Where an individual agreement conflicts with these General Terms, the individual agreement prevails for that specific provision. Where the Statute conflicts with either, the Statute prevails.
GT-1. Definitions
GT-1.1 “Association” means ReGenerativa APS — ETS, tax code 92074380442, registered in the RUNTS, with registered office in Castorano (AP), Italy.
GT-1.2 “Statute” means the Association’s foundational constitutional document, registered 21 June 2025, as amended (Statuto - ReGenerativa APS; English translation: Statute - ReGenerativa APS).
GT-1.3 “Third Sector Code” means Italian Legislative Decree 3 July 2017, No. 117.
GT-1.4 “Asset” means any thing entrusted to the Association under Agreement 1 to be stewarded for regenerative purposes — real property, land, a building or place, equipment, tools, vehicles, or other items. Every Asset is entrusted purpose-bound: for the specific use and within the specific limitations set in its Asset DNA (GT-1.5). A “Hub” is an Asset that is a physical place at which regenerative activities are carried out; “Hub” is used where a provision applies specifically to such places, and “Asset” where it applies to any stewarded thing.
GT-1.5 “Asset DNA” means the specific purpose, permitted uses, conditions, limitations, and care standards for which a particular Asset is entrusted and against which its stewardship is held; for a simple Asset it is expressed in the Permitted Use annex (Agreement 1 Annex 2). “Hub DNA” is the Asset DNA of a Hub in fuller form — additionally including the values, participation norms, rhythms, and behavioural boundaries of the place (Agreement 1 Annex 5).
GT-1.6 “Regenerative Impact Framework” means the Association’s framework for classifying and measuring regenerative impact across six integral dimensions: (a) Land and Ecological Systems; (b) Human Health and Well-Being; (c) Knowledge and Cultural Vitality; (d) Economic Fairness and Material Infrastructure; (e) Community and Relational Culture; and (f) Governance and Ethical Integrity. These dimensions correspond to the six commitments of the Regenerative Covenant (GT-2) and serve as the evaluative vocabulary through which the network assesses whether its activities are genuinely regenerative.
GT-1.7 “Contribution Ledger” means the simple, shared, visible record in which participants’ contributions are logged and confirmed — a plain record, not a blockchain or automated calculation system. The Ledger is one record, partitioned by holon: each Hub and Asset, each Project, each Venture, the Elder Council, and the Association holon holds its own partition, and role- or project-scoped logs (such as the Partnership Contribution Log, Agreement 6 Annex 4) are partitions of this one Ledger, applying their own confirmation rules within it. Partition visibility and off-ledger data are governed by GT-3.4A.
GT-1.8 “Validated Contribution” means a contribution recorded in the Contribution Ledger and confirmed, in good faith, by a steward or a peer.
GT-1.9 “Net Revenue” means revenue remaining after deduction of direct costs, fiscal charges, and other deductions defined in the relevant agreement or annex.
GT-1.10 “Unified Fund” (the “Fund”) means the Association’s single financial architecture, operated through a public fiscal-hosting platform, through which all economic activity of the Association and its holons passes. The Association is the fiscal host for all holons (Hubs under Agreement 1, Projects under Agreement 6, Ventures under Agreement 7, the Elder Council under Agreement 8): each holon maintains a dedicated collective on the platform, with its revenues and expenses moving through the Fund while operational autonomy is retained within mandate. The Unified Fund comprises the Association holon (the network-level collective, stewarded by the Board) together with all other holon collectives; inflows and allocations are governed by GT-4.
GT-1.11 “Network Passport” means each participant’s portable, cumulative record of validated contributions across all roles, hubs, and time, held in the Contribution Ledger. It carries no tiers and no fixed perk schedule; it is the basis for the single sliding-scale access rule in GT-3A.
GT-1.12 “Network Demand Signal” means a documented pattern of recurring unmet peer-to-peer requests surfaced through normal network operation — through member interactions, steward observations, hub seasonal reports, or gathering discussions — and submitted to the Association for inclusion in the Network Demand Register. A Demand Signal is the network’s own market research: evidence that a need exists, expressed by the community that experiences it.
GT-1.13 “Network Demand Register” means the living, publicly visible record maintained by the Association of active Network Demand Signals — patterns of unmet need that any member may respond to, including through the activation of a Venture Holon under the Intrapreneurship Agreement (Agreement 7). The Register is the foundation of the intrapreneurship system and the primary mechanism through which the network converts distributed peer-to-peer requests into structured ventures.
GT-1.14 “Dignity Floor” means the baseline owed to every person the network touches — member, participant, guest, client, or neighbour — regardless of role, contribution, or standing: safety from harm and the Code of Conduct (GT-2.6); honest, safe, and fair dealing (GT-2.8); privacy (GT-5); and a route to be heard (GT-7.5). No contribution measure, allocation, or role modifies it. It is distinct from the access floor of GT-3A.8, which is a benefit of membership.
GT-1.15 “Support Arrangement” means a written arrangement under the Mutual Prosperity Covenant (GT-2.10) by which the commons supports a named person while they build a livelihood or project, stating the support offered, its duration, any agreed rhythm of work, and any agreed return of value to the commons.
GT-2. Regenerative Covenant
GT-2.1 The Association’s presence in any place is guided by a regenerative mandate: the commitment to leave that place — its land, its people, its relationships, and its culture — measurably better than when it was received. This mandate is integral: it is not satisfied by ecological improvement alone, nor by human flourishing alone. It requires attention to all dimensions of a living system simultaneously.
GT-2.2 The covenant is expressed across six integral dimensions, each of which must be attended to:
(a) Land and Ecological Systems: improvement of soil health, biodiversity, water cycles, and ecological connectivity; reduction of waste, pollution, and resource consumption; integration of renewable energy; cultivation of edible landscapes and habitat corridors; circular material flows within and between Hubs.
(b) Human Health and Well-Being: cultivation of conditions in which people can rest, recover, and thrive; attention to physical safety, food sovereignty, and bodily care; access to the healing dimensions of land, community, and meaningful work.
(c) Knowledge and Cultural Vitality: transmission of regenerative skills, traditions, and practices; support for innovation rooted in ecological and social intelligence; creation of conditions for learning across generations and disciplines.
(d) Economic Fairness and Material Infrastructure: building shared infrastructure that reduces individual precarity; ensuring that economic value generated within the commons flows back to strengthen the commons; making visible and fairly compensating the labour of care.
(e) Community and Relational Culture: active cultivation of the relational substrate on which everything else depends — trust built through proximity, shared meals, seasonal rhythms, and the experience of being held when something goes wrong. The village is the reference model: before digital infrastructure, contribution ledgers, and commercial frameworks, there is the bond of proximity. The Association commits to nurturing this pre-contractual substrate at every Hub — not as sentiment, but as the functional foundation without which the legal architecture cannot hold.
(f) Governance and Ethical Integrity: participatory, transparent, and subsidiarity-respecting governance; alignment between stated values and operational practice; honesty about tensions, failures, and limits.
GT-2.3 Every Hub is understood as a community ark: a node of resilience that operates alongside existing institutions rather than against them, building parallel capacity for mutual aid, care, and regenerative practice. This is not a retreat from the world but a different way of inhabiting it.
GT-2.4 Regenerative targets may be defined in relevant Annexes and assessed using the Regenerative Impact Framework (GT-1.6). Targets are reviewed seasonally where possible, and aligned with the network’s natural coordination rhythms. The covenant establishes a shared commitment, not a personal financial liability for non-attainment.
GT-2.5 Every agreement in this constellation incorporates this covenant. It is not a standard provision to be acknowledged and set aside — it is the animating purpose of every relationship the constellation governs.
GT-2.6 — Safeguarding. The Association maintains a Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct (companion document), binding on all roles as part of this covenant (GT-2.5) and applied through the Operational Procedures (Section M); a credible safeguarding concern triggers precautionary suspension under GT-6A.1 and is reported to the competent authorities as the law requires. Where a role involves working with minors or vulnerable adults, the suitability checks required by Italian law (including the anti-pedophilia certificate, art. 25-bis DPR 313/2002) are a condition of that role.
GT-2.7 — Regenerative balance and graduated response. Just as a holon runs a financial living balance (GT-4.4A), every Asset and Hub holon runs a regenerative balance: its standing against the Regenerative Covenant (GT-2), assessed each season through the Regenerative Impact Framework (GT-1.6) against the targets in its Permitted Use annex (Agreement 1 Annex 2 §D) and snapshotted in its Hub DNA living-progress table — read as honest attention across the six dimensions, never as a single score or a ranking among hubs.
(a) Support first. A review opens where a dimension trends persistently downward across seasons, or any dimension is actively harmed — triggered by the measured trend, never by judgement of person; honouring GT-2.4, honest non-attainment is never in itself a fault. Where a hub struggles in good faith, the response is support, not sanction: re-tuned targets fitting the place’s real carrying capacity, mentorship and network attention (Agreement 4), and, where cost is the constraint, mutual aid from the common reservoir (GT-4.8(a)).
(b) Graduated response. Where harm is wilful, or a decline persists despite support, intervention follows the same graduated, reversible, depersonalised shape as GT-4.8(b)–(c), gentlest first; the measured balance initiates review — it never of itself removes a Steward (Agreement 3 §16 applies) or a hub. The terminal step — withdrawing the hub’s standing and returning the Asset to its Owner (Agreement 1 §6) — is reserved for a place being actively degraded, never one merely struggling. A hub that regenerates well earns a wider band, lighter-touch review, and recognition (GT-3A), on the asymmetry of GT-4.8(c).
(c) Who reviews. The seasonal assessment is prepared by the Steward(s) and reviewed by the Association; the Voice for the Land and the Unborn (Agreement 8 Annex 1 §1.6) speaks in every regenerative review before any measure is taken. Until the Elder Council is constituted, review proceeds under GT-7.2.
GT-2.8 — Participants, guests, and the wider community. The network exists to serve — its participants and guests (those on a stay, in a programme, or as the client of a Project) and the wider community, watershed, and bioregion in which each Hub sits. The Association and those who hold its resources owe the people they serve honest, safe, and fair dealing: truthful description and clear terms for any programme or stay, fair cancellation and withdrawal rights as required by consumer law, safety and dignity (GT-2.6), and privacy (GT-5; GT-3.4A). Participants and guests are received under the access rule (GT-3A.3) in good faith. Toward the wider community, each Hub holds the community-ark commitment (GT-2.3): to operate alongside local institutions rather than against them, to take no net harm from its place and watershed, and to remain a node of mutual aid and resilience in the bioregion it belongs to. The Association maintains a Participant and Community Charter (companion document) giving this effect; participants, guests, and neighbours may raise a concern or complaint under GT-7.5, and their feedback informs the regenerative assessment (GT-1.6) and may surface Network Demand Signals (GT-1.12). Statutory rights of consumers and data subjects are preserved and unaffected.
GT-2.9 — The knowledge commons. The constellation’s own model — these agreements and General Terms, and the companion frameworks and templates (the Regenerative Impact Framework, Hub DNA, Operational Procedures, and the like) — is itself a commons, offered freely to others building regenerative networks. It is released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0): anyone may use and adapt it, with attribution, provided derivatives are shared under the same terms, so the commons stays open and improvements can return to it (the knowledge-and-cultural-vitality dimension of the covenant, GT-2.2(c)). This release covers the model only. It does not cover, and confers no right over: the personal data of members or participants (GT-5); information held private to a Hub or its Owner; or Venture intellectual property, governed by Agreement 7 §9. Sharing the model is how federation (GT-4.10) and the wider movement grow.
GT-2.10 — The Mutual Prosperity Covenant. The Regenerative Covenant faces the living world; its twin, the Mutual Prosperity Covenant (companion document), faces the people: the commitment that every person who passes through the network leaves it more free than they arrived. The Association adopts it as a statement of shared intent that every agreement in the constellation is read in the light of; it creates no rights or obligations by itself. It binds only through a Support Arrangement (GT-1.15), and any such arrangement shall respect the following, which no arrangement may vary: (a) Belonging is not productivity. No term of a Support Arrangement — including any agreed rhythm of hours — conditions membership, voice, the Dignity Floor (GT-1.14), the access floor (GT-3A.8), or the vote (Agreement 2 Clause 2.1). (b) Support is not debt. Receiving support creates no personal obligation to those who gave it and confers on them no authority, vote, or allocation voice (GT-4.5(d), (g); GT-11.5). Failure to reach an outcome creates no debt. (c) Capacity moves. An agreed rhythm is revised openly, on either side’s initiative, when a person’s capacity changes; belonging is never withdrawn for reduced capacity. (d) The return is bounded. Where an arrangement provides for a return of value to the commons, it names in writing its scope, the income basis it is read against, the portion, the threshold below which nothing is due, its duration, and any cap. The return confers on the Association no equity, security, ownership, or claim on the person’s income beyond the stated terms, and nothing returned becomes anyone’s personal income (GT-4.5(g)). This is the person-scope of the one Regeneration Contribution (GT-4.4C); it is distinct from any stake an Emerged Entity may elect to offer under Agreement 7 Annex 3 §5, which is a separate, optional instrument between the Association and a legal person. (e) Where money moves, GT-4 governs. Support that takes the form of network resources or money moves through the Unified Fund under its ordinary rules; support that takes the form of a Programme moves under Agreement 4. The form of a Support Arrangement, and the legal and fiscal characterisation of any return under (d), are settled with the Association’s legal and fiscal advisors and held as a Living Governance Resolution (LGR-10) before any arrangement is signed.
GT-3. Digital Infrastructure and Contribution Tracking
GT-3.1 The Association maintains simple, transparent infrastructure for tracking contributions and sharing resources: a Contribution Ledger. The way to operate this ledger (pen and paper, excel, blockchain) is at the Association’s discretion, as long as it is public and approved.
GT-3.2 This infrastructure exists to make contribution and need visible across the network, so that resources can flow toward where they are most needed without centralised command.
GT-3.3 Participation in contribution tracking is voluntary. Access to contribution-dependent benefits (free Programme access, hub circulation, resource allocation rights) is conditioned upon recorded and Validated Contributions.
GT-3.4 The Contribution Ledger stores only what is needed to recognise contribution; personal data is held separately and minimally. Participants may access, correct, or request deletion of their records per GT-5. Deletion only renders historical entries unattributable without destroying the underlying record of network activity.
GT-3.4A — Ledger visibility. Partition visibility (GT-1.7) is a network setting held as a Living Governance Resolution (LGR-8) and tunable prospectively by Board resolution; the current setting is every partition visible to all network participants. No setting may ever narrow visibility below this floor: every participant sees their own entries; every member of a holon (including every Partner on a Project) sees that holon’s partition in full; and the Association, as fiscal host, sees all. Only two things never appear on the Ledger at any setting: personal-identity mappings, held off-ledger per GT-3.4 and GT-5; and the identity of external clients, who appear as project codes unless they consent to be named.
GT-3.5 — Contribution recognition (every agreement). Contributions under every agreement in the constellation are recorded in the Contribution Ledger and recognised through the Network Passport (GT-3A). This rule applies without restatement in the individual agreements; an individual agreement states only its role-specific recognition terms, if any.
GT-3A. Network Passport and the Access Rule
GT-3A.1 Every participant holds a Network Passport — a single, portable, cumulative record of their validated contributions across all roles, all hubs, and the full duration of their relationship with the network. It lives in the Contribution Ledger and belongs to the person, not to any hub, agreement, or role.
GT-3A.2 The Passport accumulates continuously. It does not reset when a role ends, a hub changes, or a period of inactivity occurs. There are no tiers, levels, or named ranks — it is a single, continuous record.
GT-3A.3 The Access Rule. Access to the network’s shared resources — programmes, hub stays, priority booking, and other contribution-dependent benefits — is allocated and priced on a sliding scale from full price down to free, weighing standing contribution as one signal among several: alongside it, need, mission fit, and rotation, so that access serves the network’s purpose rather than compounding advantage. The more a participant has contributed, the stronger that signal — but no recorded measure of itself entitles anyone to a price or a place. This is a genuine, reviewable benefit, not a mere expectation. The Association, and those who hold network resources on its behalf, shall apply the rule in good faith, consistently, and without unfair discrimination; there is no fixed perk schedule and no conversion rate between contribution and price, and each steward, mentor, or hub determines, for the resource they hold, how many places are free and how price slides, exercising that discretion within the standard set by this clause. A free or below-cost place is a discretionary decision of the resource’s steward, recorded with its reason (need, mission fit, rotation, or standing contribution), never a level a score reaches of itself. Review of how the rule was applied to a participant lies under GT-7.2.
Interpretive principle (guides construction; not a separate obligation): the rule exists for abundance and circulation, not gatekeeping; doubt in its application is resolved toward wider access.
GT-3A.4 Standing contribution is a single cumulative measure, confirmed by steward or peer in good faith (GT-1.8). It is deliberately not reduced to hours alone; quality, diversity, and the judgement of those close to the work all count. Entries in a Project or Venture partition of the Ledger count toward this measure as contributions of their kind; the euro valuations used within those partitions to compute distribution shares (Agreement 6 §9–§10; Agreement 7 §7) carry no weight in the access measure — on the same principle as GT-3A.4A, access follows labour, care, and participation, never monetary magnitude.
GT-3A.4A — Monetary support is excluded from access scoring. Monetary and material support given under Agreement 5 (donations, sponsorship, underwriting, in-kind gifts) is recorded in the Contribution Ledger for recognition and the network’s memory, but is excluded from the contribution measure that governs access priority and pricing under GT-3A.3, and from any Programme allocation score under Agreement 4 §4.5 or hub scoring rule (Agreement 1 Annex 5, “The Reckoning”). Recognition of monetary giving is non-economic (Agreement 5 §4). This preserves the liberal character of giving — support enters the commons as a gift, never as a purchase of access — and access follows labour, care, and participation rather than payment.
GT-3A.5 The Passport serves as a trust signal across the network. A participant arriving at a new hub, applying for a new role, or joining a Venture Holon carries their Passport with them. Hubs, stewards, and venture members may request to view a prospective participant’s Passport (with their consent) as part of the welcome and admission process. A strong Passport is not a guarantee of admission — each community is its own whole — but it is a meaningful and recognised form of relational credibility.
GT-3A.6 Upon termination of any agreement, the Association provides the departing participant with a written summary of their Passport as it relates to that role, within 30 days. This summary is the participant’s to share as they choose.
GT-3A.7 The Passport is subject to the same GDPR and data protection provisions as all other Contribution Ledger data (GT-3.4, GT-5). Participants may request access to, correction of, or deletion of their Passport data at any time.
GT-3A.8 - Guaranteed access floor. In addition to the contribution-graded access of GT-3A.3, every Member in good standing holds the following unconditional access entitlements: (a) Priority booking — Members may book hub stays and programme places a stated number of days ahead of non-member/public access. The advance window is published by the Association and adjustable by Board resolution; (b) No turn-away with spare capacity — Where a hub holds genuine spare capacity, no Member shall be turned away from a contribution-based stay solely for inability to pay a contribution; the steward shall apply the sliding scale of GT-3A.3 in good faith.
These entitlements require no funding from the Unified Fund; they are absorbed at the hub level as foregone revenue. They form the floor below the sliding-scale rule of GT-3A.3, not a replacement for it.
GT-3A.9 - Attunement review. Where the application of a contribution score, a share calculation, or an access allocation produces an outcome that an affected participant or a steward, in good faith, senses to be misaligned with the gift and the Regenerative Covenant (GT-2), any party may request a facilitated sensing circle before the outcome is finalised. The requesting party convenes the circle with a facilitator the parties accept; failing agreement within seven (7) days, the facilitator is named under GT-7.2. The circle does not override the rule and casts no vote; it pauses the outcome once, for no more than fourteen (14) days, surfaces what the metric did not capture, and may recommend that the allocator reconsider within the discretion the rule already allows. Metrics serve the covenant, not the reverse.
GT-4. Unified Fund: Inflows and Allocation
GT-4.1 — Fiscal hosting. The Association is the fiscal host for all holons. All economic activity — revenues, expenses, contributions, allocations — passes through the Unified Fund (GT-1.10). Each holon operates within the Fund as a governance and accounting unit, with its own mandate, dedicated collective on the fiscal-hosting platform, and one or more Stewards. The legal person remains the Association at all times.
GT-4.2 — Holons within the Fund. For the purposes of allocation, the following are treated as holons, each running the shape set out in GT-4.4: (a) Association holon — the network-level collective, stewarded by the Board, receiving the Network Regeneration Contribution (NRC) and unrestricted contributions. (Replaces the term “central pool” used in earlier drafts and strategy documents.) (b) Asset holons (Hubs and other stewarded assets) — under Agreement 1, stewarded per Agreement 3; (c) Project holons — under Agreement 6; (d) Venture holons — under Agreement 7; (e) Elder Council holon — under Agreement 8, the Council acting as its own collective Steward; terminal in the upward flow. Until the Council is constituted, the Board stewards this holon per GT-4.4D.
GT-4.3 — Steward allocation rights. Every Steward of a holon holds a delega di spesa from the Association: delegated authority to allocate resources within the holon’s collective, within the holon’s mandate, under the ceiling, and within the hard rails of GT-4.5. Where a holon has more than one Steward, allocation rights are shared and exercised collectively through the holon’s own internal decision-making process — which the Stewards establish (consensus, sociocracy, majority, or other), with each co-Steward holding voice and participation, and every relevant decision recorded. Where the Allocation Model so provides, the collective discretionary envelope is divided among co-Stewards in proportion to each one’s recorded active contribution to the holon (GT-3A; Agreement 2 Clause 2.7), recomputed on the Model’s cadence; this weighting governs administration of the delegated envelope only and confers no governance vote (GT-11; Agreement 2 Clause 2.1). Where a holon has a single Steward, the Steward decides alone under personal responsibility. For the Association holon, the Board acts as the collective Steward, exercising allocation rights through collective Board deliberation per the Statute and its bylaws. For the Elder Council, the Council acts as the collective Steward of its own holon per its charter.
GT-4.3A — Contribution value systems (how the envelope is divided). Where a holon’s discretionary envelope is divided among its co-Stewards by contribution (GT-4.3), the division is computed by applying the holon’s declared value system to the entries recorded for that holon in the Contribution Ledger (GT-1.7, GT-1.8): the Ledger supplies what was contributed, the value system supplies how those contributions are weighted into shares. Each holon declares its own value system independently — a weighted combination of indicators chosen by the holon from the menu held with its Allocation Model parameters (GT-4.6; LGR-5 §D) — recorded there and visible in the Ledger. Absent a declared system, the network default is egalitarian — equal shares among active co-Stewards. The declared system must be public, applied in good faith, and confirmed per GT-1.8; it is revisable only prospectively, on the Model’s cadence, and never re-floats a commitment already made within a cycle (LGR-5 §D). This value system governs the allocation reading only — the local division of a holon’s discretionary envelope (administration, not a governance vote, per GT-4.3); it does not alter the network-wide access rule (GT-3A, a single cumulative sliding scale).
GT-4.4 — The shape (every holon). Every holon’s allocation runs through the same shape, in this order:
(a) Network Regeneration Contribution at source. Where the holon generates Net Revenue from economic activity, a contribution at the prevailing NRC Rate is deducted at source and routed to the Association holon before any local allocation. The NRC Rate is set by Board resolution within three percent (3%) to ten percent (10%) and applies uniformly to all active holons — no per-holon, per-Project, or per-Venture negotiation. The rate is held as a Living Governance Resolution (LGR-2); absent a Board-ratified figure, the rate is five percent (5%). For Partnership Agreement activities, the contribution is a structure cost deducted before Partner distribution. The Association holon, the Elder Council, and non-economic inflows (unrestricted contributions, grants) are exempt from this carve-out. Post-Emergence entities under Agreement 7 are governed by Agreement 7 Annex 3 §2, which sets their rate at the moment of Emergence (within the same 3–10% range) and locks it perpetually, independent of subsequent changes to the NRC Rate. Where the activity uses an Asset entrusted under Agreement 1, a further share is routed to the host Asset holon per GT-4.9 (after this contribution, before any operator distribution). The Network Regeneration Contribution is the network-scope of the single Regeneration Contribution (GT-4.4C). At-source deduction applies between internal holons only — an allocation within the one legal subject, never invoiced. Where the payer is a separate legal person (a Vehicle Entity under Agreement 6; an Emerged Entity under Agreement 7 Annex 3), the Contribution is a fee for defined network services, invoiced by the Association with VAT against the service description enumerated in the governing agreement.
(b) Cost-coverage bucket. The holon’s own operating costs are reserved first against a published target, including Steward activity-cost reimbursement under Agreement 3 §8–§9 and Clause GT-12. Contents per holon type:
- Association holon: the Association’s legal-entity operating costs — administration, Article 18 CTS insurance, fiscal-hosting platform fees, and similar network-level structural costs;
- Asset holons: the Asset’s tenure or operating costs (for a Hub, its place running costs; for equipment or a vehicle, upkeep, servicing, insurance, and the like);
- Venture and Project holons: per their Annex;
- Elder Council holon: convening, deliberation, and documentation costs (not personal income to elders).
(c) Steward discretionary allocation. Once the cost-coverage bucket is secured, the holon’s Steward(s) allocate funds to clearly defined proposals within the holon’s mandate, up to a published ceiling. For the Association holon, this is the Board’s allocation to network-wide programmes and to top-up support for holons whose local cost-coverage cannot meet their target. For the Elder Council, this bucket is uncapped — it is the network’s allocator of last resort under its Agreement 8 mandate, directed by collective Council deliberation to any holon, Steward, or programme serving integral regeneration. May include elderly-focused hubs and programmes as mission-aligned uses, but always as mission spending on programmes, never as personal payments to elders or to Council members.
(d) Upward overflow. Any surplus above the discretionary ceiling flows upward to the Elder Council holon via inter-collective transfer on the fiscal-hosting platform. The Elder Council is terminal: it has no upward outflow.
GT-4.4A — Settlement over time (the living balance). (Plain-language here; the curve, cadence, targets, and band of tolerance live in the Allocation Model under GT-4.6.) The shape of GT-4.4 settles on a regular cycle set in the Allocation Model. Between cycles each holon carries a running balance between its cost-coverage need and what it draws in: (a) Heal first — cost-coverage (GT-4.4(b)) is met before any discretionary allocation; an uncovered shortfall is carried forward and spread across coming cycles rather than recovered all at once; (b) Throttle on shortfall — while a holon carries an uncovered shortfall, its discretionary envelope (GT-4.4(c)) narrows in proportion to the depth of that shortfall; (c) Give — a holon in lasting surplus contributes the excess upward to the Elder Council holon, the network’s common reservoir (GT-4.4(d)); (d) Absorb — a holon in genuine, sustained shortfall beyond its band of tolerance is supported from that same reservoir, under GT-4.8.
GT-4.4B — Asset Reserve (replacement and acquisition). An Asset holon may accumulate a protected capital reserve for renewing the Asset it stewards, integrated into the shape of GT-4.4 as a priority claim between cost-coverage (b) and discretionary allocation (c):
(a) Position and protection. After cost-coverage (b) is met, surplus accrues to the Asset Reserve up to the Asset’s replacement-cost target R (recorded in the Asset’s mandate document — the Permitted Use annex A1-2 or Hub DNA A1-5 — and held per LGR-2) before the Steward’s discretionary allocation (c). The discretionary ceiling remains D = α·C on operating cost-coverage C alone, so accruing the reserve never enlarges the Steward’s discretionary envelope, and the discretionary allocation cannot draw on the reserve. The protection is structural — it follows from the reserve’s position in the shape, not from any allocator’s restraint.
(b) A distinct line. The reserve is a distinct accumulated line, separate from the holon’s operating carried balance (GT-4.4A). An operating shortfall heals from the carried balance and, if genuine and sustained, the common reservoir (GT-4.8) — never from the Asset Reserve.
(c) Earmarked. Held only to acquire the Asset (purchasing it into the commons, Agreement 1 §6.3A) or replace it (an equivalent Asset where the entrusted one is lost, withdrawn, or worn beyond economic repair).
(d) Per Asset, portable. The reserve belongs to the Asset holon, not to a single physical Asset: where the entrusted Asset’s tenure ends before acquisition, the reserve ports with the holon to a replacement Asset rather than overflowing upward. One Asset’s reserve does not fund another’s.
(e) Deployment. Deployed on the host Steward(s)’ written proposal and the Board’s approval, as for any allocation above the single-signature ceiling (GT-4.5(c)).
(f) One-way ratchet. An Asset acquired through the reserve enters the network’s patrimony as complete commons: thereafter subject to the non-distribution constraint (GT-4.5(g)) and devoluzione on dissolution (GT-13; Art. 9 CTS), it cannot be re-privatised.
(g) Self-similar. A holon with no replaceable capital simply sets R = 0 and this clause is inert for it; the Association holon carries an R only for its own infrastructure (for example the digital platform), never to acquire other holons’ Assets.
GT-4.4C — The network is an ordinary holon. The Association holon runs the same shape as every other holon (GT-4.4(a)–(d)): its cost-coverage C is the network’s operating costs (LGR-2, K_a); its discretionary bucket is the Board’s allocation to network-wide programmes and inter-holon top-ups (c); and it is not terminal — any surplus above its discretionary ceiling overflows to the Elder Council (d). The network therefore cannot accumulate beyond its mandate: a Regeneration Contribution rate set higher than the network needs does not pool at the centre but spills into the common reservoir as mutual insurance.
The Board (Consiglio Direttivo) is the network holon’s Steward — it directs the Association holon’s allocation exactly as a Hub’s Steward directs a Hub’s, bound by the same hard rails (GT-4.5: anti-self-dealing, the two-signature ceiling, the two-part purpose test, non-distribution), within the Allocation Model the Assembly adopts (GT-4.6) and under the Elder Council’s allocation-transparency challenge (Agreement 8) and the bilancio sociale (GT-4.7).
The Network Regeneration Contribution (GT-4.4(a)) and the Asset Regeneration Contribution (GT-4.9) are the network-scope and asset-scope of one principle: using a shared holon’s resource — the network’s infrastructure, or an entrusted Asset — carries a contribution to that holon’s regeneration, covering its cost-coverage and feeding the one shape. Between internal holons the Contribution is presented as an at-source deduction (GT-4.4(a)); toward separate legal persons it is an invoiced fee for network services (GT-4.4(a)); its purpose — covering the network holon’s cost-coverage and regeneration — is the same either way.
GT-4.4D — Until the Elder Council is constituted. Wherever GT-4 assigns a function to the Elder Council or the Elder Council holon — receiving upward overflow (GT-4.4(d)), holding the common reservoir (GT-4.4A(c)–(d)), absorbing a holon in genuine shortfall (GT-4.8(a)), the allocation of last resort (GT-4.4(c)), and the returns on feeding the reservoir (GT-4.8(d)) — the Board (Consiglio Direttivo) performs that function until the Council is constituted under Agreement 8. The Board does so as steward of the Elder Council holon, kept as a separate collective from the Association holon on the fiscal-hosting platform, so the reservoir is never merged with the network’s own cost-coverage or discretionary bucket, and under the same rails: the two-thirds decision threshold of the Council’s charter (Agreement 8 Annex 1 §5.5.4) applies to the Board’s own deliberation; every allocation is posted within fourteen (14) days and open to member and steward query under §5.5.7 of that charter; the hard rails of GT-4.5 and the reporting of GT-4.7 apply in full; and the Voice for the Land and the Unborn is spoken by a Member the Board designates for each decision. On the Council’s constitution, the reservoir, its records, and any pending queries pass to the Council without further instrument. This clause governs the Fund only; interim mediation stays under GT-7.2 and interim regenerative review under GT-2.7(c).
GT-4.5 — Hard rails. Every allocator (Board for the Association holon, Stewards for Hub/Venture/Project holons, Elder Council for its own holon) operates within the same procedural rails: (a) Subsidiarity — within mandate, under the ceiling, with the cost-coverage bucket secured, the allocator decides; no higher-level pre-approval of in-scope spend; (b) Two-part purpose test — every expense must serve both the local mandate AND the Association’s integral-regeneration purpose; (c) Delegated-authority ceiling — single-signature up to a published cap; second signature above the cap; second signature always required on the allocator’s own payments or reimbursements; (d) Anti-self-dealing — no allocator may allocate to their own personal benefit; participation in mission-aligned programmes is mission participation, not personal income; (e) Reconciliation — Stewards reconcile at tenure handover; the Elder Council per its Agreement 8 charter. The carried cost-coverage balance (GT-4.4A) may move between settlement cycles, but at tenure handover it is disclosed and reconciled, never hidden: an incoming Steward inherits a known, documented balance, and any shortfall beyond the holon’s band of tolerance is absorbed per GT-4.8(a) rather than silently passed to a successor; (f) No application process for routine flows — flows are structural per the shape in GT-4.4; the Elder Council deliberates as the Agreement 8 mandated allocation body; all decisions recorded and reported in the bilancio sociale; (g) Non-distribution constraint — no flow at any scale constitutes, directly or indirectly, a distribution of profits or assets to any person: including, without limitation, personal income, salary, pension, profit distribution, and every form of presumed indirect distribution under Art. 8(2)-(3) CTS. Personal compensation of natural persons engaged by the Association, where it occurs, is a separate matter governed by Agreement 3 §8 and Clause GT-12, outside the Unified Fund’s allocation shape.
GT-4.6 — The Allocation Model and its parameters. The Allocation Model is the method, adopted by the Assembly and held as a Living Governance Resolution, by which the shape of GT-4.4 and the settlement of GT-4.4A are applied — including the settlement cadence, the cost-coverage target, the discretionary ceiling, the NRC rate (within 3–10%), any shape stiffness, the contribution value system (GT-4.3A) by which each holon converts its Ledger into allocation weights, the band of tolerance within which a holon governs its own settings, and the upward-return terms by which feeding the reservoir earns mutual insurance and earned autonomy (GT-4.8). Network-wide defaults are set by Board resolution; per-holon parameters are set by Stewards within their mandate. The Model is revisable through the same instrument class, and every Member is entitled to it in plain language. No Allocation Model may suspend the hard rails of GT-4.5 or the access floor of GT-3A.8.
GT-4.7 — Annual reporting. The Association reports annually on the Unified Fund — inflows, allocations at every scale (Association holon, each holon, Elder Council), and discretionary decisions — as part of its bilancio sociale.
GT-4.8 — Mutual aid and graduated intervention. (The band of tolerance, thresholds, and return terms live in the Allocation Model under GT-4.6.)
(a) Absorb. Where a holon carries a genuine, sustained shortfall beyond its band of tolerance, the Elder Council holon supports it from the common reservoir (GT-4.4A(d)), so that no holon fails for want of cover alone.
(b) Graduated intervention, triggered by measured balance. Persistent shortfall beyond the band engages intervention in order, gentlest first, and triggered by the holon’s measured balance rather than by judgement of person: first re-tune the holon — adjust its cost-coverage target or band of tolerance; then, only if shortfall persists, recompose or change its Stewards under Agreement 3 §16. When a holon first breaches its band, the competent allocator opens a relational conversation with its Stewards before any measure is applied. The measured balance initiates review; it never of itself executes a change of Stewards — any recomposition or change proceeds, if at all, under the notice and termination protections of Agreement 3 §16, the Stewards having been heard. Intervention is graduated and reversible: a holon that recovers re-earns the settings and sovereignty it lost; a holon that proves steady earns a wider band over time.
(c) Asymmetry. Measures that tighten a holon’s autonomy (narrowing the band, adding oversight) may follow automatically from the measured balance; measures that loosen it (widening the band, raising the cost-coverage target) require a deliberate decision by the competent allocator, so that generosity is not gamed.
(d) Return on feeding the reservoir. A holon’s voluntary upward contribution (GT-4.4A(c)) earns, on the terms set in the Allocation Model: mutual insurance (an internal metaphor for discretionary solidarity support within the one legal subject — not insurance in the regulated sense, and never a promise to a separate legal person) — first call on the reservoir’s support under (a); earned autonomy — a wider band of tolerance under (b); and recognition — the contribution is recorded in the contributing Stewards’ Network Passports (GT-3A) as a network-level contribution, on the lifetime-cumulative reading that governs access standing (and, in time, Eldership eligibility under Agreement 8 and LGR-1). These returns confer no governance vote, no allocation voice, and no personal income (GT-4.5(d), (g); GT-11): feeding the commons is seen and remembered, never enfranchised.
GT-4.9 — Asset Regeneration Contribution (ARC). Where a holon generates Net Revenue (GT-1.9) from economic activity that uses an Asset entrusted to the network under Agreement 1 — whether the Asset was entrusted gratuitously or at cost — a single Asset Regeneration Contribution at the prevailing rate r_ARC, never below the floor r_ARC_min, is deducted after the Network Regeneration Contribution (GT-4.4(a)) and before any operator or participant distribution, and routed to the host Asset holon. The rate is held as a Living Governance Resolution (LGR-9); absent a Board-ratified figure, the provisional default applies.
(a) One inflow, the standard shape. The ARC enters the host Asset holon’s allocation under GT-4.4: it covers the Asset’s cost-coverage bucket first (GT-4.4(b), including Steward activity-cost reimbursement under Agreement 3 §8–§9), then accrues to the Asset Reserve up to its replacement target (GT-4.4B), then funds the Asset’s discretionary regeneration, with any remainder overflowing to the common reservoir (GT-4.4(d)). No separate off-the-top cost-recovery line is needed — the Asset is a holon like any other, running the one shape of GT-4.4.
(b) Complement to the NRC. Where the NRC returns a share of activity to the network, the ARC returns a share to the Asset that hosts it, so that value drawn from a gift given at cost regenerates the gift rather than being privatised by the operator. The ARC is a local distribution to the host holon, not a network carve-out; the Association holon, the Elder Council, and non-economic inflows do not levy it. NRC and ARC are the network-scope and asset-scope of the one Regeneration Contribution (GT-4.4C).
(c) Override within a floor. The economic annex of the activity (the Programme Annex under Agreement 4; the Project economics under Agreement 6; the Venture Sheet under Agreement 7) may set a rate different from the default, but only with the written agreement of the host Asset’s Steward(s) — who hold the Asset’s interest — and never below r_ARC_min. Where the operator is also the host Steward, GT-11.7 applies and the Association names another to represent the Asset.
(d) Scope. The ARC applies only to Assets entrusted under Agreement 1. Activity priced at cost, generating no Net Revenue — including the Resource-cost band of Agreement 4 — yields no ARC; where an Asset is used mainly for gift or at-cost activity, its cost-coverage is carried through its living balance and, where genuinely short, the common reservoir (GT-4.4A, GT-4.8).
GT-4.10 — Federation (holons compose into holons). Federation is the same operation at every scale: holons group into a larger holon for mutual aid and coordination, running the same shape as every holon (GT-4.4) — covering the federation’s own coordination cost, holding allocation right over shared surplus within its band, and non-terminal, so surplus overflows to the common reservoir (GT-4.4(d)) and no federation hoards. It confers no new governance vote (GT-11; one member, one vote) and no property right (GT-11.5). The pattern runs without limit:
(a) Within one legal entity. Co-located Hub holons sharing a place, watershed, or bioregion form a Cluster: an internal holon for sharing tools, people, knowledge, and overflow beyond the reservoir’s financial mutual aid; activated by its constituent hubs and ratified by the Board, with the seasonal gathering as its coordination forum and inter-hub disputes resolved under GT-7.
(b) Across legal entities. The network — itself an ordinary holon (GT-4.4C) — federates with other associations, networks, and commons sharing a watershed or bioregion, by agreement, preserving each entity’s autonomy and legal form, the non-distribution constraint (GT-4.5(g)), and the access firewalls (GT-3A.4 / 3A.4A); it may include mutual recognition of contribution and Passports (GT-3A) and shared Network Demand Signals (GT-1.12). Cross-entity mechanics are set in a dedicated instrument.
The only thing that changes across scales is the legal boundary the federation crosses; the holonic shape is identical.
GT-5. Data Protection
GT-5.1 Each Party shall process personal data in compliance with GDPR (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) and Italian Legislative Decree 196/2003 as amended.
GT-5.2 The Association acts as data controller. Where another Party processes data on its behalf, a data processing agreement per Article 28 GDPR is required. Where multiple parties jointly determine processing (as in the Contribution Ledger), a joint controller arrangement per Article 26 GDPR applies.
GT-5.3 Personal data processed only for purposes strictly necessary. Each Party implements appropriate security measures and promptly notifies breaches.
GT-6. Force Majeure
GT-6.1 Neither Party liable for failure due to circumstances beyond reasonable control (natural disasters, pandemics, war, government orders, strikes, utility failure).
GT-6.2 Prompt notification required. If the event continues for ninety (90) days, either Party may terminate without liability save for accrued obligations.
GT-6A. Termination for Serious Cause
GT-6A.1 Unless an individual agreement provides otherwise, either party to any agreement in the constellation may terminate it with immediate effect for serious cause: a serious breach of the agreement or of applicable law; unlawful conduct; conduct creating danger or serious harm to participants, an Asset, or the Association; or serious financial opacity or misappropriation. An individual agreement may extend this standard with role-specific causes, or substitute a staged process (suspension and cure) where the relationship warrants one.
GT-6A.2 Termination for cause does not affect obligations already accrued; provisions intended to survive termination continue in effect.
GT-7. Dispute Resolution
GT-7.1 Amicable resolution first through good-faith discussion.
GT-7.2 Internal mediation (for disputes involving the Association and a natural person): refer to the Elder Council for a non-binding opinion. The Elder Council, once constituted under Agreement 8, fulfils the role of the Collegio dei Probiviri for all purposes of this Agreement and the Statute. Until the Elder Council is constituted, the Collegio dei Probiviri (if elected) performs this function in the traditional form. Where neither the Elder Council nor the Collegio dei Probiviri is constituted, internal review is performed by an ad-hoc panel of three Members or Stewards who are not party to the dispute, convened by the Board within thirty (30) days of the referral; and, for the period before the Elder Council exists, a proposed amendment to the Statute, these General Terms, or any agreement in the constellation is published to the membership for comment at least thirty (30) days before ratification, in place of the Constellation Integrity Review of Agreement 8 §5.4(b).
GT-7.3 External mediation (for inter-entity disputes, or if Probiviri unavailable): mediation pursuant to Legislative Decree 28/2010.
GT-7.4 Jurisdiction: Court of Ascoli Piceno, Italy.
GT-7.5 — Participants and guests (non-members). A participant, guest, or client who is not a Member may raise a complaint through the ladder of GT-7.1–7.3 (amicable resolution; internal mediation; external mediation), to the same effect as a Member, beginning with the host Steward and the Association. A safeguarding concern is handled under GT-2.6 and the Operational Procedures (Section M) rather than as an ordinary dispute. Nothing in this clause limits the person’s statutory rights as a consumer or data subject, or their access to the ordinary courts (GT-7.4).
GT-8. Governing Law and RUNTS Status
GT-8.1 Italian law governs, including the Civil Code and Third Sector Code (Legislative Decree 117/2017).
GT-8.2 The Association is inscribed in the RUNTS as APS — ETS. Full applicability of Third Sector fiscal and governance provisions.
GT-8.3 English drafting. An Italian certified translation prevails before Italian courts only where it has been agreed and signed by both Parties, at or after execution.
GT-9. Entire Agreement and Severability
GT-9.1 Each individual agreement, together with these General Terms and any Annexes, constitutes the entire understanding. Amendments in writing.
GT-9.2 If any provision is invalid, the remainder stands. Good-faith replacement of invalid provisions.
GT-10. Anti-Corruption and Legality of Funds
GT-10.1 No funds from illegal activity, money laundering, or sanctioned sources. Compliance with Legislative Decree 231/2001 where applicable.
GT-11. Constellation Cross-Reference
GT-11.1 Every agreement forms part of the interconnected constellation and is read consistently with the others.
GT-11.2 Hierarchy: (1) Statute prevails over all; (2) upstream agreement prevails over downstream as between the Association and the upstream counterparty; (3) individual agreement prevails over General Terms for specific conflicting provisions.
GT-11.3 The constellation comprises: the Ownership Agreement; the Membership Agreement; the Stewardship Agreement; the Mentorship Agreement; the Sponsorship Agreement; the Partnership Agreement; the Intrapreneurship Agreement; the Eldership Agreement; and these General Terms.
GT-11.4 Agreement Stacking. The agreements in this constellation are designed to be held simultaneously. A person or entity may be party to any number of agreements at the same time — a Member may also be a Steward, a Mentor, a Partner, and a Founding Member of a Venture Holon. Each agreement is self-contained and operates independently. Entering a new role requires signing the relevant agreement; it does not require amending or terminating any existing agreement. There is no prescribed sequence and no administrative transition process — the constellation expands naturally as relationships deepen and roles multiply. Stewardship (Agreement 3) is the deeper, hub-specific expression of the standing mandate every Member already carries under Agreement 2 Clause 2.7; it formalises that mandate for a particular Hub rather than originating a separate authority.
GT-11.5 — No property or governance rights by role. No agreement in this constellation, other than the Membership Agreement (Agreement 2) as regards membership rights, confers on the counterparty: (a) any governance right in the Association; (b) any ownership, co-ownership, leasehold, tenancy, usufruct, possessory, or permanent use right over any Asset, Hub, or other resource of the Association; or (c) any right to the Association’s profits, surplus, or capital appreciation. These exclusions do not affect rights held separately as a Member under the Statute. Individual agreements state only role-specific extensions of this rule.
GT-11.6 — Independent activities. Every counterparty is free to pursue independent professional, creative, and entrepreneurial activities, consistent with the non-employment character of the constellation (GT-12.4). Without the Association’s prior written agreement, no counterparty may use the Association’s hubs, resources, participant lists, or name to organise or promote activities that compete with or divert participants from the Association’s mission-aligned programmes. This rule does not restrict anyone’s independent livelihood; it protects the integrity of the network’s mission-bound spaces and jointly developed content. Role-specific extensions are stated in the individual agreements.
GT-11.7 — Stacked roles and conflicts of interest. A person or entity holding more than one role in the constellation (GT-11.4) shall disclose the stack wherever their roles interact in a specific matter, and shall not confirm, approve, validate, or review their own act performed in another role — including confirming their own Ledger entries (GT-1.8), approving their own reimbursements or payments (GT-4.5(c)), or reporting on a matter to themselves in another capacity. Where recusal would leave no competent person, the matter is referred to the next competent allocator or to the Association.
GT-11.8 — Hub exit and community continuity. Where a Hub leaves the network — by the Owner’s withdrawal of the Asset (Agreement 1 §6) or the network’s return of it (GT-2.7(b)) — the Asset’s departure does not sever the people. The Association: (a) honours in-flight programmes and ventures to a fair conclusion or transfer to another hub; (b) preserves the network access of the Hub’s participants, guests, and members, whose Passports are portable to other hubs (GT-3A.5); (c) maintains the resident Steward’s protections under Agreement 3 §16 (notice, housing window); (d) keeps the Contribution Ledger and Passports intact (GT-13.4) — a Hub’s departure renders no record void; and (e) carries the departing community’s unmet needs into the Network Demand Register (GT-1.13). Continuity of relationship survives continuity of place.
GT-11.9 — Admitting a new node. Where GT-11.8 governs exit, this clause governs entry: admitting a new place or partner is a distinct act from signing Agreement 1 over an Asset. Every new node passes one gate — mission fit (including regenerative balance from the start, GT-2.7) and the network’s real capacity to support it; a well-fitting node may be declined for lack of capacity, so growth never over-extends the whole. The Board decides (GT-4.5(a)); the node joins provisionally and reaches full hub status after review (Operational Procedures, Section Q). The same gate applies whether the node joins as a Hub under Agreement 1 or as an external partner by federation (GT-4.10(b)); only the instrument that follows differs.
GT-12. Fiscal Compliance for Paid Collaborations
GT-12.1 Payment only against proper fiscal documentation (invoice, ricevuta per prestazione occasionale, etc.).
GT-12.2 The Association applies withholding taxes as required (e.g. 20% ritenuta d’acconto for occasional collaborators). If the Party operates under the regime forfettario and provides the required declaration, no withholding applies.
GT-12.3 If operating under the occasional collaboration regime, the total annual compensation may not exceed the threshold set by Art. 67(1)(l) TUIR. The Association monitors cumulative payments.
GT-12.4 No agreement in this constellation constitutes an employment contract unless a separate instrument expressly states otherwise. This applies to every role — Steward, Mentor, Supporter, Partner, Venture Member, and Elder alike.
GT-13. Continuity and Dissolution Resilience
GT-13.1 — The Network Covenant Transcends Legal Form The agreements in this constellation express relational obligations between people and communities. The Association is the current legal vessel through which those obligations are administered — it is not their source. The dissolution, insolvency, or deregistration of the Association does not extinguish the obligations the constellation records. It triggers a succession protocol.
GT-13.2 — Dissolution Protocol In the event the Association enters liquidation or deregistration proceedings under the Third Sector Code, the following sequence applies:
(a) The Association’s liquidators are instructed — and by signing any agreement in this constellation the Association commits — to identify a successor Third Sector entity willing and able to assume the Association’s relational obligations as a priority step, before distribution of any residual patrimony.
(b) The Contribution Ledger, all Passport records, and all network data shall be transferred in full to the successor entity or, if none is identified within 90 days, to a Custodial Council constituted under GT-13.5.
(c) Participants retain all vested Passport rights and named legacies regardless of the outcome of succession. These are personal records, not assets of the Association.
GT-13.3 — Relational Continuity at Hubs Every person or entity that holds an Ownership Agreement (Agreement 1) acknowledges that the network’s relational fabric — the standings, contributions, and recognitions of those who have participated in their hub — is part of what makes the hub a living place rather than a managed property. This acknowledgment creates no new operational obligation: the Owner’s responsibilities remain exactly those set out in Agreement 1. It means only this: if the Association enters succession proceedings, the Owner commits to being informed, to participating in good faith in any Custodial Council convened under GT-13.5 should they choose to do so, and to not acting in ways that would actively obstruct the continuity of the network’s relational commitments. The Owner’s participation in the Custodial Council is voluntary. No financial obligation and no obligation to provide housing, meals, or services arises from this clause alone.
GT-13.4 — Ledger as Public Good The Contribution Ledger and Network Passport data are network commons. No liquidator, successor entity, creditor, or third party may use them for commercial purposes, restrict participant access, or destroy them. If no successor entity is identified within 180 days of dissolution, the data shall be transferred to open public archive under a Creative Commons licence, with pseudonymisation preserved per GT-3.4.
GT-13.5 — Custodial Council If no successor entity is identified within 90 days of the Association entering dissolution proceedings, the hub owners (Agreement 1 holders) and any Elder Council constituted under Agreement 8 shall convene a Custodial Council. The Custodial Council operates independently of the Association’s legal form and has authority to: administer the remaining Unified Fund exclusively for participant welfare; nominate and constitute a successor entity; and maintain continuity of relational obligations until succession is complete or the network formally concludes. The Custodial Council is self-constituting — it requires no further instrument to convene beyond the conditions stated in this clause.
GT-13.6 — Individual Agreement Survival The relational rights and recognitions established in each individual agreement — including Passport record, Elder status, stewardship legacy, and named recognitions — survive the dissolution of the Association and are enforceable against any successor entity that assumes the constellation obligations under GT-13.2.
GT-13.7 — Caring for people when the network winds down GT-13.2–13.6 protect the network’s records and property through dissolution; this clause protects its people. Creditors and the mandatory devoluzione of assets (Art. 9 CTS) are untouched. Within the discretion the law leaves — the residual Unified Fund and common reservoir, already reserved for participant welfare (GT-13.5) — people come first: housing for resident Stewards and the welfare of participants and guests are settled before any discretionary distribution, and the common reservoir remains mutual insurance to the end, never swept to the centre. Dissolution triggers a resident Steward’s housing window and rehousing help exactly as a no-fault termination would (Agreement 3 §16.3), and comodato Assets return to their owners on the terms of their own Agreement 1 (§6). The Custodial Council (GT-13.5) carries this human estate — housing, in-flight programmes and ventures, participant welfare — until a successor entity exists; the successor then owes the whole network the same continuity GT-11.8 owes a single departing hub’s community.