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FEI Bureau meeting key points

       FEI President Ingmar De Vos

 

Following the successful two-day FEI Sports Forum in Lausanne, the Bureau met in FEI Headquarters for its spring in-person meeting. The full summary of the key decisions and updates can be viewed here but some of the salient points of interest to eventing are listed below;

 

  • A working group to be set up to ‘focus on harmonising the education, core roles, appointment, remuneration and promotion of FEI Officials on a global basis and across all FEI disciplines’

 

  • Olympic Games nations can qualify with either a team of maximum three athletes, or, if they have not qualified a team a maximum one individual per nation for each Olympic discipline

 

  • Final drafts of points decided during FEI Sports Forum will be published on www.fei.org on 28 October with Federations voting at the FEI General Assembly in Tokyo (JPN) on 22 November 2016.

 

  • The Bureau agreed that harmonization of the age limit for male and female veterans should be debated

 

  • National Federations to submit proposals on horse name/prefix charges and that the FEI, together with the National Federations, will fine tune the proposals before they are presented for approval at the FEI General Assembly

 

  • At the recommendation of the Eventing Committee and based on Art 20.3 (vii) of the FEI Statutes, the FEI Bureau approved the immediate modification and implementation of Art 548.1 of the Eventing Rules (see highlighted text):

“548.1

Faults at Obstacles

¹* Explanatory note and procedure for the implementation of the penalty for “Activating a frangible device”:

Each Athlete activating a frangible device will be awarded 11 penalties whenever the activation occurs as expected (i.e. activation by significant pressure exerted by the Horse which modifies the dimension of the fence)”

 

  • The FEI Bureau approved the following series for 2016:
    • Luhmühlen meets Copenhagen,
    • Tri Star Eventing Grand Slam and
    • some minor modifications to the Eventing Riders Masters rules

 

  • FEI European Championship for Ponies (Jumping, Dressage, Eventing), Kaposvár (HUN), 9-13 August 2017

 

  • FEI European Eventing Championships for Young Riders & Juniors (Eventing), Fontainebleau (FRA), dates TBC July 2018

 

  • The President proposed and the Bureau agreed that the relationship with grooms should be improved and that they should be registered and brought  closer to the FEI Family