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Student Code of Ethics and Conduct.

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The Director

Student Code of Ethics and Conduct

Code of Ethics and Conduct for the students of the Conservatory of Music DOMENICO CIMAROSA

Approved4 March 2025Annex A

Director decree

Having regard to

  1. Law no. 508 of 21 December 1999, laying down the reform of Fine Arts Academies, the National Dance Academy, the National Academy of Dramatic Art, the Higher Institutes for Artistic Industries, Music Conservatories and legally recognised music schools.
  2. Decree of the President of the Republic no. 132 of 28 February 2003, laying down the regulations establishing the criteria for statutory, regulatory and organisational autonomy of artistic and music institutions pursuant to Law no. 508 of 21 December 1999.
  3. The Bylaws on Autonomy of the Conservatory.
  4. The Academic Regulations of the Conservatory.
  5. The text of the Code of Ethics and Conduct for the students of the Conservatory of Music DOMENICO CIMAROSA, approved by the Academic Council on 4 March 2025 and annexed to the decree as Annex A.

Deemed necessary

  1. To enact the Code in order to make it applicable to the cases provided for therein after publication on the Conservatory website.
  2. To enact the Code in order to determine the cases in which students may perform misconduct or illegal behaviour that may harm any person, property or the image of the Conservatory, and to establish disciplinary procedures, sanctions and their gradualness.

Decrees

  1. This introduction forms an integral and necessary part of the decree.
  2. The Code of Ethics and Conduct for the students of the Conservatory of Music DOMENICO CIMAROSA is enacted in the form approved by the Academic Council on 4 March 2025 as Annex A.
  3. Publication of the Code on the Conservatory website is mandatory.
  4. The Code enters into force on the date of publication on the Conservatory website.
The DirectorMaestro Maria Gabriella della Sala

Code text

Code of Ethics and Conduct for the students of the Conservatory of Music DOMENICO CIMAROSA

The code text sets out principles, offences, sanctions, competent bodies, proceedings and appeal rules.

01

Article one - Purpose and core aims

  1. The purpose of this Code is to ensure a general framework of trust, loyalty and fairness in the relationship between the Institution and the student body, respecting the human, social and individual rights of everyone who operates within the Conservatory.
  2. The Institution acknowledges equal rights for men and women and commits to equal opportunities.
  3. The Code defines the principles of conduct that students must observe when dealing with the Conservatory and sets out disciplinary rules and sanctions in case of breach.
  4. Disciplinary responsibility is individual.
  5. The disciplinary sanctions imposed are those provided for by law, ministerial decrees and the Institution regulations.
  6. No disciplinary sanction may be imposed unless it is provided for by a rule in force when the acts were committed.
  7. No disciplinary sanction may be imposed without the defence of the student concerned having been heard preliminarily.
  8. Disciplinary sanctions shall be imposed according to the principle of gradualness and shall aim to restore the principles of trust, loyalty and fairness and to promote awareness and advancement of the student concerned.
  9. Expulsion sanctions are an extraordinary remedy that applies only to proven severe cases when other sanctions may not be applicable.
02

Article two - Addressees and scope

  1. This Code applies to students enrolled in the Conservatory, including acts committed outside the Institution premises and apart from activities carried out therein, when those acts are deemed harmful to the dignity and image of the Institution.
  2. Students are all those enrolled, in any capacity, in the Conservatory, including those who attend the Conservatory premises for a limited period of time for reasons of study or national or international mobility.
  3. Interns and auditors, however named, are also considered students.
03

Article three - Disciplinary offences

  1. A disciplinary offence is any act severely offensive to the image of the Conservatory or offensive to the dignity of students, the Director, teachers, technical and administrative staff, or any other person authorised to attend the Conservatory premises.
  2. A disciplinary offence includes physical or moral aggression against those persons. Acts considered bullying, cyberbullying, stalking and all acts of direct or indirect coercion fall within this provision.
  3. A disciplinary offence includes racial or gender discrimination, or discrimination on the grounds of religion, political opinion or sexual orientation.
  4. A disciplinary offence includes damage to any property owned by, or in any capacity belonging to, the Conservatory.
  5. A disciplinary offence includes unjustified absence from artistic production activities and related exams despite commitment to carrying out those activities.
  6. A disciplinary offence includes conduct directed at altering, modifying or infringing acts relating to one's own or others educational career.
  7. A disciplinary offence includes conduct that hinders or makes more difficult the detection of disciplinary offences committed by others.
  8. A disciplinary offence includes breaches of laws and regulations.
  9. A disciplinary offence includes conduct intended to obstruct or hinder the smooth conduct of educational activities.
  10. A disciplinary offence includes any act constituting an offence, even when committed without involving Conservatory activities, that is contrary to the principles of this Code or harms the image of the Conservatory.
04

Article four - Disciplinary sanctions

  1. Students of the Conservatory may be subject to either informal sanctions or formal sanctions.
  2. Informal sanctions are verbal warning and written warning.
  3. Formal sanctions are temporary disqualification from one or more courses or educational activities, including internships.
  4. Formal sanctions also include suspension from sitting one or more exams for one or more rounds.
  5. Formal sanctions also include temporary suspension from attending the Conservatory for a period not exceeding three years, resulting in not being able to sit the foreseen exam rounds.
  6. Formal sanctions also include expulsion from the Conservatory.
05

Article five - Criteria for establishing the sanction and aggravating circumstances

  1. The sanction must consider the severity of the act, the severity of its consequences, any disciplinary precedents and specific recurrence within a two-year period.
  2. Diminishing circumstances include negligence by commission or omission, or conduct showing no specific intention to commit the offence.
  3. Diminishing circumstances include conduct, after the act, that diminishes or negates the consequences of the fact.
  4. Diminishing circumstances include the actual levity of damage caused to the Conservatory, whether to its image, finances or estate, since the perpetrator was a minor when committing the offence.
  5. Aggravating circumstances include involvement of other students or other people anyhow referable to the Conservatory.
  6. Aggravating circumstances include committing the act to cover up other disciplinary offences committed by oneself or others.
  7. Aggravating circumstances include severe damage caused to the Conservatory, whether to its image, finances or estate.
  8. Aggravating circumstances include being a member of a Conservatory body, apart from acts committed as a member of that body. Opinions expressed in the exercise of the mandate of a member of a relevant body are not punishable.
  9. The concurrence of mitigating and aggravating circumstances is graded in the disciplinary provision.
06

Article six - Competent bodies

  1. Informal sanctions shall be adopted and imposed by the Director of the Conservatory.
  2. Formal sanctions shall be adopted by the Academic Board and imposed by the Director.
  3. The person responsible for the proceedings is the pro tempore Administrative Director of the Conservatory.
07

Article seven - Disciplinary proceedings

  1. The Director, upon receipt of information on the alleged offence, orders the opening of disciplinary proceedings and may acquire documents, hear witnesses and perform any other activity deemed appropriate.
  2. Any person who becomes aware of a fact that may qualify as a disciplinary offence against a student shall report it to the Director.
  3. The Director must proceed to the hearing of the student, who in cases of a possible sanction under Article four shall be summoned by duly notified written communication.
  4. The communication shall contain the rule infringed, a clear and exact contestation of the alleged fact, a notice ordering appearance before the Director for a hearing, and notice that the person concerned may seek assistance from a trustworthy person and file briefs or exculpatory evidence within the time limit set for the hearing.
  5. In cases of considerable severity, the Director may apply the precautionary measure of temporary suspension from educational activities until the outcome of the proceedings. The Director shall also require suspension if the student is convicted of an offence punishable by imprisonment.
  6. The time between the date when the communication is sent and the date set for the hearing of the student shall be no earlier than five working days.
  7. At the end of the investigation, which shall take place within 30 days after becoming aware of the facts, the Director shall ask for the case to be dismissed or shall adopt specific disciplinary proceedings.
  8. All disciplinary sanctions are recorded in the student career.
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Article eight - Appeal to the Academic Council, ultimacy of proceedings and appeal

  1. Against informal sanctions under Article four, appeal to the Academic Council chaired by the Director is permitted within 10 days without the right to vote.
  2. Appeal shall not be admitted against disciplinary proceedings pursuant to Article six, paragraph two.
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