In application of Article 19 (b)(2) of the Statutes as well as Articles 7 and 8 of the Code of
Professional Ethics, The Assembly of the International Association of Conference Interpreters herewith adopts the following Professional Standards whose purpose is to ensure an optimum quality of work performed with due consideration being given to the physical and mental constraints inherent in the exercise of the profession.
Article 1
PROFESSIONAL ADDRESS
a) Members of the Association shall declare a single professional address. It shall be published in the Association’s list of members and shall be used, inter alia, as a basis for setting up regions.
b) Members in the permanent employment of an organisation’s language department must declare in the list of members that they are employed by that organisation. Their professional address shall be at the place of their registered employment.
c) Given the Association’s regional structure and in order to ensure that members are able to exercise their voting rights at statutory regional meetings and that the rules pertaining to dues are respected, any change in professional address from one region to another shall not be permitted for a period of less than six months. Any such change must be notified to the secretariat at least three months before the intended date in order to ensure that it can be published in the Association’s list of members in good time. The secretariat shall inform the members of Council and the Regional
Secretaries of the two regions concerned.
Article 2
CONTRACTS FOR RECRUITMENT
a) In order to avoid any difficulty between the parties, members of the Association shall not accept any contract for recruitment unless they know the precise conditions thereof and are certain that their identity and remuneration are known to the organiser of the conference (in cases where the organiser of the conference is not its initiator particular conditions shall apply