Department updates in Main Eventing

In line with the FEI Officials’ Recommendations, please be informed that the FEI Eventing Education System has been fully revised by the FEI Eventing Department, the Eventing Officials Education Working Group, the FEI Education and Officials Department and the FEI Eventing Technical Committee, and will be implemented on 1 January 2023.

Alongside the FEI Eventing Education System, the related career pathways, job descriptions and transition document will also be published, with the latter describing the main changes in the new system and immediate consequences for existing Eventing Officials.

Finally, to provide support to, and answer questions from all Eventing stakeholders, two free-access webinars will be organised on 12 October 2022. The first one at 08h30 and the second one at 14h00 CEST. Practical details for these webinars will be communicated in due time.

Should you require any additional information, please do not hesitate to contact the FEI Eventing Department at eventingofficials@fei.org.

With the FEI Eventing and Driving World Championships 2022 ahead of us, we have recently published the FEI Doping & Medication Control Guide for the FEI World Championships 2022 to provide all concerned stakeholders with an overview of all the doping and medication control systems and processes in place for both Equine and Human Athletes.

To ensure we reach our target audience, we have sent targeted emailers to the Athletes on the Eventing Nominated Entries list for Pratoni del Vivaro 2022 (see attached emailer) and will replicate this when we have the Driving Nominated Entries for Pratoni del Vivaro.

As you can see in the attached, we have encouraged all nominated Athletes to familiarise themselves with the Guide and the Rules and Regulations in place, as well as ensuring their support personnel/teams are also fully up to date.

We also encourage all concerned National Federations to share this Guide with their teams attending/preparing for the World Championships such as Chefs d’équipe, Chefs de Mission, etc to ensure everyone has an accurate understanding of the Rules at play and avoid any anti-doping rule violations.

The Guide is available in 7 languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish) and we are available for any questions you may have.

The Eventing Forum and NSO Seminar will be organised from Friday 20 to Sunday 22 January 2023.

The location is to be confirmed as soon as possible. Please see the pre-notice invitation published on the following webpage.

The Eventing Categorisation of Athletes has been updated on 01 July 2022 and takes into account MERs obtained between 1 January 2014  and 30 June 2022.

The lists of categorised Athletes are available on the following webpage.

We hereby inform you that Mike Etherington-Smith has decided to step down as Course Designer Member of the RMSG. He has been replaced by Stuart Buntine.

The RMSG Terms of Reference and the list of Members can be viewed on the website under Eventing / Risk Management / RMSG

The following reports have been updated:

- Fence Description Form (and Instructions for filling in Fence Description Form):

An additional column “narrow fence (under 2 m between the flags)” has been added to improve the fence type data analysis

- Fall Report Form:

 Several fields have been removed as these were hardly ever used for data analysis

- Fence Diagrams:

 A clarification has been included regarding House type fences to be classified as “D3”

The updated forms can be found on the FEI website.

The following MIM instruction manuals have been updated on the FEI website:

• Post & Rail Kit – 80321
• Post & Rail Narrow Kit – 80322
• Wall Kit – 80324
• Corner Kit – 80326

In addition, the Frangible Device Chart providing specifications for each device has also been updated.

All information relating to Frangible Devices is available on the FEI website

The use of 8mm pre-fabricated Dyneema ropes has been approved for use with the British Eventing Reverse Frangible Pin for rails up to 90 kg.
The updated instruction manual has been published on the frangible devices page of the FEI website

Online consultations on the FEI Regulations for Equestrian Events at the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024 were conducted on 21 and 22 March.

Participants had the opportunity to discuss the Jumping, Dressage and Para Dressage Regulations in individual sessions as part of the wide-ranging Paris 2024 consultation process. The discussion on the Eventing Regulations will take place on 28 March.

The consultations are an opportunity for stakeholders to review and comment on the feedback that was received on the pre-competition and competition Regulations for each discipline.

This feedback was collected through an online questionnaire circulated to stakeholders on 7 December 2021, and the information was reviewed by Consultative Groups set up for each Olympic and Paralympic discipline.

The questionnaire was sent to athletes, officials and other Tokyo 2020 stakeholders, in addition to representatives of the International Jumping Riders Club (IJRC), the International Jumping Officials Club (IJOC), the Jumping Owner’s Club (JOC), the International Dressage Riders Club (IDRC), the International Dressage Trainers Club (IDTC), the International Dressage Officials Club (IDOC), the International Eventing Officials Club (IEOC), FEI Regional Group Chairs, and the relevant FEI Technical Committees.

The information from the consultation sessions will now be consolidated and discussed by the relevant FEI Technical Committees before being put forward to the FEI Sports Forum for discussion on 25 April. The documents for discussion at the FEI Sports Forum, which will include the proposals of the Technical Committees, will be published in advance on the FEI Sports Forum Hub.

Key dates in the consultation process are as follows:

7 December 2021
Online questionnaire circulated to 302 Athletes; 51 National Federations; 35 Officials; 7 MOUs Stakeholders and 3 Discipline Managers. All of these stakeholders participated directly at Tokyo 2020 Olympic or Paralympic Games. The deadline for returning the questionnaire was 15 February 2022.

21 March 2022
Online Session - Paris 2024 Olympic Dressage Regulations
Online Session - Paris 2024 Paralympic Regulations

22 March 2022
Online Session - Paris 2024 Olympic Jumping Regulations

28 March
Online Session - Paris 2024 Olympic Eventing Regulations

25 April
FEI Sports Forum – Sessions dedicated to all the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Regulations.

July 2022
Revised Regulations to be sent to National Federations for further feedback.

October 2022
Proposed Olympic and Paralympic Regulations for Paris 2024 will be published, four weeks prior to the FEI General Assembly.

November 2022
NFs and other stakeholders will have one last opportunity to comment on the Regulations during the Rules Session, which will take place the day before the General Assembly.

The regulations will be put to a vote at the FEI General Assembly and the documents will be submitted to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) in 2023 for approval.

The FEI Eventing Risk Management and NSO Seminar which took place on 22 January 2022 is available to watch on replay on the dedicated FEI Eventing Risk Management webpage. You will also find all the presentations, annexes and statistics as well as a report highlighting the key discussions.