Rulebook name: IUF Rulebook Committee 2022/23
Proposals allowed: true
Subdomain iuf-rulebook-2022
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This committee has been set up to achieve the following objectives:
- To establish the general parameters for setting Generic Rules (Section 1) (example: measurement, witnesses, documentation)
- To establish the IUF rules for competitions
All schedules are changed.
Schedule: (subject to changes; updated 18-August-2023)
Open all subcommittees as soon as possible
Now committees begin discussions
1 September last day to join one of the committees
15 October last day to submit a proposal
1 November: all proposals must be sent to vote
Now to 1 November: Editing of Rulebook ongoing as Main Committee approves work of subcommittees
later this year: Editing of Rulebook completed; sent to all members for review
Subcommittee members review their areas
IUF Board also starts their review
IUF Board votes to approve IUF Rulebook
New 2023 IUF Rulebook published
Faq:
Member Information
Maximum Member requirements for the committees
- Any single country cannot have more than 20% of the voting members and 40% of the discussion members of the Rulebook Main Committee.
- Any single country cannot have more than 33% of the voting members and 66% of the discussion members of a Rulebook Subcommittee.
* If a country is over their allotted number, the IUF Rulebook Chair and Subcommittee Chairs can decide which members will be the active discussion and voting members.
Minimum Member requirements for individuals:
- Must be 16 years of age before first day of the committee.
Voting Member Qualifications:
- Competitor, coach/trainer, or judge/official at least during one of the past three Unicons.
- Must vote on proposals. If not participate in 2 votes in a row, member will receive a warning and given opportunity to participate once more. Future failures to vote will mean change of status to a discussion member.
Discussion Member Qualifications:
- Has been a competitor, coach/trainer, and/or judge/official at Unicon, International, or a National event.
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Subcommittees:
- Designed to only discuss part of a rulebook.
Age Group Committee: Designed to clarify age groups across all disciplines for Unicons and other events
Each member must have attended three or more Unicons and has been a director at least once since Unicon 16.
All requests are subject to approval.
Main Committee:
- Each subcommittee chair should be a voting member of this committee;
- Additional responsibility is to bring to the attention of the members any rule in their subcommittee that may affect the Rulebook as a whole or other subcommittees
- Responsible for rules in Section 1 of the IUF Rulebook
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Each subcommittee has "Discussions" and "Proposals".
Discussions
- have no time limit and are designed for general conversation about rule problems and suggestions..
Proposals:
- Do not need to start as a discussion, although it is strongly recommended.
- Must have each of these parts:
** Title (it's important to make this clear and concise)
** Owner (the person who creates a proposal, is filled in automatically)
** Background (describes the Why)
** Proposal (contains both old and new in one text block)
** Body (described the What and How)
** References (often left blank, in practice)
- Chair approves proposals on a timely basis; rejections are immediately shared with the Owner for modifications
- Review by members is 8 days after Chair approves the proposal.
- If the proposal is changed, must have 3 days of discussion after change before voting can begin.
- Owner (or Chair) sets the Proposal to a vote after review period.
- Voting is 7 days long
- 50% of the 'voting' members must vote ("yes", "no", or "abstain") so a proposal is not automatically failed
- To pass a proposal, it needs to receive a 2/3 majority of those who voted.
Copyright:
IUF 2022
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