GFC Membership Conditions

According to the article 3 of GFC constitution, all the companies or bodies, French or not French, can be members of the GFC, when interested in the activities of the GFC and belonging to one of the colleges below:

• Oil and Chemistry Industries , manufacturers of additives,
• Industries of vehicles, engines and their equipments,
• Users, laboratories, universities and technical schools.

To join, the company or candidate body has to send its demand for the GFC.

Its application must be sponsored by 2 member companies or participants associated to the GFC and it involves the acceptance of the entire constitution of the GFC and the internal rules (available on www.gfc-tests.org site.

The Executive committee judges its eligibility according to the technical contribution which the candidate may bring to the works of the GFC and confirms the college to which it will be up.

The definitive admission is subordinated to a favorable vote of the General assembly.

GFC members may participate in technical committees of their choice; The amount of the membership fee is progressive according to the number of committees in which they participate.

The members' annual dues are defined by the Executive Committee and submitted to the General Assembly for approval for the following year. It must be recovered by the beginning of that year at the latest;  members who have not yet paid their dues will have their access to the GFC website blocked; They will receive notices of meetings of their committee, but will not be able to attend until their situation has been regularized.

The basic membership fee for a committee is 1200 € for the year 2023; this amount is reviewed each year at the General Assembly and applies for the following year and is due from the beginning of that year;

Members participating in two committees pay a double membership fee (€2400 in 2023), and members participating in three committees pay a triple membership fee (€3600 in 2023).

Members participating in more than three committees pay a triple membership fee (3600 € in 2023).

Universities and Schools benefit from a lower membership fee, but not associations that bring together several institutions.

Universities and Schools benefit from a free membership in the first year and an 80% discount from the following years; the same reduction is applied to the number of votes they have.

Any member or associate participant of the GFC may be represented at meetings of one or more Working or Monitoring Groups.

A company that is not a member of the GFC may participate in a circular trial if it has (or purchases) the corresponding method and pays one year's membership to the corresponding committee.