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BRITISH BUSINESS ANGELS ASSOCIATION

Code of Conduct

1	Terms and abbreviations

�Articles� means the Articles of Association of BBAA for the time being. 
�BBAA� means British Business Angels Association
�BBAA Logo� means the identification logo of BBAA as appears on this page, or other logo adopted from time to time.
�the Board� means the Board of Directors of BBAA in accordance with the Articles 
�Code of Conduct� means the BBAA code of conduct as amended from time to time
�Disciplinary Procedure� means the BBAA disciplinary procedure as amended from time to time
�FSMA� means the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 as amended.
�Member� means a Full Member of BBAA in accordance with the Articles
Membership Criteria� means the standards that must be achieved by a Member for the application for membership to be successful.  The Membership Criteria is set out on the application form

Best Practice

Members shall conduct their business in a professional manner and will not engage in practices, which would be damaging to the image of the business angel market.
Members shall promote and maintain ethical standards of conduct and at all times deal fairly and honestly with all parties.
Members shall ensure that they display the BBAA Logo on their website, letters, forms and other paperwork at all times, as soon as practicably possible.
Members shall ensure that they comply with the Membership Criteria so long as they are a Member.
Members should have appropriate Professional Indemnity Insurance. 
Members should use all reasonable endeavours to ensure that investors and investees are fully conversant with the investment process. 
Before a member enters into a contract with an SME, a competent and experienced member of the member�s team will have received a copy of the comprehensive business plan of the SME and will have a meeting with the authorised representatives of the SME to discuss the plan and the SME�s fund raising proposals generally. 

Service Levels

Members must have clear written terms of business.
Members must have a clear registration process for engaging companies seeking investment and investors.
Members must have written procedures in place for handling complaints that is available on demand.


Information on Fees

Members must provide clear information on fees charged.
All fees that are to be charged must be disclosed by the Member before any contract is entered into.

Confidentiality

Members will take all reasonable precautions to keep investor�s information and investee�s information private and confidential.
Members must return to the investee on demand any written information or other materials.
Members will use investee information solely for the purpose of raising finance, and not exploit it or otherwise apply it in any way.
Members will restrict access to information to those responsible employees and partners whose knowledge is essential for assessment and evaluation for the purpose of raising finance.

The above undertakings do not apply to any information which is in the public domain or is already in the possession of BBAA or which subsequently becomes known to Members independently.

Information to BBAA

Members shall supply such information to BBAA as may be reasonably requested by the Board.  In particular Members will complete a �statistics sheet� (in the form determined by the Board from time to time) every quarter providing details of all transactions completed in the previous three months.

Update Members Profile

The Member is responsible for keeping their profile on the BBAA website up-to-date.

FSMA

The FSMA is all-embracing and all members must be fully conversant with its provisions.

Compliance

Members must at all time comply with the Code of Conduct (as amended from time to time by the Disciplinary and Membership Committee (as defined in the Articles)).
A Member�s failure to comply with the Code of Conduct will be dealt with at the discretion of the Disciplinary and Membership Committee in accordance with the Disciplinary Procedure.


Edition: August 2008

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