It is with great pleasure – and pride – that I can inform you that the very tiresome and expensive rules for transport of semen between EU member countries are cancelled as of 9 April 2023. The rules have been a great damage to the exchange of semen between the countries, and the exchange of these products have more or less stopped for the past 2 years.

This means that veterinary control in connection with collection of semen stops. The EU has simply deleted the regulations.

For more than 2 years the Europe Section has – together with Professor Catharine Linde Forsberg from Sweden and a European cat organization – worked to have these regulations removed. We have by the aid of our lobby consultancy firm, Kellen Europe, pressed the EU Veterinary Authorities and the efforts have been successful.

It is now up to the individual EU countries to make their own rules and I recommend that you, as NCOs, contact the relevant authorities in your countries to obtain flexible rules on this area.

Best regards
FCI Europe Section

Jørgen Hindse
President
4 April 2023

It is with great sorrow we can inform that the former member of the FCI Europe Section General Committee, Mr Jean-Paul Petitdidier from Strasbourg, France, has died on 22 December 2022 at the age of 84 years.

Mr Petitdidier was elected member of the Section's General Committee at the General Assembly in Tulln, Austria, in 2005. He stayed on the General Committee for 9 years until the General Assembly in Brno, Czech Republic, in 2014.

Moreover, Mr Petitdidier has been Vice-President of the Société Centrale Canine (SCC - the French Kennel Club), founder and President of the Commission Nationale Education et Activités Cynophiles (National Commission of Dog Training and Sports) of the SCC and President of the FCI Agility Commission.

All honour to his memory!

Election results for the General Committee
2 general committee members (period: 4 years: 2020-2024).

Result:
Mr Laurent Pichard from Switzerland and Ms Herdis Hallmarsdottir from Iceland were elected for the General Committee for remaining time of the election period (2 years).

Election of host country for the FCI European Dog Show 2024:
Winner: Slovenia
Official FCI observer: Peter Friedrich, Germany

Election of host country for the FCI European Dog Show 2023 for the 10 breeds that are banned in Denmark:
Winner: Hungary
Official FCI observer: Gerard Jipping, the Netherlands

Election of host country for the FCI European Dog Show 2025:
Winner: Czech Republic
Official FCI observer: Jørgen Hindse, Denmark

Elections results for the General Committee
1 president (period: 4 years: 2022-2026)
2 general committee members (period: 4 years: 2022-2026).

Results:
Mr Jørgen Hindse from Denmark was re-elected President of the FCI Europe Section for a period of 4 years.
Ms Ioanna Galanos from Greece and Mr Sean Delmar from Ireland were re-elected for the General Committee for a period of 4 years.

Election of auditor (not member of the General Committee (period: 1 year)
Mr Rony Doedijns from the Netherlands was elected auditor.

Election of host country for the FCI European Dog Show 2026:
Winner: Sweden
Official FCI observer: Wilfred Olsen, Denmark

Nomination of the Europe Section’s representative in the FCI Financial Commission according to article 54.1 of the FCI Statutes:
Mr Enrico Drudi, San Marino was elected.

Published on this website on 3 June 2020

The 1st FCI International Congress for judges will be held in Kyiv on Wednesday 23 August 2017 on the day before the European Dog Show.
This Congress was initiated and is financially supported by the FCI European Section.

Website of the Judges Congress

Facebook page of the Judges Congress

The FCI Europe Section General Assembly 2016 was held in Brussels on 29 August.

Mrs Eeva Anttinen from Finland was re-elected for the General Committee for a period of 4 years.
Mr Sean Delmar from Ireland was elected for the first time, also for a period of 4 years.
Mr Delmar replaces Mr Damir Skok from Croatia who had chosen not to run for another term. Mr Skok had been a member of the General Committee since 2004.

The Slovenian Kennel Club was chosen as host for the FCI European Dog Show in 2020.
EDS 2020 will be held in Celje on 8-11 October 2020.