(1) President shall determine the dates and agenda of the meetings. The President may summon the Board for an extraordinary meeting, if necessary.

(2) The Board shall convene at least with six members, including the President, and shall take decisions by simple majority of its total members. Members of the Board shall not cast abstaining vote.

(3) Members shall not attend and cast vote in meetings, which concern issues regarding themselves, their relatives by blood up to third degree and relatives by affinity of marriage up to second degree, their adopted children and their spouses even if the marriage has ended.

(4) Members of the Board shall not disclose the secrets they have learned concerning the relevant persons and third parties during their work to anyone other than legally authorized bodies, neither shall they use such secrets for their benefits. This obligation shall continue even after the end of their term of office.

(5) The issues debated in the Board shall be recorded in the minutes. The decisions and the grounds for the counter vote, if any, shall be written within 15 days at the latest. The Board shall release the decisions to the public, it deems necessary.

(6) Unless otherwise agreed, debates at the Board meetings are confidential.

(7) The Working procedures and principles of the Board and the writing procedure of the decisions and other issues shall be regulated through a by-law.