Statutes

The statutes (German: Satzung) are the binding rules by the law towards every member within the organisation. Since you became you a full member of fforst you should get yourself informed about these rules. If you want to get to know them, please ask one of The Board members to hand you out the transcript in either German or English. Please return it afterwards as we just have four copies overall.

History of the statutes – non-profit status

Since 2015 verbuendungshaus fforst e. V. has lost its non-profit status due to a control which happened all over Germany in 2017 at this period to check on the legitimation of the non-profit status according to the law. Still though many non-profit associations exist in Germany as the country courts in some parts of the country did not decide to request these associations to change their general corporate form.

Since 2006 our house project did not fulfil the requirements in front of the law, but as they were not uncovered, we could keep it. The finance authorities always check the books of the associations in a three-year period. In 2017 they requested us to change the statutes which meant that these changes would also be legally effective for the two years before – 2015 and 2016.