Regulations of the Baltic Trade Union Youth Forum

  1. Major principles.
  1. Aiming to achieve common objectives, trade union youth unites into organisations to protect their rights, legitimate demands and interests. It is easier to achieve them by joint actions of all organisations and a proper co-ordination. Therefore we suppose that it is necessary to establish a joint organisation of the Baltic trade union youth - the Forum of the Baltic Trade Union Youth.
  1. The Forum of the Baltic Trade Union Youth is a co-ordinating body of trade union youth structures of the three Baltic states, namely Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
  1. The activities of the Forum of the Baltic Trade Union Youth are based on these regulations.

II. Aims and objectives.

  1. Gathering employed youth of the Baltic states for common understanding and learning in order to develop policies and forceful actions in trade union movement.
  1. Building everstronger solidarity among all young employees in the Baltic states, thus making co-operation, common mobilisation and success for enlargement of trade unions.
  1. Representing the global trade union youth movement towards inter-governmental bodies.
  1. Promoting equality between both sexes and all the age groups and fighting against national discrimination in labour market.
  1. Promoting a more active participation of youth in all representative bodies of trade unions.
  1. Exchanging ideas and experience to promote and develop the social work of member organisations.
  1. Organising joint educational and leisure activities.
  1. Co-ordinating common international activities.
  1. Promoting and co-ordinating activities both of the Baltic regions and separate branches.

III. Structure and functions.

  1. The supreme decisive organ of the Forum of the Baltic Trade Union Youth is the Conference.
  1. The Conference assembles not rarely then once a year in each state in a order of succession.
  1. The Conference of the Forum is legitimate if the representatives of each country are present. The representation is agreed in each country independently.
  1. The place and the date of the Conference are agreed by the members of the Conference by a common agreement.
  1. The decisions of the Conference are taken by a common agreement of all three states.
  1. The Conference is chaired by a representative of the youth Centre of the state holding it.
  1. The records of the Conference are taken by a representative of a chairing state.
  1. The chairing state is responsible for a technical preparation of the Conference, informing the media, inviting guests and observers.
  1. Working languages of the Conference are English and Russian.

IV. The Committee of the Forum.

  1. The Committee of the Forum is responsible for the work of the Forum in time between the Conferences. The Committee is appointed during the Conference. It consists of three representatives from each state. The Committee sets the principles of its activities and meets in a case of necessity.
  1. The Committee represents and co-ordinates the activities of the Forum during the time between the Conferences.
  1. The Committee accounts for its work for the time between the Conferences.

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