The statutes of the DWV shall be binding. The membership fee for the current year shall be paid without undue delay upon receipt of the invoice; for subsequent years, it shall be paid by 31 January of each year. Where a reduced fee applies, evidence of entitlement shall be enclosed. I/we acknowledge that the above data will be stored by the DWV in machine-readable form. The provisions of the German Federal Data Protection Act shall be complied with.