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EUDC council past decisions |
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Sunday, 01 June 2008 |
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Webmaster: For those who are unfamiliar with EUDC council. This is the highest body of the EUDC (European Universities debate championship) that makes decisions about where should the EUDC take place and what rulez apply there. It consists of one representative from each country that is competing on the EUDC and it has one meeting per year, this is at the EUDC. This years Council president is Branka Maruši? from Croatia and she made an effort to get together most of the past year's council's decisions. Read on...
Council decisions 2002-2007
Haifa 2002
Proxy voting allowed – used by Netherlands and Turkey
Needed better representation of EUDC in IONA
Zagreb wins the bid for 2003 (unopposed)
Zagreb 2003
Wales
recognized as a country under the EUDC. (this decision was overruled in
Durham 2004 because the vote was carried out without the 2/3 majority
which is needed for Constitution change).
Recommendation regarding
new countries-Conclusion: “We recommend that we draw a new law that
relates a list of countries, which are allowed to participate in the
European Championship, and gives the organizing committee the authority
to allow a one year exemption to countries out side of said list if
they express an interest in participating. The European Council of that
same year will have to make a rolling ruling about the country from
then forth”.
Web site - Conclusion: Derek Lande Volunteered to
moderate the EUDC mail list. He will also try to find someone willing
to take upon them selves the web site. Meanwhile it might be a good
idea to take the existing site off the web and if we can’t find someone
by next year to continue this work we should re-visit the idea of
making it the hosts’ responsibility.
Debating in Europe
As part
of a suggestion to strengthen connections between debaters and debating
societies in Europe it’s been suggested that the EUDC mailing list is
used as a contact platform for European debaters.
Seeing how the
most of the people on the list at the moment are not actively
participating in the championship it’s been suggested that the
executive committee for Zagreb Europeans includes in its final e-mail a
call to all participants to join the list.
There was also a
suggestion to start working towards creating a European debating body,
similar that of Austral- Asians (or APDA) the head of which can be a
properly elected European representative to the world committee.
Durham wins the bid unopposed
Durham 2004
Constitution changes- see Constitution as it stands now
Wales- voted again and not recognized as a country under the EUDC
Yugoslavia- changes in Serbia and Montenegro (as separate two countries)
Czech Republic placed from North and West Europe to Central and Eastern Europe
Kosovo-
decision made that the Council shall discuss recognition of Kosovo when
Kosovo's institutions not only apply for the championships (like in the
case of Durham) but when they arrive and present their case to the
Council
Cork wins the bid unopposed
Cork 2005
National
eligibility: Council supports the principle that hosts should err on
the side of inclusion in accepting borderline countries.
Institutional
eligibility: RRIS and IDC (Israel) recognized as separate institutions,
Zagreb and Zagreb Law (Croatia) recognized as separate institutions.
Two bids presented Berlin and Istanbul. Berlin wins 8-7
Berlin 2006
Regarding the ESL status the EUDC will take into consideration the guidelines given by the Worlds Council.
Istanbul wins the bid unopposed.
Istanbul 2007
No
distinction between medical and cultural food requirements. – Hosts
can’t discriminate in registration fees and catering when food is
considered.
Ljubljana and Ljubljana law are not recognized as separate institutions.
The
Council shall follow the same guidelines, as the Worlds Council, the
responsibility lies with the institution to request deviation from the
rule.
Hosts should seek to reserve at least one place for every nation that was presented in the last years European Council.
Council
recognizes the need for and would strongly encourage hosts to make
rationalization for break rounds available to the entire European
community.
Azerbaijan is placed in South East Europe.
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