We are pleased to inform you that the FEI Secretary General has approved the FEI Calendar for 2025 for all disciplines. It can be consulted online in the FEI Database.
Should you have any questions related to the FEI Calendar, please do not hesitate to contact calendar@fei.org.
We are pleased to announce that, with the collaboration of the GBR National Federation and the Para Equestrian Technical Committee, the FEI Para Equestrian Forum will be held in-person from 25-26 February 2025, at the Belfry Hotel near Birmingham (GBR). The Forum will be open to all Para Equestrian stakeholders, and we encourage NFs to share this news with Athletes, Officials, Coaches and other interested parties. Registration for the event will open early in December, when further information will be sent, however we already ask you to please save the date in your calendars.
The Para Equestrian Technical Committee will be hosting the Forum to discuss topics such as the Para Dressage Strategy, IPC Classification Code Review, Intentional Misrepresentation, Social Licence to Operate and more. The Forum will also be an opportunity to share ideas with Para Dressage stakeholders in advance of the Full Rules Revision cycle which will happen in 2026 for implementation on 1 January 2027.
Prior to the Para Equestrian Forum, an in-person Classifier Seminar and Level 4 Para Dressage Judges Seminar will be held from 23-24 February at the same venue. The seminar will be published shortly in the FEI Course Calendar and registrations have to be made by the National Federation directly in the FEI Course Calendar. We encourage participants from the seminar to remain for the Forum to maximise discussions.
To bring the week to an end, the Para Equestrian Technical Committee will hold their annual in-person meeting, to go through all of the topics previously discussed.
We wish to remind you that in accordance with Art. 112 of the FEI General Regulations, the dates for all 2025 International Events must be entered into the FEI online Calendar through FEI Database before Tuesday 01 October 2024 midnight CEST, with the exception of CSI5* and CSIO5* Events for 2025 which had to be entered before 1 May 2024 and have already been approved as previously indicated in our newsletter dated 22 August 2024.
At 23:59 CEST on 01 October 2024, the 2025 online Calendar will be blocked. Any modification requested after the deadline will need to be addressed to the FEI by email (calendar@fei.org) using the Calendar Form available on FEI Documents.
The full Memo can be accessed via the FEI Calendar page (click here).
The Dutch National Equestrian Centre in Ermelo (NED), has been announced as host of the FEI Para Dressage European Championship in 2025, following a decision by the FEI Board, with the endorsement of the FEI Para Equestrian Technical Committee and the European Equestrian Federation (EEF).
The Championship, which is scheduled to take place from 3 to 7 September 2025, builds on Ermelo’s proven track record in hosting major equestrian events at the Dutch National Equestrian Centre, such as the FEI Dressage European Championships for Juniors and Young Riders in 2009 and national Dressage Championships. More recently, Ermelo hosted the FEI Endurance World Championship for Young Riders & Juniors in 2021 and the FEI Endurance European Championship for Seniors in 2023. The venue has also been hosting the FEI WBFSH World Breeding Championships for Young Dressage Horses for several years.
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PARALYMPIC GAMES - PARA DRESSAGE
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Definite Sports Entries We kindly remind all NFs qualified to take part in the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, that the deadline for the Paris 2024 Organising Committee to receive final entries is: 5 August 2024 23:59 Paris time. |
Music – Para Dressage Freestyle The IPC have confirmed that NPCs must provide the completed Music Submission Form in the Form specified by the Paris 2024 Organising Committee/IPC for each of their Athlete’s FEI Para Grand Prix Freestyle test when entering their Athletes. |
Compensating Aids and Equipment We would like to remind NFs that it remains the Athlete’s responsibility to make sure that the Compensating Aids and Equipment used while on the competition venue adhere to the rules. We urge NFs to verify that all Compensating Aids listed on the FEI Classification Masterlist are correct and up to date for all athletes listed on the Nominated Entries List. |
Pre-Arrival Testing We would like to inform National Federations that an updated version of the Pre-Arrival Testing Guidance document is available on the FEI Cleansport Hub here. An amendment has been made to the sample submission dates in Table 1 to align with information provided earlier in the document. Pre-Arrival Testing is available until 11 August and Elective testing ends 5 working days before the horses’ arrival in Paris. Please direct any enquiries regarding Pre-Arrival Testing to caterina.termine@fei.org. |
Equine Health Requirements - FEI HorseApp FEI HorseApp In accordance with the Equestrian Freight Manual available on the FEI Paris 2024 Hub FEI Paris 2024 Hub here, certain Equine Health Requirements need to be fulfilled for traceability and biosecurity reasons. |
Medical Note The FEI aims to provide all NF Medical Team providers with a comprehensive guide to the available medical services for your equestrian athletes and team delegation members at the Paralympic Games. The full guide is accessible in the FEI Paris 2024 Hub. |
Athlete Welbeing Kindly click here to view the letter from IPC Medical Manager Judith van der Veen regarding the initiatives set up to support the mental health of athletes and officials at the Paris 2024 Paralympic games. |
Equine Freight Manual & Veterinary and Farrier Guide We remind you of the Equine Freight Manual and Veterinary & Farrier Guide with all information regarding horse import/export, transport, logistics, stabling, veterinary, farriery and other matters. Both documents are available in the FEI Paris 2024 Hub here. |
Doping & Medication Guide for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games available online We would like to remind everyone that the FEI has compiled a Doping & Medication Guide for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, to ensure that both Athletes and Horses competing at the Games will be compliant with the anti-doping rules. Available in English, this guide provides pertinent information regarding, but not limited to:
Access the full Doping & Medication Guide for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games here. Alongside this essential tool, we would also like to remind you that detailed information on both human and equine anti-doping is available to you in the FEI Clean Sport hub on Inside.FEI.org. |
GENERAL INFORMATION |
Latest documents published on the FEI Olympic & Paralympic Hub The following documents are now also available on the FEI Paris 2024 hub:
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Summary of useful Paris 2024 links |
FEI History Hub When did equestrian enter the Paralympic programme? |
We would like to inform National Federations that an updated version of the Pre-Arrival Testing Guidance document is available, here. An amendment has been made to the sample submission dates in Table 1 to align with information provided earlier in the document.
Please direct any enquiries regarding Pre-Arrival Testing to caterina.termine@fei.org.
The FEI will launch the "Be a Guardian" initiative today, calling on community members to embrace their roles as guardians of FEI horses. A full press release will be issued shortly and can be found here.
The ‘Be a Guardian’ initiative represents a significant shift in the FEI's approach to equine care, emphasising the importance of horse welfare.
Based on the concept of guardianship, the Equine Ethics and Wellbeing Commission created a comprehensive document highlighting six priority areas and 30 recommendations to improve the welfare of sport horses.
The FEI has since developed an Equine Welfare Strategy Action Plan to address the priorities identified by the Commission.
Supported by a CHF 1 million allocation approved by the FEI Board in June 2024, this plan aims to enhance the wellbeing of FEI horses through robust rules, guidelines, educational programmes, and various initiatives.
The goal is to respect the natural needs of horses in international equestrian sports, fostering a global commitment to equine welfare and ensuring that horses receive the care and respect they deserve.
We urge our National Federations to embrace this call to action, actively promote this shift in perspective, and recognise the responsibility we all share in being the guardians of our beloved horses.
The Rules Revision Process 2024 is well underway with the first draft of the proposed changes now available to National Federations and Stakeholders for review and feedback by 21 August 2024 prior to being submitted to the FEI General Assembly for approval in November as per the timeline below:
1 March 2024
National Federations and Stakeholders with whom the FEI has signed an MOU have the opportunity to propose Rules changes as per the FEI Periodical Rules Revision Policy.
26 June 2024
The FEI provides National Federations and Stakeholders with the first Draft of proposed Rules changes.
IMPORTANT
The 1st Draft of proposed Rules changes Memos as well as the Templates to provide feedback by 21 August 2024 can be found here. ONLY proposals submitted online on the Rules Revision Platform using the respective Templates will be accepted.
21 August 2024
National Federations and Stakeholders are given eight weeks to review the first Draft and the proposed amendments in this first Draft and make comments and/or propose any changes in relation to the first Draft.
16 October 2024
Final Draft of the proposed Rules changes is provided to National Federations and Stakeholders.
12 November 2024
Rules Session at FEI General Assembly.
13 November 2024
Voting of Rules at the FEI General Assembly.
For more information on the FEI Rules Revision processes and timelines, click here.
If you have any questions please contact the FEI Director Governance & Institutional Affairs at Francisco.lima@fei.org.
We would like to kindly remind everyone that all FEI Officials must have “passed” their annual CES Online Assessment to officiate at FEI Events.
The CES Online Assessment not only ensures integrity at all FEI Events, as well as the validity of the results, it is also testimony to FEI’s commitment in providing services of the highest standard to the athletes, the public and the sport.
In order to ensure that all FEI Events take place according the FEI Rules and Regulations, and to proactively prevent potential issues from arising during competitions, we have updated the FEI Event Schedule Policy.
As of 1 August 2024, the following FEI Event Schedule Policy will apply:
Officials must have “passed” their CES Online Assessment of the current year to be added to schedules of events taking place after the 31 March.
For information, the officiating/maintenance year runs from the 15 December of each year and until the 15 December of the following year.
You can find all information here on Inside.FEI.org.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Olympic Games - Jumping, Dressage, Eventing
Paralympic Games - Para Dressage
General Information
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24 June | FEI Deadline for achieving Olympic MERs for all Athlete/Horse combinations. |
25 June | FEI Deadline for NFs to send Certificates of Capability to FEI. |
08 July | Paris 2024 Sport Entry deadline – NOCs submit final entries. |
Jumping - Dressage - Eventing - Certificate of Capabilities - Deadline reminder | |
The deadline for all NFs qualified to take part in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, to send an FEI Certificate of Capability for all Athletes and Horses nominated to the FEI is 25 June 2024 23:59 CEST (Swiss time). |
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Jumping - Dressage - Eventing - Horse Owners Information - FEI Certificate of Capability - Nominated Entries | |
The FEI Nominated /Certificate of Capability Entry forms include the space to enter the Horse Owners, this is in relation to the counter-check for the Sport entry deadline (8 July 2024). |
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Jumping - Dressage - Eventing - Prefix and suffix for commercial names | |
No commercial prefix or suffix will be included with the name of a Horse on any Olympic participation/entry, start or result list. The FEI reserves the right to amend any Horse’s name accordingly (see Olympic Regs Art. 606.2.5). |
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Jumping - Dressage - Eventing - Pre-competition Changes (LAR) | |
Any Pre-competition Change can only be made with another Athlete/Horse combination that has obtained the Minimum Eligibility Requirement for participation according to the relevant discipline rules and duly entered on the FEI List of Nominated Entry list from 25 June 2024. (Olympic Regs Art 609.1.2).
For NOCs qualified with a team, Pre-competition Changes can be made two hours before the starting time of the Team qualifier or between the Team Final and the Individual qualifier but no later than two hours before the Individual qualifier with a horse at the Olympic stables. To be eligible to take part in the Horse Inspection (Individual) on Saturday 3 August 2024, all Horses must have been presented at the first Horse Inspection on Wednesday 31 July. |
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Dressage - Music rights clearance - Deadline reminder | |
We would like to remind you that NFs, intending to enter Dressage Athletes for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, are required to provide the details of all music to be used in the FEI Grand Prix Freestyle test at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and to ensure that the music is correctly licensed for use. |
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Dressage - Individualised Floorplans | |
The submission deadline for the individualised floorplans via the FEI Freestyle Creator has been set to the start of the Grand Prix Special. Submitting the floorplan in time is mandatory for all athletes who qualified either for the Grand Prix Special (Team Athletes) or directly for the Grand Prix Freestyle (Individual Athletes). This submission deadline was selected not only to give athletes as much time as possible to decide which floorplan they want to use, but also to enable storytelling around the specific difficulties of these floorplans and to facilitate the Olympic |
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Paris 2024 - NOCs uniform submissioni - Authorised Identifications | |
Further to discussions with the IOC, we encourage all NOCs/NFs to review the guidelines regarding Authorised Identification for Equestrian at the Olympic Games 2024 are available under the following links and on the FEI Paris 2024 hub: The FEI has been informed by the IOC that the IOC submission tool has been deactivated. We urge all NOCs/NFs to consult these guidelines to ensure that all Athlete and Horse uniforms as well as all equipment is within the limitations described.The FEI will not approve any specific equipment and/or uniforms. |
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Prevention on the manipulation of competitions | |
In the lead up to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games (Paris 2024) the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has recently launched the campaign “Believe in Sport” to raise awareness about competition manipulation and most importantly about what is permitted and what is not permitted during Paris 2024 by any accredited person to the Games. |
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Important Deadlines National Federations (NFs) are reminded of the upcoming deadlines concerning the Paralympic Games: |
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19 June | End of the FEI period for Athlete/Horse combinations to attain a minimum eligibility score. Nominated Entries date – NFs deadline to send in Certificate of Capabilities to the FEI. |
05 August | Deadline for Paris 2024 Organising Committee to receive sport entry forms submitted by NPCs. |
Nominated Entries - Certificates of Capability | |
As a reminder, the FEI Certificate of Capability for the Paralympic Games is available for download on the FEI Paris 2024 hub. All NFs qualified to take part at the Paralympic Games must send an FEI Certificate of Capability for all Athletes and Horses nominated, to FEI no later than 19 June 2024 23:59 CEST (Swiss time). |
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Horse Owners Information | |
Kindly note that the NF of a Horse belonging to a partnership, company or a syndicate of owners must inform the FEI by the date of the OCOG/IPC Nominated Entries for NPCs: 19 June 2024 of the name of one owner to ensure that it is entered in the Paralympic Accreditation System. |
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GENERAL INFORMATION | |
Physiotherapy for horses | |
Equine physiotherapy is regulated in France and can normally only be carried out by licensed veterinarians. The competent authority French Ministry of Agriculture (MASA) - Direction Générale de l'Alimentation (DGAL) has kindly agreed to a derogation during the Paris 2024 Games. The following conditions apply:
For the physiotherapists working for the Olympic Games, please send information to the following address: vetnocregistration@paris2024.org or; |
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Latest documents published on the FEI Olympic & Paralympic Hub | |
The following documents are now also available on the FEI Paris 2024 hub: OLYMPIC GAMES:
OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES:
Use of radio emitting devices |
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Summary of useful Paris 2024 links | |
FEI History Hub | |
Who was the first woman to take part in equestrian at Olympic Games? |
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