Rules for Judges, Student Judges and Stewards
date of issue: 01.01.2008
Table of Contents
- Status of Changes
- 1. General
- 1.1 Principles being a FIFe Judge
- 1.2 Judges Training Programme
- 1.3 Code of Ethics
- 2. Judges
- 2.1 Recognized Judges
- 2.2 Honorary judges
- 2.3 Judges’ List
- 2.4 Judges of other federations
- 2.5 Judge’s adherance to FIFe’s Rules
- 2.5.1 Judge’s undertaking to FIFe
- 2.5.2 Judges’ adherance to FIFe Standards
- 2.6 Judges’ membership
- 2.6.1 Direct attachment to FIFe
- 2.6.2 Judges as breeders and exhibitors
- 2.7 Judges’ Fees
- 2.8 Activities and Functions of Judges
- 2.8.1 Judging Engagements Form
- 2.8.2 Participation in Non-FIFe Shows
- 2.8.3 Probational Judges
- 2.8.4 International Judges
- 2.8.5 Stages, Probational Judges and Supervisors
- 2.8.6 Functions of judges: Instructor, Supervisor, Examiner, Student
- 2.8.6.1 Instructors
- 2.8.6.2 Examiners
- 2.8.6.3 An officiating judge as examination candidate at the same show
- 2.8.6.4 Instructors and Examiners: Number of cats to be judged
- 2.8.6.5 International FIFe judges, directly attached to FIFe, as students
- 2.9 Judges on Shows
- 2.9.1 Invitations to shows
- 2.9.2 Selection of judges by show organizer
- 2.9.3 Number of cats to be judged
- 2.9.4 Language of Judges' Report
- 2.9.5 Assistance by stewards
- 2.9.6 Reimbursement for judges
- 2.9.6.1 Daily Allowance
- 2.9.6.2 Reimbursement for Probational Judges
- 2.9.7 Consideration for the age of an exhibit
- 2.9.8 Transfer of an exhibit during judging
- 2.9.9 Prohibition of possession of a show catalogue during judging
- 2.9.10 Exhibition of cats when officiating as a judge or as a student judge
- 2.9.11 Wearing coloured spectacles
- 2.9.12 Mobile phones
- 2.10 Judge’s Updating
- 3. Judges Seminars
- 3.1 FIFe judges seminars organized by FIFe
- 3.2 FIFe judges seminars organized by FIFe members
- 3.3 Participation of student judges
- 3.4 Costs of FIFe seminars organized by FIFe
- 3.5 Costs for participating judges
- 3.6 Roll Call
- 4. Stewards
- 4.1 Duties of a steward
- 4.2 Allocation of steward to a judge
- 4.3 Steward certificates
- 5. Judges Training Programme
- 5.1 Student Judges
- 5.1.1 Amount of stewarding
- 5.1.2 Period for stewarding
- 5.1.3 Requirements for the Candidature as student
- 5.1.3.1 Being an active member
- 5.1.3.2 Experience as breeder, as exhibitor and in show organisation
- 5.1.3.3 Preliminary examination, admission as student judge
- 5.1.4 Language Requirements for student judges
- 5.1.5 Requirement to inform the FIFe General Secretary about student judges
- 5.1.6 Responsibility of FIFe member for its student judges
- 5.1.7 Mentorship for student judges, mid-stream assessments
- 5.1.8 Application for admission as a student judge to a show
- 5.1.9 Admission as student judge on a show in a foreign country
- 5.1.10 Student judge certificates
- 5.1.10.1 - deleted
- 5.1.11 Amount of student judges per category
- 5.1.12 Amount of student judges for judges continuing with a further category
- 5.1.13 Training period and the training in different categories during the same training period
- 5.1.14 Training
- 5.1.14.1 Compulsory training seminar for student judges
- 5.1.14.2 Being an Active Student Judge
- 5.1.14.3 Training in foreign countries
- 5.1.14.4 Study of all breeds
- 5.1.14.5 Presence at Best-in-Show
- 5.1.14.6 Training in different categories during the same training period - Deleted
- 5.1.14.7 Participation in training seminars
- 5.1.14.8 Parallel judging
- 5.1.14.9 Requirements for the organiser
- 5.2 Examination
- 5.2.1 Repertory of examination questions
- 5.2.2 Responsibility of the FIFe member
- 5.2.3 Application for examination: Requirements
- 5.2.4 Examination Fee
- 5.2.5 Requirements for the candidates: age, language
- 5.2.6 Possibilities taking the judge’s examination
- 5.2.7 Written permission for the examination given by the FIFe Board
- 5.2.8 Limit on number of examinations at one time
- 5.2.9 Three times judging before the next examination
- 5.2.10 Examination Panel
- 5.2.11 Report about the examination
- 5.2.12 Three years between the fundamental categories - Deleted
- 5.2.13 Theoretical and Practical Examination
- 5.2.13.1 Theoretical examination
- 5.2.13.2 Questions for the theoretical examination
- 5.2.13.3 Practical examination
- 5.2.13.4 Requirements for the organizer
- 5.2.13.5 Requirements for the examiners
- 5.2.14 Failure of an examination
- 5.3 Stages
- 6. General Rules
- 6.1 Complaints against judges
- 6.2 No Suspension of a judge by the national FIFe member
- 6.3 All documents to be submitted in original or as certified copies
- 6.4 Non-European FIFe members
- 6.4.1 Annual report about judges of Non-European FIFe members
- 6.4.2 Training of judges of Non-European FIFe members
- 6.4.3 Number of cats to be judged on shows organized by Non-European FIFe members
- Annex 1
- FIFe Judges must respect FIFe rules on all FIFe shows
Status of Changes
| Date of edition | Status | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| 01.01.02 | new | Articles given a title, table of contents provided. Grammatical errors corrected. Refernces to Articles corrected. |
| 01.01.02 | change | CHF and LUF changed to EUR New daily allowance |
| 01.01.02 | new | Updating judges |
| 01.03.02 | new | Day for FIFe seminar |
| 01.03.02 | new | FIFe seminar held in 2 languages |
| 01.01.02 | addition | Exception for study of SOK |
| 01.01.02 | deletion | Requirement for existing judges to do parallel judging |
| 01.01.02 | new | Responsibility of Judges & LO comm. for students who are Int. FIFe judges |
| 01.01.03 | change | Re-structuring -numbering of the articles |
| 01.01.03 | addition | 1.3: Guidelines for education provided |
| 01.01.03 | change | 2.8.5: 50 cats in classes 1-10 for stages |
| 01.01.03 | change | 5.1.14.6: not permitted to undertake training in all 4 categories during the same training period |
| 01.01.03 | addition | 5.2.6: make theoretical examination during compulsory student seminar |
| 01.01.03 | change | 5.2.12: appropriate change to 5.1.14.6 |
| 01.01.03 | change | 5.2.13.1, 5.2.13.3: theoretical exam to start before official judging, practical exam to start with the official judging questions can be selected by the JLO commission |
| 01.01.03 | correction | Orthographical corrections |
| 01.01.03 | change | 6.1: complaints must be forwarded in one of the three official languages of FIFe |
| 01.01.04 | change | Art. 2.3: Conditions for # in official list |
| 01.01.04 | change | Art. 2.8.2: Judging at non-FIFe shows |
| 01.01.04 | change | Art. 2.10: deletion of last paragraph |
| 01.01.04 | change | Art. 5.1.10.1: deleted. |
| 01.01.04 | change | Art. 5.2.6: theoretical exam may be taken at FIFe Judges Seminar |
| 01.01.04 | change | Art. 5.2.9: three times judging before the next examination |
| 01.01.05 | change | Art. 2.8.5: existing judges just need 1 stage |
| 01.01.05 | change | Art. 5.1.3.2: preliminary examination defined |
| 01.01.05 | change | Art. 5.2.5: exam, language requirement |
| 01.01.05 | change | Art. 5.2.10: deputising judges must be officiating at show. |
| 01.01.06 | addition | New page for Status of Change: all page numbers increase with 1 |
| 01.01.06 | correction and change | Art. 5.1.3.3: GA 2004 definition of preliminary exam added in right place |
| 01.01.06 | deletion | Art. 2.7, 5.2.4 and 6.4.2: amount of fees |
| 01.01.06 | addition | Art. 2.7, 5.2.4 and 6.4.2: reference to Annex 1 of the General Rules |
| 01.01.06 | addition | Art. 3.1, time limit on notifying the Secretariat on Seminar attendance |
| 01.01.06 | transfer | Art. 2.8.2: if FIFe judges officiate at non-FIFe shows to be stated they are FIFe judges, transferred from Gen. Rules 23c. |
| 01.01.06 | transfer | Art. 2.1: FIFe judges on CFA shows outside Europe and vice versa, transferred from Gen. Rules 23 g |
| 01.01.06 | transfer | New article: 6.3. documents to be send in original or as certified copies, transferred from Gen. Rules 30 |
| 01.01.06 | change | Old Art. 6.3 (6.3.1, 6.3.2 and 6.3.3) to become 6.4 (6.4.1, 6.4.2, 6.4.3) |
| 01.01.06 | change and partially deleted | Art. 5.1.3.3 additions and partial deletions regarding the Preliminary examination |
| 01.01.06 | addition | Art. 5.2.13 examiners and candidate able to communicate in the same language |
| 01.01.06 | change | Art. 5.2.13.1 time-change for theoretical exam. Exam set by JSC sent to examining judges. |
| 01.01.01 | deletion | Art. 5.1.14.8. all previous exceptions for student judges whether judges or not with respect to examination requirements. All rules valid for everyone as from 01.01.06 |
| 01.01.06 | change | Art. 5.1.14.1 compulsory seminar can be 1 day, will be in show calendar |
| 01.01.06 | addition | Art. 2.9.4. Judges reports to be readable |
| 01.01.06 | new section added | Annex to Judges rules: Judges must follow the FIFe Rules |
| 01.01.07 | change | Art. 2.8.1: Judging engagement form |
| 01.01.07 | change correction update | A complete review done by the JSC of the Rules for Judges. |
| 01.01.07 | addition | Art. 5.1.13: Student judges may train in 2 categories in one training period |
| 01.01.07 | deletion | Art. 5.1.16.6: Limitations student judges training |
| 01.01.07 | deletion | Art. 5.1.10.1: Three year period betw. categories |
| 01.01.08 | correction layout | Judges Rules now 20 pages, in all languages the same |
| 01.01.08 | correction | Page references in Status of Change corrected to current pages from 01.01.05 |
| 01.01.08 | addition | Art. 5.1.3.3: 2 month time-frame to send the exam application for preliminary exam |
| 01.01.08 | rewording and addition | Art. 5.1.10: Obligation to use FIFe student judges´ certificates |
| 01.01.08 | rewording and addition | Art. 5.1.7: more detailed explanation of obligatory mid-stream assessment |
| 01.01.08 | new article | Art. 5.1.14.8: new conditions for parallel judging, obligation to use special form |
| 01.01.08 | new article | Art. 5.1.14.9: show-organiser conditions when having a parallel judging |
| 01.01.08 | rewording and addition | Art. 5.2.4: exam fee split between judge, show-organiser and FIFe |
