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Confederate and Adherent Associations

The ETF is composed of organisations and associations that share and promote the ETF’s statutory aims and principles in their respective countries. They are divided into: Confederates and Adherents.

Confederate

The Taoist organisations of Europe with the following requisites, can acquire the qualification of "Confederate":

Have at least five (5) years of legal existence;

Have a physical address location;

Have statutes similar to the ETF Statute in purpose and goals.

Have at least three (3) Taoist initiates among their members;

Have a place of worship with a consecrated altar and a stable group of Taoist believers;

Conduct services, religious practice and community liturgy continuously in their temple or place of worship;

Promote and spread the Taoist religion with religious activities open to the public, at least once in a year.

Have stable cooperative relationships with other local religious confessions to enable them to know and recognize us as a religion and maintain interfaith dialogue aimed at peace and prosperity of peoples.

Participate in or organize at least once in a year, an interfaith seminar.

All activities must be documented by posting on the websites of the respective Associations.

Adherent

The other Taoist Associations, having the following requisites, can acquire the qualification of Adherent:

Have at least one (1) years of legal existence;

Have a physical address location;

Have statutes similar to the ETF Statute in purpose and goals.

Have at least one (1) Taoist initiate among their members.

The Adherents associations participate at the meetings of the European Taoist Assembly (ETA) but they are excluded from the European Religious Taoist Council (ERTC).

The "Adherents" associations can ask the Governing Council (GC) to have the status of "Confederate", having implemented and fulfilled the above requirements.

The Governing Council (GC), before deciding on the request, must verify that the applicant association meets the requirements of the confederate associations, pursuant to art. 3.2.

The change of qualification from "Adherent" to "Confederate" gives the right of eligibility to the institutional offices.

Following the admission of a new Confederate association, its president or legal representative will automatically become part of the European Religious Taoist Council (ERTC).