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The Decision Support Application is designed to help the Technical Bodies with their decision making processes.

It has predefined types of decisions for

• measuring consensus
• approving a draft
• selecting a technology
• electing officials

Each has been defined in accordance with the ETSI Rules of Procedure in terms of who can vote, calculation of results etc.).

Each decision will normally have 3 phases

• Phase 1 - Creating (also modifying, deleting or closing a vote)

• Phase 2 - Voting

• Phase 3 - Results

In addition, people will be interested in verifying their voting rights.

Voting

How to Vote

a) Select IN PROGRESS from the menu.

b) Select the particular vote from the list. (Green indicates consensus gathering and Blue indicates votes.)

If you find you can't vote it may be because:.

1) There are currently no open votes in which you are allowed to participate.

2) The organization you  represent  does not have voting rights.

3) You are not correctly registered in the Membership List of the appropriate Technical Body

c) If you represent more than one organization, you will be able to select the appropriate organization from the list at the top of the screen. You will only be able to vote on behalf of ONE of these Organizations. If you represent more than one organization, but do not have the option to select the organization, or if the list is not complete, please contact the Technical Body Support Team.

d) Make your selection and click on the "Submit" button

You may change your vote until the close of the voting period.

If someone else from your organization has already voted, you will see who has voted and if the vote is not secret, you can also see how they voted.

You may, in exceptional circumstances, change the vote of another representative of your organization. However, it is strongly recomended that you contact the person first. If you change the vote of another person that person will be informed by email of your action.

Voting rights

Validating your voting rights.

CONTENTS:

• Who may vote
• How to check your rights
• How to register to a Technical Body Membership List

Who may vote

You must represent an organization which has voting rights.

"Full members  of ETSI have the right to participate in the work ... with the right to vote."

"Associate members ...with the right to vote on all matters except those related to the elaboration and approval of ENs or on matters concerning documents exclusively intended for regulatory use by the European Union."

"Counsellors of ETSI may attend meetings of a Technical body and participate in the work without the right to vote."[TWP 1.4]

"... the opinions of Counsellors (and in the case of ENs or regulatory documents, associate members) should be noted [TWP 1.7.1.1]

Therefore

- Full Members may participate in all votes.

- Associate Member may participate in all votes but have a voting weight of zero for decisions relating to Draft ENs.)

- Counsellors may express their opinion with a voting weight of zero on concensus gathering and selection of a technology, but may not participate in a vote or the election of a TB official.

You must also be correctly registered on the relevant Technical Body membership list.

"Each Technical body shall maintain a membership list within an email exploder list......  The Technical body membership list shall be used for the dissemination of information and for the decision making within the Technical Body" [ETSI TWP 1.5.5]

How to check your rights

You first need a username and password.

Go open the TB Membership/Exploder Lists application.

Step 1 check that you have (been) registered to the list.

The right side of the screen shows the email exploders lists to which you are registered. Technical Body Membership lists are highlighted. (You may also subscribe to a list for email only. In this case the exploder list will not be shown on the screen and you will not have voting rights.) If you don't see the list, follow the instructions for Registering to a Technical Body List below.

Step 2 Check that your voting rights are correct.

Click on the name of the membership list. Search for your name or email address (Use the Browser "search" or "find"  functions). The last column shows your voting rights. If you have "No Voting Rights" check that your Organization and the Organization status is correct. If the organization is not correct or if you think the status is not correct, then email the membership cell at membership@etsi.org .

Registering to a Technical Body Membership List

Open the TB Membership/Exploder Lists application.

Select the Technical Body from the list on the left side of the page and click to view its email exploder lists.

Tick the list indicated as the Membership list and specify the email address(es) you would like this list to use.

Click the "Add me" button. The list owner will receive a message indicating that you wish to join the list..