Meeting of the European Endurance Chefs d’Equipe

 

19th January 2002 – Toulouse

 

Motion tabled to the FEI

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 a CEI **** with a distance of 160-kms in one day (unanimous vote)   

  2. Division of the event: Senior Championships must take place on a course with 5 phases and 4 vet gates (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)   

  3. Course Designer (Chef de Piste): the layout of the Championships has to be drawn by a Course Designer whose competence must be unanimousely recognised. 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)   

  4. 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)   

  5. 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. Schedules 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)   



    Meeting of the European Chefs d’Equipe – continued       
               

  2. Nominated entries: during Championships, a rider can only ride a horse from the duly entered Nominated List of his NF (unanimous vote)   

  3. Calendar: all CEI rides have to be printed in an official FEI bulletin published before the event (unanimous vote)   

  4. Relation with the FEI: it has been decide 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 25th of April in Jerez de la Frontera.

 

 

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