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The History of the FITASC
1921 – 2017
Clay Target and Helice Shooting Disciplines
Through the reports of the General Assemblies and the meetings of the Clay Target and Helice Shooting Sections of the FITASC
You will also find the complete minutes of each General Assembly or meeting by clicking on the link following logo
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Table des matières
Introduction: Since the XVIIth century, the beginnings of shooting with hunting weapons ...... 9 Part I: 1921 – 1924 Creation of FITASC and involvement in the first Olympic Games in 1924...... 10 4th June 1921 – Lausanne – Constitutive Assembly of the Union Internationale de Tir de Chasse (International Union of game shooting) – UIC (FITASC) ...... 10
11th November 1921 – First Statutes of the UIC (FITASC)
23rd July 1938 – Namur – General Assembly
18th July 1939 – Deauville – General Assembly
8th August 1947 – Stockholm - General Assembly
30th November 1947 – San Remo - General Assembly
11th February 1951 – Monte Carlo - General Assembly
21st July 1951 – Deauville – Executive Committee
17th December 1951 – Paris – Extraordinary General Assembly
30th April 1952 – Estoril – Ordinary General Assembly
16th February 1953 – Monte Carlo - Protocol between the UIT (ISSF) and the FITASC
5th June 1953 – Vichy - General Assembly
9th July 1954 - San Sebastian - General Assembly
17th January 1955 - Cairo – Ordinary General Assembly
29th May 1955 – Paris - Extraordinary General Assembly
25th May 1956 - Rome - Ordinary General Assembly
24th July 1956 – San Sebastian - Meeting of the clay pigeon shooting section
19th March 1957 – Monte Carlo - Meeting of the clay pigeon shooting section
6th May 1957 – Estoril – Ordinary General Assembly
27th June 1957 – Paris - Meeting of the Clay Target Shooting Section
13th June 1958 – Vichy – General Assembly
26th April 1959 - Seville – General Assembly
4th September 1959 - Turin - Meeting of the Clay Target Shooting Technical Commission
28th April 1960 – Milan - General Assembly
25th May 1960 -Barcelona – Assembly of the Clay Target Section of the FITASC
29th May 1960 – Barcelona - Meeting of the Clay Target Technical Committee of the FITASC
15th May 1961 – Barcelona – General Assembly de la FITASC
21st June 1961 – Bern – Assembly of the Clay Target Shooting Section of the FITASC
26th May 1962 – Rome – General Assembly de la FITASC
8th June 1962 – Beirut – Assembly of the Clay Target Shooting Section
26th April 1963 - Madrid - General Assembly
14th August 1963 - Brno – Assembly of the Clay Target Shooting Section
11th January 1964 - Geneva - Meeting of the Technical Commission for Clay Target Shooting
23rd May 1964 – Lisbon - General Assembly
10th June 1964 - Bologna - Assembly of the Clay Target Shooting Section of the FITASC
11th June 1964 – Bologna - Meeting of the Technical Commission for Clay Target Shooting
7th January 1965 - Paris – Meeting of the Bureau of the FITASC
28th May 1965 - Lisbon - Assembly of the Clay Target Shooting Section
22nd June 1965 – San Marino - General Assembly
7th December 1965 - Paris –FITASC - UIT (ISSF) Meeting
7th May 1966 - Madrid – FITASC General Assembly
9th June 1966 – Juan-les-Pins – Meeting of the Clay Target Shooting Section
29th September 1966 - Juan-les-Pins - Meeting of the FITASC Technical Commission
25th May 1967 - Brno – Annual Assembly of the Clay Target Shooting Section
27th Mai 1967 - Brno - Meeting of the Technical Commission
26th August 1967 - Bologna – General Assembly
6th December 1967 - Paris - Meeting of the Technical Commission for Clay Target Shooting
19th April 1968 – Valence – General Assembly
26th June 1968 – Fosse-la-Ville - Meeting of the Clay Target Shooting Section
30th January 1969 – Paris - Meeting of the Technical Commission for Clay Target Shooting
2nd May 1969 – Lisbon – General Assembly of the FITASC
26th November 1969 - Paris – Meeting of the FITASC Bureau
13th June 1970 – San Marino - General Assembly
1st July 1970 - Juan-les-Pins – Annual Assembly of the Clay Target Shooting Section
12th January 1971 – Paris - Meeting of the Technical Commission for Clay Target Shooting
20th February 1971 - Monte-Carlo – Meeting of Commission of Shooting Electrocibles (Helices)
2nd May 1971 – Milan – General Assembly
7th May 1971 – Milan – Meeting of the Commission of International Championships
21st January 1972 - Paris - Meeting of the Technical Commission for Clay Target Shooting
6th February 1973 - Paris - Meeting of the Technical Commission for Clay Target Shooting
7th June 1973 – Madrid – Extraordinary and Ordinary General Assembly
15th June 1973 - Juan-Les-Pins - Meeting of the Clay Target Shooting Section
7th May 1974 - Porto – Extraordinary and Ordinary General Assembly
18th January 1975 - Paris – Meeting of the Clay Target Commission
22nd April 1975 – Bologna – General Assembly
16th January 1976 – Paris - Meeting of the Clay Target Shooting Technical Commission
1st June 1976 – Madrid – General Assembly
10th December 1976 - Paris – Meeting of the Sub-Commission for Shooting Electrocibles (helices)
28th January 1977 - Paris - Meeting of the Clay Target Shooting Technical Commission
28th May 1977 - Amiens - Meeting of the Sub-Commission for Shooting Electrocibles (helices)
6th October 1977 – Madrid – Ordinary General Assembly
13th January 1978 – Paris - Meeting of the Technical Commission for Clay Target Shooting
17th May 1978 – Lisbon – Extraordinary and Ordinary General Assembly
12th January 1979 – Paris -Meeting of the Clay Target Shooting Technical Commission
5th May 1979 – Milan – Mixed, Extraordinary and Ordinary General Assembly
30th November 1979 – Paris - Meeting of the Clay Target Shooting Technical Commission
22nd February 1980 – Guadalajara – General Assembly
12th June 1981 - Madrid – Mixed FITASC General Assembly
30th August 1982 - Madrid- Extraordinary and Ordinary General Assembly
14th January 1983 - Paris – Meeting of the Clay Target Shooting Commission
16th may 1983 – Oporto – Ordinary General
2nd November 1983 - Paris – Meeting of the Clay Target Shooting Commission
2nd December 1983- Paris – Meeting of the FITASC Bureau
31st December 1983- Paris – Annual Report
3rd June 1984 – Paris – Meeting of the Sub-Commission of Electrocibles (helices) Shooting
17th December 1984 – Paris – Clay Target Shooting Commission
31st December 1984 – Paris – Annual Report
23rd February 1985 - Guadalajara – Ordinary General Assembly
18th May 1985 – Paris – Meeting of the Sub-Commission of Electrocibles (Helice) Shooting
31th December 1985 – Paris – Annual Report
10th July 1986 – Paris –Jury of the 8th Sporting Championship
09th October 1986 - Buenos Aires – General Assembly
1st December 1986 – Paris – Report on the 1988 World Sporting Championship in Australia
12nd December 1986 - Paris – Clay Target Shooting Commission
31st December 1986 – Paris – Annual Report
1st May 1987- Eleche – Ordinary General Assembly
29th August 1987- Le Rabot – Clay Target Shooting
27th November 1987-Paris – Clay Target Shooting Commission
28th November 1987- Paris – Meeting of the FITASC Bureau
31st March 1988 – Paris– General Assembly of the FITASC
30th April 1988 – Lisbon – General Assembly of the FITASC
29th May 1988 – Paris – Meeting of the Electrocibles (Helice) Shooting Section
25th November 1988 - Paris – Meeting of the Universal Trench Commission
31st December 1988 – Cairo – Annual Report
25th February 1989 – Guadalajara –Ordinary General Assembly
24th November 1989 – Paris – Informal meeting of the General Bureau
24th November 1989 – Paris – Sporting Technical Commission
25th November 1989 – Paris – Universal Trench Technical Commission
27th November 1989 - Paris – Universal Trench Specifications
27th November 1989 - Paris – Sporting Specifications
15th January 1990 - Paris – 1989 Annual Report
24th February 1990 – Cairo – Ordinary General Assembly
31st December 1990 – Paris – 1990 Annual Report
02nd June 1991 - Zaragoza – Ordinary General Assembly
31st December 1991 – Paris – 1991 Annual Report
1st March 1992 - Paris – History of FITASC
1st March 1992 - Paris – La FITASC – it’s developments
23rd May 1992 - Malaga - Ordinary General Assembly
1st March 1994 - Toluca - Ordinary General Assembly
16th July 1994 – Le Rabot – Sporting Commission Meeting
6th June 1995 – Malaga – Ordinary General Assembly
16th November 1995 – Boulogne – Bureau Meeting
11th June 1996 – Pevidem – Ordinary General Assembly
5th November 1996 – Bureau Meeting
8th February 1997 – Paris – Extraordinary General Assembly
29th April 1997 – Somontes – Ordinary General Assembly
22nd October 1998 – Guadalajara - Extraordinary General Assembly
24th October 1998 – Guadalajara - Ordinary General Assembly
7th November 1999 – San Julia de Loria – Ordinary General Assembly
19th June 2000 – Andorra – Ordinary General Assembly
24th September 2001 – Marrakech – Ordinary General Assembly
29th April 2002 – Grenada – Elective and Ordinary General Assemblies
2nd August 200 and competition 3 – Paris –Elective and Ordinary General Assemblies
2nd August 2003 – Paris – Management Committee Meeting
24th October 2003 – Paris – Management Committee Meeting
3rd February 2004 – Paris – Management Committee Meeting
18th June 2004 – Signes –Extraordinary General Assembly
18th June 2004 – Toulon – Ordinary General Assembly
12th July 2005 – Martock – Ordinary General Assembly
25th July 2006 – Prior Lake – Elective General Assembly
25th July 2006 – Prior Lake – Ordinary General Assembly
10th July 2007 – Chocerady – Ordinary General Assembly
23rd September 2008 – Lemesos – Ordinary General Assembly
17th November 2009 – Warrnambool – Ordinary General Assembly
13th July 2010 – Arezzo – Ordinary General Assembly
13th July 2010 – Arezzo –Extraordinary General Assembly
13th July 2010 – Arezzo – Elective General Assembly
13th July 2010 – Arezzo – Management Committee Meeting
12th July 2011 – Amiens – Ordinary General Assembly
14th August 2012 – Lincolnshire – Extraordinary General Assembly
14th August 2012 – Lincolnshire –Ordinary General Assembly
9th July 2013 – Burgo de Osma – Ordinary General Assembly
8th July 2014 – Santa Iria de Azoia – Ordinary General Assembly
8th July 2014 – Santa Iria de Azoia –Elective General Assembly
8th July 2014 – Santa Iria de Azoia – Management Committee Meeting
21st July 2015 – Mankato – Ordinary General Assembly
12th July 2016 – Todi – Ordinary General Assembly
4th July 2017 – Budapest – Ordinary General Assembly
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Introduction: Since the XVIIth century, the beginnings of shooting with hunting weapons
Shooting live birds or artificial targets with hunting weapons existed since the 17th century as practice for hunters or for organised competitions in the context entertainment.
It’s in the 19th century that the first rules were drawn up to govern these activities. They served as a basis to transform these games of skill into a sports activity, which itself would become a high level sport from the middle of the 20th century.
Amongst these first officially established sports associations: The Skating Circle of the Bois de Boulogne was founded in 1867 in Paris; it was chaired by Prince Joaquim Murat. In Italy, over the same period of years the Rivoli shooting club was created. In England the first structured sports shooting association, The Inanimate Bird Shooting Association, was founded in May 1893. Important competitions took place in these clubs frequented mainly by the high society up until the First World War.
In 1886, The Union of Shooting Societies of France (l'Union des Sociétés de Tir de France) was created, with the aim of encouraging and supporting the efforts of shooting societies, helping in the formation of new societies, organising big national competitions, in a word, anyway to popularise the knowledge and practice of shooting. [It will fusion in 1967 with the “Fédération Français de Tir Aux Armes de Chasse” (French Federation for shooting with hunting Weapons) which lead to the formation of the “Fédération Française de Tir” (FFT, the French Shooting Federation, member of ISSF and of FITASC). In 1985, the FITASC disciplines are represented in France by the “Fédération Française de Ball-Trap et de Tir à Balle” (FFBT, the French Federation for Ball-Trap and Bullet shooting), which becomes the only member of FITASC for France].
In 1907, a first “Union Internationale des Fédérations et Associations Nationales de Tir” (UIT, which becomes ISSF in 1998) was created in Zurich. The UIT (ISSF) managed all the shooting events at the Olympics Games of 1912 (Pistol and rifle shooting events, running deer and clay pigeon shooting with hunting weapons). Dissolved in 1915, it was re-established in 1920.
After the First World War, this sport saw great developments in many European countries and in the United States of America. Consequently the creation of an international association was necessary, to consolidate the national organisations, to harmonise the sports rules, and to coordinate and control their application in the course of international competitions giving rise to the Attributing of titles.
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Part I: 1921 – 1924 Creation of FITASC and involvement in the first Olympic Games in 1924
4th June 1921 – Lausanne – Constitutive Assembly of the Union Internationale de Tir de Chasse (International Union of game shooting) – UIC (FITASC)
The creation of the Fédération Internationale de Tir aux Armes Sportives de Chasse, The first organisation of hunt shooting, was decided in Lausanne on the 4th of June 1921 under the name of Union Internationale de Tir de Chasse (UIC), in a meeting which gathered delegates from the following countries: England, Belgium, Denmark, the United States of America, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Sweden and South Africa.
L’UIC becomes FITASC in 1938.
Extracts from the minutes of the Constitutive Assembly (taken from the report of the Honorary President read at the GA of July 1st 1947): The President [of the Constitutive Assembly le Comte de Clary] asked if the Assembly would allow the proposition to put in the hands of the UIT (ISSF), the interests of all the shooters. The Count of RIBAUCOURT, as delegate of the UIT (ISSF), stated that, in agreement with MERILLON, President of the UIT (ISSF), he proposed the constitution of a new federation grouping all the types of game shooting.
The Assembly unanimously passes the following formula: The old Federation known as: Union Internationale de Tir (A la CIBLE) (International target Shooting Union) – UIT (ISSF), reactivated in 1920 after being dissolved in 1915, will include Shooting Clubs: - for military rifles and pistols - for sports shotguns and pistols - for smaller, calibre 22 guns American and Flobert - for pistols, for combat or duals The new Federation now formed, under the denomination of: Union Internationale de Tir de Chasse (International union of game shooting)-UIC (FITASC), will include Shooting Clubs: - for lead-shot with clay pigeons. - for bullets with deer or wild boar. The two federations are completely separate and will each ensure accordingly, the organisation of a part of the program of the Olympic competitions.
In addition the two disciplines mentioned, the UIC (FITASC) will also organise live pigeon shooting, a discipline never admitted to the Olympic Games.
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The aim of this new Federation UIC (FITASC) is to gather national groups from around the world that practice these sports of shooting live pigeon, clay pigeon (clay target) and running deer/boar (with bullets) and to unify their rules.
The first president was the Count Justinien Clary from 1921 to 1933, the co-founder of the French Olympic Committee which he chaired from 1913 to 1933, and President of the Saint-Hubert Club de France from 1903 to 1933.
11th November 1921 – First Statutes of the UIC (FITASC)
4th May to 27th July 1924 – Paris – Summer Olympic Games
The UIC (FITASC) developed for clay pigeon shooting, for Olympic Trap and for running deer, rules under which the shooting events of these two branches of the sport at the Olympic Games in Paris 1924.
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Part II: From 1925 to 1947 International development of Olympic Trap and Skeet Attempts to reintroduce shooting to the Olympics The UIC changes name in 1938 and becomes the FITASC
22nd of May 1925 - Paris – UIC (FITASC) General Assembly
Extracts from the minutes of the Ordinary General Assembly:
<24TH JULY 1929 – LETTER FROM THE SPORTS NATIONAL COMMITTEE-FRENCH OLYMPIC COMMITTEE REGARDING THE DEFINITION OF AMATEURISM> Then the Olympic committee decided that game shooting will no longer appear on the Olympic Games Program, the practice of Attributing money prizes during shooting championships of UIT (ISSF) or even UIC (FITASC) was a principle contradictory to the amateur practice of Olympic disciplines. In the meantime, The UIC Federation (FITASC) decided that international Competitions for shooting with hunting weapons would be organised under its control, each year if possible, in a country that would place a request; which would have the advantage of meeting more frequently than at the Olympic Games and not as crowed out as they are with many other sports which have no interest for the shooters. This decision was carried out and the UIC Federation (FITASC) kept the control of international shooting with hunting weapons as much for the events that had already figured in the Olympic Games as for the live pigeon shooting that had never been admitted.
<1930 – BULLETIN OF THE “COMITÉ NATIONAL DES SPORTS” AND OF THE “COMITÉ OLYMPIQUE FRANÇAIS”>
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From 1929 to 1939, the World Olympic Trap Championships was held annually; the European championships held in 1933, 1938, and 1940. As for live pigeon shooting, the annual world championships were organised between 1930 and 1940. These events were all organised by FITASC. On the death of Count Clary in 1933, the Presidency of the Federation went to Mister Maurice Faure. It was under his presidency that the last championships before the Second World War were held.
23rd July 1938 – Namur – General Assembly
The “Union Internationale de Tir de Chasse” (International Union of hunting) (UIC) takes the name currently bears: “FEDERATION INTERNATIONALE DE TIR AUX ARMES SPORTIVES DE CHASSE” (International Federation for Shooting with Hunting Weapons) (FITASC). It now groups 27 national organisations divided into three sports sections: live pigeon shooting, clay pigeon shooting (clay target), and rifle shooting. The 1st mention of “skeet”
Extracts from the minutes of the Ordinary General Assembly: 3/ Skeet and down the line shooting - This sport, which has great success in America, is also practiced in England, in Belgium and in France but with slightly different rules. Section n°2 is charged with preparing a final draft of rules with the aim of the organisation of international events.
18th July 1939 – Deauville – General Assembly
An abortive attempt by the FITASC with the International Olympic Committee to reintegrate shooting with hunting weapons in the 1940 Olympics, apparently because of the Finish Olympic Committee.
The activities of the FITASC slowed during the Second World War. It’s Honorary President Maxime Ducroq, ensured the ongoing administration until 1947. He was elected President of the Federation during the General Assembly at San Remo, November the 30th 1947. From this period on, the activities of shooting with hunting weapons saw a new growth internationally.
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Part III: from 1947 to 1953 The division of the International calendar of Olympic Trap and Skeet between the FITASC and UIT (ISSF)
1st July 1947 – Paris – General Assembly
In order to resume clay pigeon shooting at the Helsinki Olympic Games in 1952, the FITASC is willing to entrust the disciplines of Olympic Trap and 100 meter running deer shooting to the Union Internationale de Tir - UIT (ISSF), who are already affiliated to the International Olympic committee for rifled gun (pistols and rifles) disciplines.
Extract of the minutes of the Executive Committee:
Mr. Maxime Ducrocq Honorary President’s report
The president Ducroq informs that he ordered a report from Commander Sellier on artificial bird shooting sports
-Shooting called “trap” (known as “Olympique” in France and on the continent –“down the line” in England – “Regular Trap Shooting” in the United States of America), on one hand,
-and “Skeet” on the other, born in the United States in 1927, the intention of its creators was to make a sport in the image of hunting and which presents a great future for shooting with hunting weapons.
Extract of the minutes of the Ordinary General Assembly: Dr. Lundgern noted than since 1924, shooting with hunting weapons hadn’t been programed in the Olympic Games. This is, according to him, was because the FITASC has, amongst the sports that it controls, the shooting of live pigeons which is only practiced in a small number of countries and with large prize money and which, for these reasons, never figures in the Olympic program. He is of the opinion that the FITASC should, either disengage from this sport, only to keep the artificial target shooting as it’s the only one likely to be admitted to the Olympics, or on the contrary, to abandon these later types of shooting to another Federation and only retain the activity of shooting of live pigeons. After a long discussion [..], The Assembly is prepared to accept the second suggestion from Dr. Lundgren, that is to restrict the shooting of live pigeons as an objective of the FITASC; However it was unanimously decided that after having for 26 years, controlled shooting of artificial targets, the FITASC cannot just declare that it’s lost interest in the sport, it must – in this regard – first ensure the transmission of its powers to another organization already established yet to be constituted. [...]
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The Assembly takes note of the comprehensive and very interesting report presented by the Commander Sellier, especially invited to this meeting as a technical expert. They thank him and congratulate him on the work and decide unanimously to suspend examining this question until further notice, so as not to bind the existing federation or one yet to be established that would look after these different sports. The question will be taken up again if this eventual transfer doesn’t happen.
8th August 1947 – Stockholm - General Assembly
The General Assembly decided to eliminate the objectives of the FITASC for artificial pigeon and running deer shooting and to only keep live pigeon shooting as a sport that it controls. The UIT (ISSF) unanimously accepted the transfer of power that the FITASC willingly gave up.
30th November 1947 – San Remo - General Assembly
The General Assembly approved the amendments to the articles which voided the references to shooting artificial bird and shooting running deer.
From 1948 to 1952
The FITASC, now 13 national groups strong, organizes the European Championships in 1947, 1951 and 1952. However, from 1950, the federations affiliated members of both international organizations agree that the wording adopted in 1947 does not satisfy most of them. In effect, the International Shooting Union - UIT (ISSF) set up at this time: - Only one World Championship every four years, limiting participation to only 5 shooters per nation, - and, alternately, every four years, the Olympic events, limiting the participation to two shooters per nation. The FITASC General Assembly of 1951 charged its president the Count H. of Gouvion Saint Cyr, to do everything in his power so that annual International clay target competitions under the aegis of the FITASC can effectively be started again. To this end, it became necessary to find an agreement with the International Shooting Union - UIT (ISSF).
11th February 1951 – Monte Carlo - General Assembly
The General Assembly entrusts the executive of the direction with a study of the relevance and terms of the FITASC taking back the control of clay pigeon shooting and making contact with the UIT (ISSF). Page 16 / 147
21st July 1951 – Deauville – Executive Committee
As for the recovery of control by FITASC of clay pigeon shooting, the choice is to leave the control of the amateur events to the UIT (ISSF) and to give to FITASC events concerning prize money: Which gives national groups the possibilities the choice to join one or the other organization or even both if they wish.
Extract of the minutes of the Executive Committee: The President [of Executive Committee] let it be known that, according to the decision of the General Assembly of the 11th of February, he had addressed two letters to the UIT (ISSF) on their opinion on FITASC eventually taking back control of clay pigeon shooting. Italy and Brazil had further insisted on the resolution of this question and the President read out the letter from the Brazilian Confederation. He also made known the reply of the UIT (ISSF) who had just reached us and who let us know that their organisation had sent a circular to their members asking their opinion and the choice between three of the following solutions: - keep clay pigeon shooting with the UIT (ISSF) - bring the control back to the FITASC - keep the control of the amateur events with the UIT (ISSF) and give those which concern prize money to the FITASC. After deliberation the committee decided to propose this third solution to the UIT (ISSF) which gives national groups, every possibility to join at their choosing one or the other of the organisation or even both if they so wish.
17th December 1951 – Paris – Extraordinary General Assembly
Regarding clay pigeon shooting (Olympic Trap and skeet), adopting the proposition from the UIT which wished to keep the control of the amateur events at the UIT (ISSF) and to relinquish those events with prize money to the FITASC.
Extract of the minutes of the General Assembly: The General Assembly of the 11th of February 1951 asked the bureau of the FITASC to examine the question of the possible resumption of control of clay pigeon shooting. The executive committee, during its meeting of the 21st of July, approved the steps taken by the bureau in this direction and adopted the proposal of the UIT (ISSF) who wished to keep the control of amateur shooting events with the UIT (ISSF) and to relinquish those that drew prize money to the FITASC. This formula was adopted by the Executive Committee of the UIT (ISSF) at its meeting on the 27th of September. The President Count H. de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, proposes that the General Assembly ratifies the arrangement between the two associations. He notes that the Brazilian Shooting Federation made objections to him against this formula, wishing that the FITASC resumes full control of clay pigeon shooting; the formula suggested by the UIT (ISSF) was a serious disadvantage to this Federation. However, proving their Sporting Clays spirit, for which it must be applauded, they did accept, finally, this solution. Page 17 / 147
Mr. Limongelli, representing Italy asked that the FITASC insisted in obtaining the final unification of these two categories of shooting (clay and live) as it was also the desire of the Brazilian Federation. The majority of the General Assembly proposed to ratify the agreement anyway but asked the FITASC to continue efforts to obtain this unification and to reach a precise detailed agreement with the UIT (ISSF), an agreement which could be examined either in Monte-Carlo, or at the next General Assembly. The General Assembly also proposes that a meeting be held as soon as possible, with representatives from the UIT (ISSF) and clay pigeon shooting technicians, to develop different technical questions to both shooting categories.
30th April 1952 – Estoril – Ordinary General Assembly
Terms for the resumption of the control of clay shooting disciplines by the FITASC (Olympic Trap and skeet)
Extract of the minutes of the General Assembly: The General Assembly of February the 11th 1951 has entrusted to the bureau the care of studying the possibilities of reintegrating clay pigeon shooting into the FITASC. Who, after much effort, reached the conclusion of an arrangement with the UIT (ISSF) according to which the control of clay pigeon shooting, except in respect to the Olympics and events without prize money, will return again to the FITASC. The bureau reported this arrangement during the Extraordinary General Assembly of December 17th 1951, which accordingly, brought a change in status arising from the new growth of its field of action. This assembly, while ratifying the agreement, decided to continue the negotiations for the determination of various details concerning clay pigeon shooting. A preparatory meeting was therefore held on February the 26th 1952 chaired by the President of the FITASC and at which participated, outside of the representatives of groups affiliated with FITASC, representatives of clay pigeon shooting. This meeting first adopted the definition of amateurism that it submitted to the UIT (ISSF). As they had not yet having been able to meet for their General Assembly to ratify this decision, the bureau of the FITASC proposes to apply until the ratification of this agreement, this definition in all the events that it controls. The decisions of the Monte-Carlo meeting are unanimously ratified.
15th – 16th February 1953 - Monte Carlo – Preparatory meeting between the UIT (ISSF) and the FITASC
Distribution of the responsibilities between the UIT (ISSF) and the FITASC in the control of clay pigeon disciplines (Olympic Trap and skeet). Definition of amateurism Page 18 / 147
The FITASC will annually organise the “European Individual Championship” for clay pigeons, (Olympic Trap and skeet), open to shooters of all the nations and without prize money.
Extract of the minutes of this preparatory meeting:
Session of February 15th 1953 I Definition of Amateurism The International Olympic committee is currently very strict on this matter and does not perceive that clay pigeon shooters who participate in competition, with prize money can be described as amateur. After discussing this issue the FITASC, using the text given by the UIT (ISSF) on the definition of amateurism, says: - On the one hand professional shooters don’t exist in our European countries, that is to say, paid by manufacturers of guns or ammunition (or even a club) to demonstrate the superiority of a make of gun or ammunition, where as in the USA, this practice is common; - On the other hand gunsmiths cannot be regarded as professionals, in Europe their profession consists of selling guns and ammunition without being obliged to know how to shoot, to the extent that certain championships reserved for gunsmiths have proved that most of them could be considered beginners and don’t even break one in ten clay targets, and the few shooting instructors for shooting hunting weapons (2 in Italy and 3 in France) were of a modest situation which didn’t allow them to take part in the clay pigeon shooting events and anyhow their national federation prohibited it. - Finally the FITASC is ready, although it has been demonstrated that a clay pigeon shooter cannot only not live from their winnings, but not even make a profit from these winnings taking into account the inscription fees for events, the expenses for ammunition and pigeons and travel expenses, to demand that those national federations, that all the affiliated shooters are obliged to relinquish to their federation all surplus of wins over $40 per shooting meet in which they participate.
II Organising Championships. Mr. Jan and Mr. Larsson state that the UIT (ISSF) has decided that the World Championships will happen every four years, the Olympic Games are also happening every 4 years, the UIT (ISSF) will therefore be organising one of these events every two years. The UIT (ISSF) reserves the right, in addition to organising during the odd years Pan-European championships, Pan-American championships, etc… the first Pan-European championship should take place in 1955 in Romania. A long discussion starts during which Mr. Limongelli points out that the European championships organised by UIT (ISSF), with a participation limited to a small number of shooters per nation, would group a very reduced number of shooters and that it would be preferable to find another title than that of European Championship. Mr. de Judez and Mr.de Villota, and Dr Bornsson were in full agreement with Mr. Limongelli. Mr. Bernard, after briefly recalling the conditions in which the FITAC relinquished to the UIT (ISSF) the control of clay pigeon shooting, thanked the UIT (ISSF) on behalf of all the countries for having completed the task of getting this sport reintroduced into the Olympic Games, but points out that the World championship only takes place every 4 years, it seems indispensable that there is a European championship every year, all the shooters, because of the development of Page 19 / 147 this type of shooting, are no longer satisfied with their regional championships and demand an international competition with an important title. Mr. Limongelli noted that the general opinion of Italian shooters is that this championship shouldn’t be uniquely reserved for a few wealthy shooters who have time and financial means to train intensively and that this sport should be democratised allowing shooters of all levels of society to take part. Mr. de Villota believes that the Spanish Federation and the Sports Committee do not have sufficient resources to subsidise less well-off shooters and that clay pigeon shooting will for now stay, at least for the time being for shooters who have sufficient financial means. The President of the FITASC pointed out that until 1939 the World Championships that they organized every year had three events with 100 pigeons: - the first 100 pigeons counted for the national Championship, - the first 200 pigeons counted for the European Championship, - the totality of the 300 pigeons counted for the Worlds Championship. That in these circumstanced it is not for the UIT (ISSF) to have a monopoly of the European Championships, that if the FITASC wants to abandon to the UIT (ISSF) the organisation of the World Championships this cannot be the case for the European Championships. Mr. Larsson, after having stated that the UIT (ISSF) had decided to entrust in 1955 the European Championships to Romania, not only for clay pigeon shooting, but also for all types of rifled weapon shooting, doesn’t think that the UIT (ISSF) could now name its clay pigeon shooting in another way. After discussion, the delegates present propose: 1/ to leave to the UIT (ISSF) the organisation, during certain odd numbered years of Pan- European, Pan-American, teams championships, these rules will allow all shooters of all nations without a limit on numbers. 2/ to leave to the FITASC the care of Organising every year a European individual championship which all shooters of all nations can take part in without limitation of numbers. This proposal met with a consensus. Mr. Larsson notes however that it must be ratified by the UIT (ISSF) executive committee.
Session of the 16th of February 1953 I Rules of the European Championship II Common membership of national groups to the UIT (ISSF) and to the FITASC III Protocol between the UIT (ISSF) and the FITASC
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16th February 1953 – Monte Carlo - Protocol between the UIT (ISSF) and the FITASC
i. The UIT (ISSF) undertakes to consult the FITASC on issues with amendments to be made to the rules and the organisation of international matches, and to collaborate with the FITASC in all circumstances, on the condition that the FITASC observers the statutes of amateurism established by the UIC (ISSF) and the IOC.
ii. The UIT (ISSF) reports being pleased that the FITASC has accepted to organise the individual European clay pigeon Championship annually (Championships open to shooters of all nations).
iii. The UIT (ISSF) accepts that its members can also be affiliated to the FITASC, on the condition that the FITASC only organised the individual European Championship with the exception of all other championships outside of the European continent without the formal agreement of the UIT (ISSF).
iv. The FITASC undertakes to organise every year an official competition with 200 pigeons called the “Individual European Championship” awarding only medals, honorary prizes and certificates.
v. The two large organisations will consult to study a common agreement on the possibility of organising simultaneously the European Individual Championships and the Pan-European team championships, when the dates and places of these competitions allow.
Monte-Carlo, the 16th February 1953
The delegates of the UIC (ISSF) signed : The delegates of the FITASC signed : Mr. Charles Jan Comte Gouvion Saint-Cyr Mr. Larsson Le Secrétaire Général de la FITASC Mr. Cantamessa Dr Bouysson
5th June 1953 – Vichy - General Assembly
Ratification of the protocol between the UIT (ISSF) and the FITASC
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Part IV: 1954 –1968 The difficult co-management of clay target shooting disciplines in the UIT (ISSF) and the FITASC Creation of non-Olympic disciplines by the FITASC
28th February 1954 - Monte Carlo - Meeting of the Clay Pigeon Shooting Section
Amendments of rules for Olympic Trap and skeet according to the proposals of the UIT (ISSF)
Extract of the minutes of the General Assembly: Trench Shooting: Acceptance of the proposition for amending the rules submitted by the UIT (ISSF).
Skeet: Non-acceptance of the amendments brought to the rules in 1953 by the UIT (ISSF), notably concerning the shouldered position of the shooter and the delay being brought down to a second. Adoption of the proposed rules by the French Federation, (position off the shoulder and keeping the delay at 0 to 3 seconds), after having been informed of the 1954 rules of the American National Skeet Shooting Association. The delegates wish to emphasize that they must maintain the augural principals of skeet, which were to create a new type of shooting that approached as near as possible hunting, with the rifle being off the shoulder and with an uncertainty of time for the release of the bird. The delegates urged the UIT (ISSF) to adopt this same rule for the World Championships and eventually for the Olympics in order to keep this shooting’s challenges that seem indispensable in these competitions.
9th July 1954 - San Sebastian - General Assembly
Common rules to the UIT (ISSF) and the FITASC the for Olympic Trap and the Skeet Extract of the minutes of the General Assembly: Rules for Clay Pigeon shooting After long and laborious negotiations conducted in part by the secretary of our federation, in part by the clay pigeon shooting section, a common rule has been established as for both the FITASC and the UIT (ISSF), in a way that the international championships under the control of any one of the two associations can be shot according to the same rules. The President [of the FITASC] can only commend this result which was acquired thanks to the good will of both sides, but must lament the fact that the Belgian Federation, despite repeated appeals as much from the UIT (ISSF) as from the FITASC, didn’t wish to comply with the international rules concerning the skeet (yet were accepted at the Montes-Carlo meeting by its delegates) and continue to apply current rules from a country that is not even affiliated with our federation. So he asks that the Assembly to address a solemn appeal to this federation, that it unanimously aligns itself with the other affiliated groups and that it decides that as this Page 22 / 147
country doesn’t conform to the international rules in force, that no International Championship is attributed to it and that the results of its competitions are not approved. This proposition is unanimously accepted.
17th January 1955 - Cairo – Ordinary General Assembly
A first misunderstanding between the UIT (ISSF) and the FITASC resulting in two European Championships in 1955.
Extract of the minutes of the General Assembly: The European clay pigeon shooting Championship and World live pigeon shooting Championships of 1955, as we know, just took place in Egypt. [..] The President [of the FITASC] established that a communication came to him directly from the German federation and according to that the UIT (ISSF) had decided, at its Caracas General Assembly, on the organisation of European Clay Pigeon Shooting Championships in Romania in 1955. He read out a letter which he recently addressed to this association and in it protested against the organisation of these championships, contrary to the understandings reached in 1953 between the FITASC and the UIT (ISSF) and according to which the FITASC will organise an annual European clay pigeon shooting championship. The General Wehanna, who just attended the Caracas General Assembly, specified that the UIT (ISSF), based on the fact that the program of the Cairo Championship had prize money, considered themselves released from the agreements previously reached, and thus, the Romanian Championships. They however, specified that they didn’t object to the Cairo Championships, to which they had previously given their agreement. The President said on this subject, that when he sent his letter of protestation to the UIT (ISSF) he let them know that the prize money mentioned in the program for the Cairo championships was only the result of a printing mistake, and he had demanded that the Egyptian Federation rectified it immediately. The IUT (ISSF) was so advised well in advance of the fact and cannot consequentially, hold it against our federation, which can therefore only accept, as European Championships, the Championships that just took place in Cairo. Mr. Coutsis (Greece) proposed then that the President of the Federation keeps a close relationship with the UIT (ISSF) and endeavours to sort this question out, because a persistent disagreement between the two associations would considerably impair the development of the sport of shooting and would certainly harm both associations. This proposition was unanimously accepted and the President of the FITASC was empowered with finding an arrangement with the UIT (ISSF) as soon as he receives their reply. The General Wehama, in order to find an arrangement that suits both parties on this subject proposes the replacement of the FITASC annual European Championships by an “International Championship” which could be held each year in the same place as the World live pigeon Championship. Page 23 / 147
This proposition, while gathering the favorable opinion of the General Assembly is referred to the clay pigeon section which is independent in matters of details concerning this sports category.
29th May 1955 – Paris - Extraordinary General Assembly
Extract of the minutes of the General Assembly: Relations with the UIT (ISSF) The President [of the FITASC] let it be known that, according to the decision of the General Assembly of the 17th of January last, he continued to correspond with the UIT (ISSF) on issues concerning the clay pigeon shooting European Championship. A meeting between the Presidents of both Assemblies was scheduled for the beginning of the month of June 1955, he can’t yet offer any information about this. But, given that the UIT (ISSF) has not seen fit to follow up on our various proposals and had maintained the 1955 Bucharest European Championships, Championships which already happened under the control of the FITASC, who also ask all their affiliated groups, and particularly those having taken part with their shooters at the Cairo Championships, not to participate in the individual championships organised in Romania. This decision was unanimously accepted.
25th May 1956 - Rome - Ordinary General Assembly
Dissipation of all misunderstandings between the UIT (ISSF) and the FITASC
Extract of the minutes of the General Assembly: II Clay Pigeons: With regards to skeet it was decided to fully accept the rules of the UIT (ISSF), i.e. to modify in the current rules the position of the shooter (stock at the hip) and to bring the charge limit of lead down to 32gr.
Agreement with the UIT (ISSF) It is with great pleasure that the President [of the FITASC] announced that since the General Assembly of UIT (ISSF) last September, of which he already gave an account, all the misunderstandings between the two associations have been dispelled and final agreements reached concerning the European Championships and the affiliation of members of the UIT (ISSF) and the FITASC. The assembly joins with its President to congratulate once more the General MEHANNA for the success of his intervention and asks the Bureau of the FITASC to continue hold the closest of relationships with the UIT (ISSF).
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24th July 1956 – San Sebastian - Meeting of the clay pigeon shooting section
The FITASC must reaffirm its rules for the organisation of the European clay pigeon shooting championship to its members, so as to avoid all misunderstandings with the UIT (ISSF) Project for the Eastern Olympic Trap and skeet / Skeet Nations Cup
Extract of the minutes of the General Assembly:
I European Championships of 1956 Dr. BOUYSSOU, a personal representative of the President of the FITASC firstly asked to speak to outline to the delegates the different omissions caused by the organisation of these Championships, despite the assurances given originally by the Spanish Federation, and the constant reminders from the FITASC bureau – apologising to the delegates and acknowledging a certain responsibility for his lack of direct control, arising from the confidence that the President [of the Clay Pigeon Shooting Section] believed he could give to the Spanish Federation, which proved twice in Barcelona that they knew how to organise a regulated and well prepared International Championships, He makes a critical summary of the circumstances which preceded the 1965 European Championships: […] Turing to the direct circumstances of the organisation of championships, he recalled: a/ that the program of the Championships, despite renewed demands from the president of the FITASC, itself in accordance with the many complaints from National Groups, weren’t made available to the Federation until eight days before the start of the events, and so it was impossible for certain countries to prepare the trip for their delegates. b/ that these programs, which were impossible to correct and control by the Commission, precisely because of their late publication, are contrary to the FITASC rules and agreements reached between them and the UIT (ISSF). They effectively contain, at the same time as Championships Attributing medals and works of art, prize money, while it was decided and brought to the attention of the President of the Spanish Federation, that the strict rules of amateurism should be respected.
On this subject Dr. BOUYSSOU referred to a letter from the President of the FITASC, dated the 19th of July, asking for the immediate withdrawal of these programs.
Mr. Sedky and Mr.Sejaan, on behalf of Egypt and the Lebanon, join this request and add the necessity to publish in within 24 hours, new programs from which all prize money is removed.
c/ After examining the installations, he found, in agreement with the delegates from other countries that the Olympic Trap was regulatory equipped, with was not the same for the skeet, without any skeet machines, and a device called a timer which gives the departure in the three regulatory seconds, and with poor functionality.
d/ that the organising club and the Spanish Federation had neglected to give the shooters all the useful indications in time, concerning the trip, the entry of weapons and ammunition, hotel prices, etc.… destined to facilitate their participation in the championships.
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After this presentation, and explanations from the representatives of the organisation, the representative of the President of the FITASC put the question to the representatives of the countries present, if, in the current conditions they believe it’s possible to maintain the championships, or if they should be put off till a later date, and another place where the conditions would be more favourable. A long exchange of views followed, during which the president of the Spanish Federation gave a formal promise that everything would be implemented to insure that the championships are held according to the rules and that the facilities are improved. Many delegates and particularly those from Egypt, Italy and the Lebanon, having noted that, despite the validity of the criticisms it would be regrettable, for the participants, sometimes having come from far away countries, not to be able to shoot in the advertised European Championships, it was decided, unanimously, to maintain the validity of these official events, while requiring the maximum possible improvements in the facilities by the Spanish organisers.
In order to avoid the return of such errors, and to give these events in the future, the absolute regularity that they require, it was decided to include in the International Championship rules, the following provisions, and to apply them from the next International Championship:
1/ No later than three months before the start of the Championships a delegate of the FITASC, appointed by its President, will have to go, at the expense of the Federation organising the Championship to the site, to control that the technical and administrative conditions are in line with the rules, and make it possible, for the Championship, to be held in good conditions. On the unfavourable view of this delegate, the FITASC bureau can decide on the postponing or the cancelation of the Championship.
2 / Equally three months before the date of the championship, the organising Federation, should communicate to the FITASC a project for a definitive program. This project, written in French and in the language of the organising county, cannot include a mention of prize money, there will only be medals, cups and art works destined for ranked shooters. The project examined and ratified by the FITASC should be diffused at the latest two months before the start of the Championship; failing this it will be cancelled.
3/ With regards to the same program of the European Championship in progress, the delegate from Egypt points out that, in accordance with a decision taken in 1955 by the FITASC, it should be entitled “International European Championship” and asked that this title appears in the new program to be printed. He also points out the irregularity committed by naming two Spanish referees, when the rule specify that the referees must be chosen by the FITASC from among internationally recognised people. It was therefore decided to nominate each day referees representing every nation present. The nomination of referees will be up to the jury consisting of Messrs Mr.Luis JUDEZ, President Dr. BOUYSOU, Hussein SENJAAN, Mario IATA and KROPACEK. It is finally decided for the Skeet Championship, to apply the 1955 rule concerning the position of the shooter and the load of their cartridges, the modifications adopted by the General Assembly of the 25th of May, could not yet be applied in all the countries. Finally on the proposal of Mr. Sedky, and as a consequence of the absence of a timer, it is decided to shoot this Championship on immediate release. […]
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III. European Championship 1957
The European Championships [in trap and skeet] for 1957 are already, in principal, granted to Austria in 1955, Mr. de Kiss, who has the delegation of this Federation, presented the project for these Championships.
By a letter dated the 6th of July last, the Austrian Federation put forward two proposals:
1/ The already ready range at Poertschach, where the « Nations Cup » event was recently held.
2/ A range in Vienna, whose construction is planned for the near future.
As dates, the Federation proposed either the 7th to the 10th of June, or the 29th of August to the 1st of September. Furthermore, they pose, a series of questions, among others: that of the eventual obligation of shooting at two Olympic Traps.
After discussing certain points in detail, the dates of the 29th of August to the 1st of September are retained, and it is decided not to require two ranges, but that the range with the Olympic Trap is equipped with impeccable machines, with electric releases and being fully regulatory, and that all the facilities are provided for the shooters as much as regarding the installation as regarding armoury, transport, accommodation etc.
The delegates, while regretting the absence of an Austrian representative, in order to have some clarification on different issues, said that they leave the liberty of choice for the location of the Championships to the Austrian Federation, but, after an intervention by the delegates from Egypt and from Germany, wishing to emphasize to the Austrian federation that it is quite impossible to hold the European championships in the current conditions at Poertschach, where the trench is not regulatory and where it lacks necessary buildings that, despite the very cordial welcome from the organisers, caused great inconvenience during the “Nations Cup” shoot.
It is, definitively, decided to maintain the Championships in Austria but, make it obligatory for this Federation to present at the latest six months before the Championship, a fully compliant range and an organisation running flawlessly otherwise the Championships in question will be withdrawn. The bureau of the Federation is responsible for ensuring that these measures are followed and to give an account by the 30th of March 1957 at the latest, to the members of the technical commissions, on which the decision depends. In the case where Austria cannot finish its installations, and therefore, should renounce the Championships, these could take place in German at the proposed date for the Nations Cup.
IV. Oriental Championships
Egypt addressed the FITASC with a request for the organisation in January 1957 of the Oriental Championships of Trench and of Skeet at the same time as the live pigeon shooting Championship that they are organising.
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Mr. Sedky, delegate for the Egyptian Federation confirmed this request, but asked that the details of this Championship and their program could be submitted to the FITASC in just a few weeks, waiting for the notification from the Egyptian authorities who the project was just submitted to. The Oriental Championships were unanimously accorded, the review and ratification of the programs is entrusted to the bureau of the FITASC.
V. Nations Cup This cup, held on the 20th of May last in Austrian, having been won by a German shooter, should, according to the rules be held in this country. Mr. Raddatz in the name of the German Federation proposes a shoot towards the 15th of August 1957 in Hanover. This proposition is accepted, and it is also decided to shoot this event with 100 pigeons instead of 50, to increase its importance.
19th March 1957 – Monte Carlo - Meeting of the clay pigeon shooting section
The term “Clay Pigeon” becomes “Clay Target” Proposal for modification for skeet rules
Extract of the minutes of the meeting: Amendment to the Rules On a proposal from the French Federation, it is decided to change the official definition of “Clay Pigeon” to “Clay Target”, everywhere that that definition appears in the rules.
Mr. Sheid, the delegate for Belgium, then proposes an amendment to the rule of skeet with the aim of reducing the duration of the course. This proposal, already adapted in the United States, consists of shooting, the stations 1, 2, 6, 7, and then doubles immediately after the single shots. This proposal, while holding the attention of all the delegates, couldn’t be definitively accepted because it needs to be submitted beforehand to the UIT (ISSF) for opinion, following the existing agreement between this association and the FITASC.
6th May 1957 – Estoril – Ordinary General Assembly
Proposal for the amendment of the skeet rules to be submitted to the UIT (ISSF) Attributing the European Championships in Olympic Trap and skeet
Extract of the minutes of the General Assembly: II Amendment of rules – Clay target shooting
The clay target shooting section, at the meeting of the 19th of March 1957, decided to change, in the International rules the name “clay pigeons” and that of “clay target” everywhere this name appears and has, also, decided to raise the number of clay targets in the Nations Cup, which will be increased from 50 to 100. The Assembly ratifies these decisions that are a matter for the Clay Target Shooting Section.
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The Belgian Federation for Shooting with Sports Hunting Weapons just submitted to our federation, a proposal concerning the shooting position in Skeet, as well as another proposal to shorten the course in Skeet. These proposal not having been examined by the Clay Target Shooting Section, the President proposes to submit and if approved, to notify the UIT (ISSF) to ask them their opinion on these modifications, in accordance with the agreement concluded with this Association.
Following a question asked by the General MEHANNA, the delegate for Egypt, the President specifies that the international rules for Shooting Trap and skeet are identical for the FITASC and the UIT (ISSF), and it’s only the special rules, relating to its application and the administrative organisation of International Championships that there is a rule specific to FITASC.
European Championship 1958 in Trench and in Skeet
The Clay Target Shooting Section, at the meeting of the 19th of March 1957, recorded a request from Switzerland to hold the European Championships in 1958 in trap and skeet. This request having been accepted by the section in question, the Assembly decided to grant the Championship to the SWISS Federation.
Regarding the European Skeet Championship, it was decided that in the case where Switzerland would no longer be able to organise it, this Championship would be attributed to Italy; the reply from Switzerland should be given before September 1957. Mister Maurer, the President of this federation stated that his country was not yet able to organising the Skeet Championship; it is therefore accorded, as envisaged, to Italy who will organise it immediately after the trench Championship, in Turin.
1959 European Skeet Championship in Trench and in Skeet The UIT (ISSF) having decided to organise the European Championships in all shooting categories in Italy in 1959, the Italian Federation has asked that the Individual Championship controlled by FITASC be attributed to them for the same year. The Clay Target Shooting section having accepted this candidature, the General Assembly, unanimously, gives its confirmation
27th June 1957 – Paris - Meeting of the Clay Target Shooting Section
Proposal for the elimination of prize money in all international championships organised by the FITASC
Extract of the minutes of the meeting: On the proposal of the French Federation for Shooting with Hunting Weapons (FITASC) it is decided, unanimously:
1/ to eliminate, prize money, in all International championships organised by the FITASC from 1957, which could only eventually be included in events surrounding the championship.
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2/ to replace the 2% levy on the prizes, levied in accordance with special rules of International championships, for the benefit of FITASC, by a 10% levy on the clay targets shot during the Championship events, as well as the training event which proceed them.
13th June 1958 – Vichy – General Assembly
Approval for the elimination of prize money from all international championships organised by FITASC With the constant development of the sport of shooting, the proposal for the creation of an Annual World Clay Target Shooting Championship, to add to the one organised every four years by the UIT (ISSF) and to satisfy the demands of the continual growth of practitioners of this sport. Launch of the Friendship Cup
Extract of the minutes of the General Assembly:
D/ Clay Target Shooting Section
The clay target shooting section of the FITASC during the European Clay Target Shooting Championship of 1957, the 27th of June, in Paris, decided, amonsgt other things, the total elimination of prise money in the FITASC European Championships and to replace the 2% levy on the prizes attributed by a levy of 10% on the price of clay targets.
The General Assembly rules on the ratification of the decisions proposed by the bureau of the FITASC.
Creation of an Annual World Clay Target Shooting Championship
The President let it be known that the French Federation addressed a request to the FITASC with the hope of organising an International World Clay Target Shooting each year. This proposal was communicated at the same time as the agenda, to groups affiliated with the FITASC which many have already approved.
It is, indeed obvious that with the continual development of the sport of shooting, a World Championship every four years, as it is organised by the UIT (ISSF), cannot satisfy the demands of the ever increasing numbers practicing this sport.
According to the French Federation’s proposal, the FITASC will be responsible for the organisation of the World Championships during the years that the UIT (ISSF) is not organising it, with an exception for years of the Olympic Games.
However, the President [of the FITASC] points out that in the situation where this proposal is accepted, it will be necessary to give power to the FITASC bureau in order to discuss the modalities of its application with the directors of the UIT (ISSF) with who the FITASC has signed an agreement concerning the organisation of annual European Championships, and without which there would be no question of taking any type of initiative in that direction.
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He then adds that the proposal of the French Federation has already gathered practically unanimous approval of the affiliated Federations and personally wishes the outcome of a solution in the interest of the shooters.
Mister LIMONGELLI then made it known that he recently had an interview with the General Secretary of the UIT (ISSF) who insured the continued collaboration of his Association, while asking that no decision be taken without their agreement.
The unanimity achieved on the principal of holding the annual World Championships, The Assembly, unanimously gave power to their President to make contact with the representatives of the UIT (ISSF), in order to find in agreement with them a solution satisfactory to both Associations for the accomplishment of this project. […]
Attribution of International Championships
European Trap and skeet Championship This Championship was, in principal attributed to Italy for 1959. This attribution was confirmed by the Assembly and the President of the Italian Federation let it be known that the Championship will principally take place in Rome.
For the year 1960, Spain and Portugal have given their application for the European Championship. The Assembly decided to give the Clay Target Shooting Section the care of examining the possibilities of organising the 1960 Championships in one of these two countries.
1958 Nations Cup The President communicated to the assembly a request that he had just received from the Greek Shooting Federation who propose to organise the Nations Cup next October in Athens, in case the Lebanese Federation to whom the organisation of this event was entrusted withdraw. The Assembly accepts this proposal and assigns the examination of the details of this issue to the Clay Target Shooting Section too. The application of the French Federation can only come forward in the case where the event cannot take place in Athens.
Friendship Cup The President confirms to the Assembly his earlier communication and specifies that the Friendship Cup, an event with 300 clay targets and Olympic Trap will take place from the 7th to the 10th of next August in Bulgaria. He encourages all the federations to participate at this great event for which the FITASC will offer a silver plaque, and it will be great training for shooters who are going to the Moscow World Championships.
26th April 1959 - Seville – General Assembly
Olympic Trap and skeet: The General Assembly of the UIT (ISSF) accepts the principal of an annual World Championships on the condition that they organise them themselves: the FITASC is pleased and counts on its good implementation to satisfy the ever growing number of requests on this subject. Page 31 / 147
Extract of the minutes of the General Assembly: Clay Target Shooting Section Decisions taken at the assembly of this section, held on the 26th of June 1958, in Geneva: - Proposal for the annual World Championships, proposal adopted by the General Assembly of the UIT (ISSF), - Attribution of the European Championships of 1959 (Italy) and 1960 (Spain) - Nations Cup, Latin Cup and Friendship Cup, in Bulgaria. - International Judges proposed by the Italian Federation. All these decisions are unanimously ratified by the general Assembly.
1960 European Clay Target Shooting Championship The Clay Target Shooting Section in its Geneva meeting, have granted this Championship to Spain. It will be contested in Barcelona, where a second Olympic Trap needs to be installed. The Spanish Federation is asked to enable these facilities so that a definitive decision can be taken at the next meeting of the Section. The Assembly takes note of the candidacy of Great Britain for the European Trap and skeet Championship and decide to transfer this request at the next Clay Target Shooting Section Assembly.
Nations Cup (Clay Targets) As an English shooter won the Cup in 1958, it should be contested in England. […]
Friendship Cup (Clay Targets) This event which couldn’t take place in 1958, will be Organised by the Bulgarian Union of Hunters and Anglers from the 21st to the 23rd of August in Sofia. […]
Relations with the International Shooting Union (UIT – ISSF) Following decisions taken by out last General Assembly of the 13th of June 1858, the President of the FITASC continues to maintain a direct contact with the directors of the UIT (ISSF).
He delegated the General Secretary of the FITASC, Dr. Pierre BOUYSSOU to the UIT (ISSF) General Assembly in Moscow to support the proposals made by our members, in particular with regards to the annual World Clay Target Shooting Championship. Though not agreeing that it should be our federation that organises these Championships in the years where the UIT (ISSF) doesn’t organise one, the Assembly of this association has accepted the basis of our proposal and decided to organise these annual World Championships themselves, which we should consider to be a certain success for our actions.
…It is Egypt that was designated to organise the world championships in 1959, but we unfortunately haven’t yet any definite news about the place and dates of this Championship. […]
It is desirable that the welcomed decision taken by the UIT (ISSF) is also implemented, as to satisfy the ever-increasing numbers of requests which reach us on this subject.
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Also following the agreement reached with the UIT (ISSF), our Federation has accepted to organise the Clay Pigeon Individual European Championships jointly with the European Championships in other shooting disciplines, organised by the UIT (ISSF) in September 1959, in Italy. A particular effort has to be made by the Italian Federation who had already fixed the dates of these Championships for the month of June, but when the UIT’s (ISSF) decision became known, reorganising theirs for September. The dates currently reserved are certainly not favourable for our shooters and most of them are currently hunting and our Federation must express our thanks to the Italian Federation for even having accepted these disadvantageous changes, in the interest of both Associations and of their friendship.
The President of the FITASC bureau intends to continue to keep in close contact with the UIT (ISSF) and to work in compliance with them for the success of the sport of clay target shooting.
4th September 1959 - Turin - Meeting of the Clay Target Shooting Technical Commission
Skeet: Proposal for the amendment of the rules to be submitted to the UIT (ISSF) The team Championships for the Match of Nations will in future, be contested in accordance with the rules of the UIT (ISSF), by four shooters.
Extract of the minutes of the meeting: Proposal for the amendment of the Skeet Shooting rules Mr. Berlaimont, on behalf of the French shooting Federation, submits to the commission a draft amendment on three points of the rules of skeet shooting. 1. Doubles to retake 2. Shotgun to use 3. A ban on Aluminium pellets
1/ Doubles to retake: Following frauds noted in France during recent Championships, during doubles, the French Federation of shooting proposed that the article “c” paragraph 6, of the rules on doubles to retake in skeet shooting, to either modify as following: “During doubles to be retaken, if a malfunction of the shotgun or a cartridge failure prevents the shooter from firing their second shot, the first bird will count as “no bird” if it is broken or a zero if it is missed, the shooter should shot a second double to determine the result of the double or the result of the second bird.”
This modification recognised as very useful is unanimously accepted, while specifying that it cannot be applied in the case of no birds caused by a fault of launch mechanism (the clay target broken). 2/ Shotgun to use : A proposition of the UIT (ISSF) came to us requiring the shooter to use the same shotgun during all of a round of skeet, the French Shooting federation considers that this amendment doesn’t seem essential, but that if it was applied it should also be completed with regards to barrels and hand adjustable chokes. It was therefore decided to ask the UIT (ISSF) for extra clarification on this point and not to apply this change while this issue has not been definitively resolved.
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3/ A ban on aluminium pellets: The proposal of the French shooting Federation to prohibit the use at station 8 of aluminium shot which is more advantageous, as a replacement for pellets for short distance shooting, is adopted by the commission, and it was decided to submit it to the UIT (ISSF). On the proposal from the Portuguese delegate, it is decided to ask the UIT (ISSF) the reason why the limit of lead was set to a smaller size and limited to 32grams of lead load.
Replacement of station 8 Mr. Fluckiger submits a proposal from the Swiss Shooting Federation to get rid of station 8 on the skeet course, and to replace it with a simultaneous double shot at station 4. He states that indeed skeet was conceived with the objective of hunting shooting and the position of the shooter at a skeet station is in no way a hunting position. By contrast a double at station 4 would be absolutely sporting, but would increase the difficulty of the course, allowing the many ties to be more easily distinguished. It will naturally be necessary, to specify that the shooter can choose the clay target which he’ll shoot first, but if he doesn’t start by the high tower, he must warn the judge. This proposal which would remove the need for the French proposal n°3, is welcomed and supported by all the members present, it is therefore decided to submit it to the UIT (ISSF), so as to envisage, for the future, the amendment of the rules of skeet in this direction.
Position of the Shooter Mr. Fluckiger, in another proposal, asked that the word “stomach” be removed from the paragraph concerning the position of the shooter, and that the second part of that paragraph be worded as follows. “That the stock touches the shooters hip and that the tip of the stock is visible below the forearm”. This proposal was also accepted and will be submitted to the UIT (ISSF)
European Championship On the request of the UIT (ISSF), it is accepted that the team Championships at the Nations Matches, will in future, be contested according to the rules of this Association, by four shooters, counting all the four scores. Furthermore, it is accepted on the proposal of the Swiss to bring the number of clay targets to be shot in the European Championship, from 100 to 150.
Finally the commission decided to keep the European Championships organised by the FITASC open to all shooters, without restriction on numbers, but in order to avoid being overwhelmed by an influx of to many shooters, to include in the program that the jury will have the flexibility to eliminate from the first 100 clay targets, the shooters having a score too low to be ranked, as necessary.
28th April 1960 – Milan - General Assembly
In the absence of delegates from the UIT (ISSF) during the scheduled meeting, the decision to continue the procedure of reaching an agreement with the UIT (ISSF), faithful to the interest of FITASC and the shooters. Page 34 / 147
The Clay Target Shooting Section is entrusted with continuing the examination of technical and administrative issues pending.
Extract of the minutes of the Assembly: A/ Clay Target Shooting Section
The decisions taken by this section were communicated to the members after the Assembly of the 29th of August 1959. The amendments made to the rules are the exclusive responsibility of the Clay Target section, their ratification isn’t necessary. It was publish in our 1960 Bulletin.
The International Championships were attributed as follows:
European Trap Championship for 1960 to Spain, Barcelona. 1961 to Switzerland, Bern.
European Skeet Championship for 1960 to France, Paris Grosbois, following the withdrawal of Germany 1961 to Switzerland, Bern.
The Nations Cup should automatically be shot in the winning country.
Agreement with « Union Internationale de Tir” – UIT (ISSF) [International Shooting Union] The President having read the report concerning the proceedings with the UIT (ISSF) and the proposals of the technical commission, and taking into consideration that no agreement could yet be reached due to the absence of a delegate from the UIT (ISSF) during the scheduled meeting, The Assembly gives him full authority to continue the proceedings, in order to arrive at an agreement in the interest of the FITASC and the shooters, and entrusts the Clay Target Shooting Section with continuing the examination of technical and administrative issues pending. The Assembly also asks General Mehanna, member of the FITASC committee and of the UIT (ISSF) in personally intervenes so that a meeting can take place as soon as possible between the two Associations, and ask him also to attend this meeting, his presence is deemed absolutely necessary.
25th May 1960 -Barcelona – Assembly of the Clay Target Section of the FITASC
Adoption of the 5 machine trap Regret expressed as to the absence of the UIT (ISSF) delegates at three successive meetings: it is asked of the UIT (ISSF) to nominate qualified representatives to discuss the issues of clay target shooting, and not representatives of other shooting disciplines who can’t understand the interests of FITASC members. The General Assembly asks the President to maintain the current interests of the agreements reached in 1953, while trying to obtain an expansion on this agreement, in the interest of the shooters. Olympic Trap and skeet: Creation of the title of European Champion Page 35 / 147
Extracts from the minutes of the Assembly: Decision of the Technical Commission The President [of the Clay Target Section] then read out the minutes of the meeting of the Technical Commission, held on the 4th of September 1959, the decisions which were approved, except those concerning the changes to the skeet course, on which a substantial majority could not declare and which are referred for further consideration by the Commission.
As regards the doubles to be retaken and the ban on aluminium shot in skeet, no reply having been made during three past year by the UIT (ISSF) to whom the project had been communicated, the proposals of the Commission are accepted. The question of shotguns to be used in skeet – about which details were asked from the UIT (ISSF), who didn’t reply – is adjourned until these details are obtained. Relationship with the UIT (ISSF) After a detailed presentation by Dr. Bouyssou, the general secretary of the FITASC, on the history of our Federation, their relationship in the past with the UIT (ISSF) and the developments since the last Assembly, the assembly unanimously, expressed their regrets that the directors of the UIT (ISSF) were unable to respond favourably to three successive invitations from the President of the FITASC for a joint meeting, with a view to examining all the outstanding questions. They learn of the correspondence between the President of the UIT (ISSF) and the FITASC, the proposals from a UIT (ISSF) special committee and approve the reply given to them by the President of the FITASC. The Assembly, in conclusion, unanimously asks that the President of the FITASC and affiliated members of both Associations continue their efforts to establish a definitive agreement between the two Associations, an agreement desired with the sole aim of benefitting the shooters and shooting sports in general. They ask the UIT (ISSF) to nominate qualified representatives to discuss the issues of clay target shooting, and not representatives of other shooting disciplines who can’t understand the interests of our members. Finally, the assembly accepts the project created on the subject of the organisation of international Championships in the future, a project proposed by the technical commission, after their meeting of the 20th of March, and communicated to the UIT (ISSF), and asked the President of the FITASC to maintain the current status of agreements concluded in 1953, while trying to obtain an expansion on this agreement, in the interest of the shooters, in the interest of all the shooters.
Adoption of the 5 machine Trap
The Assembly takes note of the technical commission’s report on the eventuality of the adoption of the five machine trap for international events and accepts this proposition in its broad outline, while considering it regrettable that because of the absence of the UIT (ISSF) at this meeting, it is not possible to make, as of now, a common agreement. They recognise the numerous advantaged of this system and wish to be able to present them to the UIT (ISSF). They ask that the different technical details are developed by the commission and that tests are made during the Berne European Championships in 1961, in order to have a final fine tuning of this system. Page 36 / 147
The Assembly finally ratifies the decisions of the commission concerning the obligation for two ranges of trench and of skeet, in the future, for the International Championships, while accepting the proposition of the Lebanese Federation specifying that two ranges could be in different places in the same town, but must be easily accessible.
European Championship of 1961 and 1962
The 1961 European Trap and skeet Championships, attributed to Switzerland by the General Assembly of the 28th of April 1960, will be shot on two trenched and two skeets in the second fortnight in June in Bern. The exact dates will be fixed shortly. A fifty clay target event will be shot on the second day of the of the planned practice day, on a five trap trench, an event Attributing a FITASC cup will decide if the system can be applied from 1962 in the European Championships. The European Trench Championship of 1962 is requested by Lebanon and Belgium. It is understood that a final decision will be taken on this issue during the 1961 Assembly. Three candidates presented themselves for the 1962 European skeet Championships; it went to a vote resulting in the Championship being granted to Belgium with 8 votes against 5 for Portugal and 2 for Poland, out of 15 voters. Finally the candidature of Portugal is registered for the European Trap and skeet Championships for 1963. The Portuguese Federation undertakes to invite (full board) a shooter from each represented nation. European Ladies Championship
On a proposal from the Lebanese delegate, it is decided to complete the special international championship rules by adding that “the title of European women’s champion could be given, even if there are not 5 participants, to the highest ranking woman, if she reached a score of at least 80%”.
Championship Organisation
Recognising the difficulties arising in certain domains, especially regarding weapons and ammunition, it was decide that in future the organising Federation of a Championship should make a written engagement to insure the entry of weapons and cartridges and to facilitate the participants dealing with the police, transport, hotels, etc.
29th May 1960 – Barcelona - Meeting of the Clay Target Technical Committee of the FITASC
Proposals for amendments in Olympic Trap and in Skeet 1st use of the term “Universal Trench” (5 machine Trap)
Extract of the minutes of the meeting: Page 37 / 147
At the opening of the meeting, it was decided to accept two amendments to the international trench shooting rules by completing the rules with the following dispositions, considered necessary to avoid possible fraud. 1. Make it obligatory to seal the apparatus; after it has been set, at the beginning of the day, this seal is to be made on the springs and the orientations, and to mark the angles graduated on all the machines, in order to facilitate the control of directions. 2. Install two stops on the machine’s throwing arm in order to avoid the eventual movement of the clay targets by the operator. For the 15 machine Olympic Trap, it will be mandatory to use a divider giving the same clay targets to all the shooters in a series of 25: twice to the right, twice to the left and once in the centre. This divider should be numbered from 1 to 30 and should able to be adjusted forwards as well as towards the back (in case of “no bird”). It will be obligatory to change the setting after every 25 clay target series.
5 Machine Trap Entrusting to the Swiss Federation the scheduled demonstration of the new system, and postponing the examination of the new rule until after this trial, the commission decide to give the 5 trap Trench the title of “Universal Trench”.
Amendment of Skeet Rules Before having even studied the amendment proposal, the Commission decided, with regards to the shooting position the removal of the word “Stomach” and the specification of the definition of the position: that the tip of the stock be visible below the “forearm”, stock resting on the hip. The President let it be known that he received two requests for amendments: - the first, from Switzerland, for the replacement of station 8 by a double at station 4, specifying that the clay target shot as a second shouldn’t be shot inside the limit; - the second, coming from Great Britain and completing the proposal with the abolition of the timer and the adoption of a totally free position.
After a very long exchange of views on the conceivable benefits of these changes and of those from maintaining the current rules, the opinions of the different delegates present on the three questions under discussion are the following:
Country Station 8 Timer Position
Belgium Keep station 8 Keep the timer Free Position France Keep station 8 Keep the timer Free Position, not shouldering. Spain Keep station 8 Keep the timer Free Position, not shouldering. Abolish station 8 and replace it with Great Britain Abolish the timer Free Position, (American rules) a double at station 4 Page 38 / 147
Suppression du poste 8 and replace Current position, but with a Switzerland Keep the timer it with a double at station 4 more specific definition. Suppression du poste 8 and replace Current position, but with a Italy Keep the timer it with a double at station 4 more specific definition. Suppression du poste 8 and replace Poland Keep the timer Free Position, not shouldering. it with a double at station 4 Current position, but with a Portugal Keep station 8 Abolish the timer more specific definition.
It is decided to communicate these opinions to all the Federations to learn their opinions which should be transmitted to the FITASC before the 30th of September 1960. The Decision of the majority will then be communicated to the UIT (ISSF), who should let their opinion be known before the 31st of December 1960, to be able to warn; from the 1st of January 1961 the Swiss Federation and the other affiliated federations, of the way in which the Bern European Championships of 1961 will be shot.
15th May 1961 – Barcelona – General Assembly de la FITASC
Olympic Trap and skeet: relaunch the UIT (ISSF) to validate the evolution of the rules.
Extracts from the minutes of the Assembly: Clay Target Shooting Section This section in its assembly and in the meeting of its technical commission adopted the following decisions, whose details are in the minutes. 1. Provisionally maintain the current skeet shooting rules, while a substantial majority hasn’t voted for amendments, but aluminium shot is banned and there are new rules for retaking doubles. 2. Adoption in principle for International Championships of permanent 5 machine traps; whose rules will be elaborated during the next European Championships in Bern. 3. Obligation for two ranges for trench and for skeet in future for FITASC International Championships. 4. Allocation of European Trap and Skeet Championships of 1961 to Switzerland (Bern) and option taken for The European trench Championship by Belgium and the Lebanon for 1962 and in skeet for the same year priority to Belgium followed by Portugal and Poland. 5. Adoption of the technical commission of certain provisions providing the shooters with more security in the Championships. Rapport with the UIT (ISSF) As seen from the Presidents report distributed at this Assembly, the directors of the FITASC have multiplied requests to the UIT (ISSF) to reach a comprehensive agreement on all common issues. The new directors voted during the Rome Assembly of this association, expressing their willingness to keep friendly links between the two associations, and the President of the FITASC Page 39 / 147
is of the opinion that during the next scheduled common meetings all the contentious issues will be solved. The Assembly expresses their thanks for the many actions taken by their President in this direction and ask him to continue in this way, with their full support.
21st June 1961 – Bern – Assembly of the Clay Target Shooting Section of the FITASC
Universal Trench: Progression in the elaboration of sports rules and proposition for the creation of a first International FITASC Grand Prix
Extracts from the minutes of the Assembly: At the opening of the meeting, it is decided that two amendments are accepted to be made to the international trench shooting rules by completing the rules with the following provisions:
Universal Trench The Assembly accepts the conclusion of the Technical committee of the UIT (ISSF) made following the test shoot of the Universal trench on the 21st of June and that recommends to the UIT (ISSF) and to the FITASC, to maintain for the moment the “Olympic Trap” system for the world Championships and the Olympic Games until the final fine tuning of the rules of Universal Trench, but at the same time recommend the “Universal Trench” system for regional and national Championships, whose final rules will be developed by a technical commission base on the Swiss rules : - 5 shooting positions in a 15m straight line, with 2.5m centred spacing. - 5 traps with convergent launching whose directions cannot exceed an imaginary line drawn at 450m on both sides of the central trap. - An obligatory selection system giving all the shooters in a series of 25 clay targets all the shooting possibilities. A proposition from the Spanish federation is also subject to a FITASC technical communication they are requested to designate three technicians for the development of the rule’s text.
International Championship A proposal from the French federation, asking for the organisation in Chantilly in 1962 of a major international universal trench competition, is finally accepted, it is called: “FITASC International Universal Trench Grand Prix”. A project from Belgium concerning the creation of a European Skeet Club Cup is also approved and Belgium is requested to forward it to the FITASC bureau as soon as possible.
23rd June 1961 - Bern – Meeting of the Technical Commission of the Clay Target Shooting Section
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Extracts from the minutes of the Assembly: Universal Trench Following the decision of the assembly, the commission fixes the essential points of the shooting rules special to Universal Trench (5 Traps): 1. Launch machine distance in the trench from 1m to 1.25m. In the new trenches to be built it should be 1m. 2. Five stations in a straight line, spaced with 2m50 centres between stations, to the left and to the right of the centre of station 3 which is itself fixed at 15m from the starting point of the central machine (n°3). 3. Launch: the machines must launch in convergent lines; the machine n°3 being directed in a straight line, the traps 1 and 2 to the right of the central line, the 4 and 5 to the left of it inevitably crossing it. The pigeons should fall inside imaginary lines drawn a 45° to the left and right of the axis of the machine n°3 and at a distance of 70m and 80m from it. 4. Selection system that has to give all the shooters inside a series of 25 clay targets all different shooting possibilities.
29th June 1961 - Bern – Meeting of the Technical Commission of the Clay Target Shooting Section
Universal Trench: Progression in the development of sports rules Olympic Trap and skeet: amendments of rules submitted to the FITASC and the UIT (ISSF)
Extract of the minutes of the meeting: They adopted the following amendments to rules that will be submitted at the next Assembly of the FITASC and the UIT (ISSF):
I Trap and Skeet Rules Referees: Make obligatory as much in the Trench as in skeet the presence of a referee and of two auxiliaries as well as noting of the results three times, one of which is the scoreboard.
II Trench Rules 1. The centre of the launch device of each group should be indicated by a large and very visible stripe, but in no way by a raised mark. 2. Rules of conduct on the shooting range (art.38). The second sentence of this article is replaced by “all shotguns should be carried open between station 1 and 5, and unloaded between station 5 and 1.”
III Skeet Rules 1. In order to make it more difficult, the commission proposed to bring the falling distance of the clay targets to “60 to 70 meters”. 2. The trigger device should have a single bouton for the doubles. 3. The doubles should be real doubles. They will always be retaken when they could not be done as a double. If the first clay target was shot by the shooter the result is always no bird. Page 41 / 147
4. No changes of shotgun barrel will be authorised in the same course, except in the case of mechanical failure, to be controlled by the referee. 5. The led authorised in skeet will only be 2mm normal spherical led. All these propositions have been unanimously accepted.
26th May 1962 – Rome – General Assembly de la FITASC
Universal Trench (5 traps): Adoption of and international rule and creation of the 1st Universal Trench Grand Prix in 1963 Shooting with Electrocibles “zz” (helice): report on a new type of shooting
Extract of the minutes of the meeting
Clay Target Shooting Section This section, during its assembly of the 23rd of June 1961 took decisions that were also communicated to all the members of the FITASC and adopted, amongst others, an international rule for Universal trench (5 traps) shooting. They also proposed some amendments to the international rules for trap and skeet which were submitted for approval at the same time to the UIT (ISSF).
II Clay Target shooting Championship 1963 European Championship As Germany has not renewed their request for the European trap and skeet Championship, The Assembly decided to attribute these Championships to Czechoslovakia whose delegates came to present their project the programs. It is however decided to communicate this decision in accordance with existing agreement, to the International shooting Union (UIT – ISSF) who intend to organise in 1963 championships in other shooting disciplines, but the location has not yet been decided. The technical details of this European championship will be examined by the assembly of the clay target shooting section of our federation the 8th of June in Beirut. Nations Cup. The Nations Cup will was shot the 12th and 13th of May last in Paris having been won by an American shooter, and they opted for Great-Britain, so this event reverts to this country. FITASC Universal Trench Grand Prix It’s the assembly of the clay target section who will decide the Attribution of this event for 1963. Relations with the UIT (ISSF) As it is clear from the report distributed by the President to this Assembly, friendly relations were maintained with this association and its president and we hope in the future to nurture these links more so because only a close collaboration can serve the cause of the shooters. The Assembly nevertheless expresses the wish that the President, while maintaining these contacts, stays within the strict limits of the agreements concluded with the UIT (ISSF). Tir aux Electrocibles « ZZ » [Helices] Page 42 / 147
The President underlines that he has just passed out a report concerning a new type of shooting and asks the delegates to please have a look at it and to send him their observations. The Assembly decided to ask its bureau to look after this matter which it considers interesting and to prepare international shooting rules.
8th June 1962 – Beirut – Assembly of the Clay Target Shooting Section
Universal Trench: 1st FITASC Grand Prix in 1963 in Italy Clay Target shooting (Olympic Trap and skeet): Ratification of amendments of the rules, accepted almost entirely by the UIT (ISSF) / Attributing of the European Championship and proposal of allocation by the UIT (ISSF) of a World Championship in Germany 1963.
Extract of the minutes of the meeting: The Assembly now proceeds to the ratification of decisions of its Technical Commission, decisions taken at the Bern meeting and almost fully accepted by the UIT (ISSF) Technical Commission. These decisions are ratified unanimously, and will therefore be included in the international rules. It is, in addition, proposed by Mr. Rosa-Clot to complete article 3 of the international rules, by setting the settings of the central machine of the Olympic Trap groups, with a maximum deviation to the right and to the left of 0° to 15°. This proposal, accepted unanimously by the assembly, will still be referred to the UIT (ISSF). On a question from Mr. Tabet, asking if it was be possible to have two or more teams participating per nation, and eventually, one made up of isolated shooters unable to constitute a team, the President of the FITASC noted that this was not possible, because of the agreements with the UIT (ISSF) – The Assembly took the side of the FITASC President’s point of view and decided not to authorize the formula anticipated by the organisers of the Championship. 1963 European Championship The President of the FITASC let it be known that Czechoslovakia was the only country making an official request, accompanied by a project for a program to the FITASC General Assembly, they attributed the European Trap and skeet Championships for 1963 to the Czech Federation, who count on organising it between the 5th and 15th of August in 1963 in Brno. This range gives all the Czech technical guarantees and has three Olympic Traps and two skeet courses. The Czech federation has already taken the steps necessary to get the shooters of all countries entry visas and is committed to scrupulously following international rules. The president also reads out a telegram received on his arrival in Beirut, from the president of the UIT (ISSF), communicating to him a proposal from Germany for the organisation of the European Championships in 1963. He notes however that no request in this direction came to him before the General Assembly, so the agenda sent to all the Federations already with the Attributing of these Championships, and that the German Federations has not represented themselves at this Assembly, while Czechoslovakia has sent their delegate. Finally the UIT (ISSF), consulted before the General Assembly, could not specify where they meant to organise the European Championships and other shooting disciplines, which would, Page 43 / 147
in the case of a request for the Trap and skeet Championships, allow their simultaneous organisation, as in 1959. The assembly, having considered all the facts, decided, unanimously, that, the decisions of the FITASC General Assembly cannot be questioned, the European Trap and skeet Championships organised according to the Czech proposal, between the 5th and 15th of August 1963 in Brno. They state however, that they are ready to envisage the participation at these championships of all UIT (ISSF) members; even if they are not affiliated with the FITASC, on the conditions of joining as an individual, like in 1959. Mr. Fluckiger (Switzerland) then makes a proposition underlining that, since the UIT (ISSF) have decided to organise the annual World Trap and skeet Championships, why could they not award the Championships to Germany if they request them, at the same time as the European Championships and other shooting discipline. This proposal is unanimously approved, as being the most advantageous for the shooters, and the Assembly asks the President of the FITASC to make it known to the President of the UIT (ISSF). 1963 FITASC Universal Trench Grand Prix Italy had proposed the organisation of the 1963 FITASC Universal Trench Grand Prix, this proposal was unanimously accepted, and on the proposition of this Federation it was decided that the Championship will take place in autumn 1963 during the Mediterranean games on two Universal trenches in Naples. Nations Cup The Nations cup having been won in May 1962 by W. Everhart (USA), having shot for Great Britain, it should be contested in 1963 in this country and the Assembly asks the Clay Target Shooting Association, to give a proposal on this matter to the FITASC bureau. A request is finally presented by Mr. Fluckiger, coming from Mr. Gehmann, concerning the organisation of The 1963 Universal Trench Grand Prix in Constance (Germany), to which it was replied that this Championship was already accorded to Italy, and could not be taken into consideration for 1964 but that the request should be presented by the German Federation.
26th April 1963 - Madrid - General Assembly
Electrocible (helice) shooting: creation of a study Commission Ratification of the UIT (ISSF) – FITASC draft agreement for the unification of new clay target shooting rules and the coordination of the organisation of International Championships.
Extract of the minutes of the meeting: New agreement with the UIT (ISSF) Following decisions of the last General Assembly, the President of the FITASC has continued discussions with the President of the UIT (ISSF) in order to arrive at the unification of the new clay target shooting rules and to coordinate the organisations International Championships. Mr. Fluckiger and Mr.Bouyssou, the delegates chairing the mixed UIT (ISSF) – FITASC Commission, have elaborated a draft agreement with the delegates of the UIT (ISSF), which was Page 44 / 147 ratified by the General Assembly of the UIT (ISSF). This project was addressed on the 24th of October 1962 to all the Federations affiliated with the FITASC and is established for the next 5 years. The President asks the Assembly to ratify this agreement in order to continue the discussions with the UIT (ISSF) to fix the technical details for enforcement. The Assembly unanimously decided the ratification of the agreements with the UIT (ISSF) and requested that the continued the work already started by underlining their determination to keep, for the European Championships, the formula practiced with success, Open Championships. They also express their thanks to the representatives of the FITASC, Mr. Fluckiger and Mr.Bouyssou who in Zurich, and Mr. Limongelli in Cairo had, with success, represented the interests of our Federation. 1963 European Clay Target Shooting Championship This Championship was granted by the General Assembly to Czechoslovakia and will take place the 15th to the 23rd of August at Brno 1964 European Clay Target Shooting Championship The previous request from Portugal could not be retained, as this country was just granted the World Live Shooting Championship, it’s the name of the Italian Federation that Mr. Rosa-Clot requests for the European Trap and skeet Championship for 1964. The general Abdel Azziz, in the name of the Shooting Federation of the United Arab Republic also asked for these Championships for 1964: It proceeded to a vote, which decided in the majority, to grant the 1964 European Championships to Italy, while retaining the candidature of the United Arab Republic beside that of Portugal for 1965. The Clay Target Shooting Section should examine the Italian proposition, during its next Assembly. FITASC Universal Trench Grand Prix The Assembly ratifies the decision of the clay Target Shooting Section granting this Championship for 1963 to Italy, who will organise it for next September, during the Mediterranean Games in Naples. For 1964, a request from Germany was recorded. Electrocibles « ZZ » [helices] Following the creation of this new type of shooting, it seems necessary to create a Study Commission to examine the eventual possibilities of organising international competition and for the setting up of international shooting rules. A project has been distributed to the delegates and the President has asked them to study it. He proposes to the Assembly to entrust the creation and organisation of this Study Commission to the Baron de Lamazière, President of the “Tir de Monte-Carlo” (Monte-Carlo shooting), who, for the first time, had organised a big shooting demonstration last February with Electrocibles. The Assembly accepts the proposition of the President and decides to entrust this task to the Baron de Lamazière who, with Chevalier David de Lossy, inventor of the system will examine the possibilities of creating international competitions in Electrocibles and also by any other mechanical shooting system that could be submitted to him. Membership Cards Page 45 / 147
On the proposal of the Italian Federation it is decided that stateless shooters or shooters with no National Group affiliated to the FITASC, can join directly. For the nationals of affiliated countries, membership of their national federation is still obligatory.
14th August 1963 - Brno – Assembly of the Clay Target Shooting Section
FITASC Clay Target Shooting Grand Prix Participation of the UIT (ISSF) leading to validation of: - new rules formulated by a mixed commission UIT (ISSF)/ FITASC - and the outlines of the draft for a new agreement UIT (ISSF)/ FITASC Extract of the minutes of the meeting: The president [of the Clay Target Shooting Section] now asks the USSR delegate, Mr. Pokrowsky to attend the Assembly as an observer and also thanks Dr. Hasler, President of the UIT (ISSF), for having kindly accepted the invitation to take part in its work. He particularly welcomed delegates of the two Federations recently admitted, Finland and Syria, who attend our operations for the first time. Finally, before proposing moving onto the agenda, he let it known that he just received a request to join from the Shooting Federation of the Republic of Cyprus who are here at these Championships with two shooters, and asks the Assembly to decide, while specifying that they are not empowered to admit new members, that is reserved for the FITASC General Assembly. The delegates then unanimously agree, for Cyprus to be admitted and transmit their request to the FITASC bureau, specifying that the shooters of this country will be able to participate individually in the Championship. […] He then lets it be known that new rules had been formulated by a mixed UIT (ISSF)/ FITASC commission and that they are being printed and will soon arrive at the federations. After deliberation, The Assembly decides to apply these new rules in their entirety in these European Championships.
Relations with the UIT (ISSF) The Secretary Treasurer of the FITASC informed by request of the President, of the agreement elaborated between the two associations for a closer collaboration, an agreement approved in its outline, by the UIT (ISSF) and by the FITASC General Assembly. After the presentation by Dr Hasler, who also approved the draft in its outline, the delegates, unanimously, state their approval of the presented text and ask the President of the UIT (ISSF) to do his possible so that this will definitively be approved by the UIT (ISSF) and come into force from 1964. Finally, President Rosa-Clot said some words to thank those who, on both sides worked for the realization of this agreement which can only help the shooters by brining the two associations closer together.
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M.Valentini the delegate for Italy, specified that the Universal trench Grand Prix will take place on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, of October in Naples. It was stressed that this grand prix is open to all shooters of all nations.
1964 European Championship The Championship granted to Italy by the General Assembly will take place as the Italian delegate specified, between the 20th and the 31th of May in Bologna on three Traps and two skeets.
1964 FITASC Grand Prix After deliberation and the withdrawal of Germany in favour of Italy, it was decided that this event will take place in Verona immediately after the European Championship; the event in 1965 is retained for Germany.
1964 Nations Cup As Germany was granted the cup for 1964, the delegate of this Federation specifies that they will organise it in July on an unspecified range. It was also decided that the number of clay targets will be bought to 200 in this event (proposal from Mr. Eisenlauer).
11th January 1964 - Geneva - Meeting of the Technical Commission for Clay Target Shooting
Extract of the minutes of the meeting: After the President [of the Technical Commission for Clay Target Shooting] opened the session and welcomed the members present, the Committee examined and approved, article by article, the draft for rules in Olympic Trap, Universal Trench and Skeet, draft rules drawn up in accordance with the decisions of the UIT (ISSF) and the FITASC.
23rd May 1964 – Lisbon - General Assembly
Electrocible (helice) shooting: Adoption of the provisional rules Clay target shooting (Olympic Trap and skeet): towards a complete agreement for the adoption of two new international rules to apply in all the Championships of the two associations UIT (ISSF) – FITASC Extract of the minutes of the meeting:
Agreement with the International Shooting Union (UIT ISSF) – New Rules The President of the FITASC let it be known that in the course of many meetings between the delegates of the UIT (ISSF) and the FITASC a frank collaboration, indispensable for the Page 47 / 147
development of the sport of shooting, was established, during which it was possible to achieve a complete agreement for the adoption of new international rules which will be applied in all the Championships of these two associations. A final agreement is being drawn up concerning the administrative cooperation of both Associations and the organisation of International Championship in the future. The clay target Shooting Section discuss the details of these agreements, but the President wished to play tribute to Mr. Kurt Hasler, President of the UIT (ISSF), whose understanding and foresight have resulted in these agreements, long since desired. Electrocibles “ZZ” [Helices] After the verbal report from the President of the Commission, the Baron de Lamazière, on the evolution of this new shooting discipline, it is decided to ask the Commission to continue its work and to add delegates from countries where this kind of shooting is practiced. The provisional shooting rules, presented by the French Federation are adopted, but the Commission is requested to bring necessary amendments to it.
10th June 1964 - Bologna - Assembly of the Clay Target Shooting Section of the FITASC
Publication of a brochure with identical rules for all the shooters in the world Agreement with UIT (ISSF) on the organisation of the European Championship, Individual and by team, on their way to completion Extract of the minutes of the meeting: After the President of the clay shooting section, its Mr. Claude Foussier, President of the Technical Commission who made a statement specifying that the brochures given at the start of the session to all the delegates contains the new rules, therefore it doesn’t seem necessary to present them in detail, but he wants to underline that for the first time it was possible to make rules available to shooters which are identical for all shooters in the world. Monsieur Limongelli taking the floor on behalf of the President of the FITASC, warmly thanks the members of the Technical Commission, whose long and painstaking work allowed the realisation of this common rule, and thanks most particularly to Mister Rosa-Clot, who took charge at his own expense the printing of this brochure which will be indispensable for all the organisers and all the shooter. Agreement with UIT (ISSF), draft program for the European Championships President Rosa–Clot underlines the importance of the final agreement reached between the UIT (ISSF) and the FITASC regarding the rules and specifies that the agreement planned for the cooperation between the two Associations, and the organisation of the European Championships is also on track to completion and poses no problems for the FITASC. On the 27th of April last year a project was submitted by letter to the Federations regarding the organisation of these championships and he asks the delegates their opinion. After a long exchange of views, a unanimous agreement is reached based on this proposal and in particular on the “b” solution regarding the formation of a group that will shoot the last 100 Page 48 / 147
clay targets. The project, which will be submitted to the UIT (ISSF), after the Technical Commission has defined the details, is the following. 1. Every year will be shot, under the control of and with the organisation of the FITASC, with 200 clay targets, an International European individual Championship, open to all shooters that are members of Federations affiliated to FITASC without restrictions on numbers or nationality. This Championship is also open to members of European federations of the UIT (ISSF), who are not members of FITASC, but at the same time they will not be eligible for prizes given by the FITASC. 2. At the same time, three out of four years, shot on 200 clay targets, the European team Championship organised by the FITASC and at which teams of 4 shooters can participate from NATIONS affiliated with the UIT or with the FITASC, but only from Europe of the Mediterranean region. Titles and prizes (medals) for this championship are awarded by the UIT (ISSF).
3. For the Title of European individual Champion 100 extra clay targets will be shot by a limited number of shooters, but only Europeans or shooters from Mediterranean countries. This number will be defined according to the circumstances of each Championship, and will be made up of the maximum of shooters who can finish the 100 clay targets in a day, and taken in the order of individual ranking on the first 200 clay targets, not taking into account the teams. 4. One in every four year, the year where the UIT (ISSF) organises the European Championships in all shooting disciplines, and decide the date and location of these championships, but preferably in agreement with the FITASC, so as to avoid the inconvenience of two Championships in the same year. Regarding skeet, the format is the same, with 150 + 50 clay targets to shoot. On an intervention by the President of the Algerian Federation, supported by the United Arab Republic, it is hoped that the possibility of including the shooters of other young African countries in these European Championship is studied in accordance with the UIT (ISSF).
11th June 1964 – Bologna - Meeting of the Technical Commission for Clay Target Shooting
Shooting Clay targets (Olympic Trap and skeet) in 1965: International Championship of Portugal Willingness to synchronise the dates of the European Championship (FITASC) and the World Championship (UIT – ISSF) Extract of the minutes of the meeting: Proposal for amendments to the rules The president [of the Technical Commission for Clay Target Shooting] by making it known that several proposals, certain of which are very interesting, which came to him but only in agreement with UIT (ISSF), there is no question of modifying the rules for at least four years, these proposals will be bought together and examined in a later session of the Commission, dedicated especially to rules. [..] Page 49 / 147
The Commission particularly reaffirms again of the importance of controlling shooting ranges, in order to ensure the good quality of traps and clay targets and insists that at these Championships not be given to countries that cannot or will not comply with the rules. Championship Format for the future The commission entirely approves the format proposed by the Assembly and say they are ready to discuss certain details with the UIT (ISSF) delegates hoping that a decision on this subject can be taken very rapidly. 1965 World Championship The commission asks that the dates fixed for the 1965 European Championship be communicated to the UIT (ISSF) so that they can take it into account when they themselves are fixing the dates of the World Championships. On this subject the President let it be known that FITASC has been notified by the Italian Federation of its request concerning these Championships that Federations affiliated with the FITASC intend supporting during the General Assembly of the UIT (ISSF) in Tokyo. International Championship of Portugal On the request of different delegates, the President of the Portuguese Federation gives his agreement on the organisation in Lisbon, probably in March 1965 of an International Championship, during which the delegates of the federations can look at the installations and the functioning of the shooting range on which the European Championship will be contested. Shooting Schemes Since the schemes used during these Championships in Bologna gave total satisfaction, it was decided to propose them to the UIT (ISSF) for their Championship, adding 5 more schemes to it. There will then be a total of 10 technically approved schemes for the Championships. The federations are reminded that they must build trenches in a way that launches over 3m can be done with external machines. Calendar of Major Events – National Championships The President underlines once more the importance of publishing before the end of the month of November of each year the dates of major international shoots. He also asks the Federations that their national Championships be open to foreign shooters, these Championships being the best occasion to organise international exchanges, and make useful contacts between the different countries. The role of our Federation is the development of shooting; we suggest that there is in each national Championship an International title, on the condition that there are a certain number of foreign shooters, this number is to be defined by the organisers.
7th January 1965 - Paris – Meeting of the Bureau of the FITASC
Skeet: Ask for the creation of a FITASC Grand Prix in order to promote this sports activity which will certainly become an Olympic discipline. Extract of the minutes of the meeting: 1. Proposition from the Italian Federation Page 50 / 147
The President [of the bureau of the FITASC] reads out a letter from the President of the Italian Federation asking for the creation of a FITASC Grand Prix in Skeet, in order to promote the activity of this sport which will certainly become an Olympic discipline. He asks at the same time that the first Grand Prix is accorded to Italy who intend to organise this competition on the 19th and 20th of June 1965 in Rome, with 200 clay targets. The President of the FITASC Bureau congratulates the President of the FITAV for this initiative and gives the consent of the Bureau to the clay target shooting section. Another proposal from the Italian Federation offers to reduce the costs of the organisation of International Championships, in particular for clay targets, by asking that all the obligatory free invitations are reduced to only the administrative Secretary of the FITASC at all the Championships, with an exception for the World Championships, the Championship of Europe, of America and of the Mediterranean, where the old rules will stay in place. The Bureau gives its agreement in principal to this proposal, submitting it to the next General Assembly, the amendments of the special rules of the Championships is their responsibility.
28th May 1965 - Lisbon - Assembly of the Clay Target Shooting Section
Skeet: Proposal for Nations Cup / 1st FITASC Grand Prix in 1965 Creation of international referee certificates Extract of the minutes of the meeting: Format for European Championship The president of the technical commission, in agreement with the other delegates, noted that the new format for the European Championship, while certainly being an improvement on the previous one is not entirely satisfying, he specifies that after contacts with the President of the UIT (ISSF), he is preparing to develop a format even more satisfying for the next European Championships. The assembly entrusts this work to the Technical Commission while underlining the necessity to safeguard the principals of our organisation and the interest of our shooters. Skeet Nations Cup The assembly welcomes with great satisfaction the proposal from Brno to create a Skeet Nations Cup, with the same rules as those for the Olympic Trap. It asks the Technical Commission to examine the details of this proposal and to see if this event could be organised in 1966 in Brno. It also asks to proceed with the technical approval of the clay targets to be shot in this event beforehand. 1966 FITASC Grand Prix (Universal Trench) It is Spain that gets this international event, and will let the FITASC know the place and dates proposed for its organisation. 1965 FITASC Grand Prix in Skeet The Assembly gives its agreement for the organisation of this Championship in 1965 the 19th and 20th of June in Rome, while specifying that the event will be replace in the future by the Nations Cup in skeet whose creation has just been decided. Championship Entry Fees, Price of Clay Targets Page 51 / 147
The President who speaks for a large number of delegates noted that the entry fees and clay targets prices were incessantly rising in the last Championships, in particular in this European Championship and in the Nations Cup in Juan-les-Pin. It was asked that this Technical Commission particularly surveys in future that the prices are reasonable and that the inscription to a championship, clay targets included, is not more than 30 U.S. dollars. Amendments to the Rules of the Nations Cup On a proposal from the German Federation, an amendment to the rule of the Nations Cup is decided. This cup will be definitely attributed to a country whose shooters would win it three times (non-consecutively). Besides the shooters from non-European countries can no longer opt for a European country, but in case one of them wins, the cup will be attributed to the country of the first ranking European shooter. The Assembly finally approves of the FITASC having a work of art created to be given to the highest ranking shooter from the country in which the cup was shot the previous year. International referee certificates On the proposal of many Federations, the Assembly is taking up an idea again that it launched a while ago, deciding to create certificated for international referees, certificates which will be attributed jointly with the UIT (ISSF) by the joint Technical Commissions and it asked the federations to submit to Mr. Foussier their propositions as quickly as possible. On the proposition of the President of the Technical Commission, the Assembly decides to attribute at the same time as the medals, honorary certificate for the winners of International Championship. It also decides to create medals reserved for seniors in the European Championships and fixes the age from which these medals will be presented at 55 years old reached the year of the Championship in question. Following a request from Mister Requejo proposing to reduce from 20 to 19 as the age limit for the juniors, the Assembly decides to maintain the current rule.
22nd June 1965 – San Marino - General Assembly
Electrocible (helice) shooting: important development in 1964 and proposal of organising an international championship (1st European Championship) in 1966 The General Assembly of the UIT (ISSF) ratified the agreement with the FITASC Extract of the minutes of the meeting: Ratification of decisions of the Bureau and the Commissions The decisions of the Bureau and the different commissions having been communicated to the National affiliated groups, as well as those of the clay shooting section, the assembly, on the request off its president, pronounced their ratification. Furthermore they resume for the whole of the FITASC, two decisions of the Clay Target Shooting Section: 1. The invitations imposed on the organising federation on the occasion of International Championships are reduced to only the administrative secretary of the FITASC except for Page 52 / 147
the World Championship and the European Championship, where the previous rule stays valid. 2. The International Championships of the FITASC will not be granted or will be removed from any country having organised, during the FITASC international championships, important events that can hinder these championships, and remove shooters wishing to participate. Agreement with the International Shooting Union (UIT/ISSF) The President [of the FITASC] makes known to the Assembly that the agreement elaborated over passed years between the FITASC and the UIT (ISSF) was ratified by the last Assembly of this association. The Assembly thanks all those who took part in the laborious work leading to the realisation of this agreement and express their satisfaction with the results obtained. Electrocibles The President reads out the report of the President of the Electrocible Commission which indicates that that the sport has seen important growth in 1964. They ask this commission to continue its study, complementing themselves eventually with representatives of countries that practice this form of shooting and to examine this type of shooting and to examine the possibilities of organising in 1966 an international Electrocible Championship.
7th December 1965 - Paris –FITASC - UIT (ISSF) Meeting
Finalisation of the agreement on the organisation of the European Championship. The UIT pays tribute to the actions of the FITASC and its exceptional place in the world organisation of the sport of shooting. Extract of the minutes of the meeting: A study meeting UIT (ISSF) – FITASC was held on the invitation of the Count de Gouvion-Saint Cyr, President of the FITASC, the 7th of December 1965 at the headquarters of the federation, 21 rue de Clichy in Paris, in order to establish an agreement between the two associations on the organisation of European Clay Target Shooting Championships in 1966 and to study a format for these Championships in the future. Present outside of the President of the FITASC : - Messrs. Docteur Kurt Hasler. President of the UIT (ISSF) - Geopges Vichos, vice-President of the UIT (ISSF) - Severino Rosa-Clot President of the Clay Target Section of the FITASC - Pierre-André Fluckiger, vice-president of the Clay Target Section of the FITASC - Claude Foussier, Président of the Clay Target Shooting Commission of the UIT (ISSF) and of the Technical Commission of the FITASC - Dr. Peirre Bouyssou, General Secretary of the FITASC - Mr. de Kiss, Secretary-Treasurer of the FITASC The President of the FITASC, on opening the session at 10 O’clock, welcomed his guests and thanked them for having made the trip to Paris in the interest of shooting sports. He specifies that two problems are to be resolved one of which, that of the European Championship of 1966, Page 53 / 147 is extremely urgent. As to the format of the Championships in the future, it is also desirable to find a definitive solution. After a long exchange of views and the intervention of Dr. Hasler and of Mr. Vichos on behalf of the UIT (ISSF), the following decisions are taken:
1966 European Championship The proposals of the President of the FITASC, made after the 1955 European Championship are accepted in large part as regards to the format of this Championship, in particular the number of clay target to be shot, the titles and medals to be awarded and the participation that remains open. The FITASC representatives however make a concession in accepting that not titles shall be attributed at this event, in case the winner of the Championship would be an overseas shooter who could however win the FITASC medal and prizes attributed in its place. The program of this Championship will be the following: Olympic Trap 300 clay targets for all the shooters European or not, the last 100 are only shot by the 60 best scores. Competition open for all shooters up to 200 clay targets. Championship by teams, only for the European teams. Two rankings: 1. A European ranking, with the title and medals from the UIT (ISSF) 2. An international ranking, including non-Europeans. The latter with honorific prizes from the FITASC and the organising committee, Ranking reserved to members of the FITASC only.
European Ranking - Individual European Championship : gold, silver and bronze medals - Team European Championship : vermeil, silver and bronze medals - Individual Ladies European Championship: title attributed if at least 6 ladies from 3 different nations participate, vermeil, silver and bronze medals. - Junior European Championship: as for the women. This ranking is reserved for Europeans only and shooters from Mediterranean region countries International FITASC Ranking - FITASC gold medal for the first. - FITASC vermeil medal for the first lady - FITASC vermeil medal for the first Junior - FITASC vermeil medal for the first Senior 25 honorary awards presented by the organizing committee. In this international ranking all non-European shooters will also be included, but it is reserved exclusively for the members of the FITASC. Skeet The same rules, the same distribution of prizes, but the completion will be on 200 clay targets, with elimination at 150. A gold medal will be presented by the President of the FITASC Clay Target Shooting Section to the shooter, member of this Association who get the best score adding Trap and skeet. Page 54 / 147
A silver cup presented by the FITASC to the shooter having achieved the best score across everything: European trench Championship, Nations Cup and FITASC Grand Prix European Championship in the future, UIT (ISSF) – FITASC Cooperation Mister George Vichos, in a well appreciated presentation, pays tribute to the actions of the FITASC, conducted for over forty years in the interest of the sport of shooting and hunting weapons and underlines the necessity to grant to this association their exceptional place in the world organisation of the sport of shooting, in recognition of their services. However he stresses the need for close collaboration of all shooting disciplines within the UIT (ISSF), world organisation, recognised by the I.O.C. – he would be happy to see FITASC as an honorary member of the UIT (ISSF), responsible for the organisation of shooting in Europe. As regards the European Championship, two concrete proposals have been made: Mr. Fluckiger proposes to envisage the possibility that the FITASC organised by themselves the European Championships in the years (three out of four) where the UIT (ISSF) aren’t organising these championships. These championships would, of course, be open and shot with FITASC rules. Mr. Foussier proposed the organisation by FITASC every year, except in the year of the UIT (ISSF) European Championships in all disciplines, the European Club Championships, which would be open to all shooters from all countries and will usefully serve to recruit shooters who can then participate later in the UIT (ISSF) championships in which the participation is limited. The national federations affiliated to the FITASC will select the club teams who can participate in these Championships; the individual participation stays completely open. At the end of a long exchange of views and the presentation of the opinions of all the delegates, Mr. Foussier’s proposal seems capable of being the basis for a solution in sight, and the Presidents of both associations ask to kindly put to paper a detailed project will be submitted very soon to both the UIT (ISSF) and to the FITASC. It is therefore decided to postpone the decision till a later date, which could be at the up and coming Lahti European Championship, around which the committees will be able to examine the proposition of Mister Foussier.
7th May 1966 - Madrid – FITASC General Assembly
The Clay Target Shooting Section is entrusted with continuing the negotiations with the UIT (ISSF) Extract of the minutes of the meeting: Relations with the UIT (ISSF) The President of the FITASC, in a report distributed to the delegates, took stock of the discussions that he had during the year, with the President of the UIT (ISSF). The annual report presented at the start of the session gives on the other hand the minutes of various meetings and contacts between the two associations. He asks the Assembly to intrust to the Clay Target Shooting Section the mission of continuing the discussions with the UIT (ISSF) in order to obtain either the extension of the current agreement, or the conclusion of a new agreement, guaranteeing the interests of our Federation and its shooters, while safeguarding the principal of an annual FITASC International Championship, open to all shooter members, without numbers limitations. Page 55 / 147
The Assembly, unanimously, adopts the proposal of the President and entrust the Bureau and the Clay Target Shooting Section the care to carry out these discussions that are considered as very important for the future of the sport of clay target shooting.
9th June 1966 – Juan-les-Pins – Meeting of the Clay Target Shooting Section
The Executive Committee of the UIT (ISSF) decided not to prolong the agreements with the FITASC, concerning the European Championships, and will organise it them themselves (or with a limited participation). Astonishment of the FITASC: only 1/3rd of the members of the UIT (ISSF) practice clay target shooting which cannot be governed by the same organisational rules as the other UIT (ISSF) shooting disciplines. Extract of the minutes of the meeting: Dr. Hasler President of the UIT (ISSF), was invited to attend the Assembly. At the opening of the session, le President Rosa-Clot welcomes the delegates present and thanks Dr. Hasler for having accepted his invitation and come to attend the meeting. Relations with the UIT (ISSF) President Rosa-Clot, on presenting certain historic points on the relationship of our Federation with the UIT (ISSF), asks the delegates to refer to the detailed report which was distributed to all the delegates present. He specifies that the FITASC having received a communication from the President of the UIT (ISSF) according to which this Association didn’t intend to renew the agreement that that they had for many years with the FITASC, the very important issue of the collaboration of the two Associations in the future should be looked at. Numerous delegate having spoken, President Rosa-Clot asked the President of the UIT (ISSF) to explain the intentions of this association and to clarify the reasons for such a decision. Dr. Hasler in his presentation stated that in its last meeting the Executive Committee of the UIT (ISSF) had to address this problem and took the decision to propose at the next assembly not to extend the agreements with the FITASC, concerning the European Championships, and to organize them themselves, considering that the European Championship should be organised in the same way and with the same rules for all UIT (ISSF) shooting disciplines. It emerges from Dr. Hasler’s presentation that: 1. The agreement with the FITASC should not be prolonged. 2. That the UIT (ISSF) intends to organise the European Championships themselves at yet to be determined times. 3. That these European Championships will certainly be limited as with the other shooting disciplines. Faced with this situation, the President Rosa-Clot, while underlining the fact that he found it strange that such important decisions are taken in the world of shooting with hunting weapons by an association in which this shooting discipline is only represented in maximum by a third of its members, asks the delegates to express their point of view. Page 56 / 147
All the responses agree on the principal point, namely that it is impossible to apply for the sport of shooting with hunting weapons the same organisational rules as for other the other disciplines represented by the UIT (ISSF), our sport being very different and its development demands open Championships, which the UIT (ISSF) cannot and will not organise. Mr. Riard for France, particularly underlines that with the UIT (ISSF) format the Championship can only be organised by the very big very wealthy Federations, and not giving any chances to small and medium sized countries. On the other hand, the open Championship is the only format to stimulate the development of our sport. In his intervention Mister Write (Great Britain) is surprized by the intention of the UIT (ISSF) to want to reduce the events with hunting weapons, while the current format with the FITASC organisation, which in effect relieved the heavy workings of the UIT (ISSF), gives complete satisfaction. The President Rosa-Clot supports the view of the other delegates and doesn’t agree with the UIT (ISSF) except on one point, where the FITASC can make one concession, namely the geographic limits of the European Championship. Mr. Mahau (Belgium) attracted the attention of the heads both associations to the serious consequences which would result from a possible split that should be avoided at all costs. In their long interventions, the meaning of which was pretty much identical, Mr.Tablet (Lebanon) and Mr. Fluckiger (Suisse) confirmed their willingness to maintain the current agreement with the UIT (ISSF) which benefits all shooters, but not at the price of abandoning the fundamental principles of our sport. They propose asking the UIT (ISSF) to prolong the current agreements until at least the end of 1968, leaving time for the two organisations to elaborate a new agreement. They consider that all the same, if the UIT (ISSF) cancelled our agreements or didn’t extend them, the FITASC will organise itself, the way it see fit, without taking into account the UIT (ISSF), because no link will bind it to them. They will have to organise their events themselves, with the format that suits them best all while respecting the C.I.O. rules of amateurism. Mister Flukiger was surprise more over to see the UIT (ISSF) being so interested in the organisation of the European Championship, while they have never done as much for the other continents. Having heard all the opinions which seemed to agree on the substance of the problem, the President Rosa-Clot, analysing them, proposes to the Assembly to vote the following resolution which must be communicated to the UIT (ISSF): “The assembly of the Clay Target Shooting Section of the FITASC decided to bring to the knowledge of the UIT (ISSF) their desire to see the existing agreements with the UIT (ISSF) prolonged till at least the end of the year 1968. During this period an effort should be made on both sides so the differences that may still exist between the two Associations can be eliminated. What’s more, the FITASC decided, in accordance with the wishes of the UIT (ISSF) that the title of European Champion can only be awarded to a shooter from a European or Mediterranean country, only these shooters can appear in the ranking of these Championships. They finally express the wish, to see the UIT (ISSF) officially entrust The Clay Target Shooting Section of the FITASC with the annual organisation, under its aegis, of an Open European Championships” Page 57 / 147
This resolution is unanimously adopted. Another resolution was then unanimously voted, which however, will only take effect if the UIT (ISSF) doesn’t accept the first one and if no agreement is linking the two associations. The text of this agreement is the following. “The Assembly of The Clay Target Shooting Section of the FITASC decided: If the UIT (ISSF) cancels the existing agreement between them and the FITASC concerning the organisation of the European Championship, or doesn’t extend it, they will take care of the Annual European Championship themselves, conform with their rules but always applying the I.O.C. rules of amateurism. They also decided that, in the interest of the shooters, they will always take into account, while fixing the dates of these Championships, the programs established by the UIT (ISSF), and that they will make no amendments to the rules of shooting without trying first, to obtain a consistency in these amendments with the UIT (ISSF)” Mister Romero-Requejo (Spain) finally proposes, that the FIASC envisages, in this case, the organisation of an event named the “World Cup”. It is decided that the technical commission will study this proposal.
29th September 1966 - Juan-les-Pins - Meeting of the FITASC Technical Commission
Olympic Trap and Skeet: Proposal for amendments Extract of the minutes of the meeting Proposal for the Amendment of Rules The commission examines several proposals which were submitted to them in writing and which are the following: Proposal from the President of the Technical Commission Age of the Veterans and juniors: The age of Veterans is fixed at being from the 60th birthday on, and juniors from the year of their 18th birthday. The proposal is accepted and will be submitted, according to the existing agreements with the UIT (ISSF). Proposal of Mr. Eisenlauer – Rule of Olympic Trap In order to increase the difficulties in the Olympic Trap shooting event, Mr. Eisenlauer proposes that the launch angle is brought from 45° to 60° and the length of the launch from 70 to 100 meters. The commission, while in agreement on the principles of making Trap shooting more difficult in the future, do not think that the desired solution can be increasing the shooting angle. But, taking as a basis the commoving proposals/ a/ Ask the organisation of the Championships to apply the maximum difficulty authorized by the current rules, and to envisage for the future, the extension of the launch distance and eventually the possibility to shot this Championship at 17 meters instead of 15. Page 58 / 147
b/ Not to envisage the Championships in series of 25 but of 50 consecutive clay targets, that which, while raising the difficulty, would even allow save a considerable amount of time. All these proposals will be submitted, in accordance with the existing agreements, for examination by the UIT (ISSF). Skeet shooting Rules The Commission accepts a proposal which will also, be submitted for review to the UIT (ISSF), which has the aim of gaining time in a round of skeet, and which could be accepted in the future. The new scheme would be the following: a. On the stations 1, 2, 6 and 7, shooting doubles immediately after the singles. b. On the stations 3, 4, and 5, only shooting doubles. c. On station 8 , two singles with one cartridge. Diameter of Clay Targets The commission specifies, subsequent to a claim made by a manufacturer that the international rule gave no latitude regarding the diameter of the clay target, this should always be 110mm.
25th May 1967 - Brno – Annual Assembly of the Clay Target Shooting Section
Skeet : Grand Prix FITASC 1968 in Belgium Proposal for the FITASC to request direct affiliation to the I.O.C. Extract of the minutes of the meeting: He [President Rosa-Clot] particularly emphasises the efforts that were made over the years by the directors of our federation in favour of a definitive arrangement with the UIT (ISSF), giving satisfaction to the hopes of our Federations and our shooters, on the basis of a resolution voted during our last Assembly. The President of the FITASC, Count de Gouvion St. Cyr, taking the floor, specifies that our federation, by holding strictly to the agreements of 1951 with the UIT (ISSF) never asked for anything, and it has always been from the latter that all the requests for amendments have come, leading to our Association being left with less and less influence in managing our sport. It’s the reason why the FITASC bureau has decided to address a request for affiliation directly to the International Olympic Committee to represent the sport of shooting with hunting weapons. He asks the Federations to let him know in writing their opinions on this issue. The discussions with the UIT (ISSF) will continue and we hope all the same to arrive at a positive result.
27th Mai 1967 - Brno - Meeting of the Technical Commission
Sporting [Parcours de Chasse]: Launch of the 1st draft of Rules Olympic Trap and Skeet: European Championships on 200 clay targets Consultation on the international categories Extract of the minutes of the meeting: Page 59 / 147
1968 European Championship Mr. Mahu, President of the Belgian Federation, makes known the project for the 1968 European Championship that he already spoke of during the assembly in May 1967. The President Rosa-Clot, by giving the history of the European Championships bought out the difficulties of a European Championship with only 300 clay targets the normal running of which need frequent on site modifications, which was the case here in Brno. He pointed out that even the UIT (ISSF) consider reducing the number of clay targets to be shot during the World Championships, and that the Olympic Games will also take place with only 200 clay targets, without elimination, and that this proposal will be submitted, in accordance with our agreement with the UIT (ISSF). This decision, after several interventions, is unanimously accepted and it is decided that Belgium will already prepare their program according to this scheme. If the UIT (ISSF) doesn’t accept our proposal, they will just have to provide an extra day, at the expense of training, which will allow them to shoot the 100 clay targets left, with a reduced number of shooters. A proposal from Mr. Larsson is accepted, regarding the teams, who’s Championship takes place in both Trap and 150 clay target Skeet, in order for the two Championships to not finish on the same day. It was also asked of Belgium to extend the skeet Championship by one day. European Cup and World Cup The proposal of the Spanish Federation is approved in its outlines and in the detailed project, as this is the Central European Cup, it shall be submitted for examination to the President of the Commission. Licencing for Judges- Referees The list of new Judges – Referees will be communicated to the federations. 9 accepted for Trap and 10 for skeet. International Categories The Federations are asked to send to the FITASC written proposals specifying the existing rules in their country. It is by comparing these proposals that it will be easier to establish rules for international categories which can be used as basis of limitation in the Championship. Project of rules for Sporting [Parcours de Chasse] As the President Foussier was absent, this project, which is considered interesting, should be examined at a future meeting.
26th August 1967 - Bologna – General Assembly
Delegation to defend the position of the FITASC at the General Assembly of the UIT (ISSF) in September 1967 Extract of the minutes of the meeting Relations with the UIT (ISSF) The President of the FITASC let it be known that the Executive Committee, during the meeting that they had just had, approved proposals of its bureau and of the Clay Target Shooting Section Page 60 / 147
as regards the relationship with the UIT (ISSF), proposals which were communicated to all the members. The Assembly, unanimously ratified these decisions and, on the request of the president, gave the authority to Mister Natalino Di Giannantonio, vice-President of the FITASC, to represent them during the General Assembly of the UIT (ISSF), which will be held in September next at Bologna, and to support and defend the views expressed by the Executive Committee there.
6th December 1967 - Paris - Meeting of the Technical Commission for Clay Target Shooting
Sporting: Decision for the 1st European Championship in 1968, exclusively under the control of the FITASC Olympic Trap and Skeet: in addition the European Championships, Grand Prix and the Nations Cup in each discipline. Creation of a silver cup presented to the shooter having participated in three European Championships (Trap, Skeet and Sporting) Extract of the minutes of the meeting 3) FITASC Grand Prix (Trap) The commission decided to propose at the next Assembly that the FITASC Grand Prix will be contested on an Olympic Trap in Olympic years and on a Universal Trench the other years. 4) Establishing International Categories The commission decided on the principal of establishing two international categories and asked the delegates from Belgium, France, Spain, Italy and Switzerland to meet to try and to define the terms for establishing these categories and their application. As regards the participation in the European Championship, the commission proposes that only shooters having participated in the last national championships of their country are authorized to participate. If there are nations that still haven’t organised national championships, it is obligatory that the shooters are presented by their Federation. 5) European Cup and World Cup The delegate of the Spanish Federation states that following changes in their presidency the Federation have not been able to elaborate a detailed proposal, but that they support that of Mr. Romero Requejo and that they will get a detailed project prepared for the next meeting of the technical committee. 6°) International Rules [Sporting] The President Foussier and Mister Bérouard give a detailed proposal concerning the international rules of Sporting. This rule, judged to be very interesting by all the delegates and the Commission is accepted. The Commission, as the General Assembly had asked them, decide to apply it for the first European Sporting Championship. The rules could still be amended, if the commission deems it advisable. The commission therefore decides the creation of an annual European Championship in Sporting, under the exclusive control of the FITASC and to which only the members of affiliated federations can participate. Page 61 / 147
They consider this new disciple that has made a great expansion in certain countries as very interesting, and can act as a basis for recruiting for the Olympic disciplines amongst the young shooters. 7°) 1968 International Championships The commission examines the different proposals which are presented and decides as follows: A. European Championship These Championships will take place, as planned, on three Olympic traps and three skeets at the new range of the Belgian Federation, in Fosse-La-Ville, near Charleroi, in Belgium. Mr. Mahu and Mr.Leonard present the proposal of the Belgian Federation which is accepted as follows: 17th-19th June: Olympic Trap training 20th-23rd June: European Olympic Trap Championship 24th–26th June: Skeet training 27th-30th June: European Skeet Championships The Championships will be held, for both Trap and for skeet with 200 clay targets (50 per day), with an eventual elimination after 150. It is also decided that the distribution will not be uniform across the three ranges, however, each shooter must shoot the same number of clay targets at each range, but not necessarily the on the same day. The commission particularly insists on the organisation of training, so that each shooter has the same possibilities for practicing. B. European Sporting Championship On a proposal from the French Federation, the program of the 1st European Sporting Championship is established as follows: Vittel, from the 4th to the 7th of July 1968 1st-3rd July: Training 4th-7th July: European Championship 8 rounds of 25 clay targets: 4 rounds on the plateau range, 4 rounds on the gully range. National teams Championship: 4 shooters per team on the first 150 clay targets. European Ladies Championship: on the first 100 clay targets European Junior Championship: on the first 150 clay targets
Prize just for Veteran’s, many special prizes, amongst which a Silver Cup awarded by the FITASC to the shooter having participated in the three European Championships (Trap, Skeet and Sporting) and having achieved the best performances in the total of the events (3x150 clay targets). The Vittel shoot will also pay the expenses for the stay for two shooters and the team captain of each of the foreign teams entering into the team championship. The commission thanks the organisers of the shoot for this initiative which could encourage the development of this new discipline. […] C. Other FITASC International Championships The commission decides to accept the following proposals for other FITASC championships in 1068: Page 62 / 147
a) Nations Cup in Olympic Trap: from the 17th to the 20th of August in (ITALY) b) FITASC Grand Prix For Olympic Trap : from the 23rd to the 25th of May at the new range of the Société de Meudon in Bois-d’Arcy, near Versailles (France). c) FITASC Grand Prix in skeet: from the 6th to the 7th of April at Fosse-La-Ville (Belgique). The Inauguration of the new range at which the European Championship will take place. d) Nations Cup in Skeet : Dates are not yet fixed by Romania, but probably in Bucharest in September. 8°) Candidacy for 1969: The commission accepts the candidacy of Belgium for the second European Sporting Championship in 1969. 9°) Technical Certification of clay targets After a pause in the proceedings for lunch, the Commission went to the Cercle du Bois du Boulogne to proceed to examine the different makes of clay target which were submitted for technical certification. Following the different tests, they decided to technically certify the following makes. 1. Charbonnages de France (without the cross of Lorraine) France 2. Laporte-Super-Europe (France) 3. Eley from the I.M.I. (Great Britain)
19th April 1968 – Valence – General Assembly
The General Assembly of the UIT in September 1967 voted for the unilateral breach of the agreement with the FITASC: accordingly the FITASC prepares to resume its activities independently. [NB: 1968 is the year of the induction of skeet into the Olympic Games.] Extracts from the minutes of the Assembly: Relations with the UIT (ISSF) The President of the FITASC outlines to the Assembly the Evolution of the relations of the FITASC with the UIT (ISSF) and confirms that the General Assembly of the latter in Bologna in September 1967, decided on a unilateral break, from the end of 1968, from the agreements that link us. The Assembly renewed its confidence in the President specifying that, without an agreement from here to the end of the year, the FITASC will have to resume activities independently and in all countries, in the domain of clay target shooting, according to the terms which are yet to be determined.
26th June 1968 – Fosse-la-Ville - Meeting of the Clay Target Shooting Section
Study of a new form of shooting on the Universal Trench (series of 5 clay targets on a central shooting stand and with handicaps) Page 63 / 147
Olympic Trench and Skeet: FITASC European Grand Prix in Brno in May 1969 Extract of the minutes of the meeting: Relations with the UIT (ISSF) The president gave a long presentation on the evolution of relations between the UIT (ISSF) and the FITASC since the last Assembly. It shows that the UIT (ISSF) having, by the end of 1968, denounced the agreement which links them to our association since 1951 ,while talking about the conclusion of a new agreement, the discussions between the two organisations were resumed several times. We keep up hope that that there will soon be results. However no specific proposal has yet been submitted to the FITASC, the Assembly entrust its president Mister Rosa Clot, to make contact with Mr. Barannyi, President of the European Committee of the UIT (ISSF) and to elaborate with him, before the end of the current year, a project which will be submitted to both associations. Without agreement before the end of 1968, our Federation will resume its full freedom. International Championships in 1969 and 1970 In accordance with previous agreements it’s the UIT (ISSF), who organise in 1969, at the same time as its Grand Championship for all shooting disciplines, the European Championship in Olympic Trap and Skeet. The Assembly, on a proposal from its president, decided to continue the application of this agreement, the FITASC will not organise any European Championship in these disciplines. They will be replaced with the FITASC European Grand Prix in Olympic Trench and Skeet, which is granted on their request, to Brno, (Czechoslovakia) and will take place in May 1069. The European Sporting Championship is granted to Belgium who will only give their definitive reply after the 1968 Championship which will take place soon in Vittel (France). A request from Great Britain is accepted for 1970, which could even happen in 1969, if Belgium decides to withdraw for that year. The FITASC Grand-Prix in Universal Trench is granted to Belgium. It will certainly take place at Fosse-la-Ville, and a draft of the program will be submitted to the Technical Commission. The Nations Cup in Trap and Skeet, not yet having been contended, the result must be waited for, before knowing the country that will organise it in 1969. Other international events to be created The Spanish Federation only having submitted their project for the European Cup and the World Cup today, it is referred to the Technical Commission, as is the Balkan Cup project, proposed by Bulgaria, but with no delegates present. New shooting discipline to be created After a very interesting presentation by Mister J.P.Faber on the proposed rules for shooting Sporting in Vittel and that of President Mahau on the subject of a new form of shooting on a Universal Trench, but with a series of 5 clay targets on one central shooting station with handicaps, it is decided to entrust these issues to be examined by the technical Commission, in order to make a proposal at the next assembly. Regarding Sporting, it’s the rules of the French Federation that are provisionally adopted and that will be applied at Vittel. Miscellaneous Page 64 / 147
Mister Maurice Tabet had a proposal to make Trap more competitive and more economic by authorising the use of one cartridge with a charge of 32 grams maximum of lead only. The examination of this proposal is entrusted to the Technical Commission
30th January 1969 – Paris - Meeting of the Technical Commission for Clay Target Shooting
1970: Granting of the 2nd European Universal Trench Championship and the 3rd European Sporting Championship New discipline to be studied: European Trap Shooting Olympic Trap and Skeet: continuation of the Nations Cup and the Grand Prix Extract of the minutes of the meeting: At the opening of the session the President Foussier welcomes the delegates present and communicated to them a letter which he had addressed, with the agreement of the President of the FITASC to the President of the UIT (ISSF), containing new proposals for an agreement between the two Associations on the basis of proposals made last June by the President of the European Commission of the UIT (ISSF). After a report from President Rosa-Clot who had participated at the UIT (ISSF) meetings in Mexico and as no reply has yet been given to this letter, the commission asks the President of the Clay Target Shooting Section to intervene once again, at the next meeting of the Technical Committee of the UIT (ISSF), with the President of this association, in order that a request is given with the proposals of the FITASC to take a decision, and to determine how to proceed. After having been informed by the President Rosa-Clot of a European Committee project concerning their organisation of a European Grand Prix in Wiesbaden, the members of the commission express their great surprise, this initiative being in complete opposition to the proposal made by the President of this same European commission to the FITASC, they asked the President Rosa Clot to obtain explanations on this subject from the UIT (ISSF). 1. The FITASC program for 1970 The Commission decides to propose at the next Assembly that the FITASC organises in 1970 the following championships: - 2nd European Universal Trench Championship, - 3rd European Sporting Championship, - Nations Cup in Skeet. All these competitions will be open to all members of the FITASC and application to hold them will be accepted during the next Assembly. 2. Nations Cup Formula. On a proposal from President Rosa Clot, and after the favourable intervention of Mr. Dumitrescu, it was decided to propose to the Assembly the amendment to the rules of the Nations Cup. According to this proposal the Nations Cup cannot be shot for two years in a row in the same country and if it is won for the third time by a shooter of the same nationality, it will go to the country of the first ranking foreigner or if the federation of this country isn’t able to organise it to another country is designated by the FITASC –it was also decided to propose to this end the creation of a Select Committee within the Technical committee which will have the Page 65 / 147
responsibility to fix all the terms of the organisation of the Nations Cup in Olympic Trap and Skeet. This commission will be nominated at the next assembly. 6. Carpathian Grand-Prix and Danube Cup (FITASC) 7. 1968 and 1969 Nations Cup in Skeet 8. Nations Cup in Olympic Trap 9. FITASC Grand-Prix – Trap and Skeet 10. European championship in Sporting
11. Rules for European Trap shooting
2nd May 1969 – Lisbon – General Assembly of the FITASC
UIT (ISSF) and FITASC agreement obsolete from 31/12/1968. To not put certain federations affiliated to both associations in difficulty, the FITASC decided to no longer organise the International Championships in Olympic disciplines, and to confine them to the Nations Cup, Grand-Prix … Focus on the development of game shooting disciplines which have greatly expanded these last years. Extract of the minutes of the meeting: Relations with the UIT (ISSF) The President of the FITASC having given the FITASC history of the sport of shooting clay targets and the relationship with the UIT (ISSF) specifies that despite all the efforts made for an indispensable collaboration between the two associations, the UIT (ISSF) renounced the agreements which linked them to the FITASC, which will be detrimental for the shooters and for the sport off shooting in general. The agreements having ceased on the 31st of December last, the FITASC is free to organise all the international events they wish without geographic limitation. They are no longer held to respect the Olympic rules and leave their members complete freedom regarding the organisation of prize money. However, in order not to put certain Federations affiliated to both associations in difficulty, it decides not to organise International Championships in Olympic disciplines, and to confine themselves to the nations Cup, Grand-Prix etc. On the other hand it intends to develop the hunting disciplines that have taken on a great expansion in these last years. It is the Clay Target Shooting section that will make the decision on the subject during its next Assembly, and the General Assembly gives it full powers regarding the establishment of a plan of activities for the FITASC in this area.
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Part V: 1969 –1982 The FITASC sees a large worldwide development of non-Olympic clay target shooting disciplines
17th June 1969 – Versailles – Annual Assembly of the Clay Target Shooting Section
The UIT (ISSF) does not wish for anymore collaboration with the FITASC and wants to control all the activity of sports shooting with hunting weapons with the exception of live pigeon shooting. The Assembly of the FITASC acknowledges but contest this restrictive formula and decides to continue the organisation of “open” international events (vital to the development of shooting) in the domain of clay target shooting, including international competitions training on Olympic systems, while not organising International “Championships” of Olympic disciplines. American Trap: Launch of a study on its introduction to the FITASC Extracts from the minutes of the Assembly: Baron Klingspor while thanking for the honour that was given him, regrets that he couldn’t yet reach the goal of his efforts [a harmonious collaboration between the FITASC and the UIT (ISSF)]. But he assures the President of the FITASC and the Federation members that he will continue, as despite all the difficulties bought up by some, we should find an agreement allowing the development of shooting with hunting weapons, in the interest of practicing shooters. The President of the FITASC, having underlined the capital importance of this meeting at a time when some strive to obtain the destruction of all that was done by the FITASC over decades, gives the floor to Mr. Severino Rosa Clot... […]
Relations with the UIT (ISSF) In order to enlighten certain delegate who may not be informed of the situation, the President Rosa Colot gives a brief history of the relationship established between the UIT (ISSF) and the FITASC. He underlines that just until 1947 only the FITASC looked after sports of shooting with hunting weapons and it was even under its authority that the Olympic events and the World Championship were organised. It was only in 1947 that the FITASC asked the UIT (ISSF) to take control of the organisation of the Olympic Trap event at the Games, in order to reintroduce this discipline which was waived for few years. Since 1951 and with the development of shooting with hunting weapons, it proved necessary to reorganise this sport, and it’s at this moment that an agreement was concluded by which the UIT (ISSF) limited itself to the organisation of Olympic events and World Championships every 4 years. This agreement was modified on occasion, and always at the request of the UIT (ISSF) who, little by little wanted to put their hands on all shooting with hunting weapons activity. For the sole purpose of not creating difficulties, the FITASC accepted in 1967, and this against the opinion of most of the members, to yield the organisation of the annual European Championships, which were to be regulated according to the UIT (ISSF) formula and against the spirit of hunt shooting. But in return, the UIT promised to leave the FITASC full freedom in all that concerns non-Olympic events and those with less importance of the Olympic disciplines. Page 67 / 147
It is on the condition of an active collaboration with the FITASC and afterwards on formal promises given, that the heads of the Clay Target Shooting Section of the FITASC accepted to be part of the European Committee of the UIT (ISSF), which was enlarged in 1967, with the sole aim of organising the European Championships. However, despite the promises and overtures made in Bologna in 1967, in Namur in 1968, the UIT (ISSF), on the initiative of a few people whose only aim was the destruction of shooting with hunting weapons, had decided, during their General Assembly, to terminate the collaboration agreement which links them to the FITASC, and this despite proposals presented by General Mehanna on behalf of the president of the FITASC, proposals that correspond entirely with conditions that were approved of by the President of the UIT (ISSF) and that of the European Committee. By a letter dated the 11th of March 1969, and signed by one of the vice-Presidents and the General Secretary of the UIT (ISSF) and which the President Rosa-Clot reads out, this Association lets the President of the FITASC know that they no longer desire any collaboration with the latter and that they would like from this moment on to control all the activity of the sport of shooting with hunting weapons, only leaving the FITASC Game Shooting which the UIT (ISSF) doesn’t organise. The General Assembly of the FITASC, held in Lisbon on the 2nd of May 1969, took note of this decision, but contested its restrictive form, and decided to continue their activity in the domain of clay target shooting, while not organising the International Championships in the Olympic disciplines. At the same time they left complete liberty to affiliated federations regarding the form of events organised, as no agreement is tying FITASC to the UIT. The General Assembly had at the same time given full powers to the Clay Target Shooting Section to define the attitude to take, and to establish the activity in the coming years. The present Assembly is therefore meeting to take decisions on this subject. President Rosa-Clot, at this time, specifies that he wishes to speak in the name of the Italian Federation, and reads out the two letters that were addressed, the 20th of May 1969 to this Federation by the UIT (ISSF) and in which this Association demands that the Italian Federation renounces the organisation of the FITASC Nations Cup except if they accept to remove certain conditions binding it to this federation “not recognised by the UIT (ISSF)”. In the other letter, referring to article 6 in the articles of association, the Secretary General of the UIT (ISSF) asks the Federation to leave the FITASC, with the risk of sanctions and threatens the Italian Federation with sanctions envisage by the intermediary of the I.O.C. Copies of this letter were also sent to the Belgian Federation, who have to organise the FITASC Olympic Trap Grand-Prix in June. President Rosa-Clot gives copies of these letters, as well as the reply of the Italian Federation to all the delegates. He asks the delegates present to take the floor to express their point of view. Mister P.E. Guyot, President of the French Federation, while specifying that he was not communicated these letters, stresses that he assertains that the decision taken by the Secretary General of the UIT (ISSF) are not only inacceptable on the level of sportsmanship, but is contrary to the words of the articles of association, as article 6 effectively specifies that Federations requesting their affiliation must engage not to join another international shooting organisation, but that it cannot in any way apply to federations already members, who cannot be obliged to resign. The articles of association of the UIT (ISSF) not having been modified, it is therefore the current articles that the Federations should apply. What’s more, even if the UIT (ISSF) holds the Page 68 / 147 delegation of the I.O.C. in matters of Olympic sport, it cannot in anyway intervene in the organisation of events which don’t contain the word “Championship” even in Olympic disciplines, and even more so in non-Olympic disciplines that no authority has the right to prohibit with anyone. The FITASC thus has the right to organise any championship with non- Olympic disciplines. With these kinds of approaches, he wonders if it would be possible to develop the sport of shooting, which is the aim of all our Federations. Mister Lykouris (Greece) states that they do not agree with President Guynot’s point of view. As he considers that the whole problem is based on the fact that two international associations control the sport of shooting with hunting weapons. He notes that if, his proposal moving to dissolve of the Clay Target Shooting Section of the FITASC is not accepted by the Federations and that agreement can intervene, he proposes the creation of a totally new Association for shooting with hunting weapons independent of bother the UIT and the FITASC. Mister Lykouris does not agree with the letter of the General Secretary moving to exclude the Federations of the FITASC, but thinks that a solution could be found if the FITASC gave prize money, as in this way it would no longer be an Olympic sport.
Mister Claude Foussier specified that the difference should be carried on the level of sport not on the level of equipment, as no one can in fact prohibit the use of recognised Olympic equipment, if it is not during a championship. He adds that it is important to note that the people at the FITASC who accept to be part of the UIT (ISSF) European Committee, did it in a personal capacity and the FITASC has no commitment. The Baron Klingspor (Sweden), stressing that he is talking, on this question, in a personal capacity, not having received any instruction from his Federation which should make a decision during the meeting of the Scandinavian countries Federations next month, says that in his opinion the letters of the Vice-President and of the General Secretary of the UIT (ISSF) are shameful, because they attack not only the FITASC but what’s more the whole sport of shooting with hunting weapons. He proposes that the FITASC addresses a letter to all the affiliated Federations explaining to them why they regret these letters, so as even in the Federations where the influence of the UIT (ISSF) is strong, the destructive aim sought for by certain elements can be understood. The President of the Belgian Federation, Mister Mahu, while approving the proposal of Mr. Guyot and Mr.Klingspor, thinks that we especially need to look too the future, and not the past, as we have just done. It’s necessary to know if we can continue to practice our sport because, if certain people come back each time on their given word, the sport will be in danger, and another organisation will need to be envisaged. Mister Foussier, in a new intervention stressed that once more that the FITASC has the right to organise, even on Olympic systems and equipment, international competitions, without calling them “Championship”, because it is in the interest of the sport. The President of the FITASC shares the point of view with Mr. Foussier and underlines that in the interest of the shooters, it is necessary to continue to organise open international events for all, but they can be called international training competitions on Olympic systems. General Rouskov (Bugaria) states his agreement with the proposal of Mister Klingspor and proposes that the members of the FITASC who have been elected to it, to leave the UIT (ISSF) European Committee. He stresses that his Federation and the other Balkan countries organise Page 69 / 147 each year international competitions without the authorisation of the UIT (ISSF), he doesn’t see what would prevent the FITASC from doing the same. Mister Hilmu Gürz, president of the Turkish Federation supports the previous proposal, in order to influence the UIT (ISSF) so they can look to collaborate with the FITASC. According to him the decision of the UIT (ISSF) throws great disarray on the Federations who only ask to freely excurses their sports activity. President Guyot, in a new intervention proposes that the FITASC should rightly use its members who are part of the UIT (ISSF) to put pressure on them, in order to arrive at obtaining collaboration. What’s more he underlines the contradiction that there is between the two letters from the UIT (ISSF) one of which asks for resignation from the FITASC, while the another letter of the 11th of March, specifies that certain federations are part of both federations. The Dr. Schnyder (Switzerland) on opposing Mr. Lyykouris’s argument, is not of the view that the international events should be organised under the European Committee, because he considers that this Committee has no authority, does not represent the interest of the shooters of hunting weapons and whose members who were chosen amongst the heads of the Clay Target Shooting Section of the FITASC, who were just there to show up, as was the aim of certain people, who he doesn’t wish to name, but their names are found on the bottom of the all the letters, to destroy the Clay Target Shooting Section of the FITASC. He considers the European Committee of the UIT (ISSF) is just a caricature and that the elected members are nothing but puppets. It is the opposite of the desired outcome, and siding with the previous proposals, the Dr. Schnyder is also of the opinion that they should resign, if an agreement is not quickly found and that the Clay Target Shooting Section of the FITASC is not able to continue with its desired activity. Finally, the President of the FITASC, replying to Mr. Lykouris, specifies that in 1947, there was no agreement with the UIT (ISSF) and it was never the FITASC who sought war. After the agreement was concluded in 1951, it was never the FITASC but always the UIT (ISSF) who wanted to restrict the clay target shooting activities. If we have arrived to the point where we are at, it is precisely because certain people in the UIT (ISSF), as the Dr. Schnyger says, do a systematic work of destruction. The general discussion having finished, the President Rosa-Clot puts to the vote a resolution that seems to him to correspond to the opinion expressed. This resolution is the following : “The Federations represented at the Assembly of the Clay Target Shooting Section in rejecting the letters of the 20th of May of the Vice-President and the General Secretary of the UIT (ISSF) decided that the FITASC will organise in future international events below the level of the European Championship, in Olympic disciplines, while respecting the international rues of amateurism of the I.O.C., as well as open international Championships, according to their rules in all non-Olympic disciplines. The Clay Target Shooting Section of the FITASC remains available to continue the dialogue with the President of the UIT (ISSF) with a view to a new cooperation agreement.” This proposal is unanimously adopted. American Trap The proposal of Mexico asking to include in the FITASC disciplines American Trap and to establish international rules, will be examined by the technical commission. Page 70 / 147
26th November 1969 - Paris – Meeting of the FITASC Bureau
Following a letter from the UIT (ISSF) to its members, requiring them to resign from the FITASC, Resignation of the German Shooting Federation (Deutscher Schütgenbund) from FITASC Extract of the minutes of the meeting: Resignation of the German Shooting Federation (Deutscher Schütgenbund) The President of this association, by a letter dated the 9th of September 1969 communicated his intention to resign from the FITASC from 30/12/1969. This decision is accepted by the Bureau and will be communicated at the next general assembly.
28th January 1970 – Paris - Meeting of the Technical Commission of the Clay Target Shooting Section
Development of “FITASC Trap Shooting”/ trial “Automatic Trap shooting” Grand-Prix Launch of a study of shooting systems for reduced sporting Extract of the minutes of the meeting 1. International Rules for FITASC Trap Shooting European Grand Prix in June 1970 2. Rules for Automatic Trap Shooting “Multitrap 200” Grand Prix trail in July 1970 3. Championships and International Grand-Prix in 1970 Sporting On a proposal from President Rosa-Clot the commission decided to examine the possibility of creating for the future, a system of shooting reduced sporting, which could be called Mini- sporting (mini-parcours), and allows this discipline to be practiced more economically, and most of all on a smaller terrain. The Championship should at the same time always take place on courses offering the most similarity possible with a hunting ground
13th June 1970 – San Marino - General Assembly
UIT (ISSF) : agreement in principle obtained according to which the FITASC, stops their activities in two Olympic disciplines, to the benefit of the UIT (ISSF), could freely continue their activity in all non-Olympic disciplines, without territorial restriction, and would get the agreement of the UIT (ISSF), that the federations affiliated to it, would stay members of the FITASC. Extracts from the minutes of the Assembly Affiliations […] He let it be known at the same time that the FITASC bureau accepted the affiliation for Germany from the Munich Carl Stiegele Club, to replace the resigned German Shooting Federation. This affiliation is unanimously ratified. Page 71 / 147
Relations with the UIT (ISSF) In accordance with the wishes of the General Assembly, the President Guyot and Rosa-Clot continued, during the whole year, discussions with the representatives of the UIT (ISSF). During the last meeting that they had in Montreux (Switzerland), an agreement in principle was obtained in the last meeting according to which the FITASC, cessed their activity in the two Olympic disciplines, to the benefit of the UIT (ISSF), could freely continue their activity in all non-Olympic disciplines, and obtained the agreement of the UIT (ISSF), that the federations affiliated to it, would stay members of the FITASC. The Assembly, after having heard a detailed presentation from President Guyot, thank him, as well as Mr. Rosa Clot for their efforts, and ask them to continue until the completion of a final agreement. On the intervention of Mister Camisa (Mexico), they decide, however, that this agreement may not include any restrictions on the territorial activity of the FITASC for non- Olympic disciplines. [..]
Budget 1970 and 1971 […] Concerning the receipts of the charges on the clay target events, the President asks the Clay Target Shooting Section to re-examine them, because with the adoption of new shooting disciplines the situation has substantially changed. He asks that the newly proposed system brings our Federation revenue more or less the same as previously, by suggesting a levy not on price of the clay target but on the entry fees. This same system could equally be applied to Electrocibles (helices).
1st July 1970 - Juan-les-Pins – Annual Assembly of the Clay Target Shooting Section
1971: 4th European Sporting Championship and 2nd European Universal Trench Championship. Validation of a draft agreement with the UIT (ISSF) From 1971, the FITASC no longer organises Olympic Trap or Skeet events: the nations Cup in Olympic Trap will be transformed into the Universal Trench Nations Cup, and cease the Skeet Nations Cup. Extracts from the minutes of the Assembly: Before passing to other points on the agenda, the President Rosa-Clot [of the Clay Target Shooting Section] realises that the current situation between the UIT (ISSF) and the FITASC. He emphasises the effort made by himself and the President Guynot towards the heads of the UIT (ISSF), efforts which had as a result the elaboration of a new draft agreement which, during the last UIT (ISSF) Assembly received the approbation of the most important heads of this association and who should sign it very soon. This draft agreement provides: 1. That the FITASC commits to no longer organising events in any level for Olympic disciplines and will only exercise its activity with non-olympic disciplines […] 2. Regarding the Automatic Trap, They commit to developing this new sport by individual and club competitions, limited to Europe and the Mediterranean region. 3. The FITASC respects the dates of the UIT (ISSF) World and European Championships. 4. In return the UIT (ISSF) admits that its members can also be part of the FITASC, on the condition that they respect the points of this agreement. Page 72 / 147
This project is already approved by the last FITASC General Assembly and also by the Clay Target Section. The President of the Technical commission asks that it is communicated to the President of the UIT (ISSF) the wish that this agreement is definitively concluded as soon as possible, and this in the interest of everyone. International Rules a. FITASC Trap b. Sporting 1971 International Competitions International FITASC Trap Competition [4th] European Sporting Championship [2nd] European Universal Trench Championship Nations Cup The Assembly after a long exchange of delegates views, decides that in the application as of now of the foreseen new agreement with the UIT (ISSF) they will no longer organise from 1971 Olympic Trap and Skeet events. This decision first touched the two Nations Cups. It is therefore decided that: - The Olympic Trap Nations Cup will be organised with the same rules, from 1971, with Universal Trench - The Skeet Nations Cup will be discontinued […] Automatic Trap Fiftieth Anniversary of the FITASC: Creation of a prize which will be contested with two big events: The European Championship and the Nations Cup in Universal Trench. Levies for the benefit of the FITASC: [...] there will, from 1970, be a uniform 10% levy, on the entry fee, clay targets included, in international clay target shooting events, replacing the individual membership card and current levy on the clay targets.
12th January 1971 – Paris - Meeting of the Technical Commission for Clay Target Shooting
Presentation by Mr. Laporte for a project for small terrain trap shooting installation Extract of the minutes of the meeting: President Foussier [of the Technical Commission for Clay Target Shooting], after declaring the session open, gives the floor the Mister Laporte who presents reproductions of his more recent machines and a detailed installation plan for a possible future installation for a range allowing all varieties of shooting, with, thanks to modern equipment, personnel reduced to a minimum and over a small ground area. The members of the commission are very interested in this presentation. Mister Laporte reaffirms that the essential aim of training in sports shooting is to get large numbers of people to practice, and firstly the hunters; but the operation costs must be the lowest possible to grant the shooters advantageous prices. Page 73 / 147
Agreement UIT (ISSF) - FITASC A letter addressed to President P.E. Guyot [of the FITASC] from the President Hasler [of UIT (ISSF)] is read out, in which he gives his agreement, in principal, to the draft agreement approved by the General Assembly of Juan-les-Pins. It is interesting to have a testimony of this value, but it would be highly desirable that a final ratification is given by the UIT (ISSF) during 1971. Le [4th] European Sporting Championship is approved for the 21st, 22nd and 23rd of May 1971 in Tour: 200 Clay targets on 4 courses of 50 clay targets. A demonstration could take place on this occasion on a “pilot trap” or a “mini-trap” course proposed by Mr. Laporte. [2nd] European Universal Trench Championship in 1971 FITASC Trap Automatic Trap
20th February 1971 - Monte-Carlo – Meeting of Commission of Shooting Electrocibles (Helices)
1971: 5th European Helice Championship and Fiftieth anniversary Cup Extract of the minutes of the meeting: [5th] European Championship in 1971 50th anniversairy Cup The Commission decided that three events for this Cup will be shot as follows: 2nd event in Montauban (France) the 24th and 25th of April. 3rd event in Overijse (Belgium) the 5th and 6th of June. 4th event in Uberstadion (Germany) the 12th and 13th of June.
2nd May 1971 – Milan – General Assembly
Expectation of the ratification of the agreement by the UIT (ISSF) Extracts from the minutes of the Assembly: Relations with the UIT (ISSF) President Guyot [of the FITASC] reads out a recent letter from the President of the UIT (ISSF) which confirms a previous letter accepting an arrangement concluded between the heads of both associations in 1970. The ratification of this arrangement should take place during the next Assembly of the UIT (ISSF), the FITASC decided to apply it straight away. On an intervention from Mr. Camisa, the President Rosa-Clot specifies that it is not of interest now for the FITASC to organise International Skeet Championships, even with the American system and the Assembly approves his proposal to wait for the ratification of the pending agreements. Page 74 / 147
7th May 1971 – Milan – Meeting of the Commission of International Championships
Electrocibles (helices) - 1972: 6th European Championship and Mediterranean Championship Extract of the minutes of the meeting: Mediterranean Championship and European Championship in electrocibles (Helices). These Championships having been granted to Morocco, Mister Peretti promised to bring his Federation’s projects to the European Championship in Vittel. He is thinking of organising these events over 9 days, in March or April with around 1,00 Dohs of Prize money.
21st January 1972 - Paris - Meeting of the Technical Commission for Clay Target Shooting
Universal Trench: The European Championship is the largest clay target shooting event of the FITASC Extract of the minutes of the meeting: 1. European Universal Trench Championship […] This Championship represents the most important FITASC clay target shooting event, President Foussier asks the affiliated federations to send teams and, in their respective countries, to do the necessary advertising. 2. Nations Cup, Universal Trench The Commission, after deliberation, decided to amend the rules of the Nations Cup in deciding that this event could be organised at the same time as the European Championship, even if the winner of the precedent year doesn’t have the same nationality of the country where the European Championship is being held. But in this case the Cup holder must be invited by the organising federation and the cost of their stay and their participation should be paid for by them. 3. European Universal Trench Championship 1973 4. European Sporting Championship 1973 5. FITASC Universal Trench Grand-Prix 6. Sporting Club Cup 7. International Rules 8. Relations with the UIT (ISSF) The President Guyot [of the FITASC] having reaffirmed the contents of the last exchange of letters with the President of the UIT (ISSF), the Commission takes note and confirms the desire to maintain, on the level of sports, contact with this association.
6th February 1973 - Paris - Meeting of the Technical Commission for Clay Target Shooting
Sporting: Study of the introduction of electrocibles (helice) Page 75 / 147
Universal Trench: from 1974, the maximum weight of lead drops from 36gr to 32gr Extract of the minutes of the meeting: European Sporting Championship Mr. Brandl asks that the Championship could happen in the conditions that most resemble hunting, which German shooters particularly want. He insists that the speed of the clay targets is no faster than live pigeon. On the objection raised by Mr. A.P. Page on the subject of electrocibles in Sporting, he specifies that the number of these will only be 4 out of 1000 clay targets and that the organisation will give the possibility for English shooters who don’t know this type of shooting to practice. Amendments to International rules Universal Trench rules 2 amendments decided. 1. Reduction of the weight of lead from 1974 from 36gr to 32gr 2. One penalty point for shooters refusing the function of auxiliary referee that is asked of them. For Sporting: The following amendments are decided: In article 2 – Clay Target – add: eventually Electrocibles In article 3 – Shooting position—add a 6th paragraph which specifies that the shooter must shoulder their shotgun to shoot all the clay targets, even the rabbits.
7th June 1973 – Madrid – Extraordinary and Ordinary General Assembly
1974: Granting of the 5th European Universal Trench Championship and of the 7th European Sporting Championship
15th June 1973 - Juan-Les-Pins - Meeting of the Clay Target Shooting Section
Universal Trench: International Junior Championship in 1974 Extract of the minutes of the meeting: The President Guyot [of the FITASC] reaffirms that the vocation of our Federation is to attract the largest number of shooters to open competitions and asks the Federation to constantly act in that direction. Mr. Biabaud, in emphasizing the development taken by Sporting discipline, reported a communication from Switzerland concerning the installation of sporting course. And Mr. Seveygnes reaffirms the interest show by the USSR in this discipline. It is asked of the Secretary Page 76 / 147
of the FITASC to get into contact with these two countries and to send them all the necessary documents. International Junior Championship After the detailed presentation by Mr. Seveygnes of the proposal from the French Federation proposing to establish an International Championship where juniors can meet each other, this idea is accepted with enthusiasm and after a long exchange of views on the practicalities of implementing such a project, it is decided that the French Federation, during its French International Championship, will organise, as a trial, in July 1974, this kind of international meeting of Juniors. There will be prizes offered by the FITASC and the French Federation, medals offered by Mr. Rosa-Clot and the Italian Federation, and a silver plaque offered to the winning team by the Spanish Federation. This Championship will be shot with 100 clay targets at the Universal Trench for a very modest fee, the travel expenses of the competitors will be taken care of by their national Federations, and the accommodation facilitated by the French Federation. Competitions for individual and teams of three open to all members of the FITASC, who will do the necessary advertising to affiliated groups.
7th May 1974 - Porto – Extraordinary and Ordinary General Assembly
1975: granting the 6th European Universal Trench Championship, the 8th European Sporting Championship and the 7th European electrocibles (helices) Championship
18th January 1975 - Paris – Meeting of the Clay Target Commission
Sporting: recent introduction in Spain and European Club Cup in 1975 Aligning the age of juniors with the UIT (ISSF) rules. Extracts from the minutes of the Assembly: IV FITASC European Clubs Cup: The European Cup in Sporting will be organised on the 30th-31st of May and the 1st of June 1975, on request of the Spanish Federation, in Valencia. […] The President of the FITASC particularly thanks President Escorial for being willing to set up the European Clubs Cup in Sporting in Spain. He is certain that thanks to the organisation it will all fall into place, this event which will be shot at the same time as the Spanish Championship, conform to international rules, will be a great achievement as the first international Shooting clays Shoot in Spain. All the members present specify that the recently introduced discipline of sporting will, under the influence of its Federation and the Spanish Federation of Hunters, make important developments in the years to come. The President Escorial intends to ask the next General Assembly for the European Championships for 1976 in sporting (which could be shot in Madrid), to be granted to his country. International Rules The French Shooting Federation having suggested that the rules concerning the age of juniors be the same as that of the UIT (ISSF), the President Rosa-Clot proposes that the current rules are maintained. The conditions being different for precision shooting and clay target shooting, Page 77 / 147
it is necessary to lower the age of juniors to “less than 20 years old”, which was decided by the General Assembly and unanimously accepted.
22nd April 1975 – Bologna – General Assembly
Approval of the decisions of the Clay Target Shooting Commission
16th January 1976 – Paris - Meeting of the Clay Target Shooting Technical Commission
Clay Target shooting: Study of a project for South American and Oceanian Championships Sporting: Central European development Extract of the minutes of the meeting: 8. Regional Championships The President Rosa-Clot [of the Clay Target Shooting Technical Commission] outlines the situation of clay target shooting in Oceania. The President Rosa-Clot of the Caledonian Shooting Club having proposed the creation of the Oceania Championship, he specified that nothing opposed the organisation of these Championships under the control of FITASC because the Universal Trench and Sporting are not Olympic disciplines, and therefore don’t depend on the UIT (ISSF). The Commission asks its President to finalise issues with the Federations concerned and to remake contact with the UIT (ISSF) in order to clarify the situation. The Commission decides to entrust to Sports Promotion International the distribution twice a year of Shooting Calendars to the addresses of the shooters; a list of these will be sent to SPI by the FITASC. The President of the Brazilian Confederation having made similar proposals at the last General Assembly concerning the creation of a South American Championship, the Commission is waiting for further clarification from him.[…] Lastly Mr.Rosa-Clot reports on contacts made with Hungary and Czechoslovakia for the possible organisation of Sporting Clay events in these countries as well as projects for the development of this type of shooting in Germany. The possibility of creating FITASC events in Universal Trench as well as Sporting is approved by the commission.
1st June 1976 – Madrid – General Assembly
Approval of the decision of the Clay Target Shooting Page 78 / 147
10th December 1976 - Paris – Meeting of the Sub-Commission for Shooting Electrocibles (helices)
Shooting Electrocibles (helices): Creation of a European Cup 1977 / interest of Venezuela in the discipline Extract of the minutes of the meeting: 2. European Cup 1977 The commission decided to create a European cup with will be contested in 1977, in 3 events: a) Nürnberg (Germany) 19th–20th March 15 Helices b) Amiens (European Championship) 29th–31st May 20 Helices c) A Belgian event to be specified 15 Helices Total 50 Helices à 25m With a bonus of 2 points for the participants in the final. It is suggested that the company Synfina could offer a cup for the Criterium. The International Federation on their side will present a medal for the highest ranking Lady.
Electrocibles (Helices) Shooting Activities Considering a proposal from Venezuela submitted to the commission by Mr de Harenne, the President Gaiztarro, while approving this initiative which he finds very interesting for the promotion of the sport of Electrocibles, points out that our federation can only examine proposals that are presented by national affiliated groups.
28th January 1977 - Paris - Meeting of the Clay Target Shooting Technical Commission
Sporting 1977: 10th European and Mediterranean Championship in Algiers in 1977 and the FITASC Club Cup in England. Universal Trench: Project for the creation of a World Championship from 1978 Extract of the minutes of the meeting: Relations with the UIT (ISSF) The members of the commission ask the President Guyot [of the FITASC] as well as Mr. Rosa- Clot and Mr. Escorial to take up negotiations again with the UIT (ISSF), in order to reach an agreement for the cooperation between the two international associations.
28th May 1977 - Amiens - Meeting of the Sub-Commission for Shooting Electrocibles (helices)
Amendments to international electrocibles shooting rules Page 79 / 147
6th October 1977 – Madrid – Ordinary General Assembly
Decision to postpone the amendment to international clay target shooting till after the new agreement with the UIT (ISSF) Extracts from the minutes of the Assembly: International rules / B. Clay Target Shooting The clay target shooting Commission having proposed the suppression in the Clay Target Championships of the International Federation, of the International federation’s tax as well as the refund for travel and accommodation for the FITAC delegates, Mister Gaiztaro takes the floor to express his point of view, according to which, the international rules of our Federation should apply to all International Championships whatever their discipline. After the intervention of Mister Rosa-Clot who underlined the necessity to take into consideration the difference between both shooting disciplines, the President Guyot intervenes to account for the discussions that he just had with the heads of the UIT (ISSF). He proposes in order onto to obstruct the conclusion of a new agreement between the two associations that nothing should be changed in the current rules before the next General Assembly. On a proposal from Mister Bravo, the Assembly thanks the president for the actions that he took to obtain a favourable agreement and unanimously accept his proposal. They ask him to constitute a commission with Mister Rosa-Clot to examine the problem and to make a proposal for rules at the next General assembly.
13th January 1978 – Paris - Meeting of the Technical Commission for Clay Target Shooting
Contact with the UIT (ISSF) to relaunch the conclusion of an agreement Universal Trench in 1979: Grand Européen (European Grand) or Grand Mondial (World Grand) in 1979 / 9th European Sporting Championship in 1979: 12th European Championship and World Cup in Portugal / Oceania Championship and Grand Mondial (Grand World) in New Caledonia/ Clubs Cup Extract of the minutes of the meeting: 5. Relations with the UIT (ISSF) The President Guyot [of the FITASC] reports to the Commission about the contact that he recently had with the heads of the UIT (ISSF). He emphasized that the development of the sport of shooting clay targets in the International Federation depends a lot on collaboration between the two International Associations. He therefore intends to propose to President Vichos to meet him, accompanied by Mr. Rosa-Clot, on the occasion of the next UIT (ISSF) meeting and to ask him for a favourable interpretation of article 6 of the articles of incorporation of this Union, in order to allow the affiliation to the FITASC of all the International Federations for other disciplines that those controlled by the UIT (ISSF) A cooperation agreement will be possible that will be to the advantage of everyone.
6. Application for 1979 and 1980 Page 80 / 147
The commission, after deliberation, accepts the following applications: - 1979 Grand Européen (European Grand) or Grand Mondial (World Grand) in Universal Trench for 1979: in France - European Championship and World Cup in Sporting for 1979: in Lisbon - Oceania Championship and Grand Mondiale (World Grand) in Sporting for 1979: in New Caledonia - Clubs Cup in Sporting for 1979: Nancy (France) - European Championship in Sporting for 1980: in France
17th May 1978 – Lisbon – Extraordinary and Ordinary General Assembly
Sporting 1979: 1st World Championship with 300 clay targets (the 1st 200 clay targets constitute the European Championship) / World Cup in New Caledonia Universal Trench 1979: Project for Americas Championship Electrocibles (Helices) 1979: 11th Championship European / European Cup Extracts from the minutes of the Assembly:
IV Ratification of the Decisions of the Bureau and the Commissions This commission had decided the grant the World Sporting Cup for 1979 to Portugal. On the proposal of the French Federation, and in agreement with the Portuguese Federation, the Assembly decided to replace this competition with the World Championship, with 300 clay targets, the first 200 comprise the European Championship. This satisfies the Portuguese Federation who, for a few years now has asked for the creation of a World Sporting Championship, and if it succeeds, could be definitively adopted. This Championship will be contested in June in 1979 in Lisbon. The 1979 World Cup is, on the request of the French Federation in New Caledonia, who also asked, but on the condition that the installations in Nouméa are technically approved before the end of 1978, that the events takes place at least three months after the World Championship and that the Caledonian Shooting Club can, at the time of the general Assembly of 1979, ensure the participation at the World Cup of at least three European countries.
12th January 1979 – Paris -Meeting of the Clay Target Shooting Technical Commission
Sporting: development in Italy, Greece and Sweden/ Dissociation of the European Championship from the World Championships American Trap: launch of a draft of international rules Extract of the minutes of the meeting: Page 81 / 147
Giving a brief presentation of the activities of Clay Target Shooting in the International Federation, he (the president) particularly underlines the development of the discipline of Sporting in new countries like Greece, Italy and Sweden, and reaffirms that for the first time our Federation has organized a Championship. […] 1. 1979 World Sporting Championship […] For the team Championship, there can only be national teams, which are teams of 4 shooters for the European and World rankings. The 1979 scheme being a test, the Commission wishes that in future the European and World Championship would be shot in two separate places, the European Championship preferably before the World Championships. The Club Cup Competitions will be replaced by the European Championship, but the new ranges should still be technically approved a year beforehand during an international meeting. 2. Gran Mondial (World Grand) in Universal Trench and Nations Cup 1979 3. Sporting Club Cup 1979 7. a/ Relations with the UIT (ISSF) After having heard the commission presidency’s report on the relationship with the UIT (ISSF), the commission asks the President Pierre-Etienne Guyot and Mister Rosa-Clot to continue the negotiations with this association in order to find a new collaboration agreement with the FITASC. […] f/ American Trap The Technical Sub-Commission is asked to prepare international rules for shooting American Trap. The commission considers it desirable for the FITASC to introduce this discipline as part of its field of activities.
5th May 1979 – Milan – Mixed, Extraordinary and Ordinary General Assembly
Contact with the UIT (ISSF) to relaunch reaching of an agreement. Extract of the minutes of the meeting: c) “Union Internationale de Tir” (ISSF) The President Guyot [of the FITASC] reports his discussions with the UIT (ISSF) to the assembly and specifies that with this Association’s elections to the board, the contacts that he has established with its leaders and the relationship between the two associations have much improved. He hopes to be able to lead towards an agreement in the near future.
30th November 1979 – Paris - Meeting of the Clay Target Shooting Technical Commission
1980 – Sporting: 2nd World Championship and 13th European Championship/ Trail for a criterium with 3 events (700 clay target) 1980 – Universal Trench: 10th European Championship and Grand Mondial (World Grand) in Italy Finalisation of a special new rule for international Championships Page 82 / 147
Proposal for the creation of an international referee Commission
22nd February 1980 – Guadalajara – General Assembly
In the presence of the President of the UIT (ISSF), Mister Olegario Vaquez Raña, who is an elected member of the executive of the FITASC. Extract of the minutes of the meeting: On opening the session, the President [of the FITASC] welcomed Mister Olegario Vaquez Raña, President of the Mexican shooting Federation, who was just elected president of the UIT (ISSF) and had accepted to help at this general assembly. He thanks him for the valuable help that he gave to the organisers of the World Championship which just took place in Guadalajara, help without which certain important problems could have been difficult to sort out. Mister Guyot emphasises the importance of the election of Mister Vaquez Raña to the Presidency of the UIT (ISSF), because he is certain to find in him a person who will make a point of re-establishing friendly relations and indispensable collaboration between the two big international shooting associations, which were so much lacking these last years. He presents, with a unanimous round of applause, to Mister Olegario Vaquez Raña, the FITASC gold medal of merit of the international shooting federation to honour the eminent services rendered for the cause of the sport of shooting. Mister Olegario Vaquez Raña, replying to President Guyot, thanks him for his warm words, also for the cooperation that he himself and the federations affiliated to the FITASC bought to his recent election and ensures them of his collaboration, because, as he stressed, all the disciplines of the sport of shooting must be considered as part of the one sport and we must all work for the constant development and success of this sport that we love so much. VI Elections The board: President Guyot having explained that as the result of the death of Mr. Leo Biaggi de Blasys a position was liberate, it will be necessary to fill this post and proposes that this post is offered to M. Olegario Vaquez Raña, in order to strengthen by his presence on the board of direction, these links that must reunite both associations. After Mr. Vaquez Raña accepts the proposition from President Guynot, the General Assembly vote by acclamation the President of the UIT (ISSF) a member of the board of directors.
31st October 1980 - Lisbon - Meeting of the FITASC Clay Target Shooting Technical Commission
The cooperation agreement between the UIT (ISSF) and the FITASC could be signed in April by the UIT (ISSF) Extract of the minutes of the meeting: Mr. Rosa-Clot then gave a brief report of the event that happened in 1980, the International Sporting Championship and the Universal Trench Grand Mondial (World Grand), were very successful. He stresses the importance of the election of Mister Olegario Vaquez Raña to the Presidency of the “Union Internationale de Tir” (ISSF). The very friendly relationship that binds Page 83 / 147 the presidents of our two international Associations is a bright sign; then presenting to Mister Guynot of the highest distinction of the UIT (ISSF) and to President Vaquez Raña the FITASC gold medal of merit ensures us a close and fruitful collaboration for the future, the culmination of an effort of 20 years hard work. As for the cooperation agreement between the UIT (ISSF) and the FITASC, elaborated by President Guynot and himself, there is hope that it will be signed, at the next meeting of the council of the UIT (ISSF) which should take place in April 1981 in Mexico. Mister Rosa-Clot then asks to move to the agenda, first examining: I 1981 World Sporting Championship II 1981 European Sporting Championship A late application from a Belgian Armed Forces Club in Germany, not technically approved, it couldn’t be considered. All the same, this club was entrusted with organising the International German Championships from the 15th to the 17th of May 1981 during which the installations could be technically approved.
III 1981 FITASC Sporting Grand-Prix Following the report of Mr. Maymat who went on site, the application of the America Club in Spain is accepted. This Grand Prix which will at the same time be the Final of the European Hunting Cup, will be held in the month of September, at a date yet to be specified by the Spanish hunting Federation. The commission records with satisfaction the reports of Mr. Chaves and Mr. Maymat and Mr. Valentini concerning the development of Shooting Sporting. The range of Zurich-Embrach, where the 1980 FITASC Grand-Prix was contested, asked for a new international event in 1981, in order to perfect their organisation before the European Championship requested for 1982. The 3 events of the European Cup having already been granted, the commission proposes to organise an International Swiss Championship. A Sporting course is installed for the first time in Italy at Montecatini, and the first official shoot took place there on the 18th of October last. Proposals were finally made to the international Federation concerning the implantation of a Sporting range in Austria.
IV 1981 Universal Trench Grand Mondial (World Grand) and Grands Europa (European Grand) The proposals of the president of the Brazilian Confederation for the organisation of the 1981 Universal Trench Grand Mondial (World Grand) in Sao-Paulo, proposal already examined by the General Assembly of Guadalajara, are accepted on the condition that this confederation addresses a formal engagement to the International Federation with a detailed project of this competition. It is planed the Grand Mondial (World Grand) be contested after the UIT (ISSF) World Olympic trap Championships which should take place at the end of October in Argentina. The competition’s shooting director accepted by the Brazilian Confederation will be Mister Luigi Rossi (Italy). The Brazilian confederation proposes to invite all the teams having participated in the UIT (ISSF) World Championships and to pay their hotel expenses for five days. The commission asks that at the next General Assembly that they exceptionally authorise the participation of countries Page 84 / 147
not affiliated to FITASC. Furthermore they charge Mister Roger Riard, member of the Technical Commission, to do an onsite inspection before Mister Rosa-Clot planned for next spring, the conditions in which the international competition could be organised. At the request of the French Federation, it is decide to organise in France a “Grand Europa” 1981, in order to allow the participation of all the European shooters who cannot get to Brazil, It was asked of the French Federation to propose before the end of November the precise dates and places for this competition. [In the case where the Grand Mondial (World Grand) cannot happen in Brazil, the “Grand Europa” will be transformed into the Grand Mondial (World Grand)] V International Calendar The commission asks all the Federations to communicate their international open dates to him as soon as possible taking into consideration the dates already accepted as much by the UIT (ISSF) as by the FITASC.
12th June 1981 - Madrid – Mixed FITASC General Assembly
Ratification of a
22nd January 1982 – Paris - Clay Target Shooting Technical Commission
Definitive Allocation of large international events only after having obtained all the necessary guarantees from the organising Federation. Extract of the minutes of the meeting: Page 85 / 147
The President of the commission Severino Rosa-Clot praises, amongst other things, the friendly relations with the UIT (ISSF) that he didn’t fail to underline during the World Championships in Trap and Skeet which he went to in October 1981 in Argentina. On this occasion, he met delegates from the Brazilian Federation to whom he expressed his disappointment regarding the 1981 Grand Mondial (World Grand) in Universal Trench, which, because of not having observed the international rules and deadlines imposed on the Brazilian Federation, had to be cancelled by the FITASC Clay Target Shooting Technical Commission. On their request, the commission decided not to grant large international events until after having received the necessary guarantees from the organising Federation.
30th August 1982 - Madrid- Extraordinary and Ordinary General Assembly
Re-election of Mr. Antony Gaiztarro to the position of President. Extract of the minutes of the meeting: F-Elections Mister Pierre-Etienne Guyot made it known that only one candidature was submitted, that of Mr. Antonia Gaiztarro, by the Spanish Live Pigeon Shooting Federation, the Assembly elected him the Executive President of the International Federation for 4 years, On the proposition of President Guyot who believes that Maintaining the presidencies of the two Sections will insure their continuity and smooth running, Misters Gaiztarro and Severino Rosa-Clot are respectively elected Presidents of the Commission of Live Pigeon Shooting and of target shooting. Mister Antonio Gaiztarro, on taking the floor, thanks the representatives of the affiliated National Groups for the confidence that they have shown him, and, in accordance with article 13 of the articles of association, chooses the Count Jean de Tuderet as General Secretary who functions are confirmed for another 4 years. b. Electrocibles (Helice) shooting The 1983 European Championship is attributed to France and the two other international events that are part of the European cup to Belgium and to Spain. The sub Commission for Electrocibles (Helice) will decide later on the dates and the stands where the competitions will be held. c. Clay Target Shooting 1)Sporting [Parcours de Chasse] - The World Championship, as planned, is attributed to Portugal, who will hold it in Oporto, the Portuguese Federation is requested to do whatever is possible so that the Championship is organised shortly after the World Live Pigeon Shooting Championship, so as shooters coming from abroad can attend both big competitions. -European Championship in Turre (Almeria) in Spain. - The International Federation Grand-Prix, qualifying event for the European cup, will be shot on the new Villamoura shooting range, in the south of Portugal. Another international event, who’s dates will be decided later will take place for the first time in Austria, but it won’t count for the European cup. Page 86 / 147
The same for an International Federation Grand-Prix requested, for the month of October, by Australia, in Geelong (Victoria). c. Clay Target shooting 2) Universal Trench The dates of the Grand Mondial attributed to Spain (Zaragoza, Montesblancos) and of the Grand Europa in Italy (Montecatini), as well as the America’s Championship, which should take place in Brazil, will be decided by the Clay Target Shooting Commission. H_ Future Championships 2) Clay Target Shooting The World Sporting Championship, after the favourable opinion of Michel Maymat who inspected the Drakensberg installation, is attributed to South Africa. The delegate of this federation, Mrs. Taylor, asked the Assembly to note that her country counts on participating in all the trench and sporting championships from 1983. The President specifies that all the countries must submit their candidature for international events in order to avoid the incidents which happened during certain championships. It is also specified that all the events of the FITASC are open and all the shooters members of affiliated federations, with no restrictions on numbers or the geographic location and the shooters of all countries have the right to prizes and titles in these competitions.
14th January 1983 - Paris – Meeting of the Clay Target Shooting Commission
UIT (ISSF): Following the ratification by the UIT (ISSF) of the agreement signed in 1980 Universal Trench: The “Grand Mondial” becomes the “World Championship” The Title of Continental Champion given to the first ranking shooter from a given continent Extract of the minutes of the meeting: At the opening of the session, the president […] informs that besides the commission which he counts on, at the time of the next meeting of the counsel of the UIT (ISSF), and in joining the President Guynot, asks that this agreement be signed by both presidents in 1980, and so be definitively ratified by the UIT (ISSF). II – Universal Trench Fosse Universelle The commission, in agreement with all its members, decides that the “Grand Mondial” retakes the title “World Championship”, Mister Mahu requests that still, under the tile “World Championship”, “Grand Mondial” be mentioned, so as to underline the continuity of the most important Universal Trench event organised by the FITASC. V. International Regulations - A/ Technical Regulations: Sporting – the modifications to the international regulations proposed by Mr. Michel Maymat are accepted by the Commission and are added as an annex to the minutes. Universal Trench, Mr. Page in the name of the British Federation, asks that the schemes distributed by the FITASC be made more difficult. The President Rosa-Clot explained that the schemes should only be considered as an indication of the application of international rules, In the article 2 it’s specified that the launch distance should be 70m +/- 5m. Page 87 / 147
B/Organisation Rules: - Titles and accumulated titles: So as to end certain difficulty that periodically come up in international championships, the commission, after deliberation, decides to include in the organisational rules of international championships the following: - The championships and the Grand Prix of the International Federation being OPEN to all shooters who are members of affiliated federations without distinction of country of origin or of continent, the European titles can be won by shooters from non-European countries. In the case where the title is won by a non-European shooter they will receive the little of Intercontinental European Champion. The title “Champion of Europe” will go to the first ranked European shooter, to whom the International Federation will award an identical medal. All the prizes will be distributed according to general ranking, only in these categories (Ladies, Junior, Veterans) and those of national teams. This decision is also valid for the general title as for these categories (Ladies, Junior, Veterans) and those of national teams. Regarding the accumulation of titles, in the case where a lady, a veteran, or a junior win the all categories competition, the title of their category will be given to the runner up. The Ladies, juniors or veterans should at the time of inscription, specify in which category they wish to shoot, since the accumulation of titles between categories isn’t authorised. All these modifications are applicable from the 1st of January 1983.
16th may 1983 – Oporto – Ordinary General
Reminder of the importance of the distribution of Competition programs in advance Extract of the minutes of the meeting: VIII – Allocation of Championships for 1984 b/ Electrocibles (Helice): The Assembly entrusted to the sub-Commission of Electrocibles (Helice) Shooting the task of deciding the place and the dates of the 1984 European Championship and the other events of the European Cup. c/Clay Target Shooting- Sporting The world championship is confirmed for Drakensberg-Garden (South Africa) and the dates, on the proposition of President Kallel, are fixed for the 8th to the 10th of June. The Championship of Europe will be held from the 14th to the 16th of April in Vilamoura Portugal. Two candidates for the FITASC Grand-Prix: that of la Roche Couloir (France) and of Olocau near Valencia in Spain, presented by Mr. Gonzalo Velasco in the name of the Spanish Hunting Federation. d/Clay Target – Universal Trench The World Championship and the Grand Mondial in Fosse La Ville in Belgium, in August 1984. World Cup in Sao Paulo (Brazil) again, from the 29th of September to the 2nd of October 1983. Page 88 / 147
XI – Miscellaneous - Electrocibles (Helice) - Grand Prix of Great Britain: 10th of July ‘83 in Detling, Maidstone, Kent. - Sporting and Universal Trench – the 9th to the 14th of October ’83 in Noumea/New Caladonia. c/ programs The President requested with insistence that the organisers that the championships and the International Grand Prix take better care to distribute the programs in good time and a good amount to both the international federation and affiliated groups. The success of an international competition depends largely on the good distribution of its programs.
2nd November 1983 - Paris – Meeting of the Clay Target Shooting Commission
Fixing limits on inscription fees to avoid excesses Extract of the minutes of the meeting: I –Sporting Championship The President Rosa-Clot asked Mr. Maymat to give details concerning the different international sporting events in 1984. Before examining different programs, Mr. Michel Maymat got the decision adopted that the entry fees, targets included, for Grand-Prix championships in 1984, could never exceed 100 US dollars (+ the individual FITASC fee): to avoid the kinds of excesses that happened in 1983. A) The World Championship: The Championship granted to South Africa by the General Assemblies of 1982 1983, will be held as foreseen from the 8th to the 10th of June 1984 in Drakensberg Garden near Durban. On the proposition of Mr. Maymat, a modification is brought to the project of the program, that is that the entry fee, targets included will be for all categories that shoot 200 clay targets of 100US$ + 10US$ FITASC fee. B) European Championship: it will take place as planned from the 14th to the 16th in Vilamoura (Portugal). The program presented by Mr. Chaves, with an entry fee of 900FF all categories, is unanimously accepted. It will be addressed to all the affiliated associations very soon. C) It is reminded that the ranking by club teams, ladies, veterans and juniors is the responsibility of the organising club. D) International Sporting: Two candidatures having been submitted for the FITASC Sporting Grand-Prix and given that the World Championship shot in South Africa doesn’t allow the majority of European shooters to participate, the commission, on the proposal of Mr. Maymet, decided that in 1984 two Grand- Prix will be shot. The ranking for the World Cup will be done on the best 3 results out of 4. These two International Grand-Prix are the following: La Roche-Couloir (France), already attributed by the General Assembly, on the 6th to the 8th of July. Mr. J-François Palinkas, Director of this club, is committed to presenting a detailed project before the 15 of January 1984 to Mr. Maymat. Page 89 / 147
On the request of the Spanish Hunting Federation a second Grand-Prix is granted to Olocau (Valencia) Il will be shot from the 16th to the 18th of March. The Spanish Hunting Federation should still pay its late supplementary subscription and agree to impose al the International rules.
2nd December 1983- Paris – Meeting of the FITASC Bureau
Discussion on the eventual admission of Mr. Gavnile Barani, Vice-President of the UIT, to one of the FITASC commissions. Extract of the minutes of the meeting: The Bureau agrees to the request of President Guyot concerning the eventual admission of Mr. Gavile Barani, Vice-President of the UIT, to one of the FITASC commissions. But on the condition that his country, Romania, becomes re-affiliated with the FITASC.
31st December 1983- Paris – Annual Report
28th April 1984 - Montecatini – Ordinary General Assembly
Development of Electrocibles (Helices) Shooting and Sporting Extract of the minutes of the meeting: b/ Electrocibles (Helice) The decision regarding the granting of the European Championship and other events of the European Electrocibles (Helices) Cup, is entrusted to the Sub-Commission of Electrocibles (helices) Shooting. c/ Clay Target Shooting – Sporting The World Championship already assigned in 1983 to Great Britain, will be held from the 31st of May to the 2nd of June in Wynyard Park Shooting B in Billingham (North-East England). A preliminary event will take place a Wynyard park in September 1983 during which this new range will be approved by a member of the Technical Commission. The European Championship going to France, is asked of this Federation to give a reply concerning the place and dates of this competition within three months. Belgium asked for a Grand-Prix for Diegem, and eventually another could be competed in France. For this one, de same as for the World Championship of Universal Trench, a reply from the French Federation is also asked for within three months.
3rd June 1984 – Paris – Meeting of the Sub-Commission of Electrocibles (helices) Shooting
Verification of the application of the international rules in three events in the European Cup. Page 90 / 147
Extract of the minutes of the meeting: 1 European Cup rules It is decided that the three events of the European Cup should be shot under international rules. Number of helices launched :20 in the European Championship and 15 in each Grand-Prix. Eliminating number of zeros: 4 for the 20 helices events and 3 for the 15 helices events. The program should require a handicap and an event of a fixed distance. The international handicaps will be accounted for and applied in each of the three qualifying heats. The maximum handicap has been brought to 30 meters. The displacement will be of 1m, for 700FF of net winnings, a move forward by one meter for shooters not having won anything during the competition. Maximum displacement: 4m per international meeting. The Organisation should ensure the presence of a representative of the International Federation in all the qualifying rounds of the European Cup, who will be designated by the Commission. 2 Material It is decided that all new material (machines, helices etc) can only be used in international events after being tested and approved by the commission. 3 Armoury The presence of an armoury must be ensured by the organising Club for all International meetings. 4 1984 European Cup Final On Mr. Howsan and Mr. Lynch’s proposal it is decided that the final event of the European Cup in 1984 de shot the 7th and the 8th of September in Maidstone (Kent) in Great Britain. The range is 45km from Dover.
17th December 1984 – Paris – Clay Target Shooting Commission
Provisions on the participation of shooters taking into account the open, free and apolitical nature of FITASC competitions. Extract of the minutes of the meeting: 1° Rules The Swiss Federation presented a proposal for modifying the organisations administrative rules for international Championships. Mr. Luc Grisel, in the name of his federation, presented this project according to which it would be indispensable to give to those who, for a non-sporting reason, were prevented from applying to an international FITASC competition, have the possibility to take part in these competitions which, according to the status and the spirit of our Federation, must be open to all. After an interjection from President Rosa-Clot who is of the opinion that serious conditions must be laid down, in order to avoid abuses that are still possible, and after that of President Gaiztarro who, supporting the Swiss Federation’s proposition, insists that the open nature, free Page 91 / 147
and totally apolitical of our Federation’s competitions are retained, the Commission decided to accept, with a few modifications, the Swiss Federations proposition. Therefore, it will be added to the 4th Section of the special rules for international championships, the following: “It is mandatory that the shooter taking part in an international competition is part of a national group represented at the FITASC. They must, however, if they are prevented from representing their country of origin for a non-sporting reason, obtain an individual licence of the International Federation valid for one year. It should be requested from the FITASC Bureau no later than one month before the competition in which they desire to participate. The Bureau will rule after examining the reasons given. The members of a Federation excluded from the FITASC cannot benefit from this disposition. The individual FITASC membership cards must be accepted by all the national affiliated groups and to ensure that shooters who hold them, their individual participation in the International Federations Competitions. If the country of the shooter is not affiliated with the FITASC, they can opt for the country of their choice, but for a minimum period of three years. In the case where shooter has double nationality, they should, in the same conditions, opt for one of them. This project was unanimously adopted.
31st December 1984 – Paris – Annual Report
23rd February 1985 - Guadalajara – Ordinary General Assembly
Ratification of the provisions for the participation of shooters taking into account the open nature, free and apolitical nature of FITASC competitions. Extract of the minutes of the meeting: Ratification of the decisions of the Bureau and the Commissions. The President made it known that the minutes of the General Assembly and the different meetings of the Bureau, the Commissions and sub-Commissions held during 1984, and mentioned in the annual report, were all sent to all the affiliated national groups. No objections having been raised, they were ratified by the General Assembly. On this occasion Mr. Gaiztarro recalls that following a disagreement that arose with the French Federation concerning the World Sporting Championship in Drakensberg, the special international championship rules were modified, in order to allow all the shooter members for the FITASC to participate in international championships, even if their Federation, for non- sporting reasons, were against it. A licence directly from FITASC will be issued to them following the Bureau’s ruling. On the proposal of the President, the Assembly again reiterates that no political influence, whatsoever, can be allowed into the Federation and into the granting of international competitions, the conducting of events and the participation of shooters in them. Page 92 / 147
18th May 1985 – Paris – Meeting of the Sub-Commission of Electrocibles (Helice) Shooting
Reminder of the obligation to apply the regulations in force for all FITASC competitions Extract of the minutes of the meeting: 1° The 1985 Europe Cup Concerning the 1985 Europe Cup, the President underlines that the first event which took place fifteen days ago in Sart-St-Laurent in Belgium, only gathered 28 shooters. It is about deciding if the results of this event can be taken into account for the Europe Cup, because the rules were not applied concerning the preparation and organisation of international events, the projected program wasn’t submitted to the FITASC and the programs weren’t distributed within the reglementary time. The International Federation didn’t receive any programs for this Grand- Prix. After the Baron de Moffarts pointed out that all of this has also happened before, the members of the Commission told him that this is not an excuse for it to continue, and underline that in the future no international competition can be approved if the regulations in force are not applied.
31th December 1985 – Paris – Annual Report
10th July 1986 – Paris –Jury of the 8th Sporting Championship
Sporting: Proposal for modification of the rules and a new formula Extract of the minutes of the meeting:
09th October 1986 - Buenos Aires – General Assembly
American Trap – Question if it becomes a new FITASC discipline. Extract of the minutes of the meeting: 3/ American Trap A question from Mr. Jacques Chevalier asked if the discipline of American Trap was a matter for FITASC, the President Gaiztarro replied positively, because, conform to the existing agreement between the two International Associations, L’Union Internationale de Tir (UIT – ISSF) only control Olympic disciplines. The proposal from Mr. Chevalier is accepted and it is decided to officially ad American Trap Shooting as a FITASC discipline. Mr. Chevalier is asked to study this question and to make proposals at the next General Assembly. Page 93 / 147
1st December 1986 – Paris – Report on the 1988 World Sporting Championship in Australia
12nd December 1986 - Paris – Clay Target Shooting Commission
Sporting: New shooting formula Sporting / Universal Trench: Modification of the rules for the World Cup Automatic Trap: project to study regulations Extract of the minutes of the meeting: 1988 World Sporting Championship Mr. Jean-François Palinkas went last October to Australia as the personal representative of the President of the FITASC and at the request of the Australian Federation. After having visited several shooting Clubs and having spoken to the local organisers, he complied a very interesting and detailed report that he distributed to the members of the commission and gave them all the necessary explanations accompanied with plans and photos. He proposed for this 1988 Championship a new formula, which by synthesising the international system with that practiced in Australia, could be adopted as definitive by the FITASC in the future. He members of the Commission thanked Mr. Palinkas for the work that he accomplished and decided to de put this question on the agenda of the next meeting which will take place during the World Championships in Vilamoura, in order to take a final stance. The President asked the members of the Commission to give their opinion at that time on the project proposed by Mr. Palinkas. On the proposal of Mr. Chevalier, the French Federation of American Trap intends organizing in one of their clubs in 1987 an event competed with this new system at which the delegates of all the federations are invited. VI- International Rules - A/ Universal Trench A new structure will be presented by Mr. Tronc of the French American Trap Federation, to be used during international competitions, is accepted by the Commission. It will be implemented from 1987 and definitively be adopted on the condition that no federation is opposed. VI- International rules - B/ Sporting A project for modification was submitted to the members of the Commission during the World Championship in Sporting at La Roche Couloir in July 1086 asking them their opinion on different points of the project before the 15th of September. Only four Federations having sent their proposals, the President Grisel confirms that only the issues where everyone was in agreement could be decided and put of examining the other points to another meeting of the Commission which will take place during the World Championships in Vilamoura. He asked the Federation that hadn’t yet done it, to send their observations before this Championship. The accepted modifications to the rules are the following Page 94 / 147
1/ World Cup Formula The World Cup in both Sporting and Universal Trench will be competed in three events each year, all three qualifiers with the rules in force, but in order to allow the possibility of certain clubs to be licenced, it is decided to create FITASC Grand-Prix of a 2nd category, with the unique aim of moving towards the installations being approved. These Grand-Prix will only have individual ranking official from the FITASC with a medal awarded to the winner. Prizes reserved for Ladies, Veterans, juniors and teams will be awarded by the organising club. The organising Clubs charges will be reduced, that is: a) Only one representative from the International Federation, b) The ensure presence of one International referee, c) The individual FITASC fee reduced by 50%, d) No supplementary fees for the national Federation, e) Levy on the price of clay targets is removed. 2/ Shooting regulations: modifications adopted according to the project submitted during the World Sporting Championships to the members of the Commission: a/ Installing 3 posts instead of 4 from 280 participants, b/ application of a penalty point after a referee warning if the shooter takes more than 20 seconds to prepare, c/ Competition to be shot in 4 days sharing (50 clay targets shot in either the morning or the afternoon) from 180 shooters signed up. d/ All teams participating in the championships must bring their national anthem and their flag. On all the other questions concerning the project it is asked of the members of the Commission to send their views as soon as possible, in order that these questions can be re-examined on the occasion of the next meeting of the Commission in Vilamoura. VIII- Miscellaneous - A/ Automatic Trap Following the decision taken during the General Assembly in Buenos-Aires to adopt the principle of creating a discipline of Automatic Trap, Mister Chevalier, President of the French Federation of American Trap, submits to the members of the Commission a project for regulations and asks them to study it before the next meeting of the Commission. Madam Vanicore asks for the floor, and specifies, that, according to her, a project for regulation of Automatic Trap already exists at the UIT (ISSF). So, she was asked to address the FITASC, in order to compare the two projects and if possible to make a synthesis. On the request of the Commission, Mr. Chevalier is ready to organise from 1987 in France an event with the proposed rules, so that all the Federations who send delegates can be aware of how it works. Page 95 / 147
31st December 1986 – Paris – Annual Report
1st May 1987- Elche – Ordinary General Assembly
Sporting: 1st World Championship in Oceania (Australia) 1988 FITASC clay target Competitions: All shot with 200 clay targets Extract of the minutes of the meeting: Sporting – 1988 World Championship The President Gaiztarro while reminding that the 198 World Championship has already been granted to Australia, asked the Clay Target Shooting Commission to examine as soon as possible the proposals form the Australian Federation to establish above all else, the project for the program. The Commission should also take a decision concerning certain modifications to the shooting rules which seem indispensable to him, considering the special conditions in which the Championship is being organised. While commending that FITASC has organised for the first time a big World Championship in the Pacific, he underlines that this competition can only take place if all the possibilities are given to all the shooters affiliated with the FITASC to participate, without political discrimination. Sporting – 1988 European Championship This Championship should be granted to Spain. F Spain cannot organise this European Championship, it will be offered to Belgium of France. Sporting – 1988 Grand Prix It is with great satisfaction that the President records the Austrian candidature for the Grand-Prix that is part of the World Cup. Because it is the first time that this country asks to organise and international event. B/ Electrocibles (Helices) On the proposition od the Presidents Gaiztarro and Spreafichi, the Assembly that the Sub- Commission of Electrocibles (helices) Shooting will from now on have the name “Electrocibles (helices) Shooting Section” while continuing to be part of the Flying Target Commission. C/ Clay Target Regulations In order to avoid discussions concerning the establishment of Clay Target Shooting programs, The Assembly, on the proposal of the President of the Commission, decided to add to the regulations of international competitions, in specifying that the FITASC Championships and Grand-Prix must be competed with 200 clay targets. Only one draw will take place and all the shooters registered in the competition must participate in the International Grand-Prix. When a national or a local event is authorized at the same time as a FITASC championship or grand-prix, an extra ranking could be added for those who, optionally, participate in this national or local event. On the proposal of the president of the FFBT and in order to facilitate refereeing in general and in particular in the 1988 Sporting World Championships in Australia as well as taking into consideration Australian rules that don’t allow junior to shoot with a lowered gun, the Assembly asks the Clay Target Shooting Commission to modify the meaning of article 3 of the Sporting Shooting rules. Page 96 / 147
29th August 1987- Le Rabot – Clay Target Shooting
Sporting: Confirmation that the 1988 World Championship in Australia will impose the new shooting formula. Extract of the minutes of the meeting: 1988 Sporting World Championship After certain reservations were bought up by M.W. Syer who confirms that English shooters having declared that they wouldn’t participate in this World Championship if the current system for Sporting was not adhered to in Australia and the intervention of President Gaiztarro confirmed that this issue had already been resolved in the two precedent meetings, it’s confirmed that the 1988 World Championship will be shot with the system accepted at the last Commission meeting, this system having been presented to the shooters, before the current European Championship the 25th of August last in Rabot. Other members present having supported the President, and Mt. Palinkas having given new explanations to those who asked him, it is considered that the debate has reached its end. The Following a request with Mr. Sayer and with the approval of several members present, Mr. Mc Farlane, on behalf of his federation accepts that the dates of the World Championship, which will take place, as foreseen, in Geelong are fixed for the 3rd,4th,5th and the 6th of April 1988. They commit to get the project of the program to the FITASC as quickly as possible which will completely conform to international regulations. Miscellaneous – Calendars President Gaiztarro insisted that the affiliated Federations not fix their national calendars before the dates of international competitions are decided. Italy and Great Britain organised important national competitions in 1987 on the same dates as foreseen international events accepted since December 1986, which was detrimental to the later. d/ Disciplinary Commission A certain number of French shooters having addressed, unsigned, to the president of the FITASC, an offensive letter, following the Vilamoura World Championship, the President Gaiztarro informed the Commission, who stand in solidarity with the President and ask him to sort out this unacceptable incident immediately and if necessary to seize the Disciplinary Commission. e./ Certain information coming from the United States concerning an emerging Sporting activity, on the proposition of their President, the Commission entrusts Mr. Sayer to make contact with the organisers in question and to report on the results of his investigation. f./ Mr. Azkue, member of the Commission made an interesting presentation on the Grand- America where he experienced the use of certain compensators in the trench, very common in the United-States, but that the UIT (ISSF) want to ban. It was decided not to consider it at the FITASC.
27th November 1987-Paris – Clay Target Shooting Commission
Universal Trench: Test in Italy a World Championship with calibre 20 Page 97 / 147
Proposition to create two distinct Commissions, one for Sporting and the other for Universal Trench Reminder of the necessity to apply the rules in force for all FITASC competitions Extract of the minutes of the meeting: IV – 1988 Universal trench World Championship Mrs. Vanicore confirmed the candidature already accepted by the General Assembly from Italy for the 1988 Universal Trench World Championship. She specifies that the Italian Federation, the organisation that she is responsible for, counts on the World Championship being competed from the 2nd to the 5th of June 1988 near Bologna and presented the program proposed by the Italian Federation. This plans that the Calibre 20 Championship is held on the 2nd of June and the Calibre 12 one on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of June. a) The calibre 20 championship is planned on one day with 100 clay targets for 50.000 liras inscription fees. The members of the Commission and in particular Mr. Azkue, asks if it is possible to plan a day of rest between the two disciplines, a question to which Mrs. Vanicore replied that it would be very difficult because the 2nd of June is a National Holiday in Italy and it is advantageous for shooter participation, also it is asked to bring the competition from 100 to 200 clay targets with the inscription of 100.000 Liras because all the FITASC Championship titles are competed on this number of clay targets. This proposal is accepted by the Italian Federation. It is all the same specified that the World Champion title will only be awarded in calibre 20 if a minimum of 100 shooters participate. b) calibre 12: The competition of calibre 12 will take place the 3rd, 4th and 5th of June with 200 clay targets and inscription fees of 120.000 Liras – series of practice clay targets 6.000 Liras. On signing the specification documents, Mrs. Vanicore, in the name of the Italian Federation commits to scrupulously respecting all the international regulations and the clauses contained in the specification documents. VIII – International Regulations The decisions taken by the select Commission during the Sporting European Championship in Rabot concerning the modifications to the rules, are ratified by the Commission, and it is specified that those concerning the eventual modifications of technical regulations for sporting will be decided after the 1988 World Championship. The Federations which will have proposals of modifications are asked to address them in writing to the International Federation. B) Reorganisation of the Clay Target Shooting Commission Given that the important development these last few years in Clay Target Shooting, on the proposal of Mr. Grisel, the President of the FITASC will propose at the next general assembly to create two distinct Commissions, one for Sporting and the other for Trench shooting. A) The President Gaiztarro, warmly thanked those who contributed to work concerning the organisation of competitions planned for 1988 also to the regulating of certain administrative problems, specified that, conform to the new rules he will be very severe in their application and in particular regarding the deposit which should be paid by each organising club to guarantee the good functioning of international events, because in 1987 out of 5 international clay target events, the organisers of 3 of them did not apply themselves, as well for the preparative as for the organisation and progress of the events, Page 98 / 147
the rules in force, which is prejudicial not only to the good workings of the International Federation, but also to the participants of the competitions.
28th November 1987- Paris – Meeting of the FITASC Bureau
Proposal to create 2 Commissions for Sporting and Universal Trench Extract of the minutes of the meeting:
Clay Target Commission On the proposal of President Gaiztarro and in agreement with the President of the Clay Target Commission, the Bureau decided that the following development of the sport of clay target shooting, it will be proposed at the next General Assembly to create two commissions, One for Sporting and another for Trench. The President of the Clay Target Commission presented a list of members who he’ll propose to the General Assembly. Mr. Gaiztarro let it be known that he proposes Mr. Luc Grisel to the presidency of the Sporting Commission and Mr. José Geraldes de Olivera to the Trench Commission.
Reorganising the Secretariat The Bureau entrusts its president to examine an eventual reorganisation of the Secretariat of the FITASC which he’ll proposed at the next General Assembly. On this subject the Bureau Proposes to the General Assembly to name Mr. Jean-François Palinkas, Technical Director of the FITASC.
31st March 1988 – Paris– General Assembly of the FITASC
30th April 1988 – Lisbon – General Assembly of the FITASC
Electrocibles (helices): First Championship of the Americas Extract of the minutes of the meeting: B/ Electrocibles (helices) The first Americas Championship “ZZ” in Buenos Aires, in Argentina, from the 30th of September to the 2nd of October. The title will only be awarded if there are a minimum of 100 participants. VII – International Regulations The different modifications brought to the international regulations by the respective Commissions having been approved by the General Assembly, the President Gaiztarro submits to them a supplementary modification concerning the rules of the International Clay Target Championship. In order to avoid unfortunate precedents and to ensure that an important number of participants to the events of the Clay Target and Universal Trench World Championships, he proposes the following should be in the rules, “During the Clay target Page 99 / 147 shooting World Cup events, no national or regional events can take place in Federations affiliated with the International Federation, of 100 clay targets or more.” This decision is adopted by the General Assembly. VIII- Reorganising the Clay Target Shooting Commission Mr. Peter Morgan, Australia, having resigned the Technical Commission, Mr. Raymond McFarlane, Australia, is voted to replace him. On the proposal of the President of the Clay Target Commission, Mr. Luc Grisel, and the Bureau of the Federation, and because of important development in these disciplines of clay target shooting, two Commissions are created, one for Sporting and the other for Trench. The members of the Clay Target Technical Commission having members voted till 1909, no new election is necessary, but the two Commissions are constituted by their members voted in the following way.
Sporting Commission Universal Trench Commission Luc GRISEL Switzerland José GERALDES de OLIVEIRA Portugal René BARDE France Francisco ALAVA UGARTE Brazil Mario CHAVES Portugal Bruno ALIPRANDI Italy Costa HALKIAS Greece Esteban AZKUE Spain Manfred HECHTL Austria Jacques CHEVALIER France Heinz-UI HOEWING Germany Carlos Alberto CRUZ Portugal Francis LEURQUIN Belgium Claude FOUSSIER France Raymond MC FARLANE Australia José-Maria LLAURADO Spain Francisco ORDEIG Spain Raoul PERMEKE Belgium Wallace SAYER Great Britain Nevil le PRYCE-JONES Great Britain Fritz SEILER Switzerland André TRONC France Mme Lucia VANICORE Italy
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This proposal is accepted by the General Assembly who designate Presidents of these commissions: for Sporting: Mr. Luc Grisel for Trench Mr. José Geraldes de Olivera. The eventual Vice-Presidents of these Commissions will be designated by their members on the occasion of their first full meeting. The Commission for Trench will meet during the World Championships in Bologna and that of Sporting at another date in Paris.
Miscellaneous
a/ Reorganisation of the Secretariat of the FITASC The Assembly unanimously entrust the care of reorganising the secretariat of our Federation to the President Antonion Gaiztarro who will report it at the next General Assembly.
The President Gaiztarro presents Mr. Jean-François Palinkas to the delegates, who, on his proposal, is names Technical Director of the FITASC.
b/ The problem of a “World Hunting Championship in Great Britain. The President Gaiztarro specifies that in collaboration with the UIT (ISSF), he took step with our British representation, also with the sports authorities of this country to prevent the awarding of the title “World Champion”. The British delegates were of the same opinion, the Assembly, unanimously, asked President Gaiztarro to prevent this country organising a competition for any discipline with a world title, without the agreement of the Federation or of the UIT (ISSF). They created to this effect a study committee, composed of Mr. Gaiztarro, Grisel, Bontempini and Palinkas to settle the question. c/ American Trap. The discipline of Shooting American Trap and its development are considered a necessary priority for the future of clay target shooting; a study commission was created by the Assembly to examine the best way for its development. It we be composed of Misters Gaiztarro, Geraldes de Olivera, Azukue and Palinkas. e/ Mr. Scaristan, President of the Spanish Federation gives a detailed presentation of the situation of “Tir au Vol”(shooting in flight) in Spain, that according to him depends a lot on the modification of the title “Tir aux pigeons” (shooting pigeons) and the adding of an eventual other discipline, such as sporting, which could take another formula and be under the live pigeon shooting Federation. Mr. Francisco Ordeig, the very active President of the Catalan Federation, could take charge of this new shooting section. He asks that the President of the FITASC writes a letter in this effect to the Spanish Federation.
29th May 1988 – Paris – Meeting of the Electrocibles (Helice) Shooting Section
Certification of Sanchez’s helices Extract of the minutes of the meeting: Following the decisions taken on the 31st of March in 1988 in Montes Blanco, Misters Antonio Gaiztarro, President of the FITASC, George Hemery, President of the Electrocibles (Helices) Section, Page 101 / 147
Patrick Lynch and Jean Quelet, members of this Section met at the Cercle du Bois de Boulogne in Paris on the 29th of May in 1988 at 11 a.m., for the tests needed for the new Helices proposed by Mr. Fançois Snachez. They unanimously recognised that the helices are confirm with the regulations. They undertook their certification. Regarding Mr. Amarcon’s helices, used during the Grand-Prix, an improvement of the material was found, but the manufacturer was asked to continue to make them more brittle.
25th November 1988 - Paris – Meeting of the Universal Trench Commission
Taking up the modifications of the Trench regulations proposed by the UIT (ISSF) Extract of the minutes of the meeting: International Regulations A/ The Administrative Director of the FITASC having had a meeting with the General Secretary of the UIT (ISSF), the later having communicated to him the recent decisions taken concerning the modifications to the rules of Olympic trench and ask that, conform with the two agreements between both Associations, that the FITASC take them on board. -The charge of lead reduced to 28g: this proposition accepted in principle can only be applied at the FITASC from 1990, the decision of the Commission needing to be ratified at the next General Assembly. - Compensators: the FITASC Maintains its freedom regarding the subject of using or compensators or not and will see, in the case of a Universal Trench International Championship in a country where UIT (ISSF) rules are applied, if it is possible to apply them during a championship. - The dates of the Sporting World Championship, coincided with those of the Championship of European Trench and Olympic Skeet, don’t perturb, according to the General Secretary of the UIT (ISSF) the organisation of the later competition. B/ The Commission will examine the proposals of Misters Aliprandi and Glaninger and brought to the organisation of universal trench championships and decide on recommendations on this subject to organisations, which is: -Obligation of Federations to bring their national flag and national anthem, - Obligation to plan for an opening ceremony and to ensure they have appropriate bids, - Plan to offer a prize per 10 shooters. These decisions will be included in the FITASC specifications. VII – American Trap Regarding the adoption of this new discipline, that is to say American Trap and its rules, it’s been decided to continue to explore this question and to make contact with different Federations that practice it. The possibility of an international competition, after having established the rules, will be examined during the next meeting of the Commission. VIII – Miscellaneous – Official FITASC suppliers Page 102 / 147
Before closing the proceedings, the president Gaiztarro and Mr. Palinkas explained their initiative for increasing the budget of the International Federation, particularly in order to allow the development of new shooting disciplines under the designation “Official Suppliers”. The firms in question pay a certain amount to this end, they have the right to appear on a third of a page in the programs of all the international competitions beside the FITASC symbol, that of their firm. This decision figures in the next text of the specification documents. Before closing the proceedings, the President asks the members present to respect a minute of silencing contemplation in the memory of Mr Severino Rosa-Clot, past President of the Clay target shooting Commission and Mr. Kurt Hasler, past president of the UIT recently deceased.
31st December 1988 – Cairo – Annual Report
25th February 1989 – Guadalajara –Ordinary General Assembly
Electrocibles ZZ [helices]: question of the creation of a World Championship, following the important development of the discipline these last two years. Automatic American Trap: Establishing International rules. Extract of the minutes of the meeting: Electrocibles (Helice) Argentina having asked to organise an Electrocibles (helices) World Championship, the President Gaiztarro replied to Mr. Delfino, President of the Argentine Federation, that the world title hadn’t yet been created in that discipline that until now it had never bought together enough shooters from countries to justify this title. The President Delfino underlined that this discipline took two years of important development, which motivated his request. On the proposition of President Gaiztarro, the Argentinian Federation as well as the Brazilian one promise to send a national team to the next European Championships in Paris where the Electrocibles (helices) Shooting Section will examine the possibility of creating, from 1990, a World Championship. However, the first World Championship should be held in Europe, but it is promised to Argentina to grant them the 1991 one, if their installations are licenced. For that the Argentinian Federation should invite the President of this Section to the Americas Championship which they have been granted, and which will happen, on the proposal of the President of the Argentinian Federation in Buenos-Aires on the 17th to the 20th of August 1989. VII – International Regulations The establishment of international Regulations for Automatic American Trap is being studied by the Trench Commission. Certain modifications to the regulations accepted by the Commissions are ratified by the General Assembly. Mister James Young, having raised the question of the recent regulation by the UIT (ISSF) of the lead charge, the President replied to him that the question should be debated by the Trench and Sporting Commissions. Page 103 / 147
24th November 1989 – Paris – Informal meeting of the General Bureau
Relationship with the UIT (ISSF): proposal for an additional agreement. Extract of the minutes of the meeting: VII – Relationship with the UIT (ISSF) The President let it be known that a complementary agreement with the “Union Internationale de Tir” with a view to preventing the awarding of international titles by other organisations that the two organisations control, each in their own disciplines, the sports of Shooting with Hunting Weapons.
24th November 1989 – Paris – Sporting Technical Commission
Sporting: sanctions taken against the organisation of a “pirate” World Championship by the English company Gunmark. Extract of the minutes of the meeting: Reflexions on the World Cup It’s decided that the cups and prises for the World Cup will be financed by the clubs organising international competitions, at the amount of - CHF 250 for a Grand-Prix - CHF 500 for a continental Championship (Oceania, Europe), - CHF 1000 for a World Championship. This money will be paid to the FITASC who will be responsible for buying them. The prizes will be engraved with the name of the organising Federation. Miscellaneous questions The technical director of the FITASC informed the members of the Commission that for the 1990 season FITASC has three official suppliers, the companies Laporte, Browning and Winchester. The Technical Director share the latest letter from the company Gunmark (Great-Britain) on the organisation of a “pirate” world championship and the commission reserves the right to impose sanctions conform with the articles of association of the FITASC.
25th November 1989 – Paris – Universal Trench Technical Commission
The question of money prizes / Reduction of the lead charge to 28gr max (ecological concerns) Creation of the 1st Grand-Prix in Automatic American Trap Extract of the minutes of the meeting: Madam Vanicore, in reply to the President and in the name of the Italian Federation, wished to make the universal trench event more interesting, it would be desirable to have a money prize. The Page 104 / 147
President agreed with this proposal, but remarked that, according to the FITASC agreement with the UIT (IFFS), money prizes should be programmed in organised rounds by the club and always optional. Misters Aliprandi, Chevalier and Permeke, in their respective interventions, approved the proposals made to make the discipline of universal trench more interesting. Specification Documents On the proposal of the FITASC technical Director, the Commission accepts certain modifications made necessary by the development of shooting, in the specifications documents for the European and World Championship. The new text for the specification documents will be sent to members of the Commission and to all the Federations. Modification of Universal Trench regulations a) A long discussion took place on the proposition of the CPDA and supported by many other Federations on the reduction of the amount of lead in trench, as already done by the UIT (ISSF), to 28g maximum. After interventions from each of the members of the Commission and a long exchange of views, the President asked to take a vote (6 for, I vote against and 1 abstention), decide that in the international competition of universal trench it is forbidden to use cartridges of more than 28gr. of led. However, as it is a change in sports rules, the decision should be ratified by the general assembly of 24.02.90. Mrs. Vanicore, having intervened in the discussion, explaining to members of the Commission the initiation taken by the Italian Federation to avoid attacks by ecologists, the President Gaiztarro stated that he was happy that it is the first time that a federation takes care of this aspect of the problem posed by ecologists. American Trap On the propostion of the FFBT, the Commission accepted to create for the first time a FITASC Grand-Prix for American Trap, a new discipline that our Federation has already decided to create in 1988. This international competition will be organised by the FFTB from the 29th of June to the 1st of July. It is decided that a Study Commission will be created by the President of the FITASC. Official Suppliers The Technical Director of the FITASC informs the members of the Commission that for the 1990 season the FITASC has three official suppliers, the companies Laporte, Browning and Winchester. Computerisation The technical Director of the FITASC informs the members of the Commission that it has been decided to computerise the FITASC. Page 105 / 147
27th November 1989 - Paris – Universal Trench Specifications
27th November 1989 - Paris – Sporting Specifications
15th January 1990 - Paris – 1989 Annual Report
24th February 1990 – Cairo – Ordinary General Assembly
Awarding international titles: these can only be attributed by the two international associations recognised for controlling the sport of shooting, in the disciplines which depend on them, that is, The UIT (ISSF) and the FITASC Extract of the minutes of the meeting: IX Miscellaneous - A/ Awarding International Titles The General Assembly confirms that international titles can only be attributed the two international associations recognised for controlling shooting sports, in the disciplines that depend on them, that is to say, the UIT(ISSF) and the “Fédération Internationale de Tir aux Armes Sportives de Chasse” (FITASC) [International Federation of sports weapon shooting] They decide to impose these sanctions 1/ against companies that associate their brand with competitions awarding international titles without authorisation, either the UIT, or the FITASC 2/ against shooters winning or mounting the podium at these competitions, 3/ against national groups affiliated with the FITASC which organise or let their members participate in such competitions The FITASC Bureau is in charge of choosing the sanctions and of imposing them.
31st December 1990 – Paris – 1990 Annual Report
Disciplines Electrocibles ZZ [helices] and Sporting: Exceptional Development American Trapp – DTL: 1st event Launching a reflexion on the noise and lead pollution. Extract from the 1990 annual report: Which is in total, 20 international competitions. It is noted that the development of Electrocibles (helices) shooting seems to be progressing and that countries like France, Italy and Spain make great efforts in promotion so that this discipline becomes a major sport. Page 106 / 147
Sporting found in 1990, rewards for efforts which were made, for many years within FITASC, for its development. For a few years, the growth of the practice of the sport are undeniable in European countries, it was shown in 1990, that on the American and Oceania continents, it has found the same success. The number of 712 shooters were in the World Championship in France, 450 in the FITASC USA Grand-Prix, 200 shooters in New Zealand at the Oceania Grand-Prix and with an attendance in national competitions in strong progression. Thanks to the setting up of a new organisational system during the last three years of the shooting grounds in International Championships, the competitions have been able to take such participation, and respecting the spirit of the FITASC, that is keeping the competitions open to all shooters wishing to take part or demonstrate that they are the best. American Trap - DTL. (Down The Line) In 1990, a first international event under the aegis of the FITASC took place in France. […] If this event only attracted a modest number of shooters this discipline should be developed in countries that don’t yet practice it. A popular discipline, with easy access for new shooters, a low installation cost for the clubs, it has a definite future in our Federation. This discipline is the most practiced in many English-speaking countries and it’s one of the missions of the FITASC to welcome and to regroup within, these Federations currently escape all international organisation. Official Suppliers For the year 1990, the FITASC established agreements with three official suppliers: the companies Browning, Laporte & Winchester, to the amount of 80 000FF before tax of subventions each. This allows us to bring a certain number of actions. Firstly, to share the cost of works to the office and fittings between the regular FITASC budget and the budget from the official suppliers. This also afforded us a certain number of trips to new countries to train the federations on the workings of new disciplines. A program poster of the international FITASC competitions, printed in 15000 copies have been distributed in roughly 15 countries, at the shooting stands and at gun dealers. Thanks to this, we have also been able to finance a meeting of all the manufacturers of cartridges and shotguns in Nuremberg to address the problem of sound and lead pollution, brought about by the practice of our sport. This preliminary meeting in Nuremberg lead a month later, to a meeting in Paris, on the same theme, with the attendance of the big representative European associations for the sport of shooting, and also the representatives of the manufacturers. A program of works was established, in the first instance aiming essentially, at research with large scientific organisations, in order to define regulations inexistent today in Europe, on Noise bursts. These studies will be jointly lead by the different representative associations regrouped under the title ENVIRONMENT SHOOTING 2000”. The president of the FITASC will precede at these meetings, in the presence of his technical director. The next meeting is planned for the month of September, and we won’t fail to inform the members of the FITASC of the conclusions of these meeting. Conclusion: Page 107 / 147
In 1990, the FITASC knew exceptional development in its sports disciplines despite an unfavourable conjuncture, thus being affirmed as an important international federation. The quality of work of its members and its representatives allows the FITASC today to be represented on the five continents in all theirs sports disciplines. We can therefore hope that for 1991, to see the image of our sport and the FITASC spread the world.
02nd June 1991 - Zaragoza – Ordinary General Assembly
Modification of the age limits for juniors and veterans to align with the UIT (ISSF) Reflections on the introduction of the discipline of Tiro a Brazo Extract of the minutes of the meeting: Miscellaneous The Assembly unanimously approved the bureau’s decision of the 22nd of November 1990 on the age of juniors and veterans for the clay target shooting, that is: - Juniors will be: Shooters who are less than 21 years old on the 31st of December the year of the competition, - Veterans: Shooters who are older than 55 on the 31st of December the year of the competition. This, in order to ease the world of the National Federations with are also affiliated to the UIT (ISSF) These decisions are only applicable for clay target shooting. The President of the Spanish Hunting Federation asked that FITASC recognise as one of its disciplines the “tiro a brazo”. A Study commission will me formed by the President Gaiztarro, Mr. E. Speafichi, Mr. G. Bontepini, and Mr. J.F. Palinkas. These conclusions will be presented to the Live Pigeon Shooting Commission during the year 1992.
31st December 1991 – Paris – 1991 Annual Report
14 clay target and Electrocibles ZZ (helices) events organised in 1991, 7 of which are Sporting Extract of the annual report 1991: Sporting In 1991, 7 international events are competed under the aegis of the FITASC: Oceania championships in Australian, European championships in Germany, the world championships in Andorra, the Pan-American championships in the USA, the FITASC Grand-Prix in Great Britain, and two other grand prix organised, one in Hungary and another in Cyprus. During the World Championships in Andorra, a Russian Team was officially invited to participate. These events together bring together around 2400 shooters, from 30 different nations. Universal Trench Page 108 / 147
In 1991, 3 international events are competed under the aegis of the FITASC: the world championship in Portugal, the European Championship in France and the FITASC Grand Prix in Spain. Together these events gathered around 600 shooters, from 8 different nations. Electrocibles ZZ (helices) In 1991, 4 international events were competed under the aegis of the FITASC: The French Grand Prix in Paris, the Spanish Grand Prix in Eibar, the European Championship in Barcelona, and for the first time a new World Championship in Italy, which will be organised every two years. Together these events gathered around 500 shooters, coming from 5 different nations. American Trap [ DTL] Following a first competition in Bal-Trap [DTL], organised by FITASC in 1990, the national Federations started to promote this discipline on their territory, allowing us to envisage official championships in the years to come. Miscellaneous Meetings- Environment 2000 In accordance with the de decision taken by all the participants at the last meeting of environment 2000, the large European representative associations meet again on the 13th of November in Paris, in order to compare the evolution of studies researching the problems of noise and lead pollution, linked to the practice of American Trap. As soon as studies made by different associations will be published, a new meeting will take place in order to spread the results and to act in consequence.
1st March 1992 - Paris – History of FITASC
1st March 1992 - Paris – La FITASC – it’s developments
Adoption of Compak Sporting by the FITASC The complete document “La FITASC – its development” Currently the FITASC represents 43 nations which are all amongst the most financially developed. Adhesion to the FITASC is not mandatory as it is for the UIT (ISSF). Only economically developed countries which have a strong interior market and autonomy are genuinely interested in becoming members of FITASC. Yet the essence of our sport and the top level can only come about with a large base to the pyramid. Whatever the type of disciple, Olympic or not, the good shooters don’t appear to come from countries where the number of basic shooters is very developed across disciplines and in countries like Russia where there are only high-level shooters in Olympic disciplines, who only are that because they are professionals, government employees (military, police) as opposed to being an amateur sport in other countries. The reigning spirit in the national federation affiliated to the FITASC motivates them and their members to develop the sports disciplines aimed at many people, respecting the necessary good humour (considering its history, from its origins as a sports practice based on hunting), by entrusting the access for national and international competitions open to everyone who wishes to participate without any sort of pre-selection. Page 109 / 147
Live pigeon shooting that the FITASC controls in countries where it is officially authorised and in order to conserve, among other things, a maximum of sportsmanship, has seen a stabilisation in the number of its practitioners, while in the discipline of clay target shooting already mature like sporting, there is a unique explosion on the 5 continents. An example in the USA for 5 years – and it has been noted by the president of the Arms and Munitions Chamber of Commerce of America “as being the most important event in the last 20 years for the American industry” during the opening ceremony of the Shot Show in Huston last February. Oceania has for many years already put this discipline in place in Asia, which today starts with Japan, installing ranges and sporting ranges to allow Japanese shooters to practice for international competitions. Universal trench is practiced on three continents which often has the effect of producing shooters for the Olympic games and this is a good thing. Numerous countries with were not until now members of the FITASC, because of not having the possibility of practicing these disciplines in their countries (e.g. Their legislation doesn’t allow sporting shooting in the woods, or a lack of space) asked for the creation of a discipline that comes from sporting but can be practiced on traditional ranges. It is in this spirit that Compak Sporting was born, a discipline summarizing sporting in a reduced space and using installations that already exist such as the skeet, the trap, etc and adding a few extra machines. It is already establishing itself and the official competitions will start in 1994. The American Trap which is the most practiced discipline in the world across the world under different names: Amateur Trap Shooting in the USA or DTL (Down The Line) in all the countries from the old Commonwealth. To give an idea of its value, the Italian market, combined, is 140 000 000 clay targets a year – the French market is fairly similar, while in Spain it’s 8 000 000, Belgium it’s 5 000 000 and Portugal it’s 3 000 000. The biggest European market is Great Britain with 160 000 000 clay targets. Just in American Trap in the USA, more than a billion clay targets are shot. Olympic Trap in the USA: There are only 12 Olympic Trap installations on American soil, 8 of which are permanently closed and only open the year before the Olympic games. The other 4 are in Colorado Springs, in the American Olympic Training Centre, and are only use by the USA national team. Skeet ranges, are numerous in the USA, they are pretty much in all cases, regulated in American skeet, adjustable, which has nothing to do with Olympic skeet. But, nevertheless, doesn’t represents many more that 10 000 shooters in the USA. Olympic Skeet is practically unknown as a sports discipline. Despite that, there are great American Olympic shooters and this is explained not by the large practice of this discipline but by the very high number of shooters shooting in non-Olympic disciplines, today it’s FITASC, which permits the American Federation to have a national team of a very high level. American Trap joined the FITASC since the beginning of the year, because there the spirit of popular disciplines reigns representing 80% which are also members of the UIT (ISSF). Page 110 / 147
Nowadays a national federation (except for those that receive important government subventions) has lots of difficulty sustaining its economic development uniquely with its Olympic disciplines. Skeet has disappeared from the market, double trap remains limited, only Olympic Trench knowns in 4 to 5 countries an important development, in France, Italy (and they don’t know the three others). In the Olympic competitions with a quota where all the means are put in place, there are no nations represented in the FITASC competitions. Our sport can only survive with a common spirit between olympism and non olympism. A synergy is indispensable. In 4 or 5 years to come the FITASC, because of its new disciplines, will have forty or so new countries essentially Asian which till now were not members of the FITASC because they hadn’t regulations on weapons which allowed the practicing of these disciplines. The old Russia for example wished to install sporting ranges in the next few months around Moscow, despite the difficulty in their economic situation. In September Mr. Palinkas will go, invited by the Russian Federation in Moscow, to licence the grounds for sporting, which demonstrates that whenever the practice of shooting clay targets is free, the FITASC disciplines are indispensable for the development of this general. For the first time South America will officially organise Sporting Championships and from 1994 it will organise the South American Championships in American Trap. Message to get across: The origin of the FITASC which is to regroup national federations in all the disciplines. The separation in 1947 of the non-Olympic and Olympic disciplines hasn’t harmed the FITASC spirit but contrarily, a fervent supporter = synergy. The FITASC with its 4 non-Olympic disciplines represents more than 85% of the shooting clay target industry world market (clay targets, shotguns, cartridges).
23rd May 1992 - Malaga - Ordinary General Assembly
Electrocibles ZZ (helices): The official term for the name of this discipline becomes “Helice” UIT (ISSF): The members only recognise the FITASC as having the right to organise international shooting with sports hunting weapons events and to give international titles in all the non-Olympic disciplines in sports shooting and that, as long as the agreement signed between the UIT (ISSF) and the FITASC is in place. Extract of the minutes of the meeting: 10°) Miscellaneous Propositions submitted to the Assembly Mr Georges HEMERY, President of the Helice sub Commission proposes to the Assembly that from now the official term for this discipline is only “Helices”. 11°) Resolution proposed by the President of la FITASC to the General Assembly a) Introduction Page 111 / 147
The FITASC from its origins, managed the organisations large international events in shooting disciplines which it invented and put together the sports regulations. (live pigeon shooting, helices, sporting, universal trench, etc…) and licenced the results and the awarding of titles, conform with the articles of association.
b) Resolution The FITASC entrusts the development of its sports disciplines in all the countries that are members, to a national affiliated group, which is the only one authorised by the FITASC to use their sports rules and to give national titles, under these same rules. The Ordinary General Assembly, meeting according to its articles of association, the 23rd of May 1992, in Malaga (Spain) decides unanimously that its members recognised only by the FITASC he right to organise international shooting with sports hunting weapons events and to award international titles in all the non-Olympic disciplines of sports shooting, and that as long as the agreement is signed between the UIT (ISSF) and the FITASC is in place.
18th May 1993 - Ordinary General Assembly
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1st March 1994 - Toluca - Ordinary General Assembly
Compak Sporting: culmination of sport’s rules American Trap: progression of spot’s rules Extract of the minutes of the meeting: Compak Sporting Mr Palinkas informs the Assembly that rules of Compak Sporting are now established and that it is joined to the dossier of the General Assembly. Mr Luciano ROSSI, president of the Italian Federation asks the Assembly to come back on their decision regarding the limitation of grams of lead in cartridges; he proposes to the General Assembly to limit the weight of lead to 28g in the cartridges for Compak Sporting. Mr Jacques CHEVALIER, President of the FFBT, tells the Assembly that it doesn’t seem to be good to come back on the decision of a technical commission, except of course when it concerns the general interest. Also, this decision is voted unanimously by the Assembly General and the Commission reports are approved. American Trap On the initiative of the President of the FITASC and following a meeting that took place in August in Vandalia, USA, the Universal Trench commission examined, during its October session, the propositions for rules. Many countries said they were interested by the development of this discipline, Mr. Luciano Rossi, President of the FITAV, confirmed that he supported the proposal aiming to use the American rules, Mr. Jim Bradford, President of the ATA is officially charged with controlling the rules proposed by Mr. Roger Peace, and the Assembly accepts in advance the modifications that Page 112 / 147
could be brought. Mr. Jim Bradford tells the Assembly of the FITASC that to be conform with the proposed rules, he must intervein with the ATA, during 1994, so that the rules used in the USA and in Canada, the weight of lead authorised for the cartridges in American Trap are reduced to 28g. Many countries have already programmed national championships in American Trap and in order to publish definitive rules, Mr. Jim Bradford commits to giving the necessary corrections in the quickest delay. This report and its proposals are approved by the General Assembly. Sports Rules The sports rules proposed by the commission are ratified by the Assembly and licenced (including the changes wanted by the General Assembly for Compak Sporting and the definitive drafting of the rules for American Trap trusted to the President of the ATA.
16th July 1994 – Le Rabot – Sporting Commission Meeting
Sporting: Reaffirmation of the non-conformity of the “pirate” World Championships by the English company Gunmark Extract of the minutes of the meeting: Mr WAKTARE considering that Mr PALINKAS no longer being part of FITASC and that he opposed the organisation of the Beretta World Championships asks the FITASC to reconsider his request. The commission and the President Gaiztarro confirm that it is not decision of Jean-François Palinkas but that such a championship is not conform with the FITASC spirit and a world title can only be given by the international Federation officially managing the discipline in question.
6th June 1995 – Malaga – Ordinary General Assembly
16th November 1995 – Boulogne – Bureau Meeting
Helices shooting: it is becoming a major discipline / The European Cup becomes the World Cup / the Helices Commission becomes autonomous, separated from the live pigeon shooting. Extract of the minutes of the meeting: Helices Commission The President specifies the since 1991 a world championship is disputed in this discipline and as all helices shooters are pretty much European, so a European cup was created. In Gisor, a 1995 world championship, the Americans and Argentinians participated so decided to transform this European Cup into a World Cup. Thus, this discipline became a major discipline and the President Antonio Gaiztarro proposed to separate the commissions into live pigeon shooting and Helice. Naturally he proposed that the president of the Helice Section, George Hemery became the President of the Helice Commission. The bureau accepted this proposition unanimously. Page 113 / 147
11th June 1996 – Pevidem – Ordinary General Assembly
5th November 1996 – Bureau Meeting
Terms for reimbursing the Presidents fees Extract of the minutes of the meeting: President’s Indemnities The President Antonio Gaiztarro, mindful to spend as much time as possible for the FITASC had decided to abandon his responsibilities within the Montesblancos Club. In return, he wished to have his indemnities re-evaluated and asked the Bureau to allocate indemnities of 200 000 FF from 1997. The President Antonio Gaiztarro commits to not be part of the direction of a club, a federation, or any other organisation having a relationship with the business of arms and munition. The bureau accepts the request of the President but must study the form to be in line with French legislation on which FITASC depends.
8th February 1997 – Paris – Extraordinary General Assembly
Modification of the articles of association: adding animal hunting disciplines. 1982 Articles of association, modified on the 8th of February 1997
29th April 1997 – Somontes – Ordinary General Assembly
Significant increase in competition participation / Development of Compak Sporting Extract of the minutes of the meeting: The President Gaiztarro gives the floor to the Presidents of the sports commissions who discuss with the Assembly the results of the last year. A year characterised by a significant increase in the level of participation in competitions and by the arrival of new disciplines. The Compak Sporting is developing well, a record participation in the Sporting World Championships in Great Britain and a great success of the Palmas a Brazo. Not forgetting the “Saint Hubert” which has had much success. Ratification of the commissions reports The President asks the Assembly to pay great attention to the minutes of the meeting of the Bureau of 05/11/1996 concerning the reimbursement of expenses inherent in his function of President and voluntarily lease the room so that the Assembly can freely deliberate on it. After half an hour of deliberation, the Assembly ratifies the minutes of the Bureau unanimously minus one abstention. The president, on returning thanks the assembly for their confidence. Page 114 / 147
22nd October 1998 – Guadalajara - Extraordinary General Assembly
Modification of the articles of association including the electoral rules. Articles of association of 22nd of October 1998:
24th October 1998 – Guadalajara - Ordinary General Assembly
Commitment to homogenising the level of the competitions. Extract of the minutes of the meeting: Helice Shooting More than 1 000 shooters participated in different events, which shows the dynamism of this discipline that’s taking off. Sporting Mr. Costa Halikia, President of the Sporting Commission, is very satisfied with the 1997 season with two very good Championships, the European at Dornsberg and the 7th November 1999 – San Julia de Loria – Ordinary General Assembly The Federation of the Turkish part of Cyprus that is not authorised to be affiliate with the FITASC but sends affiliated shooters to participate as individuals in FITASC Championships. Helice shooting and Sporting: continuation of development. Extract of the minutes of the meeting: Page 115 / 147 Northern Cyprus Federation The President [of the FITASC] states to the Assembly, that he invited representatives to the Federation of the Turkish part of Northern Cyprus who had asked to be affiliated with the FITASC. He mentions that this affiliation had been provisionally accorded while waiting for the ratification by the General Assembly. He informs the Assembly that the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus isn’t recognised by any political or sporting body and that by consequence the FITASC cannot endorse their affiliation. All the same as our rules allow it, the shooters can participate individually in competitions under the FITASC banner. The representative of the Cypriot Shooting Federation thanks the president and states that the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is illegal. […] Mr. Castonon asks which decision is being taken on the subject of the affiliation of the Federation of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and states that for him it cannot be affiliated as it isn’t recognised by international bodies. The President repeats what he had said in the beginning of the session and confirms the refusal to affiliate this federation. Helice Shooting Three Grand-Prix with a good participation. The World Championship at Ghedi exploded the record for participation (509 shooters) and he offered a silver plaque to thank the organisers. Sporting The world Championship in Theirs was an exemplary organisation with the participation of 911 shooters, the record was largely broken. The European Championship in Castillejo de Robledo was also a success. 19th of June 2000 - San Julia de Loria - Ordinary General Assembly. 19th June 2000 – Andorra – Ordinary General Assembly Universal Trennch and Sporting : the higher participation begs the question of the increase the installation or the number of competition days. Compak Sporting: Interest shown by Northern European countries Extract of the minutes of the General Assembly: Universal Trench The level of competition participation has been of the same order as the previous year. The Chairman of the committee, José Geraldes de Oliveira, underlined the various problems that had occurred at the World Championship in Olivenza because of the excessive number of participants compared with the extent of the facilities. What worried him more for this discipline was the number of participating countries, which was still low and limited to Europe. He thought that the affiliation of new federations should be facilitated, particularly in American countries by holding a Pan-American championship. Sporting Page 116 / 147 This discipline was developing fast and the increased enthusiasm could pose some problems in the future. More facilities would be needed, which would not be easy, or there would have to be more shooting days. Compak Sporting New countries were becoming very interested in Compak Sporting, such as Russia, Estonia and Slovakia. The European Championship with 159 shooters had gone very well. This new discipline was also developing fast and the Chairman, Mr. Pizani, predicted an excellent future for it. 24th September 2001 – Marrakech – Ordinary General Assembly Continued development of the 3 clay target disciplines and Helice Shooting Extract of the minutes of the General Assembly Helice Shooting: 2,000 had been a good year for helix shooting with 1,299 participants. Universal Trench: 1,471 shooters had entered the international competitions, including 384 at the World Championship in Valencia. Sporting: the committee chairman Robert Pizani reported on the sporting competitions, expressing his pleasure at the entry for the World Championship in Durbuy and the level of participation in all competitions, totalling 2,282. Compak Sporting: This recent discipline continued to develop favourably with participation constantly increasing and more and more participating countries. 298 participants at the European Championship at the Rabot. Page 117 / 147 Part VII: 2002 – 2017: Cessation of the discipline Live pigeon Shooting in Fitasc World development of Compak Sporting Evolution of sports rules Creation of new disciplines: Combined Game Shooting, Trap1 28th April 2002 – Grenada – Management Committee Meeting Provision in the articles of association on the paiment of membership fees Extract of the minutes of the Meeting: Mr Gaiztarro then asked the Executive Secretary to read out the list of federations up to date with their membership fees on 31st March 2002. The Chairman reminded the meeting that Article 3.9 stipulated: “Members’ rights are suspended if they fail to pay their membership fees by the 31st March of the current year.” The Chairman also reminded the meeting that Article 3.11 of the articles of association stipulated: “Membership rights are restored by collection of the membership fee arrears and a penalty. The amount of the penalty will be set at the start of the year by the Executive Committee.” Mr José Geraldes de Oliveira, Deputy Chairman, said that the articles of association were very clear and that the federations that had not paid by 31st March could do so under the conditions stated in Article 3.11. He reminded the meeting that the Executive Committee had not defined any penalty and that the Fitasc had never applied any penalties. Mr Pizani, Deputy Chairman, asked for the articles of association to be applied in full. Mr Gaiztarro stated his view that the articles of association were being applied and that the affiliated members would recover their rights once they had paid their membership fees before the official opening of the general assembly. The Management Committee expressed its support for the Chairman by eight votes in favour, with one abstention. 29th April 2002 – Grenada – Elective and Ordinary General Assemblies Election of the President and of the Management Committee Complete minutes of the Ordinary and Elective Assemblies of April 29th, 2002 Présents : Rodrigo DE MESA RUIZ Member Members of the management committee: Abdelaziz MESFIOUI Member Antonio GAIZTARRO President Roger PEACE Member José GERALDES Vice-President Miguel TORRES MEDINA Member DE OLIVEIRA Lester TRILLA Member Robert PIZANI Robert Vice-President Members Affiliés : Luciano ROSSI Vice-President South Africa CTSA-SA (By proxy) José SAINZ Vice-President Algeria FATAS DE LA MAZA TOBIA Germany TIRO (By proxy) Georges HEMERY General Secretary Austria OJ (By proxy) Page 118 / 147 Austria VDJWO (By proxy) Portugal FENCACA Andora FAT Czech Republic ASAT Argentina FATAV Slovakia SFNBDS (By proxy) Australia AFSA Russie SHU Australia F & G (By proxy) Saint-Marin FSMDC Belgium FBTC (By proxy) Saint-Marin FTVSM (By proxy) Brazil CBCT Switzeland SCSF Cyprus CSA Tahiti FTP (By proxy) Danemark DSU (By proxy) U.S.A. USFF Egypte ESF Venezuela FECADEVE Spain FEC Zimbabwe CPSAZ (By proxy) Spain FETV Excused : Spain RFETO Costa HALKIAS Member Management committee France FAFTAV Ray MAC FARLANE Member Management committee France FFBT Estonia EHS Affiliated Member Algeria BICTSF Finland FSA Affiliated Member Greece HSF (By proxy) Netherlands APCPB (By proxy) Invited : Hungary MKS Giovani BONTEMPINI Legal adviser FITASC Ireland ICPSA (By proxy) Bureau: Italie FIDASC (By proxy) Italie FIDC Constituted of FITASC management committee members : Italie FITAV President Monsieur Antonio GAIZTARRO Estonia LSF (By proxy) Monsieur José GERALDES DE OLIVEIRA Luxembourg FLTASC (By proxy) Monsieur Robert PIZANI Marocco FRMTAC Members Monsieur Luciano ROSSI Mexico FEMETI Monsieur José SAINZ DE LA MAZA TOBIA Monaco FMT (By proxy) Monsieur Georges HEMERY New Zealand NZCTA (By proxy) Porto-Rico FTVPR Seacretary of session : Jean-Louis MEUNIER Portugal FPTAC The Chairman, Antonio Gaiztarro, opened the meeting and reviewed the members present or duly represented and up to date with their membership fees, entitled to take part in the assembly proceedings. The count revealed that the members present or represented totalled 140 votes out of 166. Since there was a quorum, the general assembly could validly discuss the points included on the agenda. Charles Schneider, Chairman of the Swiss shooting federation, asked for the Fitasc’s account details in order to transfer the membership fees of the following federations on the day after the assembly: Tiro (Germany), OJ (Austria), HSF (Greece), SFNBDS (Slovak Republic) and FPT (Tahiti). This request was rejected on the ground that the Management Committee meeting on 28th April 2002 in order to prepare for the general assembly had defined the procedures for settling the membership fee arrears, which had to occur before the official opening of the general assembly to be taken into account. Denis Julien, Chairman of the French clay pigeon shooting federation, proposed to pay the arrears of the members mentioned on the spot. This offer was rejected for the same reason. As Mr Gaiztarro was standing for re-election, he did not wish to chair the general assembly proceedings. He asked the eldest Deputy Chairman, José Geraldes de Oliveira, to chair the general assembly. Mr Geraldes de Oliveira agreed and moved directly on to the agenda. Mr Frédéric Sauvain, representative of FMT (Monaco), filed an official protest with the meeting officials from the following members: Fatas (Algeria), F&G (Australia), FBTC (Belgium), DSU (Denmark), FFBT (France), PCVN (Holland), MKS (Hungary), ICPSA (Ireland), LSF (Latvia), FLTAS (Luxembourg), FMT (Monaco), SHU (Russia), SCSF (Switzerland) and ASAT (Czech Republic), because they had not been able to obtain the official documents or any information or document concerning the elective general assembly, particularly the list of members up to date with their membership fees on 1st April 2002, requested by letter dated 28th April 2002 by Mr Robert Pizani, in his capacity as Deputy Chairman of Fitasc. The meeting officials acknowledged this protest. Mr Geraldes de Oliveira pointed out that Mr Pizani had attended the previous Management Committee meeting on 28th April 2002 and had therefore been informed of the members up to date with their membership fees on 1st April 2002. Mr Frédéric Sauvain filed an official request with the meeting officials from the members already mentioned, sent to the Election Committee, for “the Fitasc Chairman and Executive Committee to be elected in accordance with the Fitasc’s articles of association and electoral rules”. The meeting officials acknowledged this request. Mr Geraldes de Oliveira read the agenda for the general assembly: o Report on the Fitasc’s activities in 2001. Page 119 / 147 o Financial report and balance sheet for the 2001 financial year. o Sporting reports on 2001 by the committee chairmen. o Ratification of the committee reports. o Affiliation of new members. o Any other business. o Election of the Chairman. o Election of the Executive Committee and Management Committee members. o Election of sporting committee members. Report on the Fitasc’s activities: Since all the federations present or represented had received the book describing the Fitasc’s activities in 2001, Mr Geraldes de Oliveira asked the assembly to approve this report directly in order to save time. The report was adopted unanimously by those present and represented. Page 120 / 147 Financial report: The General Secretary / Treasurer, Georges Hemery, presented the Fitasc’s 2001 balance sheet, showing a negative result of FF136,997.59, i.e. €20,885.15. This result was due to the reduction in entry fees approved by the Management Committee on 16th November 2000 and the low level of entries at the World Live Pigeon Shooting and Sporting Championships caused by the tragic events of 11th September 2001 in the USA. Mr Ray Sydenham asked for the accounts to be also presented in English. The Dutch federation’s representative asked what the Chairman’s expenses of FF200,000 (€30,489.80) represented. Mr José Geraldes de Oliveira replied that this money was allocated to the Chairman to cover his entertainment expenses and that this decision had been approved by the Executive Committee on 5th November 1996 and ratified by the general assembly held on 29th April 1997 in Madrid. Mr Jean-François Palinkas asked whether the accounts had been approved by an external auditor. Mr Hemery said that the balance sheet had been drawn up by a chartered accountant. The members present and represented discharged the Treasurer for his financial report, with 89 votes in favour and 51 abstentions. Following this vote, Luciano Rossi, Chairman of the Italian live pigeon shooting federation, gave his view that being a delegate for a federation from another country was not credible (e.g. Monaco and Luxembourg). Sporting committees’ report: In the same way as the report on activities, Mr Geraldes de Oliveira invited the assembly to refer to the book on the 2001 activities. The report was adopted unanimously by those present and represented. New members: No membership applications had been received during the year. However, Colombia was withdrawing from the Fitasc. Any other business: The Russian federation, Sport Hunting Union, asked for the following two questions to be examined by the general assembly: “In which circumstances and on the basis of which criteria should Articles 3.12.1 and 3.12.2 of the articles of association be applied by the Executive Committee?” “In which cases can a shooter without a licence from his/her national federation belonging to the Fitasc take part in official Fitasc competitions if the national federation does not want him/her to take part? What is the definition of a political reason?” The Russian representative asked for Articles 3.12.1 and 3.12.2 to be applied for any action contrary to the Fitasc’s interests or the infringement of human rights. The reply given to the question as to whether a shooter from a non-affiliated federation could take part in an official Fitasc competition was no. It was agreed to send a letter to the Russian federation with the answers to the two questions. The assembly then moved on to the elections. Those present and represented unanimously accepted the appointment of Armando Pozzi and Charles Schneider as the Election Committee. Jean-François Palinkas, who was standing for the post of Chairman, asked to take the floor in order to present his platform to the general assembly. The assembly chairman replied that both candidates had canvassed the affiliated members in writing and that he considered the campaign closed. The meeting officials gave way to the Election Committee. Election of the Chairman: Page 121 / 147 The two candidates were the outgoing Chairman, Antonio Gaiztarro, proposed by the three Spanish federations, and Jean-François Palinkas, proposed by the French clay pigeon shooting federation. Result: 140 votes cast, no abstentions and no spoiled ballots. Antonio GAIZTARRO 77/140 Jean-François PALINKAS 63/140 Antonio Gaiztarro was elected Chairman of the Fitasc for the period 2003-06. He thanked the general assembly for its confidence and promised to work for all the Fitasc disciplines over the following four years. He then proposed his list of Executive Committee members for election: Election of the Executive Committee: Result: 140 votes cast, no abstentions and no spoiled ballots GERALDES DE OLIVEIRA José Deputy Chairman RAÏSSI Saâd Deputy Chairman ROSSI Luciano Deputy Chairman SAINZ DE LA MAZA TOBIA José Deputy Chairman HEMERY Georges General Secretary/Treasurer The Executive Committee was elected by 130 votes for and 10 against. Election of the Management Committee: 137 votes cast, three abstentions and two spoiled ballots 1° POZZI Armando 87/135 PEACE Roger 2° 79/135 TRILLA Lester 4° DE MESA RUIZ Rodrigo 72/135 5° SANTOS DUTREY Juan Carlos 70/135 6° JULIEN Denis 63/135 7° MESFIOUI Abdelaziz 62/135 Mc FARLANE Ray 8° 59/135 PIZANI Robert 10° HALKIAS Costa 58/135 11° NUNES PINTO Jacinto Amaro 52/135 12° KOSTUCHENKO Andrey 50/135 Du PONT S. Hallock 13° 47/135 GUTIERREZ LARA Andres 15° WALTER Antonin 45/135 16° SZEBENYI Laszlo 44/135 Only the first five totalling more than 50% of the votes were elected. Since the number of candidates for the hunting activities, universal trench, sporting and helix shooting committees did not exceed the number of posts to be filled, they were elected by acclamation. Hunting Activities Committee: 140 votes, unanimous election by acclamation GUTIERREZ LARA Andres Page 122 / 147 NUNES PINTO Jacinto Amaro SIMOES Paula Cristina Election of the Universal Trench Committee: 140 votes, unanimous election by acclamation CASTANON TEUS Gaspar EL KOURTI M’Hamed FORTUNI Fabio HERACLEOUS Yiannakis JULIEN Denis MOUTINHO CARNEIRO Carlos MOUTOUFISLiberto Jean-Michel PEACE Roger Election of the Sporting Committee: 140 votes, unanimous election by acclamation BIDARRA FELIZOL José Du PONT S. Hallock FAULDS Bruce HALKIAS Costa HALKIAS Costa NOALHAT François NOALHATRIDER Glen François RIDERRODRIGUEZ Glen ALONSO Quintin RODRIGUEZWALTER AntoninALONSO Quintin WALTER Antonin Election of the Helix Shooting Committee: 140 votes, unanimous election by acclamation BALENSI Guy BARBERINI Benedetto DALE Peter HEMERY Georges LOPEZ ZUMETA José Luis RODENGHI Giuseppe VIEIRA NEVES José Aluay Election of the Live pigeon shooting commission : 136 votes cast, four abstentions and thirty spoiled ballots 1° GERALDES DE OLIVEIRA José 105/106 ONGARI Luigi 2° 103/106 RAÏSSI Saâd 4° PEREZ RODRIGUEZ Angel 100/106 5° BONTEMPINI Gianni 99/106 6° SAINZ DE LA MAZA TOBIA José 97/106 7° BALENSI Guy 90/106 8° TRILLA Lester 85/106 9° LEITE DE FARIA Augusto 44/106 Augusto Leite de Faria was not elected. Page 123 / 147 Election of the Compak® Sporting Committee: 136 votes cast, four abstentions and three spoiled ballots 1° BRUSCOLINI Eugénio 126/133 2° LEMONNIER Dominique 115/133 3° KIRENSKIS Jurijs 113/133 4° BIDARRA FELIZOL José 102/133 5° HAMPTON Mike 99/133 6° MASTRANGELO Italo 97/133 7° Mc FARLANE Ray 95/133 8° RODRIGUEZ ALONSO Quintin 87/133 9° PIZANI Robert 67/133 10° PETROV Evgeni 65/133 Robert Pizani and Evgeni Petrov were not elected. La séance est close à la fin de ces élections. The meeting was closed at the end of these elections. After the election of the Management Committee, the meeting chairman, Mr Geraldes de Oliveira took the chair again to announce the voting results and thank the general assembly participants. He closed the meeting at about 2.30am Georges HEMERY Antonio GAIZTARRO General Secretary / Treasuer President March / July 2003 – Court decisions cancelling the Elective General Assembly of 29th April 2002 The elections of the 29th of April 2002 are canceled because of irregualrities: Subsequently the dismissal, by decission of the Tribunal de Grand Instance de Paris, of the elected members and the nomination of a judicial administrator, in charge of temporarily running the FITASC while the FITASC organises new elections. 2nd August 2003 and competition 3 – Paris –Elective and Ordinary General Assemblies Following the cancellation of the Elective General Assembly of the 29th of April 2002, the FITASC General Assembly is re-convened by a judicial administrator, to conduct the election of the President, Executive Committee, Management Committee, under the control of a bailiff: Jean- François Palinkas elected President with 86 votes out of 158 (against 72 votes for Antonio Gaiztarro Berdugo). The General Assembly unanimously voted that day a resolution to suspend from this day all competition and activity where a live animal is the target of wounding or mortal projectiles. The annual general assembly voted the nomination of an expert charged with doing a financial report for the period 2000, 2001, 2002. < link to the bailiff’s minutes of the for the elections of the 2nd of August 2003 > Page 124 / 147 Complete minutes of the Ordinary and Elective Assemblies of August 2nd, 2003 Présents : By proxys : Algeria F.A.T.S. South Africa C.T.S.A. South Africa Germany TIRO Australia A.F.S.A. Andora F.A.T. Australia F & G Argentina F.A.T.A.V. Austria V.J.W.O. Belgium F.B.T.C. Brazil C.B.C.T. Cyprus C.S.S.F. Danemark D.S.U. Spain F.E.C. Egypte E.S.F. Spain F.E.T.V. Estonia E.H.S.A. Spain R.F.E.T.O. Finlande F.S.A. France F.A.F.T.A.V. Ireland I.S.P.S.A. France F.F.B.T. Estonia L.S.F. Great Britain B.I.C.T.S.F. Luxembourg F.L.T.A.S. Greece H.S.F. Mexico F.E.M.E.T.I. Netherlands P.C.V.N. New Zealand N.Z.C.T.A. Hungary M.K.S SlovakiaS.F.N.B.D.S. Italie F.I.D.A.S.C. Saint Marin F.S.M.T.V. Italie F.I.D.C. Tahiti F.P.T. Italie F.I.T.A.V. Venezuela F.E.C.A.D.E.V.E. Marocco F.R.M.T.A.C. Monaco F.M.T. Secretary of proceedings: J. FLEURY-COFFIN / Portugal F.P.T.A.C. Portugal FENCACA Jean-Louis MEUNIER Czech RepublicA.S.A.T. Russie S.H.U. Saint Marin F.S.M.D.C. Switzeland S.C.S.F. U.S.A. U.S.F.F. Since the elective general assembly on 29th April 2002 had been annulled by the courts, the general assembly of the Fitasc was held again on 2nd August 2003 at 2pm, having been summoned by Maître Pierre Zecri, court administrator, in order to elect the Chairman, the Executive Committee, the Management Committee and the various technical committees. The general assembly was supervised by Maître Aymeric André, bailiff, instructed by the Paris district court, and the minutes were taken by Ms J. Fleury-Coffin, shorthand typist, approved by the Paris district court and appeal court. Persons holding 158 of the 160 votes were present or represented, after the proxy that the Puerto Rico live pigeon shooting federation (FTVPR) had given to Mr Antonio Gaiztarro had been annulled because he had already been given a proxy for another federation and, according to Article 6.9 of the articles of association and the order issued by the presiding judge of Paris district court on 17th July 2003, a representative of a federation could have only one proxy to represent another federation. All the voting ballots were distributed when the attendance sheet was signed. During the signing of the attendance sheet, a complaint by the Moroccan royal federation was filed (Appendix 1), along with a letter from the Italian live pigeon shooting federation (Appendix 2). These two documents were registered and made available for consultation at the Fitasc head office. At 2.40pm, Maître Zecri formally declared the elective general assembly open and informed it that he had received a complaint from the American federation N.S.C.A. about its non-admission as a member of the Fitasc (Appendix 3). He then moved to the agenda. Election of the Election Committee: Four candidates stood for the two posts in accordance with the Fitasc’s election rules, obtaining the following votes: • Mr Guy Balensi: 68 votes out of 158 • Mr Pascal Fontanili: 90 votes out of 158 • Mr Denis Julien: 90 votes out of 158 • Mr José Refosco: 68 votes out of 158 Messrs Pascal Fontanili and Denis Julien were elected. Election of the Chairman: Two candidates stood for election as Chairman and obtained the following votes: • Mr Antonio Gaiztarro Berdugo: 72 votes out of 158 • Mr Jean-François Palinkas: 86 votes out of 158 Mr Jean-François Palinkas was elected Chairman of the Fitasc. Several representatives left the room after the election of the Chairman and before the election of the Executive Committee. Maître Zecri then handed over to the newly elected Chairman to conduct the elections for the Executive Committee, the Management Committee and the technical committees. Election of the Executive Committee: In accordance with Article 2 of the Fitasc’s electoral rules, Mr Palinkas presented his list for the four Deputy Chairmen and the General Secretary / Treasurer: • Mr Samuel Hallock Du Pont (USA) – Deputy Chairman • Mr Costa Halkias (South Africa) – Deputy Chairman • Mr Ray McFarlane (Australia) – Deputy Chairman • Mr Charles Schneider (Switzerland) – Deputy Chairman • Mr Denis Julien (France) – Secretary General / Treasurer The above were elected by 90 votes for, with 68 abstentions and no null votes. Management Committee: The results were as follows: DE HEYN Eddy 81 votes DE MESA RUIZ Rodrigo 0 votes GERALDES DE OLIVEIRA José Manuel 0 votes GUTIERREZ LARA Andres 0 votes MOUTOUFIS Jean-Michel 89 votes 68 Abstentions PEACE Roger 90 votes PIZANI Robert 85 votes POZZI Armando 0 votes Page 126 / 147 PROSPERINI Fausto 0 votes RIESMEIJER Henk 89 votes ROSSI Luciano 4 votes SAINZ DE LA MAZA TOBIA José 0 votes SANTOS DUTREY Juan Carlos 0 votes SZEBENYI Laszlo 88 votes TRILLA Lester 0 votes WAKTARE Bjorn 90 votes WALTER Antonin 90 votes New membership of the Management Committee: o Mr Jean-François Palinkas (France), Chairman o Mr Samuel Hallock Du Pont (USA), Deputy Chairman o Mr Costa Halkias (South Africa), Deputy Chairman o Mr Ray McFarlane (Australia), Deputy Chairman o Mr Charles Schneider (Switzerland), Deputy Chairman o Mr Denis Julien (France), Secretary General / Treasurer o Mr Eddy De Heyn (Belgium), member o Mr Jean-Michel Moutoufis (France), member o Mr Roger Peace (United Kingdom), member o Mr Robert Pizani (France), member o Mr Henk Riesmeijer (Netherlands), member o Mr Laszlo Szebenyi (Hungary), member o Mr Bjorn Waktare (United Kingdom), member o Mr Antonin Walter (Czech Republic), member Hunting activities technical committee: BUGLIONE Felice 4 votes CASTANON TEUS Gaspar 6 votes CORADESCHI Domenico 5 votes DE HEYN Eddy 88 votes DE MESA RUIZ Rodrigo 5 votes GUTTIERREZ LARA Andres 0 votes HALKIAS Costa 89 votes 68 Mc FARLANE Ray 79 votes Abstentions MOUTOUFIS Jean-Michel 84 votes NUNES PINTO Jacinto Amaro 4 votes RIESMEIJER Henk 89 votes SIMOES Paula Cristina 4 votes SZEBENYI Laszlo 86 votes TRILLA Lester 7 votes New membership of the hunting activities technical committee: Mr Eddy De Heyn (Belgium) Mr Costa Halkias (South Africa) Mr Ray McFarlane (Australia) Mr Jean-Michel Moutoufis (France) Mr Henk Riesmeijer (Netherlands) Mr Laszlo Szebenyi (Hungary) Compak® Sporting technical committee: BIDARRA FELIZOL José Manuel 0 votes BOCCACCI Louis 17 votes 68 Abstentions Page 127 / 147 BRUSCOLINI Eugénio 0 votes CASTANON TEUS Gaspar 6 votes DE MESA RUIZ Rodrigo 5 votes KIRENSKIS Jurijs 89 votes KRENKLER Joachim 89 votes LATAS PITTI Vitor Hugo 0 votes LEMONNIER Dominique 89 votes MASTRANGELO Italo 0 votes Mc FARLANE Ray 79 votes PIZANI Robert 89 votes RODRIGEZ ALONSO Quintin 0 votes RIESMEIJER Henk 89 votes RUSSO Patrick 89 votes TRILLA Lester 0 votes New membership of the Compak® Sporting technical committee: Mr Jurijs Kirenskis (Latvia) Mr Joachim Krenkler (Germany) Mr Dominique Lemonnier (France) Mr Ray McFarlane (Australia) Mr Robert Pizani (France) Mr Henk Riesmeijer (Netherlands) Mr Patrick Russo (France) Universal trench technical committee: ALIPRANDI Bruno 84 votes CASTANON TEUS Gaspar 6 votes DE MESA RUIZ Rodrigo 8 votes DURACKA Jozef 84 votes FONTANILI Pascal 87 votes FORTUNI Fabio 9 votes GERIN Georges 84 votes 68 Abstentions HERACLEOUS Yiannakis 90 votes MOUTINHO CARNEIRO Carlos Liberto 8 votes MOUTOUFIS Jean-Michel 84 votes PEACE Roger 87 votes PUCALKA Karel 89 votes TRILLA Lester 4 votes New membership of the universal trench technical committee: Mr Bruno Aliprandi (Italy) Mr Jozef Duracka (Slovakia) Mr Pascal Fontanili (Monaco) Mr Georges Gerin (France) Mr Yiannakis Heracleous (Cyprus) Mr Jean-Michel Moutoufis (France) Mr Roger Peace (United Kingdom) Mr Karel Pucalka (Czech Republic) Sporting technical committee: BIDARRA FELIZOL José Manuel 7 votes BOCCACCI Louis 73 votes 68 Abstentions Page 128 / 147 CASTANON TEUS Gaspar 0 votes DE MESA RUIZ Rodrigo 6 votes FAULDS Bruce 79 votes HALKIAS Costa 79 votes JANKOVSKY Miroslav 73 votes LATAS PITTI Vitor Hugo 0 votes NOALHAT François 73 votes PIRIE Ewen 1 votes PÖCKL Helmut 73 votes RIDER Glen 78 votes RODRIGEZ ALONSO Quintin 7 votes TRILLA Lester 6 votes WALTER Antonin 5 votes WENGER Hans Ulrich 72 votes New membership of the sporting technical committee: Mr Louis Boccacci (Belgium) Mr Bruce Faulds (United Kingdom) Mr Costa Halkias (South Africa) Mr Miroslav Jankovsky (Czech Republic) Mr François Noalhat (France) Mr Helmut Pöckl (Austria) Mr Glen Rider (Australia) Mr Hans Ulrich Wenger (Switzerland) Live pigeon shooting technical committee: BALENSI Guy 4 votes BONTEMPINI Gianni 4 votes CASTANON TEUS Gaspar 0 votes DE HEYN Eddy 78 votes DE MESA RUIZ Rodrigo 0 votes GERALDES DE OLIVEIRA José Manuel 4 votes HALKIAS Costa 78 votes Mc FARLANE Ray 77 votes MOUTOUFIS Jean-Michel 78 votes ONGARI Luigi 4 votes 68 Abstentions PEREZ RODRIGUEZ Angel 4 votes PIZANI Robert 78 votes REFOSCO José 4 votes RIESMEIJER Henk 81 votes SAINZ DE LA MAZA TOBIA José 10 votes SCHNEIDER Charles 78 votes SZEBENYI Laszlo 71 votes TRILLA Lester 0 votes New membership of the live pigeon shooting technical committee: Mr Eddy de Heyn (Belgium) Mr Costa Halkias (South Africa) Mr Ray McFarlane (Australia) Mr Jean-Michel Moutoufis (France) Mr Robert Pizani (France) Mr Henk Riesmeijer (Netherlands) Mr Charles Schneider (Switzerland) Mr Laszlo Szebenyi (Hungary) Page 129 / 147 Helice shooting technical committee: BALENSI Guy 0 votes BARBERINI Benedetto 6 votes CASTANON TEUS Gaspar 6 votes DE HEYN Eddy 89 votes DALE Peter 90 votes DE MESA RUIZ Rodrigo 0 votes LOPEZ ZUMETA José Luis 6 votes 68 Abstentions Mc FARLANE Ray 90 votes PHILIPPE Martial 84 votes POTTER Chris 84 votes RODENGHI Giuseppe 0 votes VIEIRA NEVES José Antonio 6 votes New membership of the helix shooting technical committee: Mr Eddy de Heyn (Belgium) Mr Peter Dale (USA) Mr Ray McFarlane (Australia) Mr Martial Philippe (France) Mr Chris Potter (United Kingdom) Following these elections, the Chairman closed the elective general assembly and thanked Maître Pierre Zecri for his exemplary chairmanship. The elective general assembly were minuted by Maître Aymeric André, bailiff (Appendix 4), Maître Pierre Zecri, court administrator, and Ms J. Fleury-Coffin, shorthand typist. (These minutes and the relevant documents can be consulted at the Fitasc head office). The general assembly then proceeded as an ordinary general assembly. Any other business: Mr Palinkas handed over to Charles Schneider, Deputy Chairman, who read out a resolution proposing the suspension, from the date of the meeting, of all activities and competitions involving live animals being used as targets for wounding or mortal projectiles. This resolution was adopted unanimously by those present and represented (ninety people voting). The General Secretary, jointly with the Italian live pigeon shooting federation (Fitav), asked the general assembly to appoint an expert to carry out a financial audit of the period 2000, 2001, 2002 and until 2nd August 2003 and the appointment of an auditor with effect from the financial year from 1st January to 31st December 2003. The general assembly appointed KPMG of 2bis, rue de Villiers 92532 Levallois-Perret, represented by Mr Bernard Leman, auditor, with Mr Christian Leroy, of 6-8 rue, Louis Rouquier 92532 Levallois-Perret, as the substitute auditor. This resolution was adopted unanimously by those present and represented (ninety people voting). Since there was no further business, Mr Palinkas thanked all the participants. He said that the chairmen of the technical committees would be appointed at the first meeting of the Management Committee, which he summoned to assemble on the same day at 9pm at the Fitasc head office. Denis JULIEN Jean-François PALINKAS General Secretary President Page 130 / 147 2nd August 2003 – Paris – Management Committee Meeting Dissolution of the live pigeon shooting commission following the suppression of live pigeon shooting disciplines managed by the FITASC. Proposal to delegate the shooting activities to a yet to be defined orgainisation until the changes to the articles of association of the FITASC. Extract of the minutes of the Meeting: Mr Schneider demanded that all the members elected to the live pigeon shooting commission resign since this committee should cease to exist following the general assembly decision to suspend activities involving shooting at live animals. A proposal was made to delegate live pigeon shooting activities to an organization to be defined until the Fitasc’s articles of association had been changed. This proposal was accepted unanimously by those present. 24th October 2003 – Paris – Management Committee Meeting From the 1st of January 2005, the maximum lead charge will be 28grams in clay target shooting competitions organised under the aegis of the FITASC (Grand Prix, continental and world Championships) Creation of an open ranking (all categories together) Extract of the minutes of the Meeting: Sporting cartridge charges The General Secretary / Treasurer, Denis Julien, explained that the shooting stands were coming under increasing official and legal pressure over problems relating to noise nuisance and the use of lead and that many stands were being closed as a result. He said that measures should therefore be taken to protect the stands and the reduction of the lead charge was one of these measures. After a discussion during which all the members were able to express their view freely, the Management Committee unanimously decided that there would not be any change for 2004 (36 grams maximum) but from 1st January 2005, for all clay shooting competitions organised under the auspices of the Fitasc (grand prix competitions, continental and world championships), the maximum lead charge would be 28 grams. Compak® Sporting international rules Mike Hampton explained the differences between American five stand and Compak® Sporting, which proved to be minimal, the most important being the number of shooters: five in the US and six for Compak® Sporting. It was agreed that there should be at least six machines per stand and that the time between one participant shooting and the following one being ordered to fire should be reduced from ten to seven seconds to allow more shooters to enter competitions. A proposal was made to organise clay trajectories within a 25 x 40-metre rectangle, with the base of the rectangle between 4 and 8 metres from the line of the shooting range, and this was accepted by the Management Page 131 / 147 Committee, such that all the clay trajectories would have to be within this rectangle. It was agreed that the first clay of each shot double must be the last clay shot by the previous shooter so that the shooter could see the trajectory and therefore save time. It was agreed that the rules would be amended accordingly. The NSCA agreed to organise the first Compak® Sporting World Championship in San Antonio, though it expressed its view that to comply with American rules it would have to be shot with cartridges with a charge of up to 32 grams rather than 28 grams as defined in the rules. It was agreed that the management bodies of the NSCA should meet at the end of 2004 to harmonise five stand and Compak® Sporting. Hunting Activities The Chairman had invited the Spanish, Italian and Portuguese hunting federations to present their Saint-Hubert hunting competition activities to the Fitasc. Ms Paula Cristina Simoes for Portugal and Messrs Felice Buglione and Domenico Coradeschi for Italy were present, though there was no representative from the Spanish hunting federation. These three hunting representatives gave a presentation of Saint Hubert hunting to the Management Committee members. Mr Palinkas thanked them and reminded them that the resolution excluding live pigeon disciplines approved by the general assembly did not exclude disciplines governed by hunting laws. Rankings The Management Committee confirmed the decision to create a ranking for all categories, for the first three only, for international clay shooting competitions in addition to the senior, veteran, super veteran, ladies and junior rankings. This ranking would be combined with the ranking in the categories. A super veteran team ranking was also created. In addition, if the organisation decided to create specific rankings according to the rules of the country, any shoot-offs and the prize awards must take place after the Fitasc prize awards. Finances The Chairman presented the results of the financial audit performed by KPMG, which revealed various anomalies in the operation of the Fitasc, particularly the absence of a large number of supporting documents for the expenses of the former Chairman, Antonio Gaiztarro. It was agreed that the Fitasc Chairman would write to the former Chairman and to the former General Secretary / Treasurer, Georges Hemery, asking for the missing supporting documents and demanding that these former officials reimburse all monies for which supporting documents were not produced. The Management Committee decided unanimously to ask KPMG to extend its audit and to check the supporting documents for the former Chairman’s expenses back to 1997 inclusive. 3rd February 2004 – Paris – Management Committee Meeting Suspension of the FEC (Spain), FAFTAV (Argentina) and USFF (USA) who by their engagement with (FEDECAT), an organisation competing with the FITASC have violated the articles of association of our federation. Page 132 / 147 18th June 2004 – Signes –Extraordinary General Assembly Ratification of the deletion of references to the live pigeon shooting commission Extract of the minutes of the Meeting Deletion of references to the live pigeon shooting commission Following the decision by the general assembly on 2nd August 2003 to abolish shooting competitions involving live animals, the Chairman asked the meeting to adopt the decision to delete all references to the live pigeon shooting commission in our articles of association. This deletion was put to the vote with the following result: • 0 votes against, • 2 abstentions (RFETO, Spain), • 103 votes for. The deletion of all references to the live pigeon shooting commission from the articles of association was accepted by a majority of the members present and represented. 18th June 2004 – Toulon – Ordinary General Assembly Compak Sporting : new rules ratified Exclusion of federation members dues to payment arrears or their apparent support of FEDCAT, also their commitment to undermine the interests of the FITASC Project of the creation of an internet site for the FITASC with the ambition of being informative about calendars and with the possibility to register online. Extract of the minutes of the Meeting: Exclusion of members The general assembly of 2nd August 2003 had decided that shooting competitions involving live animals should no longer be held, except for those governed by the laws on hunting. A certain number of members were opposed to this decision. Before the general assembly of 2nd August 2003, Mr Palinkas, then a candidate for the chairmanship, had proposed an amicable separation of live pigeon shooting from the Fitasc’s other disciplines to the other candidate, Mr Gaiztarro, but he had refused. Following the elections on 2nd August 2003, a new international organisation called Fedecat had been created by certain Fitasc members representing live pigeon shooting. This organisation, chaired by the Chairman of the Spanish Hunting Federation, had decided, in complete violation of the Fitasc’s articles of association, to organise international competitions in all the disciplines belonging to the Fitasc. Moreover, the Andorran Shooting Federation [FAT], the Royal Live Pigeon Shooting Federation of Spain [RFETAV] and the Royal Hunting Weapons Shooting Federation of Morocco [FRMTAC] had decided not to pay the levies and fees due for the live pigeon shooting and ZZ competitions held before the general assembly of 2nd August 2003. The Management Committee meeting on 24th October 2003, in accordance with Article 3.12.1 of the articles of association, had decided to suspend the rights of these three federations and to submit their exclusion to the following general assembly if they had not paid their debts by Page 133 / 147 then. Since no payment had been received, the Chairman asked the general assembly to rule on the exclusion of these three federations. The voting on the exclusion of these three members was as follows: Andorran Shooting Federation [FAT]: • 8 votes against (FPTAC and USFF), • 2 abstentions (RFETO), • 92 votes for. The FAT was therefore excluded from the Fitasc by a majority of those present and represented. Royal Live Pigeon Shooting Federation of Spain [RFETAV]: • 8 votes against (FPTAC and USFF), • 2 abstentions (RFETO), • 92 votes for. The RFETV was therefore excluded from the Fitasc by a majority of those present and represented. Royal Hunting Weapons Shooting Federation of Morocco [FRMTAC]: • 8 votes against (FPTAC and USFF), • 2 abstentions (RFETO), • 92 votes for. The FRMTAC was therefore excluded from the Fitasc by a majority of those present and represented. Moreover, given their membership of Fedecat, or their support for it, and their intention to harm the Fitasc’s interests, the Management Committee asked the general assembly to exclude the Spanish Hunting Federation (FEC) and the United States Flyer’s Federation (USFF) in accordance with the provisions of Articles 3.6 and 3.12.2 of the Fitasc’s articles of association. The meeting was reminded that both these federations had been suspended from the Fitasc by decision of the Management Committee meeting on 3rd February 2004, in accordance with Article 3-12-1 of the articles of association, until the present general assembly, which had to rule on whether they should be excluded or not. The general assembly noted that the Spanish Hunting Federation (FEC) was not represented at the meeting. The USFF delegate, Mr Trilla, disputed this version of the facts, saying that he had always supported the Fitasc. The Chairman expressed his surprise at Mr Trilla’s position, saying that it was indisputable (particularly according to the documents presented to Mr Trilla) that he and the USFF were taking part in competitions organised by Fedecat and that press articles and official programmes for the competitions held by Fedecat in the disciplines belonging to the Fitasc proved that he was one of the officials of this organisation, specifically as a member of the ZZ committee. It also appeared that Mr Trilla had called on American shooters belonging to the USFF to boycott competitions held by the Fitasc if it maintained its decision to suspend all competitions involving live animals held under its auspices. Mr Trilla also expressed his surprise at the Fitasc withdrawing the USFF’s affiliation for ZZ and clay shooting. The Chairman pointed out that this issue was completely unrelated to the vote on the USFF’s exclusion. The NSCA delegate, Mike Hampton, said that the USFF represented only live pigeon shooting and therefore had no legitimacy for clay shooting or ZZ, which was why he was supporting the Management Committee’s decision to withdraw the representation of these Page 134 / 147 disciplines from the USFF. José Geraldes de Oliveira then intervened to support Lester Trilla’s position. The Chairman put the exclusion of these two federations to the vote: Spanish Hunting Federation (Tiro of Germany having just arrived): • 8 votes against (FPTAC and USFF), • 6 abstentions (FIDC, Fecadeve and RFETO), • 91 votes for. The FEC was therefore excluded from the Fitasc by a majority of those present and represented. United States Flyer’s Federation: • 8 votes against (FPTAC and USFF), • 2 abstentions (RFETO), • 95 votes for. The USFF was therefore excluded from the Fitasc by a majority of those present and represented. 12th July 2005 – Martock – Ordinary General Assembly 1er janvier 2005 : mise en place du site Internet FITASC (www.fitasc.com) permettant aux tireurs, régulièrement affiliés aux Fédérations Members, de s’inscrire aux championnats et de régler leurs inscriptions en ligne 25th July 2006 – Prior Lake – Elective General Assembly Election du President, the management committee and members of the commissions: Jean-François Palinkas re-elected unanimously 25th July 2006 – Prior Lake – Ordinary General Assembly New discipline of Combined Game Shooting: creation of a technical commission FEDECAT: Adoption of “Mutual recognition agreement of intent” so that FEDCAT stops organising competition using live animals. Suppression of hunting activities Extract of the minutes of the Meeting: Finances On 24th May 2005, the Paris district court directed a nonsuit on the claim against the former chairman of the Fitasc, which decided to cancel the debt, leading to an exceptional expense of €235k offset by writing back the provision for the same amount. Receivables totalling €8,050 predating 2005 and considered as irrecoverable debts were recorded as exceptional expenses in 2005. The provisions for these receivables were written back, leading to exceptional income of €5k. Page 135 / 147 On 17th October 2005, the Paris appeal court ordered Ms Marion, the Fitasc’s former lawyer, to reimburse it for €3K in expenses and this sum was recorded as income receivable at year end. On 15th June 2006, the Paris appeal court ordered the Fetav (Spanish live pigeon shooting federation) to pay the Fitasc the sum of €33k for debts unpaid since 2003. This led to the provision of €33k being written back at year end. 11. Relations with other international shooting organizations For 3 years, FEDECAT has organised international championships in all FITASC disciplines. A mutual recognition agreement of intent, in order that FEDECAT stop organising shooting championships with clay targets on one hand, and in order that FITASC commit itself to not organising championships involving live animals, has been already signed by FEDECAT (see annex « Mutual recognition agreement of intent »). The Chairman submits this agreement of intent to the General Assembly and asks the authorisation to sign it. The mutual agreement is unanimously approved. Miscellaneous Upon proposal of the Board, the General Assembly unanimously approves the withdrawal of animal hunting Activities from FITASC disciplines in order to comply with the mutual recognition of intent, signed with FEDECAT and unanimously approved. 10th July 2007 – Chocerady – Ordinary General Assembly Combined game shooting: Certification of the rules and the discipline and creation of international championships Specifications: Underlining the responsibilities of the organising Federation of Championships Modification of sports rules Extract of the minutes of the Meeting New members: There were 59 members on 31/12/2006, with four members having joined in 2006 Calendars Above all, the President went back over the deplorable organization of the European championship of Compak Sporting 2007 in Capua, Italy, as for the opening ceremony and the Cups not provided by the organizer for the shooters. The President of the Falco club claimed that he had never received the Fitasc agreement from the FITAV. On the basis of this example, the President recalled firmly that: - A federation member has to check the organizing club to which Fitasc championship were attributed; - A federation member bears responsibility to Fitasc to organize a championship, for which it was candidate, in conformity with the agreement signed. Page 136 / 147 23rd September 2008 – Lemesos – Ordinary General Assembly Championship: Reinforcement of control of the organisation of judging / Dress code for prize winning shooters Sporting: Creation of an Oceania Cup, and the North American Cup and the Latin American Cup Helice shooting: the reduction to 28 grams the maximum charge of lead in ammunision from the 1st of January 2010 Combined Game shooting: 1st European Championship in 2008 (132 participants / 17 nationalities) Modification of sports rules Extract of the minutes of the Meeting: New members There were 57 members on 31/12/2007, with one member having joined in 2007 (FATAV). 17th November 2009 – Warrnambool – Ordinary General Assembly New FITASC headquarters since January 2009; 10, rue Médéric, 75017 Paris : the FITASC becomes owner of it’s offices for the first time since 1921 Professionalisation of the organisation of the Championships: - Thoughts on the methods of control and civil responsibility insurance subscription of the participants in Championships - Thoughts on the framing of sponsoring the FITASC Championship courses - Sporting: Completed dossier for the candidates for the organising of the European and World Championships - A member of the jury can’t in any situation be a member of the jury of appeal. Modification of the sports rules Extract of the minutes of the Meeting: New members There were 64 members on 31/12/2008, with 6 members having joined in 2008. 13th July 2010 – Arezzo – Ordinary General Assembly Adoption of the rules framing sponsorship in championships in the specification documents Berretta Cup: continental ( on 2 events – 400 clay targets) and world ( on 3 events – 600 clat targets) Presentation of world ranking « Fitasc World Ranking », in power from de 2011 Extract of the minutes of the Meeting: New members There were 66 members on 31/12/2009 representing 54 countries, with 3 new members having joined in 2009. Page 137 / 147 13th July 2010 – Arezzo –Extraordinary General Assembly Revision et modification of the articles of association of FITASC Modification of the methods of election and nomination of the President and the members of the technical commissions. < BY-LAWS OF 13TH JULY 2010 > Extract of the minutes of the Meeting The President then reviewed the main amendments proposed to the by-laws: - Preamble, point 8: “Fitasc disciplines are not recognized as Olympic sports and they strictly use artificial targets.” - Article 3.3: “Members do not have any property right over Fitasc disciplines but powers are delegated to them to control these disciplines in their countries.” - Article 3.12: “Members may recover their rights if they pay their membership fees and a late payment penalty.” - Article 6.10: “Management Committee members may act as proxies for other members.” - Article 7.2.8: “Electing technical commission members has proved unsuccessful because the voting members are not aware of the candidates’ actual competences and, in addition, the Fitasc has no way of expelling an official who does not attend any commission meetings. Under the new articles of association, the Management Committee can modify the membership of the technical commissions on the recommendation of a commission chairman or the Fitasc Chairman.” - Article 8.1: “When I was elected in 2003, I appointed a deputy chairman for each continent to have someone really in charge and I would like to take this opportunity to thank the deputy chairmen for their work. Apart from Thailand, which is represented here today, there are no active members in Asia but we do plan to appoint a deputy chairman for Asia once the Asian market takes shape.” - Article 8.4: “The aim is to put the Management Committee’s modus operandi on an official footing, i.e. meetings via e-mail, regularly summoned for the last seven years.” - Article 8.8: “In the event of the Chairman being unable to perform his/her duties for a lengthy period or definitively due to a serious impediment, the Deputy Chairman for Europe becomes the Acting Chairman, provisionally responsible for managing the Fitasc and holding an election at the earliest possible opportunity.” - Article 9.2: Mr Palinkas explained that the idea of creating a disciplinary committee was to fill a gap in the Fitasc: “Because shooting is a gentlemanly sport, a disciplinary committee never seemed necessary but unfortunately sporting behaviour has changed and we really need to create one now. I have asked Denis Julien to write the rules of the disciplinary committee, which will be an appeal committee operating according to the following main principles: • Only a federation will be entitled to refer to the disciplinary committee and only for an incident occurring at an international championship. • Only national federations will have the right to judge their shooters. • If the penalties or lack of penalties are considered unfair by a plaintiff, his/her federation will be able to appeal to the Fitasc disciplinary committee. Page 138 / 147 The rules should be ready for the 2011 ordinary general assembly.” - Articles 9.3 and 9.4: Mr Palinkas told the meeting that when a technical commission proposed a change, the Management Committee would decide on whether to submit this change to the ordinary general assembly or not. - Article 9.7: “At the end of each sporting year, the technical commission chairmen present a report on the work done during the year and a budget for the following year. The chairmen can call meetings of their technical commissions at any time.” - Article 15: “The Fitasc is subject to French law for all disputes under the civil law. In 2003, when there were penalties over the elections, the French courts had jurisdiction.” 13th July 2010 – Arezzo – Elective General Assembly Jean-François PALINKAS re-elected by unanimous acclamation Election of members of the Management Committee 13th July 2010 – Arezzo – Management Committee Meeting Nomination of the Presidents of the Technical Commissions and ratification of the lists of members to the Technical commissions 12th July 2011 – Amiens – Ordinary General Assembly Professionalisation of the organisation of Championships: diploma of course markers / provisional indicative budget for the European and World Championships in Universal Trench, Compak Sporting and Sporting / Establishing an on-line insurance for civil responsibility of the participants “Fitasc World Ranking”: Launched au 1st January 2011 Competition specifications: Quota and renumeration of foreign international referees / recourse to an official marker for the organisation of European and World Sporting Championships/ Methods of representative’s supervisory missions on competition Compak Sporting: Creation of an Asian Championship Modifications of sports rules Extract of the minutes of the Meeting On 31/12/2010, there were 64 members representing 52 countries, with two new members having joined in 2010: Belarus (B.C.T.S.F.) and Lithuania (L.C.G.S.F.) Moral report of the President - Regarding the FFWR, the President states that, at the end of 2011, it will be possible to print, from the Fitasc site, a personal certificate of placing FFWR at December 31st, 2011. He reminds to the Board of the interest in organizing a Grand Prix, so that shooters appear in the Beretta Cups & FFWR rankings. - Regarding the civil liability insurance subscribed to Fitasc, it covers the shooters from three days before to two days after the said competition. Page 139 / 147 - About the accreditation of course designers, any candidature to the diploma (great shooters, Sporting club managers wishing to work for shooting), submitted by the National federations, are welcome in Fitasc. The candidates’ skills will be examined during international championships on fresh grounds. - Regarding the decline of Helice and Universal Trench, the President is worried about the lack of perspective recovery. He states that Portugal and Spain have decided not to organize any more Helices championships with guaranteed money prizes. 14th August 2012 – Lincolnshire – Extraordinary General Assembly Modification of the electoral rules Extract of the minutes of the Meeting The new electoral code is unanimously approved by the Extraordinary General Assembly. The following is added to the electoral code as from August 14th, 2012 in accordance with Article 12.3 of the bylaws: If the President and / or the outgoing Secretary-General (s) wish to be a candidate for another term in the same function, they can apply directly to the Elective General Assembly, under the same conditions as other possible candidates. In this case, their home federation is allowed to submit other candidates for the same office. 14th August 2012 – Lincolnshire –Ordinary General Assembly Compak Sporting : Presentation of inline shooting Reminder of the application of the FITASC sports rules Revision of the classes of FITASC competitions; cancelling the “Senior” class, which doubles up most of the time with “open”. Helice Shooting: aligning the categories on those of clay target disciplines. Rules for expatriates only possessing a licence in their country of residence. Extract of the minutes of the Meeting: On 31/12/2011, there were 64 members representing 53 countries, with one new member having joined in 2011, KSF (Kuwait). Application of the FITASC rules The National federations, Fitasc members, are reminded that the name of a discipline is fully linked to its rules. Thus it was decided by the OGA that any change in the application of the rules cannot be carried out in their regional, national and club championships, organized under the aegis of a federation Fitasc member. If their National laws bind them to modify the rules (for example, the ban of use of lead shot), a dispensation request will be necessary and shall be previously approved by the Fitasc Board. Page 140 / 147 Circulation of sports shooters inside the European Union The President underlines that, thanks to the united action of FITASC, ESC, CIC (Conseil International de la Chasse et de la Conservation du Gibier, as well as AECAC (Association Européenne de Commerce d’Armes Civiles), the amendment to Chapter 10 of the United Nations’ Firearms Protocol, has been voted by the European Parliament, that will enable shooters and hunters to travel with their firearm in acceptable conditions. The new European regulation No 258/2012 on firearms, whose article 9 particularly deals with the transportation of firearms of sports shooters, shall come into force in all EEC countries no later than 30th September 2013. 9th July 2013 – Burgo de Osma – Ordinary General Assembly Homogenisation of names of disciplines and championship titles Presentation of the ESSC (European Shooting Sport Council), co-chaired by the FITASC to represent it to European bodies Presentation of the Study Commission “Future Development of Sports and Leisure Shooting” Modification of sports rules Extract of the minutes of the Meeting On 31/12/2012, there were 62 members representing 51 countries. Denominations of the FITASC disciplines & championships It is recalled that, in all Fitasc member federations, the official name of a discipline must be strictly used in all official sports rules, in the titles of championships they organize and their programs, and mainly in all official communications. * The OGA unanimously approved the homogenization of the FITASC disciplines & championships (in DEU, FRA, ENG, ESP, ITA, POR), in order to avoid, in the future, any misunderstanding prejudicial to our shooters and to the shooting sports in general. As from 1st January 2014, the organizers of Fitasc international championships will have to comply with the denominations settled on (see hereafter tables in appendix) and to send flyers and programs to Fitasc for checking before diffusion. Important note: Depending on countries, different names may exist by common usage, among the media: for example in English-speaking countries, “Fitasc” or “Fitasc sporting” are commonly understood as “Sporting” (Parcours de Chasse) in the everyday and popular language. This is not in opposition to the usage of official names in the cases stated above. 8th July 2014 – Santa Iria de Azoia – Ordinary General Assembly Professionalisation of Championship organisations: FITASC secretairiat of big Chanpionships Modification of sports regulations Extract of the minutes of the Meeting: Page 141 / 147 On 31/12/2013, there were 62 members representing 51 countries. Proposals of modification of specifications With the aim of financial rebalancing between Fitasc and championship organizers, as from 2015, it was decided to transfer to the organizer the fees of the Fitasc Secretarial work regarding the European and world championships of Compak Sporting (100%), Sporting (100%) and Universal Trench (50%). The secretarial work remains under the control of Fitasc, which will take its fees into account in the invoice of the championship. 8th July 2014 – Santa Iria de Azoia –Elective General Assembly Jean-François PALINKAS re-elected unanimously by acclamation Election of the members of the management committee, including the first Vice-President for Asia, following FITASC development in these disciplines on this continent. Extract of the minutes of the Meeting: Election of Executive Committee M. Sauvain read the letter of the President of the Portuguese federation FPTAC, informing the General Assembly of the withdrawal of all Portuguese candidatures. 8th July 2014 – Santa Iria de Azoia – Management Committee Meeting Nomination of the Presidents of the Technical commissions and ratification Nomination of the Presidents of the Technical Commissions and ratification of the lists of members of these technical commissions Extract of the minutes of the Meeting: [The President] underlines that the FPTAC, by official letter dated 8th July 2014, withdrew all Portuguese candidatures to the technical Commissions. 21st July 2015 – Mankato – Ordinary General Assembly FEDECAT: - Definitive exclusion of the FATAV (Argentina) and of the RFEC (Spain) for affiliation to FEDECAT in violation of provisions 8,9 and 10 of the preamble of the FITASC by-laws -Exclusion of the FPTAC (Portugal), it will be cancelled on the condition of respecting the integrity of the Development of conditions for the participation of shooters in national and international competitions for FITASC disciplines. Helice shooting: Reworking the sports regulations/ Fixed number of helices shot without elimination in international Championships / Strict framework for money prizes (strictly and exclusively financed by sponsorship type operations) Adoption of the exam protocol to become an international referee for the disciplines of Sporting, Compak Sporting and Universal Trench Creation of a new discipline “Fitasc Trap 300” Resolution on the Participation in a new competition organised under the aegis of a national or international competition, not recognised by the FITASC < LEGAL NOTE ON THE ISSUE OF THE EXCLUSION OF THE THREE FEDERATIONS AFFILIATED TO FEDCAT > Extract of the minutes of the Meeting On 31/12/2014, there were 66 members representing 54 countries. Upon decision of the Management Committee and according to the provisions of the articles 3.13.2 and 7.2.2 of the FITASC by-laws, vote on the exclusion of FATAV (Argentina), FPTAC (Portugal) and of RFEC (Spain), for the violation of the provisions 8, 9 and 10 of the preamble of the FITASC by-laws At 3pm, the President approached the issue of the exclusion of these 3 federations. He reminded that two of the three (FATAV and RFEC) were suspended in 2014 for the same offences. Since early June 2015 all Fitasc members may have examined all the documents concerning their cases. The 3 concerned federations have been advised on due time that their attendance at the OGA was necessary so that their defence is admissible. By failing to attend the OGA and to abide by the conditions set by Fitasc, especially as far as translation requests are concerned, Fitasc considers that their defence cannot be set out. Only the FATAV has sent to Fitasc its defence file in French, English and Spanish. After observing the absence of representation of the 3 concerned federations, the President handed over to M. Frédéric Sauvain, Fitasc legal advisor, who read his legal note (see appendix). * According to the provisions of the articles 3.13.2 and 7.2.2 of the FITASC by-laws and according to the proposal of the Management Committee, the OGA unanimously approved the definitive exclusion of the Real Federacion Espanola de Caza (RFEC - Spain) for the violation of the provisions 8, 9 and 10 of the preamble of the by-laws. * According to the provisions of the articles 3.13.2 and 7.2.2 of the FITASC by-laws and according to the proposal of the Management Committee, the OGA unanimously approved the definitive exclusion of the Federación Argentina de Tiro Al Vuelo (FATAV - Argentina) for the violation of the provisions 8, 9 and 10 of the preamble of the by-laws. * The Ordinary General Assembly unanimously approved to entrust the Management Committee with checking the full implementation, by October 31st, 2015, of the memorandum of understanding signed in Lisbon last July 10th, 2015 by the Presidents JF Palinkas (FITASC) and P. Mota (FPTAC) at the Secretariat of State of Sports & Youth of Portugal. If the Management Committee does not certify the full implementation of the memorandum of understanding by Federaçao Portuguesa de Tiro com Armas de Caça (FPTAC) by October 31st 2015, namely: Page 143 / 147 - FPTAC submitting, by October 31st, 2015, to its General Assembly its disaffiliation from FEDECAT, - Written commitment by FPTAC, by October 31st, 2015, to have no direct links with the FEDECAT disciplines, - Cancellation by FPTAC, by October 31st, 2015, of all trademark applications made in Portugal related to the name and disciplines belonging to FITASC, then will be implemented the OGA decision which unanimously approved, according to the provisions of the articles 3.13.2 and 7.2.2 of the FITASC by-laws and according to the proposal of the Management Committee, the definitive exclusion of the FPTAC for the violation of the provisions 8, 9 and 10 of the preamble of the by-laws as from November 1st, 2015. The President confirmed that the Management Committee had decided to provide temporary replacement of expelled federations for 2015 and would decide on an extension of present affiliation or on the choice of another member for 2016. Miscellaneous The OGA approved by 136 in favor and 6 abstentions the following resolution regarding the participation in a competition organized under the aegis of a national or international organization not recognized by Fitasc: Any shooter participating, in whatever capacity, in a competition organized under the aegis of a national or international organization not recognized by Fitasc, in disciplines of which Fitasc owns all the rights (Compak Sporting, Universal Trench, Helice, Sporting, Combined Game Shooting or any other discipline adopted by Fitasc) or any other disciplines adopted by FITASC, be they identical, similar or whose rules would have just been distorted, may be subject, upon decision of the Fitasc Management Committee, to a ban, temporary upon one season maximum (may be increased to 5 years in case of reoffending), on competing to any championship organized under the aegis of FITASC. We recommend to the shooters willing to enter these kind competitions to enquire beforehand to their National federation on the possible consequences of their participation in these events. 29th March 2016 – Lisbon – The FITASC Subpeonaed to the Lisbon Court by the Portuguese federation FPTAC 12th July 2016 – Todi – Ordinary General Assembly Court case initiated the Portuguese Federation FPTAC against FITASC, following exclusion from FPTAC on the 31st December 2015 (the Protocol agreement signed in Lisbon on the 10th of July 2015 was not fully respected by the FPTAC) Fitasc Automatic Trap 300: calendar of national events 2017 Extract of the minutes of the Meeting: On 31/12/2015, there were 64 members representing 56 countries. 4th July 2017 – Budapest – Ordinary General Assembly Sporting: creation of an Asian Championships Clarification of the ranking by national team in contentious Championships Creation of a new age category “Master” for 73 and over. Evolution of the names of categories to harmonise with the names commonly used in other sports. Re-affiliation of the Spanish Federation RFEC following their resignation from FEDCAT The judicial situation FPTAC / FITASC : the court judged that the events organised by the FPTAC in 2016 in disciplines similar to the FITASC ones and this sentence in confirmed on appeal. Extract of the < NOTE ON THE SITUATION OF THE COURT CASE FPTAC / FITASC ON 23RD JUNE 2017 > A. Judgement given by the administrative Court of Lisbon 26th January 2017 – case. 249/16.4BELSB Last 26th February 2016, the Federaçao Portuguesa de Tiro com Armas de Caça (FPTAC) initiated interlocutory proceedings to the Administrative Court of Lisbon, against FITASC and against the 4 Portuguese shooters who supported the creation of a new federation in Portugal, with the following requests: • Mainly, the reintegration of FPTAC in FITASC as full member, on the ground that FPTAC would have abided by the Memorandum of Understanding of Lisbon, of 10th July 2015, while remaining FEDECAT member. • Then, some precautionary measures to be taken in the interest of public safety, against any competition of FITASC discipline organized in Portugal by any other organisation than FPTAC and against any initiative to create a new federation in Portugal ; • Finally, the confirmation that the FEDECAT disciplines are different from the FITASC ones. In its decision of 26th January 2017, the court rejected all the requests of FPTAC, due to the lack of basis and proof Besides, the court judged that trials have been organized throughout 2016 by FPTAC in disciplines similar* to FITASC ones. * Synonyms of similar: alike, like, comparable, parallel, analogous, related, akin The court thus considered that the FEDECAT disciplines and the FITASC disciplines renamed by FPTAC are similar to the FITASC ones, which FITASC has asserted since the beginning of these proceedings: Page 145 / 147 Disciplines FITASC Disciplines FITASC Disciplines FEDECAT renamed by FPTAC Helices FAN 32 Compak Sporting Compak Sporting FPTAC Sporting Sport Fedecat Percurso de Caça FPTAC Universal Trench Trap5 Fosso Universal After losing against FITASC, FPTAC appealed this judgment last 22nd February 2017. B. Judgement given by the central appeal administrative Court Center South of Lisbon – Portugal – 2nd June 2017 – Case. N° 249/16.4BELSB Last 2nd June 2017, the appeal court of the Central Administrative Court Center-South of Lisbon – Portugal confirmed the decision of the Administrative Court of Lisbon to reject all the requests of the Federaçao Portuguesa de Tiro com Armas de Caça (FPTAC) put in its interlocutory proceedings initiated in February 2016, against FITASC and against the 4 Portuguese shooters who supported the creation of a new federation in Portugal. The appeal judgment defended that, unlike the arguments put forward by FPTAC, the decision of the basic Court is free from any mistake or nullity for the following reasons: • there hasn’t been any omission as all relevant questions of fact and law have been examined; • the judgement of the basic court is founded in law and fact; • the judgement of the basic court rightly pointed out that a main lawsuit would fail, owing to the exclusion of FPTAC from FITASC membership. Besides, the appeal Court confirmed that trials have been organized by FPTAC throughout 2016 in disciplines similar to FITASC ones. The FPTAC may refer the case to the Supreme Administrative court no later than 23rd June 2017. To this day, at first instance and in appeal, the FPTAC has lost all the proceedings. Extract of the minutes of the Meeting: On 31/12/2016, there were 65 members representing 56 countries.