Statute of the Insurance Research Center

1. Research development and advancement of insurance and its subfields;

2. Setting the stage for the promotion of relevant research activities.

1. To identify the research requirements in the field of insurance;

2. To undertake fundamental, applied, and developmental research projects to meet the objectives of the research center;

3. To provide necessary facilities appropriate for research activities;

4. To promote collaboration with domestic and foreign universities and academic institutions in order to enhance the quality of insurance related research activities that must comply with the relevant rules and regulations;

5. To provide consultation services to natural and legal individuals based on the latest academic and research findings of the research center;

6. To publish academic journals, books, training booklets, software, and computer programs in line with the objectives of the research center that must comply with the relevant rules and regulations;

7. To organize academic conferences and to present research findings in the form of training workshops that must comply with the relevant rules and regulations;

Since the approval of this statute, the research center has the legal character and official and financial independence and is affiliated with Central Insurance of I. R. Iran.

The place of activity of the research center is Tehran.

A. Board of Trustees

B. Director General

C. Research Council

1. The President of Central Insurance of I. R. Iran (Chairman of the Board);

2. The Minister of Sciences, Research & Technology or his representative;

3. The Director of the Management and Planning Organization or his representative;

4. The Director General of the research center (Secretary of the Board);

5. Three to five national academic and cultural individuals that have effective role in the development and promotion of the research center;

Note 1. At least, two individual forenamed in Clause 5 must be faculty members of the national universities, higher education or research institutions;

Note 2. Recommended by the President of Central Insurance of I. R. Iran, the forenamed members in Clause 5 will be appointed for a four-year term based on the approval and decree of the Minister of Sciences, Research & Technology. These individuals can be members of at most two boards of trustees at the same time. Their recommendation and reappointment is permitted and until new individuals are not appointed instead of them, they can continue to fulfill their legal duties and have their authorities.

1. Approval of the internal bylaws of the Board of Trustees;

2. Approval of the organizational chart of the research center according to relevant rules and regulations that will be enforceable after the endorsement of the Minister of Sciences, Research & Technology;

3. Approval of the financial, transactional, official, employment, and organizational bylaws of the research center (including bylaws pertaining to the educational tours, scholarships, and sabbaticals) that will be enforceable after the endorsement of the Minister of Sciences, Research & Technology;

4. Assessment and approval of the annual and detailed budget of the research center proposed by the Director General of the research center;

5. Approval of the accounts and annual balance sheet of the research center;

6. Approval of the method of the special income reception and its consumption that must comply with the relevant rules and regulations;

7. Making efforts to raise funds through nongovernmental sector and local revenues including cash, construction materials that must comply with the relevant rules and regulations;

8. Recommending the position allowance for faculty members of the research center to the Ministry of Sciences, Research & Technology for approval;

9. Devising the management methods of the units of production, service, workshop, and etc. that must comply with the relevant rules and regulations;

10. Setting the amount of grants, tuition fees, translation fees, authoring fees, and the like that must comply with the relevant rules and regulations;

11. Assessment of the research center annual performance that is presented by the Director General of the research center and providing comments about it.

Being the legal representative of the research center among the legal authorities and recommended by the President of Central Insurance of I. R. Iran, the Director General of the research center will be appointed by the approval of the Minister of Sciences, Research & Technology and the decree of the President of Central Insurance of I. R. Iran for a four-year term. His recommendation and reappointment is permitted and until another person is not appointed instead of him, he can continue to do his/her legal duties and have authorities.

1. Formulating plans for the research center, directing and administering its affairs, supervising the proper execution of all the activities within the framework of the statute, relevant rules and regulations;

2. Developing organizational chart of the research center and proposing it to the President of Central Insurance of I. R. Iran in order to observe the legal proceeding;

3. Issuing the orders pertaining to the employment, appointment, promotion, commission, dismissal, etc. of the research center faculty members and employees based on the relevant rules and regulations;

4. Choosing and appointing deputies, advisers, and officials of the research center according to the approved organizational chart and discharging them;

5. Signing the contracts, binding documents, financial and administrative documents, and the correspondence of the research center based on the approved rules and regulations.

6. Opening required bank accounts for the research center and introducing the authorized signatories that must comply with the relevant rules and regulations;

7. Planning the annual and detailed budget of the research center and proposing it to the President of Central Insurance of I. R. Iran in order to observe the legal proceeding.

8. Formulating financial-transactional, official, recruitment, and organizational bylaws and changing and amending them based on the relevant rules and regulations and proposing them to the President of Central of I. R. Iran in order to observe the legal proceeding.

9. Formulating the bylaws pertaining to the educational tours, scholarships, sabbaticals within the framework of the relevant rules and regulations and proposing them to the Research Council for approval and legal proceeding observation.

10. Presenting the annual performance of the research center to the President of Central of I. R. Iran.

11. Proposing the establishment and abolition of research groups to the Research Council of the research center.

12. Vindication of the research center’s interests and rights in legitimate authorities (including legal, executive, and official authorities) on behalf of the research center in person or by a lawyer or with the right of substitution with one lower rank.

13. Enforcement of the acts passed by the Board of Trustees and Research Council within the framework of the relevant rules and regulations.

Note: In compliance with the relevant rules and regulations, Director General of the research center can delegate some of its duties and financial and official authorities to the deputies of the research center while maintaining his/her responsibility.

1. Director General of the research center (Council Chairperson)

2. Research Deputy of the research center (Council Secretariat)

3. Managers of the Research Groups at the research center

4. Two to five faculty members

Note 1. At least two individuals of the forenamed members in Clause 4 must be chosen from amongst the researchers and scholars outside the research center by the introduction of the Director General of the research center, approval of the Research Deputy of The Ministry of Sciences, Research, and Technology.

Note 2. The forenamed members in Clause 4 will be appointed for a 4-year term and their reappointment is allowed.

Research Council meetings will be held at least once a month and it is called to order only after two third of its members are present and the presence of the Council Chairperson is mandatory. Its decisions are only valid by the majority i.e. more than the half of the members cast their votes.

Note: The council’s meetings are administrated based on the council’s internal bylaws.

1. Approval of the council’s internal bylaws;

2. Development of the roadmap, academic and research programs of the research center within the policies and acts framework of the Ministry of Sciences, Research, and Technology;

3. Approval of the research bylaws and directives of the research groups;

4. Assessment and approval of the research projects and supervising their quality and proper implementation;

5. Assessment and supervision of the research project developments based on the approved schedule and if required, their revision and approval of their changes;

6. Assignment of the referees or the jury for the completed research projects that will be introduced by the research deputy of the research center;

7. Assessment of the academic and research activities of the research center;

8. Approval of the proposition of the establishment and abolition of the research groups in order to observe the legal proceeding;

9. Planning for building and maintaining academic relationship with other national educational-research institutions and centers according to the relevant rules and regulations;

10. Assessment and approval of short training courses, seminars, and scientific visits;

11. Approval of the bylaws pertaining to the educational tours, scholarships, sabbaticals within the framework of the relevant rules and regulations and proposing them to the President of Central Insurance of I. R. Iran in order to observe the legal proceeding;

12. Assessment and determination of the equipment, publication, information, and academic needs of the research center and proposing for their supply by the Director General of the research center;

13. Assessment and approval of the educational tours, scholarships, and sabbaticals of the faculty members of the research center based on the relevant rules and regulations;

14. Approval of the bylaws pertaining to the authoring and translation of books and papers and the publication procedure of the academic and research findings of the research center;

15. Assessment of the academic qualification of the applicants for the research center faculty membership and providing comments about them;

16. Fulfillment of other tasks that within the framework of the relevant rules and regulations are assigned by the Board of Trustees or the Director General of the research center.

From financial-transactional perspective, the research center is subject to the financial-transactional bylaw approved by the Board of Trustees and endorsed by the Minister of Sciences, Research & Technology.

The academic selection method of the research center faculty membership is based on the faculty member recruitment of the research center that will be approved by the Board of Trustees and the Minister of Sciences, Research & Technology.

The general selection method of the research center faculty membership is subject to the rules and regulations of the Ministry of Sciences, Research & Technology and other competent authorities.

The space, facilities, and the equipment of the research center must comply with the regulations of the Ministry of Sciences, Research & Technology.

The research center observes all the rules and regulations and approved bylaws of the Ministry of Sciences, Research & Technology and other competent authorities.

1. General budget credits;

2. The income generated by the implementation of the research projects, consultation service offerings, conducting workshops and short training courses, and supplying academic products (such as books, journals, etc.);

3. Donations received from relevant ministries and organizations;

4. Gifts and donations received from natural and legal persons.

The fiscal year of the research center is based on the solar calendar year that starts from Farvardin 1 (March 20) and ends with the last day of Esfand (March 19) of the same year.

The research center can be abolished after the approval of the Educational Development Council of the Ministry of Sciences, Research, and Technology:

1. Proposed by the President of Central Insurance of I. R. Iran;

2. In violation of the regulations mentioned in the statute, acts and regulations of the Ministry of Sciences, Research, and Technology and other national standing rules and regulations at the discretion of the Ministry of Sciences, Research, and Technology.

If the initial agreement of the Educational Development Council of the Ministry of Sciences, Research, and Technology for the abolition of the research center is declared, a settlement board comprised of the legal representative of the Ministry of Sciences, Research, and Technology, legal representative of Central Insurance of I. R. Iran, and the Director General and one of the research center deputies, in compliance with the rules and regulations and in the period that the Educational Development Council sets, will be responsible for the settlement job.

Central Insurance of I. R. Iran is required:

1. To take on all the commitments of the research center made to the ministries, governmental institutions, general public entities, banks, municipalities, and other legal and natural persons (including faculty members and employees) or based on the agreement of the right-holders, assume the research center commitments by itself.

2. To reclaim all the privileges and properties that have been granted to the research center through public resources such as banks and municipalities or to submit the agreement of the right-holders for yielding the privileges and properties to the research center.

After the fulfillment of the aforementioned commitments in Article 22, the settlement of all the legal affairs, the final approval of the abolition of the research center by the Educational Development Council of the Ministry of Sciences, Research, and Technology, the payment of all the debts, and announcement of the settlement end by the settlement board, the rest of the research center’s properties will be transferred to Central Insurance of I. R. Iran.

Note: The settlement board is required to keep minutes regarding the above-mentioned matters that must be signed by all the members of the board. A copy of the minutes must be sent to Central Insurance of I. R. Iran and a copy to the Ministry of Sciences, Research, and Technology.

The issues not which were not anticipated in this statute are subject to the rules and regulations of the Ministry of Sciences, Research, and Technology.

Any change to the content of this statute is only possible if approved by the Educational Development Council of The Ministry of Sciences, Research, and Technology.

This statute comprised of 26 articles and 7 notes is approved by the Educational Development Council of the Ministry of Sciences, Research, and Technology on 2006/01/07 and since its notification date, it is enforceable.