Benefits
1. Benefits and conditions Group A countries:
- Free, individual membership
- Free access to specific IOBC website information (agenda of biocontrol related meetings, IOBC internet book of Biological Control, IOBC Global and Regional Newsletters, etc.)
- Free access to IOBC Publications on website (e.g. WG Quality Control bulletins, proceedings of WGs)
- Free participation in Writing Partnership (see form IOBC Writing Partnership on website)
- Lowest fee for bulletins of IOBC workshops that you have attended in your Regional Section or of IOBC Global (non-members have to pay about 30 Euro for the bulletin with proceedings of the meeting)
- Lowest registration fee at IOBC meetings (non-members pay an extra fee)
- Reduced subscription fee for IOBC Journal of BioControl (25% of normal price)
- Reduced subscription fee for Biocontrol, Science and Technology
- (To be negociated by Executive Committee IOBC Global: free electronic access to biological control journals via Agora system)
Conditions free membership
- To provide information about the history, current situation and biological control/IPM projects in home country
- To assist in IOBC Biological Control Information Service when questions about home country are asked
2. Benefits Group B countries:
-Reduced fee individual membership
- See under 1, except last point (Agora)
- (To be negociated by Executive Committee IOBC Global: reduced fee for electronic access to biological control journals via Agora system)
3. Benefits for full fee Group C countries:
- See under 1, except last point (Agora)
- Free bulletins of IOBC workshops that you have attended in your Regional Section or of IOBC Global (non-members have to pay about 30 Euro for the bulletin with proceedings of the meeting)
4. General conditions for free and reduced fee individual membership
Free and reduced membership is available only for those with the nationality of group A and B countries, respectively. Those, whose income allows for a normal membership are asked not to apply for free or reduced fee membership. *See file IOBC Country Grouping with group A, B and C countries
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