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Rulebook name: IUF Rulebook Committee 2025

Proposals allowed: true

Subdomain iuf-rulebook-2025

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This committee has been set up to establish the IUF rules for competitions.

Schedule: (subject to changes; updated 25-December-2024)
 now to 10 January: emails to prospective subcommittee chairs
 now to 15 January: finalize all subcommittee chairs, members
                    emails to be sent to chairs and members
                    recruit additional members
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 March: last day to submit a proposal
 15 April: all proposals must be sent to vote
 now to 15 June: Editing of Rulebook ongoing as Main Committee approves work of subcommittees
30 June: Editing of Rulebook completed; sent to all members for review
 
    Subcommittee members review their areas.
    IUF Board also starts their review and voting process.
8 July: IUF Board approves Rulebook (one week to review and officially approve).
8 July: New 2025 rulebook published

 

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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.
   - Any country with national federation(s) will provide a list of their voting members for each committee, ranked by preference.  If the federation(s) do not provide a list of their voting members, the places are given to interested people from that county.
 * 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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ach 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 2025



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