This service includes:
- Activities of organizations concerned primarily with a specific scientific discipline, a profession, or a technical area of expertise, e.g. physicians’ associations, bar associations, certified public accountants’ associations, engineers’ associations, architects’ associations, etc.
- Activities of associations of specialists in science, academia or culture, such as writers’ associations, artists’ associations, journalists’ associations, etc.
- Scholar’s associations
The services rendered concern primarily the protection and promotion of a profession’s interests, including the dissemination of information and public relations as well as the representation to government authorities, the establishment of professional ethical codes and the monitoring of the compliance with these ethical codes.
