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FCI SHOW JUDGES COMMISSION
Mactan Island, Cebu Philippines
Only working together will make it work
1. Welcome!
FCI Show Judges Commission Members
APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA SHOW JUDGES COMMISSION
Opening and Welcome
Minutes 2015
Our work for the last five years
Annual Report ‘15
FCI Board Decisions
FCI Circulars
Login to Web-Page
Education Breed by Breed
New Judges Promotion
Judges and Social Media
Judge Training Scheme
How to Exchange Education Programs
System of Nominations Control
Ideal Certificating Process
Criteria for Judges at International Level
Minimum Number of Groups to Judge BIS
FCI Judges Congress (new)
Presentation of Caravan Hound
Election of the Commission Board Members
Topics for 2017
Sundries
Closure
2. Minutes of the Meeting in Luxembourg in 2015
Proposal to approve the minutes
3. Our work for the last five years
Non Mandatory Commission
42 members and 6 associated members
Every year first weekend of February
2010 Poland
2011 Italy
2012 Lithuania
2013 Colombia
2014 France
2015 Luxembourg
2016 Philippines
2017 Russia
2018 Portugal
Proposals small, big, less and
more important regulations
Advisory to the FCI Board
Commissions members are mostly
members of the national boards
Every year commissions are combined (judges and show organizers)
Last five years….
Rules for Show Judges / regarding the rules for Shows
Code of commitment of judging dogs
healthy for function
Breed by breed education
Education program to become
from Breed to All-Breeds Judge
National and International
All-Breeds Judges
Code of ethics
Basic Contract between
Show Organizer and a Judge
Judges fee
Last five years…..
FCI Judges Directory developped worldwide
Judges who move abroad
AKC / KC
Closer meetings of Show and Judges
Better understanding with the FCI Board
Trying to have equal rights for all judges
Helping NO with developing education programs
Control system for approval of All-Breeds judges
Discussion regarding nomination of judges in some countries
NEARLY ALL PROPOSALS APPROVED
4. Annual report 2015
Proposal to approve the Annual Report 2015
5. Evaluation of the FCI Board decisions
Publishing the Breed by Breed Education on the FCI website: Proposal was approved. Already on the website.
Guidelines and instructions how to write a dog’s report. Proposal to publish our work as Guidelines. Proposal has been turned down. No reason given. We are waiting for an answer! We will try again!
Investigation on nomination of some people to become a group or all-breeds judge in some countries. We have sent the information we had received from our members to the FCI. They started to investigate the “rumours of improper nominations”. The countries concerned have answered! It’s up to us how to deal with it!
KC and FCI matter. We asked the Board to inform us about the agreement and the communication regarding that decision. The Board answered the questions. We are still waiting for the official agreement regarding the reciprocity of KC and FCI judges.
5. Rumours about nominations
Investigation of rumours regarding the nomination of some judges in the following countries:
Bulgaria (3 people concerned)
Serbia (3 people concerned PLUS 2 new people)
Macedonia (1 person concerned)
Montenegro (2 people concerned)
Rumours regarding:
No basic education according to the FCI Regulations
Too short period between nomination of breeds, groups, all-breeds judge
Not following the FCI Regulations
Payment by people to become judges
5. Rumours about nominations
Answers of the countries concerned
Papers and files were damaged in the fire / gone / former board
Legal residence, only by copy of lease agreement on a house, not from the city and/or tax office
Mostly own native language (not in 1 of the 4 FCI languages)
Judge has several addresses and decided to become a judge in Bulgaria because in their own country it was too difficult
Statements of the kennel clubs without proper proofs (no copies of nominations, education a.s.o.)
5. Rumours about nomination
PROPOSAL
Considering that the nomination of the FCI judges should be done according to the FCI Regulations and that we have strong believe that the answers of the kennel clubs concerned are not complete and do not have necessary documents attached, we ask the FCI Board to undertake further actions once again
A lease contract of a house does not prove that the judge lives in the country. Should be a copy of a TAX statement, so we need further proof if these judges were really living in the country concerned
We should get copies of the nominations of these judges, at least copies of the nomination for the first group and the last one
If possible we prefer to receive the education programs of the countries concerned, just to check whether the program was followed
The answers have to be written in one of the four FCI languages
While waiting for the answers the judges concerned are not allowed to judge outside the countries where they were nominated
6. Circulars and decisions of the FCI in 2015
5/2015 Nomination as FCI All-breed International Judge (New form & procedure)
12/2015 Breed Assignement (Informing a show judge regarding breeds he has to judge at the show)
32/2015 Balanced International Panel of Judges at FCI World or Section Shows: Recommendation (max 25 % own country / min 5 % FCI / max 5 % non-FCI)
Standards Commission is pleased with PPT Breed by Breed
Information about the FCI Judges Directory
Suspensions and lifting of suspensions of judges
Decisions of the FCI Board regarding judges
Lack of PM1 and M3 are not to be considered eliminating faults. However standard is leading
Development of Youth Working Group
Proposals of Judges, Shows and Joint Commissions
AKC-FCI judges regarding reciprocity of judges
7. Special Webpage
For members of the Show Judges Commission
Username: first name and last name
Password: First Name followed by 01 (Starting with Capital)
Circulars
Rules
Statements
Paperwork Commission
All other FCI information
Go to:
8. Breed by Breed Education
Group 1
Dutch Shepherd Dog (The Netherlands)
Group 2
Cane Corso (Italy)
Dogue de Boredaux (France)
Group 3
Brazilian Terrier (Brasil)
Group 5
Canaan Dog (Israë
Finnish Spitz (Finland)
Karelian Bear Dog (Finland)
Group 6
Finnish Hound (Finland)
Group 7
Stabijhoun (The Netherlands)
Group 8
Nederlands Kooikerhondje (The Netherlands)
Wetterhoun (The Netherlands)
8. Breed by Breed Education
Go to:
Standards Commission: pleased with our work
Only a few PPT’s on our website!
People start asking for more!
We are not keeping to our promises!!!!
Please: develop at least two PowerPoint presentations this year
Send them to
WORKING TOGETHER WILL MAKE IT WORK !!!!!!
9. The Future of Beginning Judges
Topic from last year
“Weakness”
Mostly not known outside their own country / Organizers do not know them
Hard to “compete” with the “efficiency”
Not so many breeds? So no judge for two full days?
Expensive in travelling and lodging, or ??
FCI Regulations say: wait for 2 years
“Strength”
Actual development in the breed(s)
Often a new and open mind in judging the breed
Specialist in the breed(s) he is allowed to judge
9. The Future of beginning judges
Proposal
Judges that have been approved for one or more breeds should be treated equally regardless the age of the judge and his/her judging career, as long as the education has been done according to at least the FCI Regulations;
Delete the article in the Show Judges Regulations: “minimum of 2 years in own country”;
Spreading a list among the countries that would like to have that with beginning judges that:
Are judges for not longer than 10 years;
Do not have more than 15 breeds and/of one group.
This list should contain basic information such as the name of the judge, the city of living, the breeds and the email address. The list should not contain any information that could tell something about the opinion of the kennel club of their judges. The list can be spread among the countries that also participate in exchanging information about their beginning judges.
10. How to use Social Media
SOCIAL MEDIA
The new way to “discuss, congratulate, talk, present and kill”
Do not say “Good Bye” to Social Media because it can be interesting and lots of fun
Facebook (90 %)
From Heaven to Hell in ONE day !
Spreading all over the world in a split of a second !
Your message, status and pictures are FOR EVER !
Is a great communication tool when used properly !
10. How to use Social Media
How to handle Facebook with care
Can you LIKE dogs of breeds that you judge / are going to judge soon?
Can you LIKE BOB/BIG/BIS dogs when you have to judge these breeds in short time?
Can you LIKE litters, champion dogs, the messages of multi winners in kennels?
Is it okay when you put pictures on FB from your visit to a breeder of a breed that you are judging in short time?
Can we develop some guidelines that we – judges – can use when working with FB?
11. Working on Judge Training Scheme
Topic from APAC members
Discussion about a formal and comprehensive judge training scheme for breeds not that known in some countries
Give judges opportunity to learn and be educated in breeds rarely seen in their own country
How to develop this training scheme for Asian judges and judges from other countries who have the same problem
12. Exchange training programs
More and more countries have well developed education programs starting from basic untill All-Breeds Judge
Used for national purpose only
Not all countries are that lucky to have programs
But judging is not national: same basis through whole world!
Can we exchange programs, regulations, exams?
Can we invite (starting) judges from the FCI countries to participate in programs?
Can we exchange education events?
What can the Section / Commission do to assist judges in their training and find some practical ways to do it!
13. System of Control of the FCI Group and All-Breeds Judges
FCI said YES to the system of control
FCI already started the procedure
Despite that some countries still do not follow the regulations regarding the nomination of Group and All-Breeds Judges
Controlling is impossible if we don’t have the possibility to check if the procedure has been followed
13. System of Control
Article 11 - Judges
1.
The members and contract partners are responsible for training and examining (in accordance with the FCI regulations) the judges who will be authorised to award CACIB, CACIT, CACIAG, CACIOB and CACIL. Only such judges can be recognised by the FCI, its members and contract partners.
2.
A judge can appear on the judges’ list of a member or contract partner in the country in which this member or this contract partner has its head office. Furthermore, a judge can appear on one FCI judges’ list only. The members and contract partners must publish their updated judges’ list (name, address, email, phone number, qualifications, languages spoken) It is up to the members and the contract partners to decide whether or not to publish their working judges’ lists on the Internet and send them to the FCI General Secretariat or not
May be it should be added to this provision (The members and contract partners must publish their updated judges’ list (name, address, email, phone number, qualifications, languages spoken) on their Internet website) - the FCI Judges Directory as well?
13. System of Control of the FCI Group and All-Breeds Judges
Do we do this?
How to control this?
Proposal:
-Inform the members that they have to publish their complete list of judges and send it to the FCI
-To add to the standing orders art. 11 that they also have to publish their list on the FCI Judges Directory
-To add to the Article that NO also has to send their Student Judges as well
13. System of Control
Article 11 - Judges
2.
A judge can appear on the judges’ list of a member or contract partner only if he has his legal residence in the country in which this member or this contract partner has its head office. Furthermore, a judge can appear on one FCI judges’ list only. The members and contract partners must publish their updated judges’ list (name, address, email, phone number, qualifications, languages spoken) and on their Internet website. In addition, this updated list has to be sent to the FCI General Secretariat every year.It is up to the members and the contract partners to decide whether or not to publish their working judges’ lists on the Internet and send them to the FCI General Secretariat or not. The members also have to send their updated list of student judges to the FCI every year.
14. An ideal Certificating Process
Topic from the APAC members
What can we do to unify this process?
15. Criteria for Judges at International Level
Topic from APAC members
When should a judge be permitted to judge on international level?
Criteria?
16. Minimum number of Groups for BIS judges
BIS when approved for at least two groups
To become All-Breeds Judge you have to have at least 5 groups (including some KEY Groups)
Question: Is a Group Judge for two groups able to judge BIS? Does he know the majority of the breeds in all the groups?
PROPOSAL: The criteria to be a BIS judge should be the same as to become an All-Breeds Judge. So at least 5 Groups including the KEY Groups.
17. FCI Judges Congress
Judges would like to exchange their experience regarding judging dogs
Judges would like to exchange their thoughts about interpreting standards and using them together with the basic statements regarding the health and welfare of dogs
Judges would like to exchange their thoughts and opinions on an international basis, not to get one uniform decision when judging, but to search for a balance constantly
17. FCI Judges Congress
Proposal to the FCI Board
The FCI Judges Commission proposes to organize an International FCI Judges Congress for all FCI Judges every two years.
Next host country and date is to be announced every congress.
The FCI will financially support this Congress by paying for the location of the congress, related seminars and workshops, and the speakers (costs for accommodation, daily allowance and travel)
The Board of the FCI Commission takes care of the agenda and organization after having been advised by the FCI Commission
Participants of the seminars are to cover their own expenses by themselves
