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Here you will find various announcements and items of a newsworthy nature regarding this site, the FIFe, as well as, items or matters of general interest.


FIFe General Assembly 2010 - hotel booking form

The FIFe General Assembly 2010 will be held on Thursday 27th and Friday 28th May 2010 and the preceding open commission meetings on Tuesday 25th and Wednesday 26th May 2010. The venue is Hotel Montechoro, Apartado 928, 8200-912 Albufeira, Portugal.
The hotel booking form is now available in each of the three FIFe languages:
English
, German and French.

Clarification of the EMS code for RagaMuffin (RGM non)

After queries raised by some FIFe members and judges, the Board wishes to clarify that the preliminary abbreviation for the non-recognised breed RagaMuffin (RGM non) may only be used when importing a cat with this breed name on its pedigree which is issued by another organisation, or when registering its offspring in case of a crossing with a cat of the same breed.
It is not allowed to apply the EMS-breed code RGM non to so called "non-pointed Ragdolls": these cats shall be registered (and shown) as XLH * <RAG>, where the part <RAG> indicates the originating breed.

Items available for purchase in the FIFe Shop

We would like to draw your attention to the possibility to purchase several items directly from FIFe. These items include the complete set of FIFe Rules and the FIFe Standards of all recognised and preliminary recognised breeds, including the General Part, as well as the complete EMS-list.
You can visit the FIFe Shop in the section with the same name or by clicking here.

EMS Quick Reference Card

We are happy to announce you will now find the EMS Quick Reference Card in PDF-format in the section "Rules & Forms". This colourful chart gives you an overview (on one page only!) of all recognised and non-recognised traits within all recognised and preliminary recognised breeds. The EMS Quick Reference Card is very useful when determining the EMS code of a cat. Of course you can always check the EMS list in the section "Rules & Forms" for a complete listing of all correct full EMS codes within a breed or refer to the table of recognised varieties in the individual breed standard in the section "Breeds".
You can also find the EMS Quick Reference Card by clicking here.

Rules and Forms version 2010 in section "Rules & Forms"

In this section you can now find the 2010 versions of all FIFe rules and forms.
You can also find these documents by clicking here.

Complete up-to-date FIFe breed standards in section "Breeds"

We are extremely happy to announce that you can now find in the section "Breeds" the complete, most recent (version 2010) Standard of all FIFe recognised breeds, including the full version of the General Part, in a PDF-format.
You will be able to either download and print an individual breed standard, or the complete category (categories), and for your convenience, you can also see at a glance how many pages you are downloading or printing.
You can also find these documents by clicking here.

Temporary expulsion of a national Member and a Commission member

The Board of FIFe informs you that it has decided to temporarily expel the national FIFe Member "AMIL" (Israel) and the Show Commission member, Mrs. Lena Preisler.
This decision was made after a recommendation of the Disciplinary Commission and with reference to articles 2.8, 5.1 and 8.1, of the FIFe Statutes.
In line with these Statutes, it will be up to the FIFe General Assembly 2010 to permanently expel AMIL as a Member and Mrs. Preisler, as a commission member; thus, this matter will be included on the Agenda for ratification.
The Board feels it had to act in the interest of FIFe in general and should try to safeguard a future for FIFe in Israel.

By order of the Board, Annette Sjödin - President, Eric Reijers - General Secretary

FIFe World Show, 29 & 30.10.2011 in Poland

After the German FIFe Member, 1.DEKZV e.V, informed the board that they would not be able to organise the 2011 World Show, the board asked the next eligible Members, i.e. Members who had not yet organised a World Show, if they would be willing to host this prestigious show.
It is our pleasure to announce that the Polish Member "Felis Polonia" accepted to host the 2011 World Show.
Further details (venue, website etc) will be announced.

FIFe Judge Photos

Ali Wittich, FIFe All-Breed Judge from Switzerland has posted his collection of photographs of many of FIFe's Judge on the FFH's Website.

Changing Membership

As a result of discussions at the GA 2006 the Board decided to modify the procedure as described in General Rules article 2.5 allowing individual members of FIFe Members to change to another National FIFe Member outside the country of their permanent residence.

You may now find these revamped forms and procedure, which should be followed in the Library.

The main idea was to change the infrastructure; to regulate that contacts from and to FIFe are matters between the National FIFe Member and the FIFe Secretariat/Board.

The Board trusts this modified procedure is clear and will result in a stricter observance of the Rules.

New Judges

  • Congratulations!
  • Mr. Bayu Rudro Susetyo (ID) successfully passed the judges exam in category I at a show in Jakarta (ID) on the 16th January 2010 and is now a probational judge in that category.
  • Mrs. Linda Knýová (CZ) successfully passed the last of the required stages at the show in Lannach (AT) on the 5th Decemberr 2009 and is as from that date appointed an International Judge for category III.
  • Mrs. Grazyna Laskowska Malaga (CZ) successfully passed the required stage in at the show in Rome (IT) on the 22nd November 2009 and is as from that date appointed an International Judge for category III.
  • Mrs. Beverly Elian (RO) successfully passed the last of the required stages at the show in Stockholm (SE) on the 7th November 2009 and is as from that date appointed an International Judge for category I.
  • Mr. Jörgen Billing (DK) successfully passed the required stage in category IV at a show in Gothenburg (SE) on 31st October and is as from that date appointed an International Judge for category IV.
  • Mrs. Jurgita Gustaitiene (LT) successfully passed the last of the required stages at the show in Vilnius (SE) on the 4th October 2009 and is as from that date appointed an International Judge for category III.
  • Mrs. Carmen Hierro (ES) successfully passed the last of the required stages at the show in Stockholm (SE) on the 3rd October 2009 and is as from that date appointed an International Judge for category II.
  • Mrs. Linda Sviksa (LV) successfully passed the judges exam in category I at a show in Krakow (PL) on the 3rd October 2009 and is now a probational judge in that category.
  • Mrs. Carin Sahlberg (FI) successfully passed her judges exam in category IV at a show in Vantaa (FI) on the 22nd August 2009 and is now a probational judge in that category.
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