Rules of procedure

• The office of the Tunisian Association of Urology (ATU) calls for applications by email to all members who have paid their dues. Applications close one month after submission.
• Among these members, the office of the ATU appoints a chairman of the committee on the criteria of work, publications or practical experience of the subject. The choice of this president must receive a majority of favorable votes within the office, the president of the ATU having two votes. In the event of a dispute or a tie, the opinion of the President of the ATU is sovereign.
• The president of the committee proposes to the office 5 members among the calls for candidature.

• The ATU office approves (or not) the applications and must ensure, whenever possible, parity between hospital-university urologists and those in private practice as well as representation of the different regions of the country. : The North and greater Tunis, Cap-Bon, the Sahel and Kairouan, the Sfax region and the South
• The members of the ATU office cannot be part of the committees.
• You cannot be part of two committees at the same time.
• There cannot be more than one representative from the same department on a committee.
• The ATU office can propose, when the specialty requires it, an extension of each committee to 10 people : 4 members of other companies are thus co-opted
• The members of the committee thus constituted have a mandate of 3 years renewable once.
• The members of the committee meet 4 times a year to define the nature of the work they intend to present and to carry out this project. : Recommendations, collaboration with other companies, prospective work, national studies, workshops, staff, internet forum, etc.
• Each year, on the sidelines of the ATU congress, the presidents of the various committees are received by the office and present one or more projects. The ATU office is responsible for selecting one and programming it for the coming year, either during the national congress or during one of the 4 national days it organises.
• The committees are not autonomous entities and must submit to the ATU office all their activities : Staff, publications,…
• Funding for committee projects must be done through the ATU
• After three years, a new call for applications is sent by email. All members of the outgoing committee may stand for re-election one last time.
• The outgoing president can be renewed by the office if he has given satisfaction. Failing this, a new chairman is appointed, who chooses the members of his committee according to the criteria defined above.
• The office of the ATU can propose to outgoing presidents and active members, when they have been appreciated for their work, to become honorary members who can give advisory opinions.