Adriana Maturana S.

Lawyer

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CONTRACTS TO BE SIGNED BY

THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOANALYTICAL ASSOCIATION (IPA)

The analysis is confined to a check on the legality of the accompanying texts, without any judgement as to their merit.

1.	Contract with the companies TORRES IRURETA EVENTOS and TRES DIVISION TURISMO LTDA.

1.1	One of the objects of the contract is the provision of consultancy, organization and production for the Forty-first International Congress of Psychoanalysis to be held in Santiago de Chile from 23 to 31 July 1999, an obligation undertaken - according to the text - by "Organización Tres".

1.2	In accordance with the accompanying statutes, which have been checked, the legal name of this company is "Torres Irureta Eventos y Sistemas Limitada", while this company may also use the company name "Tres Limitada", so that the name of the company should be changed both as the signatory party and in the internal clauses of the contract.

1.3	Annex A, in which the specific services covered by the contract are listed, is in English; this should be translated into Spanish and given the title Annex A, since at present it has no title.

1.4	This contract also includes the services agreed with the Chilean Psychoanalytical Association (LAC), which are detailed in Clause Two of the contract with the above-mentioned entity and the services to be provided as the official travel agency by Tres Division Turismo Limitada - a company which appears in the text with its correct legal name - and which figure in Annex 1.

1.5	In regard to the price of the services agreed, this appears clearly stated in Clause Three, which corresponds to Annex A, while there is also mention of a "price list" for costs to be recovered, this list not being attached but to be sent at the time of signature. There is also mention of a price to be determined for the reimbursement of other expenditure in line with a budget to be elaborated at a future time, probably on the basis of receipts or other justificatory documents, which is not expressly specified, it being deemed convenient for the purposes of the contract that the price should be determined or determinable.

1.6	With regard to the price of the services agreed with the LAC in Clause Two, this also appears determined and to be paid by the IPA, but an undetermined amount is added for office expenses to be approved by the LAC in due course, with no indication of the form in which this is to be done, it being convenient to express it thus. It should be added, as a formal detail, that the sum of the amounts included in 4.2 of Clause Four does not coincide with the total established in 3.2 of Clause Three as the overall price for this paragraph.

1.7	Finally, the price of the services commissioned by the LAC from Tres Division Turismo, to be paid by the IPA, appears to be clearly determined, as set out in Annex 1.

1.8	With regard to the parties to the contract, the statutes of the companies that are signatories have been checked with the Register of Commerce [Conservador de Bienes Raices] of Santiago and found to be in conformity with the law and correct in regard to the persons who may represent them, in the exact form indicated beneath the signatures.

1.9	In regard to the liability of IPA, it is suggested that in Clause Seven the expression "without any right to compensation" should be replaced by "without obligation to any compensation" in order to better reflect the meaning of what has been agreed.

1.10	Finally, since the event will take place in the Casa Piedra, a contract which includes regulations for the use of these premises, it would be advisable to insert an additional Clause Eight - the present Clauses Eight, Nine and Ten becoming Nine, Ten and Eleven - as follows:

"EIGHT

TRES LIMITADA and TRES DIVISION TURISMO LIMITADA declare that they are cognizant of the contract signed by the IPA for the holding of this event on the premises of the Casa Piedra and assume the obligations imposed by the Building and Safety Regulations of the Casa Piedra, in regard to the activities of the staff for which they are responsible."

2.	Contract with the company CHEFFCO S.A. CASA PIEDRA

2.1	The object of the contract is the rental of all the rooms at the Casa Piedra, with the facilities described in Clause Four of the contract, for the holding of the Forty-first International Congress of Psychoanalysis to take place from 25 to 31 July 1999, dates which differ from the dates agreed with the companies mentioned in the previous contract, for no apparent reason.

2.2	The price of the services appears determined in Clause Five and the form of payment in Clause Eight. The cost of the optional catering services remains to be determined and would be paid against invoice, which appears correct.

2.3	It is not possible to give any comment on the legal existence of the hirer and the legal status of the person by whom the hirer is represented because this information has not been included in the contract and was not supplied by their agents when it was requested. The report can therefore be completed later, once these details are available for verification.

2.4	This contract is more onerous than the first contract examined in terms of the possibility of termination and the indemnities to be paid for damages and other effects, since the Building and Safety Regulations are included as an integral part of the contract, all of which appears consistent with a provider offering material infrastructure and using a system of contracting that is common for this type of premises to be used for events.

2.5	As a purely formal semantic point, it would be appropriate to replace the word "sicoanálisis" by "psicoanálisis" in the contract, since although the first spelling is correct linguistically, the second spelling may be preferable on technical grounds for an event of this kind and there might be undesirable graphical differences in the posters and advertising for the event.