Organisational bodies and rules of association

ELARD's supreme decision-making body is the General Assembly, which is formed by all members (active and associated members). Observer status can be given to non-members, in order to participate when needed. The association is administered by the Council, which is appointed for a two years term by the General Assembly. According to the Statutes, the Presidency of the association is being held by each active member for a two years period (rotating system).

Based on this, since 1999 the National LEADER Networks of Italy, France, Spain, Ireland and Greece have run ELARD respectively. Since January 2011, the Presidency of ELARD is being held by the Finnish LEADER Network (SYTY) .

On the 7th of May 2009, during ELARD's first General Assembly under its new legal status in Belgium the new Council of ELARD was formed as follows:

COUNTRY REPRESENTATIVE TELEPHONE E-mail
Finland Mr. Petri Rinne (President)

+358 (0)2 7381 761

petri.rinne@elard.eu
Greece Mr. Panagiotis PATRAS (Vice-President)

+30 2410 555 282

patras@ruralthessaly.gr

Portugal

Mrs. Regina Lopes

+351 217 819 230

regina.pinto@adices.pt

Czech Republic

Mrs. Jitka DOUBNEROVA

+42 0353 399 798

masif@seznam.cz

France

Mr. Marc BONNARD

+33 0544 302 339

leaderfrance@cg23.fr

Hungary

Dr. Pal HAJAS

+36 3071 809 12

euragro@yahoo.com

Ireland

Mr. Jack ROCHE

+353 5063 3833

duhallow@eircom.net

Italy

Mr. Giovanni ALESSANDRI

+39 0564 405 252

info@assogaltoscana.it

Latvia

Mr. Valdis KUDINS

+371 28811439

valdis@kudins.eu

Northern Ireland

Mr. Miceal McCOY

+44 0283 026 3177

micealmccoy@ireland.com

Scotland

Mrs. Patricia METHVEN

+44 147 987 535

patriciamethven@cairngorms.co.uk

Spain

Mrs. Maria MURCIANO

+34 911 289 748

redr@redr.es