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The Judges & Standard Commission
Annual report of activities to FIFe GA 2009 in Malmö
Members: Mrs Satu Hämäläinen, Mrs H. Miriam Klein Gasbarri, Mrs Donatella Mastrangelo, Mr Martti Peltonen,
Mr Steven L. Jones (Secretary), Mrs Thea Friškovec (Chairman).
During the last year the JS Commission have had a productive year. In January 2009 we received with regret the
resignation of our member Mr Martti Peltonen. We wish to thank him for all his valuable work and contribution
during the past years.
After the election of a new member to JSC, three meetings have taken place during the year. We would like to
thank the Board to enable us the meeting-weekend in Rome. The Finnish club SUROK and the Norwegian club
RORAK who offered us these opportunities and services. Lots of the work has been done by e-mail
correspondence. Throughout the year we have co-operated with the FIFe General Secretary and the Board on a
number of matters.
Since the GA in Stary Smokovec a lot of work has been done:
Updating of the Standards: all members have contributed their remarks, corrections and reviews to the FIFe
General Secretary for the updated standards.
Updating of the Rules for Judges, Student Judges and Stewards: we helped GS and have updated all the
changes carried at GA 2008 in all three FIFe languages for the new 2009 edition.
Judge's and Preliminary exams: the JSC Chairman and Secretary have set up and sent out many final and
preliminary exams to the examining judges and the FIFe members: 2x final exam Category I in English, 4x
final exam Category II in English, 2x in French, 5x final exam Category III in English, 3x final exam Category
IV in English, 1x preliminary exam Category I in English, 1x in French, 6x preliminary exam Category II in
English, 1x in German, 6x preliminary exam Category III in English, 2x in German, 1x preliminary exam
Category IV in English.
We have recorded about 300% increase in preliminary examinations in categories II and III this year,
which is very encouraging. But we also recorded a general drop of final examinations this year, and an
alarming drop of about 300% in final examinations in category I.
Seminars: in co-operation with SVERAK and Royal Canin we have organised the judges’ seminar to be held
at the FIFe GA in Malmö. We want to thank both for hosting the seminar and to all lecturers for their cooperation.
Questionnaires:
Preliminary questionnaires:
The General part has been updated to version 2009 in English, German and French and the Category III in
English and German. Revisions have been made to Category II in English and German. Category I in
English and French has been updated and remade in workbook & answers format version 2009.
Final exam questionnaires:
General part version 2009 in English has been updated and remade in workbook & answers format. New
version 2009 Category III in English has been done. Category II in English and French has been revised.
Requests for help with translation of all updated and new questionnaires in German and French have been
addressed to the Board.
Judge's matters: we have handled a number of matters and passed our recommendations and conclusions
to the Board.
Mentor Judges documents: the JSC has prepared the application form, short guidelines and a letter for
judges and submitted it all to the Board in beginning of December 2008 with the wish to enable smooth and
proper start of mentor judging system in FIFe.
Proposals to the GA 2009: we have prioritised and prepared our proposals for submission.
Standards: we have worked on Standard proposals and also updated the DSP and PEB standards
Renewed forms: The chairman has prepared the new 2009 forms for Steward’s certificate, Student Judge’s
certificate, Student Judge’s certificate - Mid-stream assessment and Parallel judging, new Stage certificate
and Mentor Judge Application Form and passed them to the Board, who co-operated in final formatting and
published them on FIFe web site.
Work in progress: We are continuing with reformatting of the preliminary and final exam questionnaires,
which still have to be renewed and updated. We will continue with updates of the Glossary of Terms in the
General Part Standard as well as on corrections of some colour descriptions and standardisation of
standards. Also we are continuing with preparing changes to the judge’s training program.
Finally, I would like to thank to Ms Claudia Haslinger and Mr Yan Roca Folch for help with translation of JSC
proposals to German and French, to Mr Eric Reijers for many grammar corrections and contribution in different
JSC documents in all 3 FIFe languages through the year and to all the members of the Judges and Standard
Commission for their contribution and friendly co-operation during the past year.
Yours sincerely, Celje, 24 th March 2009
Thea Friškovec, JSC Chairman