Newsletter July 10, 2015

All the FCI member national organisations gathered in Milan

The FCI General Assembly Meeting was held in Milan on 8^th-9^th June. The Ente Nazionale della Cinofilia Italiana, working closely with the FCI, had laid out a very attractive and highly functional room in which no fewer than 68 full members (including 10 by proxy), 4 associate members and 3 contract partners all met, which meant that there were more than 150 people in attendance because we must also add the members of the General Committee and a few other people who attended.

In his opening address the President, Rafael de Santiago (PR) thanked a number of people and welcomed the new members of the General Committee.

There was a very clear presentation of the 2013 and 2014 financial accounts made by the FCI Treasurer, Mrs C. Molinari (PT) and they were then approved by the General Assembly which also went on to approve the 2015-2016 budgets along with miscellaneous official fees.

The ballot produced the following results:

FCI President: R. de Santiago (PR) (2-year term of office).

Members of the FCI General Committee: R. de Santiago (PR), M.A. Martínez (AR) and K. Järvinen (FI), each of whom was elected to serve a 4-year term of office.

Members of the FCI Standards Commission: J. Nallem (UY), R. Oliveira (PT) and P. Muntean (RO) were each elected to serve a 4-year term of office. F. Asnaghi (IT) was elected to serve a 2-year term of office, in order to complete the term of office to be served by J-L. Payró (MX), who had resigned after being elected President of the FCI’s Americas and the Caribbean Section.

Members of the FCI Scientific Commission: K. Sainio (FI) and G. Leroy (FR) were each elected to serve a 4-year term of office.

Auditor and substitute auditor: J. Hernández (SP), auditor, and D. Skok (HR), substitute, were each elected to serve a 2-year term of office.

As required by the Statutes, the reports on the activities of the Commissions since the last General Meeting (2013) were all examined and commented upon.

Various different national canine organisations had asked to be granted either full or associate member status. The following national canine organisations were promoted to full FCI member status: Asociación Canina Nicaragüense (ACAN), Kennel Union of the Republic of Azerbaijan (KURA) and Kennel Association of the Republic of Macedonia (KARM). We offer them our warmest congratulations.
In addition to this, the Köpek Irklari ve Kinoloji Federasyonu (KIF – Turkey) was accepted as an associate member and we would also like to congratulate them.

A number of amendments to the FCI Standing Orgders and Statutes were approved and, in addition to this, it was decided that the FCI would have its own “Dog Dancing” commission in future.

In addition to this, three breeds were granted final recognition and specimens can now obtain the CACIB and become International Champions. The breeds in question are as follows:

Romanian Carpathian Shepherd Dog (350)
Romanian Mioritic Shepherd Dog (349)
Taiwan Dog (348)

The General Assembly also approved an amendment to the procedure allowing the crossing of breed varieties, along with amendments with regard to the procedure for the provisional and final recognition of breeds.

To end with, two important ballots were held in order to select the countries called upon to host the forthcoming World Dog Shows and General Assemblies.

The 2019 World Dog Show will be held in Shanghai (China) on 18^th-19^th and 20^th October. The China Kennel Union (CKU) will also be organising the 2019 General Meeting.

The 2020 World Dog Show will take place in Madrid (Spain) on 23^rd-24^th-25^th and 26^th April.

To end with, the members of FCI Youth, an essential and extremely worthwhile initiative, were given an opportunity to present their project. The General Assembly applauded them warmly.

Y. De Clercq
Directeur Exécutif de la FCI