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ESKÝ SVAZ CHOVATEL , SDRUŽENÍ CHOVATEL KO EK<br />
v eské republice<br />
Mašková 3, 182 53, Praha 8 - Kobylisy<br />
len FEDERATION INTERNATIONALE FELINE – FIFe<br />
Proposals of SCH-SCHK for the FIFe GA 2009 - Malmö (SE)<br />
Additions: in bold + italics<br />
Deletions: crossed out.<br />
Proposal 2 – Change of Show Titles SC/SP and the Certificates CACS/CAPS<br />
We suggest changing, with immediate effect, i.e. after the GA 2009:<br />
the highest FIFe Titles Supreme Champion/Premier back to European Champion/Premior<br />
the highest FIFe Certificates CACS/CAPS back to CACE/CAPE.<br />
This change is to be valid for all FIFe Members in Europe.<br />
<strong>The</strong> FIFe Members outside of Europe may retain the titles Supreme Champion/Premier and the<br />
certificates CACS/CAPS if they so wish, but why not the titles American/Asian Champion/Premier<br />
and the certificates CACA and CAPA?<br />
If this proposal is accepted the relevant changes to the Show -, Judges-, and <strong>Breeding</strong> & <strong>Registration</strong><br />
Rules must be made.<br />
Motivation:<br />
We bring this proposal at the request of many of our members, who still ask if it is possible to have<br />
their cats registered as “European” Champion/Premier, instead of “Supreme”.<br />
For our members it meant something special to have a “European” Champion, a feeling which<br />
“Supreme” cannot replace.<br />
At first it seemed sensible to have “one uniform title” in FIFe, though it was more instigated by a faulty<br />
certificate -name in South America (FAC) than any problems with the titles or certificates in Europe.<br />
Our Rules show us, however, that FIFe is not the same everywhere, why else do we have so many<br />
exceptions for countries outside of Europe in Show and Judges Rules?<br />
<strong>The</strong> word “supreme” sounds wonderful in English and French but in our language and most other<br />
national FIFe languages it is impossible to translate: “European” can be (and was) easily translated in<br />
all national languages of FIFe, and this to every one’s satisfaction.<br />
We also feel that “Supreme” is a title that is very much a GCCF title, and not a FIFe one and that a<br />
possible new even higher FIFe title (like Grand European Champion/Premior) is now no longer<br />
possible: Grand European Champion makes sense but Grand Supreme or Supreme Grand<br />
Champion does not in our opinion.<br />
One more disturbing matter that has been noted by us is that several computer pedigree registration<br />
programmes have automatically changed all incidences of EC/EP on pedigrees to SC/SP, even<br />
retroactively.<br />
Lastly, we feel that the 2008 GA was overwhelmed with an enormous amount of proposals, that<br />
really required serious concentration efforts of all those present to try to follow what was going on, in<br />
for most, a foreign language. At a certain point delegates and advisors had problems staying<br />
focussed on what proposals one was really voting, and in our opinion, proposal nr. 26 of the Show<br />
<strong>Commission</strong>, the proposal, which introduced these new titles was accepted (with a very narrow<br />
majority) because of that.<br />
We hope that the majority of Members will vote for our proposal: it will be less problematic to undo<br />
the changes of the past 6 months than it will be if this proposal will come in a few years time.<br />
Tel.: +420.2 84683440, Fax: +420.2 84681451<br />
email: alice.simkova@cschdz.cz http://www.schk.cz/schk
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