THE GENERAL QUESTIONNAIRE
 
 
CONTENT: I. General Information II.- Structure and Organization III.- Technological and Bibliographical Support IV.- Members V.- Activities and Institutional and Academic Programs VI.- Strengths and Weaknesses VII.- Suggestions and Recommendations
 
PLEASE ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
                          


I. INFORMACIÓN GENERAL


1.- Is there a an AIDA National Section established in your country, according to local laws, rules, and regulations?  In case there is, please inform the exact name assigned to your National Section.
 
 
 
 
 
                                                 
 2.- Does your National Section have approved statutes?  In case there are, when were they approved and when was, if any, the last reform enacted?
 
 
 
 
 
 
3.- Which is your National Section’s e-mail and that of its President?
 
 
 
 
 

4. Does your country have an association specializing in Insurance Law, different to your AIDA National Section?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
II. STRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION
 
 
1.- Please schematically inform, which is the institutional and administrative structure of your National Section: General Assembly; Board of Director; Honorary President; President; Vice-President (s); General Secretary; Administrative Director; Certified Public Accountant; Treasurer;  general staff (secretaries, etc).
 
 
 
 
 
 
2.- Point out the number of members (principal and substitutes), which make up its Directors of your National Section; and how often they meet.
 
 
 
 
 

3.- Which is the statutory time period for the members of the Board of Directors, its President, and any other director of your National Section?  Is reelection foreseen in the statutes?
 
 
 
 
 
 
4. Does your National Section have local or regional chapters?  If this is the case, please let us know the existing relationship and if they achieve their goals and objectives.
 
 
 
 
 
 
5.-Does your National Section have headquarters of its own?  Please explain your answer?
 
 
 
 
 

6.- Do you consider that your National Section has an adequate structure, why?
 
 
 
 


 
III. TECHNOLOGICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SUPPORT

 
1.- Does your National Section have its own website.  Which is the link?.
 
 
 
 

 
2.- If your National Section does not have a homepage, please let us know why.  If it and/or its President does not have an e-mail address, please explain why. 
 
 
 


 
3. Does your National Section have a Library specializing in Insurance Law?. If so, please point out how many references belong directly to your National Section.
 
 
 


 
4. What technological platform or search browser does your Specialized Library  use?
 
 
 
 
 
 

IV. MEMBERS
 
 
1.- How many active members make up your National Section?  Please classify this information in two general groups: persons and corporations.
 
 
 
 
  
 
2. Is the number of members that which you and the National Section’s directors wish to have is the future, or would you prefer to have a different one?
 
 
 
 
 
 
3.- Does your National Section have a strategic plan to obtain new member?  Explain your answer.
 
 
 
 
  

4.- Is there an annual subscription fee that your National Section’s members have to pay?  Is there any difference for personas and corporations
 
 
 
 
 
 
5. What has been the number and behavior of members for the past five years?  Please explain your answer.
 
 
 
 
 
 
6- What are the minimum requirements to become a member of your National Section?
 
 
 
 
 

7.- Does your Section have an updated list of members, which could be provided to AIDA’s Presidency and General Secretariat (name, phone number, address, e-mail, fax)?
 

 
 
 

 
V. ACTIVITIES AND INSTITUTIONAL AND ACADEMIC PROGRAMS
 
 
1.- Briefly point out the activities and academic programs that your Section usually carries out and has developed the past five years.
 
 
 
 
 
 
2. Briefly explain what plans does your Section plan to carry out in the next three years.
 
 
 
 
 
 
3. Has your National Section hosted congresses; seminars; forums; colloquiums, or any other academic event. If this is the case, please detail the subjects and topics that have been developed in the past five years.
 
 
 
 
 
 
4.- Does your National Section count with a magazine, bulletin, or other type of information tool for its members  If this is the case, with what periodicity is it published?
 
 
 
 
 
 
5.- Has your Section published essays, works and/or  books on Insurance Law, whose authors are it members?  Please explain your answer.
 
 
 
 
 

6. Does your National Section, through its members, participate in any of AIDA’s Working Parties?  Please explain your answer.
 
 
 
 
 

7.- Does your Section timely answer the questionnaires sent by AIDA directors and Working Parties. If this is not the case, please explain your answer. Let us know if your Section provides information for AIDA’s information tools (i.e. AIDA-MAIL).
 
 
 
 
 

8.- Does your National Section have fluid and constructive relations with your country’s judicial power; with insurers and reinsurers; with insurer syndicates; and with governmental control agencies? If this is the case, please let us know what type of relationship exists with it/them.
 
 
 
 

 
9- Does your Section, directly or through its members, develop some type of relation with Arbitration and Dispute Resolution methods  for insurance and reinsurance contracts?
 
 
 
 
 
 

VI. STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES
 
 
1.- Schematically determine which, in your opinion and that of other directors, are your National Section’s strengths and weaknesses.
 
 
 
 
 
 
2.- Are the national academic community; judges; lawyers; etc, interested in Insurance Law.  Explain your answer.
 
 
 
 
 
 
3. Do you and other directors consider that your National Section is known by Universities; judges; the insurance and reinsurance markets, and, in general, by those interested in Insurance Law?
 
 
 
 
 

4.- Do you and other directors believe that new measures and strategies could strengthen your Section’s academic and scientific activities? If so, please explain your answer. 
 
 
 
 


 
VII. SUGGESTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
 
 
1.- Briefly let us know all constructive suggestions and recommendations that you and your Section’s directors consider pertinent, so that AIDA International can provide you more support in order to strengthen your great institutional and academic mission.
 
For this purpose, please bear in mind AIDA’s Work Plan, approved by the Presidential Council on 2003 (Rio de Janeiro), sent to all National Sections and published at AIDA’s homepage. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2.- Would your National Section want to have closer and more permanent contact with AIDA?  If so, let us know what the Association can do to achieve this goal.
 
 
 
 
 
 
3.- Does your Section promptly receive AIDA information (i.e. Presidential Communications; General Secretariat’s letters; questionnaires; congress and meetings invitations, etc? If not, why do you think this is happening?
 
 
 
 
 
 
4.- Do you, your National Section’s directors and members frequently visit AIDA’s website (www.aida.org.uk).  If this is the case, do you have any comment of suggestion to make it better, or to improve its services?
 
 
 


            
          THANK YOUR FOR ANSWERING THIS QUESTIONNAIRE