CMA.
In exceptional cases, heads of respective CMA bodies may decide that various issues be dealt with internally. This can only be the case when honour of the profession or individual CMA member is at stake, when the issues bear specific interest for the CMA, or when various ethical issues are being discussed.
Activities of the CMA and its bodies are subject to critical overview and evaluation of members.

Article 11

CMA members are medical doctors and dentists (in further text: physicians) who live and work at home and abroad.
Individuals from other professions with a university degree who work in health institutions (state, county of private ones) and co-operate within professional societies or branches can also become CMA members. 

Article 12

CMA membership can be regular, associated and honorary. 
Only medical doctors and dentists can become regular members (members). 
Associated members are experts with university degree who are not physicians, and may be from the country or from abroad, who work in the health service or who are medical scientists. 
CMA members, other health service workers and scientists, and citizens of the Republic of Croatia or foreigners, who have particularly contributed to the activities of the CMA or to the advancement of medical science and profession can become honorary members of the CMA.

Article 13

Regular members are elected in branches that inform the General Council about it. 
The CMA acceptance procedure is being carried through by completing the application form. The Executive Council of respective branch considers the application form and decides on acceptance.
Associate members are elected by professional societies or by branches. The General Council of the CMA is being informed about it. 
Honorary members are elected by the CMA Assembly, following a motion put forward by the General Council and the Committee for Awards, based on elaborated proposal. 

Article 14

1. to adhere to principles of medical ethics and not to jeopardise honour of the CMA and medical profession by improper conduct;
2. to enhance and improve their knowledge;
3. to publish their on scientific and research work in publications of the CMA;
4. to elect CMA bodies;
5. to submit proposals and comments on the activities of the CMA and its bodies;
6. to lodge complaints and remarks in cases foreseen by this Statute;
7. regular members have the right to be elected in executive bodies of the CMA, its branches and professional societies;
8. to effectuate decisions of the CMA bodies;
9. to revere and protect interests of the CMA as a whole, as well as those of its individual members;
10. to pay membership fees regularly;
11. to pay diminished registration fees for professional and scientific conferences organised by the CMA, its branches or professional societies;
12. associated members have all rights and duties as those of regular members, with the exception that they cannot be elected for the offices of president, vice-president or  member of the Court of Honour of the CMA, its branches, professional societies and sections. 

Article 15

1. when a member wishes so or passes away;
2. when a member has not paid membership fee for a year and has ignored a letter of warning;
3. following the decision of a branch Assembly based on the ruling of its Court of Honour, due to the breaching of the Code of ethics or other stipulations of the Statute;
4. following the ruling of the Court of Honour of the CMA.

Article 16

The Assembly of the CMA decides on the amount of the annual membership fee.
Of the established membership fee from para 1 of this Article, CMA can dispose of 75%, while the branches dispose of 25%.
Modes of payment and distribution of membership fees and other financial issues are regulated by the Internal Act on Financial and Material Operations.

Organisational bodies of the CMA are branches, professional societies, sections and clubs.

1. Assembly;
2. President;
3. General Council;
4. Executive Council;
5. Commissions of the CMA;
6. Supervisory Council;
7. Court of Honour;
8. Expert Council.

Bodies of the branches of the CMA are:

1. Assembly;
2. President;
3. Executive Council;
4. Supervisory Council;
5. Court of Honour.

Bodies of the professional societies of the CMA are:

1. Assembly;
2. President;
3. Executive Council.

Within the CMA, the following branches have been established and are active:

1. Croatian Medical Association - Bjelovar branch;
2. Croatian Medical Association - Čakovec branch;
3. Croatian Medical Association - Dubrovnik branch;
4. Croatian Medical Association - Gospić branch;
5. Croatian Medical Association - Karlovac branch;
6. Croatian Medical Association - Koprivnica branch;
7. Croatian Medical Association - Krapinsko - Zagorska branch;
8. Croatian Medical Association - Kutina branch;
9. Croatian Medical Association - Knin branch;
10. Croatian Medical Association - Metković branch;
11. Croatian Medical Association - Našice branch;
12. Croatian Medical Association - Nova Gradiška branch;
13. Croatian Medical Association - Novska, Lipik, Pakrac, Daruvar branch;
14. Croatian Medical Association - Ogulin branch;
15. Croatian Medical Association - Osijek branch;
16. Croatian Medical Association - Požega branch;
17. Croatian Medical Association - Pula branch;
18. Croatian Medical Association - Rijeka branch;
19. Croatian Medical Association - Sisak branch;
20. Croatian Medical Association - Slavonski Brod branch;
21. Croatian Medical Association - Split branch;
22. Croatian Medical Association - Šibenik branch; 
23. Croatian Medical Association - Varaždin branch;
24. Croatian Medical Association - Vinkovci branch;
25. Croatian Medical Association - Virovitica branch;
26. Croatian Medical Association - Vukovar branch;
27. Croatian Medical Association - Zadar branch;
28. Croatian Medical Association - Zagreb branch.

Within the CMA, the following professional societies have been established and are active:

1. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Acupuncture;
2. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Allergology and Clinical Immunology;
3. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Alcoholism and Other Addictions;
4. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Alzheimer’s Disease and Similar Malfunctions;
5. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care;
6. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Medical Anthropology;
7. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Arteriosclerosis;
8. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Audiology and Phoniatrics;
9. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Biomechanics;
10. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Cytology and Cytodiagnostics;
11. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Dermatological Society;
12. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Digestive Surgery;
13. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases;
14. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Child Neurology;
15. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Child and Preventive Stomatology;
16. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Child Surgery;
17. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Child Orthopaedics;
18. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for ECG and Clinical Neurophysiology;
19. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Endonthic Society;
20. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Endocrinological Society;
21. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Endoscopy;
22. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Endoscopic Surgery;
23. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Epidemiological Society;
24. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation;
25. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Phlebological Society;
26. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Forensic Psychiatry;
27. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Gastroenterological Society;
28. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Gerontology;
29. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Gynaecology and Obstetrics;
30. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Gynaecological Urology;
31. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Medical Musical Society;
32. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Haematology and Transfusiology;
33. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Hypertension;
34. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Urgent Medicine;
35. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Hospicium;
36. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Human Genetics;
37. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society of Infectologists;
38. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Intensive Care;
39. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Internal Medicine;
40. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Public Health;
41. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Cardiological Society;
42. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Cardiothoracal Surgery and Anaesthesiology;
43. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Chemotherapy;
44. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Surgical Society;
45. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapy;
46. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Medical Painting Society;
47. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Maxillofacial and Plastic Surgery;
48. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Medical Informatics;
49. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Medical Terminology;
50. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Work Medicine;
51. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Tourism Medicine;
52. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Medical Expert Opinions;
53. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Microbiology and Parazitology;
54. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Nephrology, Transplantation and Dialysis;
55. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society of Neurobiologists;
56. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Neurosurgical Society;
57. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Neurological Society;
58. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Nuclear Medicine;
59. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Ophthalomological Society;
60. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Oncological Society;
61. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society of General Medicine;
62. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Oral Surgery;
63. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Oral Medicine and Pathology;
64. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for ORL and Cervicofacial Surgery;
65. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Orthodontic Society;
66. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Orthopaedics Society;
67. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Osteosynthesis;
68. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition;
69. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Pathology and Court Medicine;
70. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Haepatology and Nutrition;
71. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Paediatric Cardiology and Rheumatology;
72. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Paediatric Pulmology;
73. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Paediatrics Society;
74. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Penological Medicine;
75. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Perinatal Medicine;
76. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery;
77. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Naval, Underwater and Hyperbaric Medicine;
78. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Medical History;
79. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Nutrition Improvement;
80. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Preventive and Social Paediatrics;
81. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Suicide Prevention;
82. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Private Practitioners;
83. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Clinical Psychiatry;
84. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Psychosomatic Society 
85. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Psychotherapy;
86. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Pulmological Society;
87. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society of Radiologists;
88. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology;
89. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Rheumatological Society;
90. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Senological Society;
91. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Somnological Society;
92. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Stomatological Prosthetics;
93. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Stomatological Society;
94. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for School and University Medicine;
95. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Sports’ Medicine;
96. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Thalassotherapy;
97. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society of Traumathologists;
98. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology;
99. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Management and Administration in Health and 
Health Insurance Funds;
100. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Urological Society;
101. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Vascular Surgery;
102. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society of Vertebrologists;
103. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Society for Air Medicine;

Within the CMA, the following sections have been established and are active:

1. Croatian Medical Association – Section for Cytology and Immunocytochemistry;
2. Croatian Medical Association – Section for Neuropathology;
3. Croatian Medical Association – Section for Gynaecological and Perinatal Pathology;
4. Croatian Medical Association – Student Section.

Within the CMA, the following clubs have been established and are active:

1. Croatian Medical Association – Mountain Trekking Club;
2. Croatian Medical Association – Croatian Club of Retired Physicians.

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