Private citizens and juridic persons that are not involved with public activities that are contrary to the objectives of this organization developed in these Statutes can associate themselves with this Association. The Autonomous Board of Directors will approve or reject applications; in this case, the applicants application will go before the State Board of Directors.

The State Board of Directors will approve or reject such applications, if the applicant does not have the Association implanted.

Private citizens and juridic persons that are not involved with public activities that are contrary to the objectives of these Statutes can collaborate with the Association, and may also apply to it as well.

The following are the rights of membership:

a.-To attend acts and activities of the Association.

b.-To participate in Autonomous General Assembly with voice and voting rights

c.-To be elected and to elect members of State Board of Directors and Autonomous Board of Directors.

d.-To elect delegates for the State General Assembly, following the rule of Article 15.

e.-To have a copy of the Statutes.

f.-To receive information about the progress of the Association.

g.-Members will not display any respected right distribution, for themselves, for any profit obtained by the Association.

The obligations of membership are:

a.-To collaborate as much as possible with the activities of the Association for its progress.

b.-To fulfill the established quota of members.

c.-To respect the present Statutes and adopted accords from the organs of the government of the Association.

Loss of membership will occur if:

a.-If one submits a written application.

b.-Those that manifest themselves contrary to the goals and objectives of the Association. In this case, the Board of Directors will judge the case, with an audience of interested parties, adopting a resolution, in the case of expulsion, that will be approved by a majority of the members of the Board of Directors. The Board also reserves the right to adopt other sanctions of lesser judgments than expulsion.

The decisions of the Board of Directors can be changed, with out prejudice from the previous trial, before the State Board of Directors within twenty (20) days of the time notice is given to the interested parties. The supposition of the member that occurs within his or her home Autonomous Community where there is not an established Association office, the competency of the previous paragraph will be referred to the State Board of Directives and the State General Assembly of the Association.

c.-The members that do not meet the quotas of membership after one (1) year may and/or will pay a required fee set by the Autonomous Board of Directors.

The rights of collaborators are:

a.-To attend acts and activities of the Association.

b.-To receive information about the progress of the Association.

c.-Collaborators will not display and respected right of distribution, for themselves, or for any profit obtained by the organization.

There are obligations of collaborators: to collaborate in all possible activities of the Association.

Collaborator status will be lost if:

Those collaborators that manisfest themselves contrary to the goals and objectives of the Association. The procedings will follow the same regulations as those of members (outlined in Article 10, Subsection C).

TITLE III: ORGANS OF GOVERNMENT THE ASSOCIATION

The organs of the Government of the Association are the State General Assembly and the State Board of Directors

The State General Assembly is the supreme organ of the Association and will be formed by delegated persons from Autonomous Communities, with one for every ten members.

The delegated persons will be elected by the Assemblies of the Autonomous Communities by direct vote by members.

A list of delegate candidates will be formed, with names placed in alphabetical order.

Members will vote for as many candidates that will cover the number of delegates, except in the case where the number of candidates is greater than the number of delegates to be named, in which members can only vote for a number of candidates equivalent to seventy-five percent (75%) of the delegates, making null the votes for more candidates than are set by this rule.

The census of members that can vote and be elected as delegates will be set three (3) months before the signified date of the meeting of the State General Assembly, Ordinary or Extraordinary.

The members residing in territories without the organization of an Autonomous Community proper will excercise their political rights in the Autonomous Community indicated by the State Board of Directors.

The State General Assembly will meet in ordinary and extraordinary sessions.

The convocation of the State General Assembly must be completed a minimum of fifteen (15) days before, indicating a written list of themes to be dealt with in order of the same day.

The State General Assembly will meet ordinarily at least once a year in the first semester, and in extraordinary session when deemed necessary by the State Board of Directors for reasons of urgency or necessity, or when ordered by fifteen percent (15%) of members in writing to the President, who will have a maximum of two (2) months to convene the meeting.

The State Ordinary General Assembly will stay constituted in the first convocation by more than half of delegated persons, and in the second convocation, a half hour later with however many delegates attending.

The State Extraordinary General Assembly will stay constituted to the hour of the convocation with however many delegates attending.

I. Voting will be developed through the following procedures:

a) By consent, when nobody opposes the proposal of the President.

b) By raised hand vote, if it is obvious to the President that there is a visible majority. The hands can be counted if there is any doubt.

c) By voice vote, answering when called upon by the Secretary of the Assembly, if ordered by thirty percent (30%) of the attending delegates.

Accords will be adopted by more than half of the present and voting delegates in the General Assembly, not counting non-votes or abstentions.

II. Two-thirds of the voting members will be required for:

a) To modify these present Statutes.

b) To approve the fusion, proper or by absorbtion, with other Associations, by its unfolding or division

c) To approve the disolving of the Association.

d) To approve the revocation of members of the State Board of Directors in the supposition that it is not part of the Order of the Day. To submit itself to debate, this extreme should soliticit thirty percent (30%), or less, of delegates present at the Assembly.

The State Ordinary General Assembly will:

a) Examine and approve the annual memory and annual projects and activities.

b) To examine and approve the balance of accounts and the proposal of annual income and loans.

c) To elect a State President and members of the State Board of Directors for a period of two years, able to be re-elected.

d) The accords that refer to part II of the previous article.

The State Extraordinary General Assembly will decide the topics by urgency and necessity that are submitted by the State Board of Directors or when topics are submitted in terms of the last paragraph of Article 15.

The responsibility of the Secretary of the State General Assembly will be the editing of the Act of the session, that should contain the place and date of deliberations, number of those attending, if was celebrated the first or second convocation, a summary of the debated topics, and of the interventions of those that have solicited proof in the Act, the adopted accords, and results of voting.

The Act of the session will be approved by the General Assembly at the next meeting, making necessary corrections, and will be delivered within fifteen (15) days to the President of the State General Assembly as well as to two (2) delegates or people in attendance, designated by the same Assembly.

In any case, the Act will pass by means of the secretary, corresponding to the Book of Acts of the General Assemblies.

Adopted accords by the General Assembly will produce the effects of those inherent from the moment that that have been taken.

The responsibilities of the State Board of Directors, that is the organ of the government of the Association, are to govern, administer, and represent the Entity.

The State Board of Directors will be formed by a maximum of twenty-five (25) persons, and a minimum of seven (7). They will create members of said Board, elected through Article 18, called Autonomous Presidents.

The duration of the term of members of the State Board of Directors will be two years, able to be re-elected.

The State Board of Directors will meet at least two times a year, being convocated by the President with ten (10) days of notification.

It will stay constituted in the first convocation with the attendance of more than half of its members, and the second convocation a half hour later with however many members.

A member of the State Board of Directors can proxy his or her representation to another member of said Board.

Accords will be taken by simple majority.

Techincal correspondents, by invitation of the President and by voice vote, can assist the sessions of the Board.

The State Board of Directors will endow a Permanent Commission or another organizative instrument for the well-being of the Association.

The members that make up the State Board of Directors will carry out its responsibilities without prejudice of being able to obtain the reimbursement of loans properly justified that the carrying out of its functions could have been occasioned.

The functions of the State Board of Directors are:

a.-To elect, within its members, two (2) Vice Presidents, a Secretary, and a Treasurer

b.-To organize the services, activities, sessions, projects, and aid of the Association.

c.-To approve the creation of sessions of State or autonomous scope, the ruling of internal functions, and in some cases, to approve the disolvement of the actuation contrary to current Statutes or detrimental to the Association.

d.-To represent the Association legally.

e.-To edit the memory of activities, to program and propose the plan of actuation.

f.-To establish quotas for members.

g.-To establish the participation of autonomous organizations in the finances of the entity.

h.-To accept the donations given to the Association.

i.-To designate the Director when necessary and to revocate this designation at any time.

j.-To edit proposals and balances.

k.-To administrate the well being of the Association, as well as the acquisition, transferring, or obligations of any kind, movable or immovable, with out prejudice of being able to delegate the ordinary administration.

l.-To approve personal designations.

m.-To guarantee the counting of personal and material means adquired and with the suitable organization to guarantee the compliance with these Statutes.

n.-To sign pacts and protocols with Autonomous Organizations.

o.-To edit Electoral Rules for the designation of members of the State Board of Directors by the State General Assembly, preserving the principles of equality of opportunities for the presentation of candidates.

p.-To elaborate the Rule of State Internal Regimen.

q.-Whatever other attribution not reserved in these Statutes to the State General Assembly.

The functions of the State President are:

a.-To convocate the State Ordinary and Extraordinary General Assemblies following rules established in Article 15.

b.-To preside over the State General Assemblies and direct debates.

c.-To watch over the compliance to the accords of the State General Assembly.

d.-To excercise the legal representation pf the Association, being able to delegate functions of representation to one or various members of the State Board of Directors; likewise being able to delegate powers to be ministered.

e.-To authorize, with signature, necessary documents.

f.-To convocate and to preside over the State Board of Directors.

g.-To execute and to comply to the accords of the State Board of Directors.

In the case of absence, illness, or indisposablity of the State President, one of the Vice Presidents will substitute in accord with established order.

The functions of the State Secretary are:

a.-Those established in Article 20

b.-To edit the accords of the State Board of Directors and register them in the proper book.

c.-To deliver with the approval, with necessary certifications, of the State President.

The functions of the State Treasurer are:

a.-To take care of social funds.

b.-To keep all documents of collections and payments of the Association.

c.-To create and update books of obligatory accountability and registers that are considered necessary for economic and financial control of the Association and its Autonomous Organizations.

d.-To formulate balances and resulting checks to be submitted to the State Board of Directors and State General Assembly.

The functions of the Director are:

a.-The organization of sections that conform to the structure of the Association.

b.-Coordination with Autonomous Organizations.

c.-Study and proposal of projects.

d.-Management of state and international subsidies.

e.-Administration and Personell.

f.-General accountabilty

g.-In general, to impulse and supervise the functioning effects.

To carry out previously mentioned functions, the Board of Directos will grant the corresponding delegations that develop previously mentioned functions.

All of the delegations that the Board of Directors grants can be revocated any moment the Board deems necessary, or by the President, in case of emergency, which must be ratificated by the Board of Directors within ten (10) days.

TITLE IV: TERRITORIAL ORGANIZATION

For the best completion of its activities, the Association will organize territorily in Communities and Autonomous Cities, and in this scope, it will be able to accomplish this through provinces or municipalities. It will be named "Association for the Cooperation with the South- Las Segovias... (name of geographical region).

The Autonomous Organizations will be governed by an internal government that will use State rules.

The members of the established territories will constitute the Autonomous General Assembly and will elect a Autonomous Board of Directors of between three (3) and twelve (12) members and a President.

One will be able to delegate the vote to another member with a written proxy given to the Autonomous President, without any one member having more than five (5) proxies.

Members will elect, likewise, delegates for the State General Assembly, following the rules set forth in Article 15.

The naming of the Autonomous President will be communicated within forty-eight (48) hours to the State Board of Directors. Through this commincation, and in coordinance with Article 21 will form part of the State Board of Directors.

The autonomous organizations will assemble the Ordinary General Assembly annualy within the first three months of every year, inviting members by writing.

The Ordinary General Assembly will be constituted in the first convocation by more than half of its members, and the second convocation one-half hour later with as many members as possible.

In the supposition of the meeting of the Extraordinary General Assembly, the same amount will be met at the hour of meeting- whoever many members that can attend.

A copy of the acts carried out will be submitted to the State Board of Directors.

The Autonomous Board of Directors will establish pacts and protocols with the State Board of Directors to develop functions established in Article 28 in the scope of the territory.

The involvement of autonomous organization in exterior projects and campaigns of Association will always be coordinated.

Also, at the appropriate time, the Autonomous Board of Directors can count with the coordinator in whom will be delegated all competencies that are considered.

With respect to the functions of the installments of responsibility of the autonomous organizations will be the same as those expressed in articles referring to the state´s scope.

The participation of the Autonomous Organizations in the proceeding entries of quotas of associated persons, donations, and subsidies will establish specific norms between the State Board of Directors and the Autonomous Board of Directors. Equally, participation in the loans of the Assoication will be established.

The Statutes of the Association constitute obligatory norms for all of the Autonomous Organizations and associated persons.

TITLE V: OF SECTORIAL ORGANIZATION

In order to better comply with the ends and principles, the Association will be able to create Sections of either state or autonomous scope, in the areas of womoen, racism and immigration, youth, health, human rights, education for development, formation of the professorate in its distinct scopes and modalities, environment, sustainable development, culture, indian towns and ethnic development, eco-tourism, documentation, investigation, or others deemed necessary.

For the completion of its activities, the Sections will democratically elect a Coordinating Commission and a coordinator. It will endow itself with a rules of internal functioning.

TITLE VI: PATRIMONY

The Patrimony of the Association will consist in the Inventive Balance of detailed form and will be constituted for rights and welfare, material or immaterial, of those that are titulary of the Association.

The Social Fund will be constituted each moment by the difference between the demanded Active and the Passive.

In the case of dissolvement, previewed formalization of the corresponding administrative expedition, the welfare of the Association will be destined to the entities without valour of money, whose ends are analogous to those constituted in the fundational end, and in case none exist, it will be destined to the benefits.

TITLE VII: DISSOLVEMENT

THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE COOPERATION WITH THE SOUTH, LAS SEGOVIAS "ACSUR" will be able to dissolve itself when it arrives at its social end, or by decision of the State General Assembly convocated for this effect.

For dissolvement, the accords of the State General Assembly of will be indispensable, convocated to this effect, able to name a liquidation commission, formed by the State President and three designated members from the Assembly.

The Assembly will accord the exceeding application as if it had been accorded with Article 39 of the Statutes with the prevailing legislation.

TITLE VIII- SUPPLEMENTAL LEGISLATION

In the case of any unseen events in these present Statutes, state legislation from the Cooperatives will be applied in an amendment fashion.

FINAL STATEMENT

As Secretary of the Association for the Cooperation with the South, Las Segovias, ACSUR, inscribed in the National Register of Associations, No. 69,183, states that the present Statutes of the Entity stay edited and conform to those approved in the Extraordinary General Assembly convened the third day of June of one-thousand nine-hundred ninety-eight (3 June 1998). And in order to be certain, sign the present statement with the approval of the President.

Madrid 4 July 1998

Signed.

MONTSERRAT FIGUEROLA BATISTA Mª PAZ BARQUERO DOBLAS

PRESIDENT SECRETARY