International

European Endurance FEI Resolution

Representatives for endurance of major European National Federations met in Toulouse on the 19th and 20th of January 2002, in order to work for the future of International Championships of the endurance discipline.

They reached the following agreement:

  1. Distance: the Senior Championships must take place during an CEI ***** with a distance of 160 MK in one day (unanimous vote)
  1. Division of the event: Senior Championships must take place on a course with 5 phases and 4 vet bates (8 votes), or on a course with 6 phases and 5 vet gates (2 votes).  In no case should the number of vet gates exceed 5 (unanimous vote)
  1. Course Designer (Chef de Piste): The layout of the Championships has to be drawn by a Course Designer whose competence must be unanimously recognized.  The layout of the course must require the highest level of technical skills of the rider and the horse.  The onus is on the National Federation hosting the Championships to appoint the Course Designer (unanimous vote)
  1. Heart Rate: the result of the heart rate check has to be open to the public on a monitor, for example using a HRM connected to a large screen (unanimous vote)
  1. Rules and regulations: any intentions to amend the rules must be published in the Official Bulletin of the FEI at least 4 months before its eventual enforcement in order to allow for comments by NFs (unanimous votes)
  1. Schedule of Championships: Final schedules of Championships and pre-rides, including the layout of the course, must be forwarded to the NFs by the 1st of March in the year of the Championships at the latest (unanimous vote).
  1. Nominated entries: during Championships, a rider can only ride a horse from the duly entered Nominated List of his NF (unanimous vote)
  1. Calendar: all CEI rides have to be printed in an official FEI bulletin published before the event (Unanimous vote)
  1. Relation with the FEI: it has been decided to create from the participants a limited working group charged with holding a dialogue with the FEI governing bodies (unanimous vote)
Participants of the meeting decided to meet again on the 26th of April in Jerez de la Frotera.

The above document has been approved and signed by all participants.

Meeting Attendies:
BELPierre ArnouldChef d'Equipepierrea@medeiafilmes.com
BELLeonard LiesensJournalistleonard.liesens@cec.eu.int
DENLone AalekjaerChef d'EquipeChef of the Danish Endurance CommitteeLAA@scanjour.dk
ESPRamon Lopez LaxDelegate R.F.H.Eramonllax@btlink.net
ESPFrancisco Lopez MaesoChef d'Equipefriovn@wanadoo.es
ESPToni GarciaF.H. Catalanafchipica@fchipica.orgwww.fchipica.org
ESPEduard XalabarderTechnicien
FRAPierre CazesChef d'EquipeEntraineur Nationalpierre.m.cazes@wanadoo.fr
FRAJocelyne AlligierJournalisteperrier.jl@wanadoo.fr
FRAJocelyne BécéJournalistejocelyne.bece@wanadoo.fr
GBRLiz Finneyformer Chef d'Equipe &Chairman BERApeter@pfinney.freeserve.co.uk
GBRSue BroughtonChef d'Equipe YR1999 - 2001susiebro@tinyonline.co.uk
GBRRod FisherTeam Vet1989 - 2001rodfisher@ukonline.co.uk
GERJuliette MallisonPresident of the German Endurance Societyfriedrichs@mallison.de
GERBeate GrünChef d'Equipebeate.gruen@t-online.de
GERIngrid LöwerChef d'Equipe YR
ITASergio TommasiChef d'EquipeRepresantant Fed.Italienneterriera@internetpiu.com
ITALara RigatoAss. Chef d'Equipeterriera@internetpiu.com
PORPaulo BrancoVice-President F.E.P.Chef d'Equipecarlotal@medeiafilmes.com
PORJosé PrazeresSelection Committeeveteqstoestevao@mail.telepac.pt
SUIDominik BurgerChef Commission téchnique Endurancedominique.burger@mbox.haras.admin.ch
SUISuzanne DollingerChef d'Equipedollinger@libertysurf.fr
SUILorenz GieseTeam Vetlgiese@bluewin.ch
SWEBertil Carlsonformer Chef d'Equipebertil.carlson@swipnet.se