Aims
Article 2 : Ibo aima of the UAI are to encourage international cooperation in those branches of learning promoted by the Academies and institutions represented in the UAI philology, archaeology, history, the moral, political and social sciences; these aims are to be achieved by the establishment and direction of collective projects which have a particular defined purpose, and also by the coordination of activities which fall within the above mentioned branches of knowledge.

Legal Status
Article 3 : The UAI accepts the controlling authority of the Belgian law of 25 October 1919 concerning the incorporation under civil law of international associations having the pursuit of knowledge/learning as their aim.

Membership
Article 4 : Academies that have a national character and national learned institutions comparable with them can be recognized as qualified for membership under the terms of the admission procedure prescribed in Article 5.

Admission
Article 5 : Requests for the admission of new members must be addressed to the UAI through the mediation of delegates belonging to Academies or affiliated groupa of Academies of three different countries.
Decisions on these requests shall be taken by the General Assembly, and the majority required is three quarters of the votes, whether expressed verbally or by correspondence. (See ai Regulation 8 f).

Delegates General Assemblies
Article 6 : Affiliated Member Academies shall be represented at the UAI by two delegates from each country; if desired, they may be accompanied by additional delegates, but the latter shall not have the right to vote.
The Assembly shall deliberate and take decisions on all decisions of a general nature, on collective projects for research or publication, on the management of the UAI's finances, and if required on the dismissal of the Bureau or of any of its members.
Decisions of the Assembly ,shall be taken by simple majority of votes cast, except in cases where the Statutes or
Regulations prescribe otherwise.

Termination of Membership
Article 7 : Membership of the UAI may be terminated:
a) by renunciation of the affiliation;
b) by decision of the General Assembly reached by secret ballot by a majority of three quarters of the delegates present. The General Assembly shall give reasons for its action.
In either case the termination of membership of a body of scholars belonging to a nation entails the resignation of its delegates to the UAI. The latter cease to have a claim on the Union's assets.

Bureau
Article 8
a) The Bureau of the UAI shall be composed, the number of delegates permitting, of eight members chosen from among the delegates : of these eight, one shall be President, two Vice Presidents, and one Secretary, whose right to vote shall be restricted to administrative questions.
b) Members of the Bureau, except the Secretary, shall be elected for a period of three years. They shall not be eligible for re election in the same capacity immediately at the end of their mandate. Their mandates expire if they cease to be designated as delegates.
c) One and the same nation cannot be represented in the Bureau by more than one member; the Secretary, or the Belgian associate mentioned in §f) does not court for the purposes of this rule.
d) The Bureau shall preside over the deliberations of the Assembly, shall control the general administration of the UAI and the promotion of its work. It shall be empowered to take urgent decisions in the interval between sessions of the Assembly, and also, if required, to call a meeting of the Assembly.
e) The Bureau or any of lis members can be dismissed by decision of the Assembly reached by secret ballot by a majority of three quarters of the delegates present.
J) The Bureau of the UAI shall have its headquarters at Brussels (Palais des Académies). It shall be the executive and administrative organ of the Union. If the Bureau includes no member from Belgium one shall be coopted, whose right to vote shall be restricted to administrative questions.

Secretariat
Article 9 : The Bureau shall organize an administrative secretariat at Brussels entrusted with the conduct of day to day business and of correspondence, with the care of the archives and with the management of funds allocated for administrative expenses as well as of funds which may be entrusted to the Secretariat by way of gifts, legacies or foundations intended to promote the tasks of the UAI. The French language shall be adopted as the official language of the UAI for correspondence and all administrative documents.

Budget
Article 10 : The UAI shall have a budget divided into two headings, of which the first shall cover expenditure allocated for administration, the second expenditure allocated for research and publication.

Management
Article 11
a) The UAI shall have the capacity to receive donations originating from any country. These donations can be made with the proviso that they are earmarked for special tasks of research or publication, or to subsidize scientific tasks.
b) The Bureau shall be responsible for the day to day management of the property of the UAI. It may delegate the management to the Permanent Secretary of the Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux Arts de Belgique.

Legal Capacity
Article 12 : The right of instituting legal proceedings, of accepting gifts and legacies, and more generally of performing all juridical aces of whatever kind in the same of the UAI, shall be exercised by the Bureau, which may delegate its powers to the Permanent Secretary of the Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux Arts de Belgique.

Changes in the Statutes
Article 13
a) Proposals for changes in the Statutes must be presented by either delegations of at least three different countries or by the Bureau at least four months before the meeting of the Assembly.
b) A majority of three quarters of the delegates present shall be required in the voting on such proposals.

Dissolution
Article 14
a) The UAI must pronounce its own dissolution if the number of affiliated Academies falls below a minimum of three. A proposal for dissolution car also be put forward by the Assembly if it receives a motion to that effect signed by three quarters of the delegates : the decision to dissolve the UAI must be a unanimous one, whether the votes are expressed directly or by correspondence.
b) In the event of dissolution, the Assembly shall nominate three liquidators of different nationality, and the assets held by the UAI shall be handed over to learned institutions designated by the Assembly.

Cases not provided for
Article 15 : In all cases not expressly provided for in the present Statutes the UAI shall have recourse to Belgian legislation.