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The Breeding & Registration Commission
Report to the FIFe General Assembly 2009
In the period since last General Assembly in Poprad the commission has met physically only once in autumn
2008 in Oslo, but has communicated via e-mail continuously.
We have worked with recommendations to the board based on questions from the members, reorganising
the Breeding & Registration Rules, started working on a Registrars Guide to the B&R rules, maintaining the
EMS list, preliminary corrected the B&R Rules regarding Neva Masquerade, recommending a new
preliminary code for a non recognised breed RagaMuffin.
At the General Assembly in Poprad the commission became aware that the registration of the preliminary
recognised breed was registered in many ways which not all were according to the B&R rules.
In the pedigrees of Peterbald (PEB) we found cross-breeding, registration and use of EMS codes which were
absolutely not OK, and as an example the list below is what ”combinations” were very strange.
Examples of ”EMS” codes and result of ”cross matings”:
PEB x SIA (registered as) PEB
PEB x OSH PEB
DSX x SIA DSX (DSX = DSP?)
DSP x ORS PEB
DSX x EUR DSX
DSP x SIA DSP
DSX x TUA DSX
DSP x RUS DSP
DSX x DSP DSP
DSP x SIB DSP
DSX x PDB PDB (PDB = PEB)
DSP x PEB PEB
PEB x ORI PEB
DSX x ORI PEB
PDB x PEB PEB
PTB x ORI PTB (PTB = PEB)
This made the commission to recommend to the board, that a physical inspection of two members’ pedigree
book should be made, and that several others should document their way of registration PEB and DSP.
Furthermore the commission recommended that the board send out an explanation of how these breed and
the re-registration should go on. The problems regarding the registration of results of cross-breeding and
their re-registration of these offspring has caused the commission to look into the registration rules to try to
clarify the rules. Many of the proposals from the commission regarding changes in the B&R rules are
because of this.
At the meeting in Oslo the commission dealt with matters concerning:
if the identifying code (B&R Rules article 4.2) should be marked in the pedigree for all cats or just for
breeding cats.
registration of Neva Masquerade and missing Registration rules.
registrars handbook – a guide to the B&R rules
request from the Burmilla Breed Council regarding the EMS code 31
the pedigree book numbers in 1.DEKZV.ev pedigrees are not according to the B&R rules – inspection
recommended.
At several occasions the commission has send recommendations to the board regarding matters from
members – among other things a new preliminary EMS code for RagaMuffin.
We have also worked together with the Burmilla Breed Council in the creation of the proposal from this
council which the commission this year have put forward. The commission has been in close contact with the
secretary of the Breed Council giving advice and help to simplify the proposal from the Breed Council.
The commission has worked with a questionnaire regarding how the FIFe members register cats and how
they are dealing with national rules. This questionnaire will be handed out to the members under the last item
in the agenda and the commission will answer questions regarding the questionnaire.
Unfortunately the chairman of this commission has – due to personal reasons – resigned for the position.
I would like on behalf of the commission to thank Ole Magne Grytvik for the work and cooperation in the
commission during several years. We have not always had the same opinion, but we have always had fruitful
discussions and have always reached a joint opinion. Furthermore I would like to thank Eva Wieland-Schilla,
Gaby Lemke and Charles Spijker for their help with translations and layout. I would also like to thank the
board for their cooperation during the year.
On behalf of the Breeding & Registration Commission,
Ole Amstrup, secretary