Composition

Functions and Powers

Voting

Procedure

Composition

Functions and Powers

Voting

Procedure

Composition

Functions and Powers

Voting

Procedures

Composition

Functions and Powers

Voting

Procedure

Accordingly the respective social systems, through representatives assembled on the planet Babel, who have exhibited their full powers to be in good and due form, have agreed to these articles of federation of the United Federation of Planets, and do hereby establish an interplanetary organization to be known as the United Federation of Planets.

The original members of the United Federation of Planets shall be those planetary social systems which, having participated in the interplanetary conference at Babel, or having previously signed the Declaration of the United Federation of Planets of Stardate 0963, sign these Article of Federation and ratify them in accordance with Article 110.

1. Membership in the United Federation is open to any other peaceful planetary social systems which accept the obligations contained in these Articles of Federation and, in the judgement of the Federation, are capable and willing to carry out these obligations;

2. The Admission of any such planetary social system to membership in the United Federation of Planets is contingent upon the decision of the Supreme Assembly upon recommendation of the Federation Council.

The Supreme Assembly may suspend the rights and privileges of membership of any member of the United Federation against which the Federation Council has taken preventative or enforcement action. The Federation Council may restore these rights and privileges of membership at its discretion;

Any member of the United Federation which has persistently violated the purposes and principles contained in these Articles of Federation may be expelled from the Federation by the Supreme Assembly upon recommendation of the Federation Council.

1. There are established as the principle agencies of the Untied Federation of Planets: a Supreme Assembly, a Federation Council, and Economic and Social Council, a Trusteeship Council, and Interplanetary Supreme Court of Justice, a Starfleet combined peace-keeping force, and a Secretariat;

2. Such subsidiary agencies as may be deemed necessary from time to time may be established in accordance with these Articles of Federation;

The United Federation shall place no restriction on the eligibility of male and female life-forms of any member planetary social system to participate in any capacity under conditions of equality in its principal and subsidiary agencies.

The Supreme Assembly shall consist of all the members of the United Federation of Planets. Each member shall be entitles to have not more than five (5) representatives in this body;

The Supreme Assembly may discuss any questions on any matters within the scope of these Articles of Federation or relating to the powers and functions of any agencies provided for in these Articles of Federation and, except as provided in Article 12, may make recommendations to the members and the Federation Council or both on any such questions or matters;

1. The Supreme Assembly may consider the general principles of cooperation in maintaining interplanetary peace and security, including disarmament and the regulation of armaments, and may make recommendations with regard to such principles to the members or the Federation Council or to both;

2. The Supreme Assembly may discuss any questions relative to the maintenance of intra-galactic peace and security put to it by any member or the Federation Council, or a non-member planetary social system in accordance with Article 25 paragraph 2 and, except as provided in Article 12, may make recommendations with regard to such questions to the members, the Federation Council, or the pleading planetary social system, or to all of them. Any such question on which action is necessary shall be referred to the Federation Council by the Supreme Assembly either before or after discussion;

3. The Supreme Assembly may call situations which are likely to endanger the interplanetary and intra-galactic peace and security to the attention of the Federation Council;

4. The powers of the Supreme Assembly as set forth in this Article shall not limit the scope of Article 10;

1. Where the Federation Council is executing the functions assigned to it under these Articles of Federation with respect to any dispute or situation, the Supreme Assembly shall make no recommendation with regard to that dispute or situation unless so requested by the Federation Council;

2. The Supreme-Secretariat, with the consent of the Federation Council, shall notify the Supreme Assembly at each session of any matters relating to the maintenance of interplanetary peace and security which are under discussion in the Federation Council, and shall notify the Supreme Assembly, or the members if the Supreme Assembly is not in session, immediately when the Federation Council completes its deliberations on any such matters;

1. The Supreme Assembly shall initiate studies and make recommendations for the purpose of:

2. The further responsibilities, functions, and powers of the Supreme Assembly with respect to matters in paragraph 1B above are set forth in Chapters IX and X;

Subject to the provisions of Article 12, the Supreme Assembly may recommend measures for the peaceful adjustment of any situation, regardless of origin, which it deems likely to impair the general welfare or friendly relations among the planets, including situations resulting from violations of the provisions of these Articles of Federation setting forth the purposes and principles of the United Federation of Planets;

1. The Supreme Assembly shall receive and consider regular and special reports from the Federation Council; which reports shall include an account of the measure that the Federation Council has decided upon or taken to maintain interplanetary peace and security;

2. The Supreme Assembly shall receive and consider reports from the other agencies of the United Federation on agreed upon regular periods of reporting;

The Supreme Assembly shall perform such functions of intra-galactic trusteeship as are assigned to it under Chapters XII and XIII, including the approval of the trusteeship agreements for areas which are not designated as strategic;

1. The Supreme Assembly shall consider and approve the budget of the United Federation of Planets;

2. The expenses of the United Federation of Planets shall be borne by the members as apportioned by the Supreme Assembly;

3. The Supreme Assembly shall consider and approve any financial and budgetary arrangements with specialized agencies referred to in Article 57 and shall examine the administrative budgets of such specialized agencies with a view to making recommendations to the agencies concerned;

4 .All budgets of, and expenses of the United Federation shall be made and paid in common interplanetary credit. The common interplanetary credit shall be the official medium of exchange within the United Federation treaty exploration territory;

1. Each member of the Supreme Assembly shall have one vote;

2. Decisions of the Supreme Assembly on important questions shall be made on a two-thirds (2/3) majority vote of the members present and voting. These questions shall include: recommendations with respect to the maintenance of interplanetary peace and security; the election of non-permanent members to the Federation Council; the election of members to the Trusteeship Council in accordance with paragraph 1C of Article 86; the admission of new members to the Federation; the suspension of the rights and privileges of membership; the expulsion of members; questions relating to the operation of the Trusteeship system; and budgetary questions;

3. Decisions on other questions, including the determination of additional categories of questions to be decided by a two-thirds (2/3) majority, shall be made by a majority vote of the members present and voting;

A member of the United Federation which is in arrears in the payment of its financial obligations to the Federation shall have no vote in the Supreme Assembly if the amount it is in arrears equals or exceeds the amount of contributions due from it for the preceding two accounting periods. The Supreme Assembly may, nevertheless, permit such a member to vote if it is satisfied that the failure to pay is due to conditions beyond the control of the member.

The Supreme Assembly shall meet in regular periodic sessions and in such special sessions as occasion may require. Special sessions shall be convoked by the Supreme-Secretariat at the request of the Federation Council or of a majority of the members of the United Federation;

The Supreme Assembly shall adopt its own rules of procedure. It shall elect its president for each session;

The Supreme Assembly may establish such subsidiary agencies as it deems necessary for the performance of its functions.

1.The Federation Council shall consist of eleven (11) members of the United Federation. The United Nations of the Planet Earth, the Planetary Confederation of 40 Eridani, the United Planets of 61 Cygni, the Star Empire of Epsilon Indii, and the Alpha Centauri Concordium of Planets shall be permanent members of the Federation Council. The Supreme Assembly shall elect six (6) other members of the United Federation to be non-permanent members of the Federation Council, due regard being especially paid, in the first instance, to the contribution of the members of the United Federation to the maintenance of interplanetary peace and security and to the other purposes of the Federation, and also to equitable geo-galactical distribution;

2. The non-permanent members of the Federation Council shall be elected for a term of two (2) session periods. In the first election of non-permanent members, however, three(3) shall be elected for a term of one (1) session period. A retiring member shall not be eligible for immediate re-election;

1.In order to assure prompt and effective action by the United Federation of Planets, its members confer on the Federation Council primary responsibility for the maintenance of interplanetary peace and security, and agree that in carrying out its duties under this responsibility the Federation Council acts on their behalf;

2. In discharging these duties the Federation Council shall act in accordance with the purposes and principles of the United Federation. The specific powers granted to the Federation Council for the discharge of these duties are laid down in Chapters VI, VII, VIII, and XII;

3. The Federation Council shall submit regular and, when necessary, special reports to the Supreme Assembly for its consideration;

The members of the United Federation agree to accept and carry out the decisions of the Federation Council in accordance with these Articles of Federation;

In order to promote the establishment and maintenance of interplanetary peace and security with the least diversion of the Federation's life-forms, and economic resources for armaments, the Federation Council shall be responsible for formulating, with the assistance of Starfleet Headquarters staff referred to in Article 47, plans to be submitted to the members of the United Federation for the establishment of a system for the regulation of armaments;

1.Each member of the Federation Council shall have one vote;

2. Decisions of the Federation Council on Federation matters shall be made by an affirmative vote of seven (7) members;

3. Decisions of the Federation Council on all other matters shall be made on affirmative vote of seven (7) members including the concurring votes of the permanent members, provided that, in decisions under Chapter VI, and under paragraph 3 of Article 52, a party to the dispute shall refrain from voting;

1.The Federation Council shall be so organized as to be able to function continuously. Each member of the Federation Council shall, for this purpose, be represented at all times at the seat of the Federation;

2. The Federation Council shall hold periodic meetings at which each of its members may, if it so desires, be represented by a member of its government or by some other specially designated representative;

3. The Federation Council may hold meeting at such places other than the seat of the Federation as in its judgement will facilitate its work;

The Federation Council may establish such subsidiary agencies as it deems necessary for the performance of its functions;

The Federation Council shall adopt its own rules of procedure, including the method of selecting its governor;

Any member of the United Federation which is not a member of the Federation Council may participate, without vote, in the discussion of any question brought before the Federation Council whenever the latter considers that the interests of the member are specifically affected;

Any member of the United Federation which is not a member of the Federation Council or any planetary social system which is not a member of the United Federation of Planets, if it is a party to a dispute under consideration by the Federation Council, shall be invited to participate, without vote, in the discussion relating to the dispute. The Federation Council shall lay down the conditions as it deems just for the participation of a planetary social system which is not a member of the United Federation of Planets.

1.The parties to any dispute, the continuance of which is likely to endanger the maintenance of interplanetary peace and security, shall, first of all, seek a solution by negotiation, enquiry, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, judicial settlement, resort to regional agencies or arrangements, or other peaceful means of their own choice;

2. The Federation Council shall, when it deems necessary, call upon the parties to settle their dispute by such means;

The Federation Council may investigate any dispute, or any situation that might lead to interplanetary friction or give rise to a dispute, in order to determine whether the continuance of the dispute or situation is likely to endanger the maintenance of interplanetary peace and security;

1.Any member of the United Federation may bring any dispute, or any situation of the nature referred to in Article 34, to the attention of the Federation Council or the Supreme Assembly;

2. A planetary social system which is not a member of the United Federation of Planets may bring to the attention of the Federation Council or the Supreme Assembly any dispute to which it is a party of it accepts in advance, for the purposes of the dispute, the obligation of pacific settlement provided in these Articles of Federation;

3. The proceedings of the Supreme Assembly in respect to matter brought to its attention under this Article will be subject to the provisions of Articles 11 and 12;

1.The Federation Council may, at any stage of a dispute of the nature referred to in Article 33 or of a situation of like nature, recommend procedures or appropriate methods of adjustment;

2. The Federation Council shall take into consideration any procedures for the settlement of the dispute which have already been adopted by the parties;

3. In making recommendations under the Article the Federation Council should also take into consideration that legal disputes should as a general rule be referred to the Interplanetary Supreme Court of Justice in accordance with the provisions of the statute of the court;

1.Should the parties to a dispute as referred to in Article 33 fail to settle it by means indicated in that Article, they shall refer it to the Federation Council;

2. If the Federation Council deems that the continuance of the dispute is in fact likely to endanger the maintenance of interplanetary peace and security, it shall decide whether to take action under Article 36 or to recommend such terms as it may consider appropriate;

Without prejudice to the provisions of Articles 33 to 37, the Federation Council may, if all the parties to any dispute so request, make recommendations to the parties with a view to a pacific settlement of the dispute.

The Federation Council shall determine the existence of any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression and shall make recommendations to maintain or restore interplanetary peace and security;

In order to prevent aggravation of the situation, the Federation Council may call upon the parties concerned to comply with such provisional measures as it deems necessary or desirable. Such provisional measures shall be without prejudice to the rights, claims, or position of the parties concerned. The Federation Council shall take into account any failure to comply with such provisional measures;

The Federation Council may decide what measures short of the use of armed force are to be employed to give effect to its decisions, and may call upon the members of the United Federation to apply such measures. These may include partial or complete interruption of economic relations, inter-planet radio and space travel, and severance of diplomatic relations;

Should the Federation Council consider that measures under Article 41 would be inadequate or have proved to be inadequate, it may take such action by armed force as necessary to maintain or restore interplanetary peace and security, such action may include demonstrations, blockades, and other operations by Starfleet combined peace-keeping forces;

All members of the United Federation in obligation to the maintenance of interplanetary peace and security, agree to make available to Starfleet, on call of the Federation Council, armed forces, assistance, and facilities, including rights of passage, necessary for the maintenance of interplanetary peace and security;

When the Federation Council has decided to use force it shall, before calling upon a member not represented on it to provide armed forces in fulfillment of obligations assumed under Article 43, invite that member to participate in the decisions of the Federation Council relating to the employment of contingents of the member's armed forces;

In order to enable the United Federation to take urgent military measures, all members so capable, shall assign contingents of their armed forces to Starfleet to be employed as a single peace-keeping force of the United Federation of Planets. All contingents so assigned, and for the duration of their assignment, shall hold full faith and loyalty to the United Federation of Planets and the protection of the purposes and principles of these Articles of Federation;

Plans for the application of Starfleet armed forces shall be made by the Federation Council with the assistance of the Military Staff Committee of Starfleet Headquarters;

With a view to creating conditions of stability and well being which are necessary for peaceful relations among planetary social systems based on respect for the principles of equal rights and self-determination of all intelligent life-forms, the United Federation of Planets shall promote:

All members pledge themselves to take joint and separate action in cooperation with the United Federation for the achievement of the purposes and goals set forth in Article 55;

1. The various specialized agencies, established by interplanetary agreement and having wide interplanetary responsibilities as defined in their basic instruments in economic, social, cultural, educational, health, and related fields, shall be brought into relationship with the United Federation in accordance with Article 63;

2.Such agencies thus brought into relationship with the United Federation are hereafter referred to as specialized agencies;

The United Federation shall make recommendations for the coordination of the policies and activities of the specialized agencies;

The United Federation, where appropriate, initiate negotiations among its members concerned for the creation of any new specialized agencies required for the accomplishment of the purposes set forth in Article 55;

Responsibility for the discharge of the functions of the United Federation as set forth in this Chapter shall be vested in the Supreme Assembly and, under the authority of the Supreme Assembly, in the Economic and Social Council which shall have for this purpose the powers set forth in Chapter X.

The Economic and Social Council shall set up commissions in economic and social fields and for the promotion of intelligent life-form rights, and such other commissions as may be required for the performance of its functions;

The Economic and Social Council shall invite any member of the United Federation to participate, without vote, in its deliberations on any matter of particular concern to that member;

The Economic and Social Council may make arrangements for representatives of the specialized agencies to participate, without vote, in its deliberations and in those commissions established by it, and for its representatives to participate in the deliberations of the specialized agencies;

The Economic and Social Council may make suitable arrangements for consultation with non-governmental intra-planetary organizations which are concerned with matters within its conference. Such arrangements may be made with interplanetary organizations and, where appropriate, with planetary organizations after consultation with members of the United Federation concerned;

Members of the United Federation which have assumed responsibilities for the administration of regions whose intelligent life-forms have not yet attained a full measure of self-government recognize the principle that the interests of the inhabitants of these regions are paramount, and accept as a sacred trust the obligation to the utmost, within the system of interplanetary peace and security established by these Articles of Federation, the well being of the inhabitants of these regions, and, to this end:

Members of the United Federation also agree that their policy in respect of the regions to which this Chapter applies, no less than in respect of their metropolitan areas, must be based on the general principle of good neighborliness, due account being taken of the interests and well being of the rest of the Federation territory in social, economic, and commercial matters.

The United Federation shall establish under its authority an Interplanetary Trusteeship System for the administration and supervision of such regions as may be placed thereunder by subsequent individual agreements. These regions are hereinafter referred to as trust regions;

The basic objectives of the Trusteeship System, in accordance with the purposes and principles of the United Federation as laid down in these Articles of Federation, shall be:

1.The Trusteeship Council shall consist of the following members of the United Federation:

2.Each member of the Trusteeship Council shall designate one (1) specially qualified intelligent life-form to represent it therein;

The Supreme Assembly and , under its authority, the Trusteeship Council, in carrying out their functions may:

The Trusteeship Council shall formulate a questionnaire on the political, economic, social, and educational, advancement of the inhabitants of each trust region, and the administering authority for each trust region within the competence of the Supreme Assembly shall make a periodic report to the Supreme Assembly upon the basis of such questionnaire;

1.Each member of the Trusteeship Council shall have one vote;

1.The Trusteeship Council shall adopt its own rules of procedure, including the method of selecting its director;

2.The Trusteeship Council shall meet as required in accordance with its rules which shall include provision for the convening of meetings on the request of a majority of its members;

The Trusteeship Council shall, when appropriate, avail itself of the assistance of the Economic and Social Council and of the specialized agencies in regard to matters with which they are respectively concerned.

The Interplanetary Supreme Court of Justice shall be the principal judicial instrument of the United Federation of Planets. It shall function in accordance with the appended statue, which is based upon the statue of the Tribunals of Alpha III, and forms the integral part of these Article of Federation;

1.All members of the United Federation are 'ipso facto' parties to the statue of the Interplanetary Supreme Court of Justice;

2.A social system which is not a member of the United Federation may become a party to the statue of the Interplanetary Supreme Court of Justice on conditions to be determined in each case by the Supreme Assembly upon the recommendation of the Federation Council;

1.Each member of the United Federation undertakes to comply with the decisions of the Interplanetary Supreme Court of Justice in any case to which it is a party;

2.If any party to a case fails to perform the obligations incumbent upon it under a judgement rendered by the court, the other party may have recourse to the Federation Council, which may, if it deems necessary, make recommendations or decide upon measures to be taken to give effect to the judgement;

Nothing in these Articles of Federation shall prevent members of the United Federation of Planets from entrusting the solution of their differences to other tribunals by virtue of agreements already in existence or which may be concluded in the future;

1.The Supreme Assembly or the Federation Council may request the Interplanetary Supreme Court of Justice to give an advisory opinion on any legal question;

2.Other bodies of the United Federation and the specialized agencies, which may at any time be so authorized by the Supreme Assembly, may also request advisory opinions of the court on legal questions arising within the scope of their activities.

The Secretariat shall be comprised of a Supreme-Secretariat and such staff as the United Federation may require. The Supreme-Secretariat shall be appointed by the Supreme Assembly upon the recommendation of the Federation Council, and shall be the Chief Administrative Officer of the United Federation;

The Supreme-Secretariat shall act in that capacity in all meetings of the Supreme Assembly, of the Federation Council, of the Economic and Social Council, and of the Trusteeship Council, and shall perform such other functions as are entrusted to the Secretariat by these bodies. The Supreme-Secretariat shall make a periodic report to the Supreme Assembly on the work of the United Federation of Planets;

The Supreme-Secretariat may bring to the attention of the Federation Council any matter to which in his/her opinion may threaten the maintenance of interplanetary peace and security

1.In the performance of their duties the Supreme-Secretariat and the staff shall not seek or receive instructions from any government or from any other authority external to the United Federation of Planets. They shall refrain from any action which might reflect on their positions as interplanetary officials responsible only to the United Federation;

2.Each member of the United Federation undertakes to respect the exclusively interplanetary character of the responsibilities of the Supreme-Secretariat and the staff and shall not seek to influence them in the discharge of their responsibilities;

1.The staff shall be appointed by the Supreme-Secretariat under regulations established by the Supreme Assembly;

2.Appropriate staffs shall be permanently assigned to the Economic and Social Council, the Trusteeship Council, and, as required, to other bodies of the United Federation. These staffs shall form a part of the Secretariat;

3.The paramount consideration in the employment of the staff and in the determination of the conditions of service shall be the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity. Due regard shall be paid to the importance of recruiting the staff on as wide a geo-galactical basis as possible.

1.Every treaty and every interplanetary agreement entered into by any member of the United Federation after these Article of Federation come into force shall as soon as possible be registered with the Supreme-Secretariat and published by him/her.;

2.No party to any such treaty or interplanetary agreement which has not been registered in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 1 of this Article may invoke that treaty or agreement before any body of the United Federation.

In the event of a conflict between the obligations of the members of the United Federation under these Articles of Federation and their obligations under any other interplanetary agreement, their obligations under these Articles of Federation shall prevail;

The United Federation shall enjoy in the territory or each of its members such legal capacity as may be necessary for the exercise of its functions and the fulfillment of its purposes;

1.The United Federation shall enjoy in the territory of each of its members such privileges and immunities as are necessary for the fulfillment of its purposes;

2.Representatives of the members of the United Federation and officials of the organization shall similarly enjoy such privileges and immunities as are necessary for the independent exercise of their functions in connection with the organization;

3.The Supreme Assembly may make recommendations with a view to determining the details of the application of paragraphs 1 and 2 of this article or may propose conventions to the members of the United Federation for this purpose.

1.Pending the coming into full force of such special agreements referred to in Article 43 as in the opinion of the Federation Council enable it to begin the exercise of its responsibilities under Article 42, the parties to the Declaration of the United Federation shall consult with one another and the other members of the United Federation with a view to such joint action on behalf of the organization as may be necessary for the purpose of maintaining interplanetary peace and security;

2.Nothing in these Articles of Federation shall invalidate or preclude action in relation to any social system which has been an adversary of any signatory to these Articles of Federation, taken or authorized as a result of that war by the governments having responsibility for such action;

Amendments to these Articles of Federation shall come into force for all members of the United Federation when they have been adopted by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the members of the Supreme Assembly and ratified in accordance with their respective statutory processes by two-thirds (2/3) of the members of the United Federation, including all the permanent members of the Federation Council;

1.A general conference of the members of the United Federation for the purpose of reviewing these Articles of Federation may be held at a date and place to be fixed by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the members of the Supreme Assembly and a vote by any seven (7) members of the Federation Council. Each member of the United Federation shall have one (1) vote in the conference;

2.Any alterations of these Articles of Federation recommended by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the conference shall take effect when ratified in accordance with their respective statutory processes by two-thirds (2/3) of the members of the United Federation including all the permanent members of the Federation Council;

3.If such conference has not been held before the tenth regular session of the Supreme Assembly following the coming into force of these Articles of Federation, the proposal to call such a conference shall be places on the agenda of that session of the Supreme Assembly, and the conference shall be held if so decided by a majority vote of the members of the Supreme Assembly and by a vote of any seven (7) members of the Federation Council.

1.These Article of Federation shall be ratified by the signatory governments in accordance with their respective statutory processes;

2.The ratifications shall be deposited with the government of the United Nations of the Planet Earth, which shall notify all of the signatory governments of each deposit as well as the Supreme-Secretariat of the organization when he/she has been appointed;

3.These Articles of Federation shall come into full force upon the deposit of the ratifications by the United Nations of the Planet Earth, the Planetary Confederation of 40 Eridani, the United Planets of 61 Cygni, the Star Empire of Epsilon Indii, the Alpha Centauri Concordium of Planets, and by a majority of the other signatory social systems. A protocol of the ratifications deposited shall thereupon be drawn up by the government of the United Nations which shall communicate copies thereof to all of the signatory governments;

4.The governments signatory to these Articles of Federation which ratify it after it has come into force will become original members of the United Federation on the date of the deposit of the respective ratifications;

These Articles of Federation, of which the various language texts are equally authentic, upon the coming into full force of the United Federation of Planets, shall be transferred by the United Nations to the organization for permanent deposit in its archives. Duly certified copies thereof shall be transmitted by the Supreme-Secretariat to the governments of all the signatory social systems.