How to become a member of SOLUS

SOLUS brings together a large group of the companies from different economic sectors. These sectors include non-bank financial institutions, banks, telco operators, energy distributors and others. All of these companies can manage risk of their services effectively thanks to their membership in the SOLUS Association and through the useof the Registers of SOLUS. Due to the variety of their member base the Registers provide unique information from different economic sectors.

The SOLUS Association is an open association. Its membership is open to legal entity (commercial company, financial institution, bank, or other legal entity) that has its registered office in the Czech Republic or the European Union and performs specific activities (business activities) for consumers and/or entrepreneurs and/or legal entities, particularly in the area of providing (i) financial, (ii) insurance, and/or (iii) of a similar nature and/or (iv) the supply of certain specific goods or services, as a result of which long-term or recurring receivables arise towards clients with an expected future one-off payment, payment in installments, or in the form of regularly recurring payments and there is no doubt about its ability and willingness to properly fulfill its obligations as a member.

The member can be only a company that has a potential to follow the Code of Ethics of the Association.

Conditions of membership

Applicants for membership should submit in writing a request to start negotiations leading to membership in the association SOLUS, namely to the chairman of the Council of SOLUS association. Attached should be a completed Questionnaire for applicants.

In the membership application the applicant shall state whether she is interested in engaging in:

  • the Register of natural persons and / or,
  • the Register of Legal entities and Enterpreneurs and/or,
  • the Positive register and/or,
  • the Register of third parties and/or,
  • the Insolvency register and/or,
  • the Register of invalid documents and/or,
  • the association activities.

After the signing of the non-idsclosure agreement, the chairman of the board of the SOLUS Association or sthe ecretary of the association shall provide the applicant for membership:

  • statutes of the association,
  • rules relating to individual registers or auxiliary databases of SOLUS,
  • recommended wording of the personal data procesing consent,
  • contracts for the implementation of pre-accession audit controls, including methodological process control.

The processor (Společnost pro informační databáze, a.s.) will also provide on the basis of a non-disclosure agreement, the information on technical and commercial conditions for the use of registers.

The applicant for membership is also required to submit a copy of registration at the Office for Personal Data Protection, wording of the consent of subject data and the way of securing the processed data. A representative of the applicant for membership is invited to a meeting of the committee or committees and / or the association board meeting where the representative of the applicant for membership is able to acquaint the committee / committees or the association board with the position of the applicant related to the documents provided.

The next step is pre-accession audit review of the applicant for membership in the Association. Audit report of the pre-accession controls is evaluated by the board of the Association.

The admission of an applicant for membership in the Association as a member of the association is decided by the members’ meeting on the basis of a written proposal of the Council of the Association.