Registration of private and public entities to the DD-list, and Rules
Application Form.
Below the form you will find the rules which you will be obliged to adhere to.
Rules
See also Terms of Use
Private Business:
By registering your business on this positive list you agree to the following conditions:
- Any Direct Democracy rule or decision is final and cannot be appealed to any internal or external authority outside the Direct Democracy.
- The rights of the listed entities are exclusively restricted to being listed if the fee has been paid (for private entities), and if no complaint has caused a quarantine period and no technical or other failure prevents the proper operation of the website. For any such failure the website owners take no responsibility. The listed entities have no access or insight to the checking activities of the persons attached for this purpose, or to the accounts beyond the annual publicised resume of activities.
- The annual fee is 20€ per category, 200€ totally for supermarkets, 400€
totally for department stores and 600 € per brand for transnational businesses
and is to be paid by credit card not later than every anniversary of the
registration. By lack of payment on this date your registered information
and DD-number will automatically disappear from the list. You might want
to choose the option on the payment page for setting up a standing order
for annual transfer of the fee.
NB ! For each category in each municipality the TWO FIRST BUSINESSES to register will get the first year*s subscription for FREE ! - Any complaint sent to the email address of the website regarding your products/services/conduct will automatically be sent on to your e-mail address, and you will then have 10 working days to reply to the complainant.
- If this deadline is not respected, your data and DD-number will automatically disappear from the list.
- If you cannot settle the claim amicably, after discussion between the two parties, reimbursement or repair, you will have the option of either leaving the list for a length of time decided by the DD movement, or of asking for a verdict of its representative.
- If the verdict is in favor of the complainant, you must accept a quarantine period of 1 – 60 months as decided by the representative.
- Such exclusion will take place immediately, and your DD-number will not appear on any search. Only after reinstatement to the list, will the rest of the already-paid list fee be automatically re-activated by the computerised list programme, and your DD-number will reappear when searched for.
- Within three months all current updates of lists of generally or specifically banned products, brands, etc, as published under *Recently banned products* of the website, must be complied with by the listed entities. The *Newsletter* updates any changes of regulations.
Transnational corporations, financial institutions, banks, newspapers, TV stations, etc.
The same rules as for national private businesses apply. But complaints and discussion may take place publicly under the *Your Feedback* --> *International Discussion Forum* of the website.
Public entities:
The public sector spends a high percentage of the GNP, including environmentally important areas and therefore needs public scrutiny. The various agencies are admitted on the DD list free of charge.
For the DD purposes each agency is characterized by the five parameters:
Corruption, Openness,
As a principle, DD from the outset trusts and favors the agencies by assuming - and in the diagrams indicating by means of *x*s - that they live up to the general demands for public administration by being uncorrupt, open, unbureaucratic, efficient and *green*, and possibly extraordinarily deserves an award for good service.
With preventive aim the public currently judges whether the individual agency really does.
In case of a justified and evidenced complaint which the agency is unable to refute convincingly, DD cannot honestly maintain the initial favorable rating and therefore has to cancel the relevant *x*(s) from the diagram within a quarantine period determined by the character of the complaint.
This does NOT necessarily
The present rules may be changed without prior notice and without responsibility for the consequences for the listed entities. In case of change of the fees, the already paid fees will cover the remaining periods until the next annuities fall due.
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