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Draft, to be approved by EC meeting on October 12

th, 2005.

C.E.B. Executive Committee meeting

Rotterdam, 18th September 2005

Present

Martin Miller

, President; Riccardo Fraccari, First Vice President; Alexander Ratner, Second Vice President;

Gerard Vaandrager

Borbely

Chairman,

Agenda of the meeting:

, Third Vice President; Petr Ditrich, Secretary General; Rene Laforce, Treasurer; Attila, Eric-Pierre Dufour, Ake Halvarson, Samuel Pelter, Osvaldo Vavra, Vocals; Jan Esselman, TCAldo Notari, IBAF President



1 Welcome by the president



2 Approval of the last meeting minutes



3 Sports



3.1 decisions on the proposal by the Technical Commission



3.2 future competitions



3.3 future activities



4 Development



4.1 decisions on the proposal by the development commission



4.2 IBAF+CEB development program



4.3 future activities



5 Marketing



5.1 decisions on proposals by Martin Miller



5.2 future activities



6 CEB Commissions



6.1 Medical Commission



6.2 Legal Commission



6.3 Technical Commission (and Umpire - Sub-commission)



6.4 others



7 Financial report



8 Communication with member federations



9 Next meeting EC + Congress 2006 (date and site)



10 New business

1. Welcome by the President

all delegates welcomed by Martin Miller

A. Notari was present according to Rule 16 of IBAF Statutes.

A. Ratner asked to discuss item of "Olympic baseball", approved within New business

2. Approval of the last meeting minutes

S. Pelter asked to mention the discussion of the Euro Juveniles 2005 in Moldova

S. Pelter complained regards the quality of organisation, on behalf of the Israeli Federation

S. Pelter asked CEB to check more carefully tournaments preparation

EC waits for the official report of Technical delegate

all official tournaments will be evaluated together

Decision:

Minutes 2005/3 approved unanimously with this additional item.

3. Sports

3.1 Decisions on the proposal by the Technical Commission

complete proposal of TC enclosed, introduced by R. Fraccari

point [15] will be discussed next EC meeting

Decision:

proposal accepted with the following remarks

point [2] - PTR will be proposed by different way, up to WADA rules

point [4] - foreign players rules will be specified in details

point [5] - last sentence cancelled, teams have to reach city of organisation

point [6] - Euro Juveniles 2006 will be played till now, new system starts from 2007

point [8] - Euro Juniors will be played in 10 teams every second year, no change

point [13] - Euro U21 Championship will be played in 2006, every second year

no older players allowed

host candidatures by November 1, ITA is ready to host 2006

A. Ratner mention possible conflict with Statues regards decision responsibility of Board vs. Congress

will be asked to new Legal Commission

3.2 Future competition

three candidatures received

Euro Qualifier 2006 - CRO and RUS

European Cup Qualifier 2006 - Draci Brno (CZE)

Decision:

CRO and RUS will be asked to send more materials regards their candidatures

3.3 Future activities

Euro 2007 will be played 5-16 September, in Spain

4. Development

4.1 Decisions on the proposal by the development commission

report of Development Commission enclosed

G. Vaandrager informed about the activities and meeting on Sept/17

report discussed and approved

proposal about five regional meetings according the development groups of member countries to explain

development program and extend communication

Decision:

meetings will be hold in November and December organized and joined by responsible EC member and

joined by Gerard Vandraager or Martin Miller each

4.2 IBAF+CEB development program

A. Notari and A. Ratner explained new principle of IBAF development program

each continent receives 3000 USD / developing country (in Europe 25 countries)

each continent gets 15000 USD for administration

IBAF will transfer to each continental association 25000 USD, rest after development plan

since 2006, 50% will be sent on about April 1

st, rest on about October 1st

pilot development program must be given to IBAF, approved and audited

additional programs can be asked by each IBAF member federation to IBAF office directly

any new member will automatically get another 3000 USD.

5. Marketing

M. Miller presented his material, parts General and Tournaments

General

- new homepage on the way, official papers and visit cards will be prepared by P. Ditrich

- CEB souvenirs will be designed (polo-shirts already distributed)

Tournaments

- visibility of CEB on tournaments, official CEB logo and CEB banner will be used

- CEB web address will be on umpires\' uniforms

- CEB will use unique tournaments' web site software (used in Euro 2005)

6. CEB commissions

all EC members received list of all candidates

6.1 Medical Commission

only two nominations received

Decision:

G. Langevoort (chairman) and G. Effinger named, no more members needed

6.2 Legal Commission

eight nominations received

M. Miller proposed: B. Schmeilzl (expert of sport law), L. Sundin (current member), L. Smallegange

A. Ratner asked about O. Dubaut, current chairman

E. Dufour replied French Federation preferred another candidate

P. Ditrich proposed A. Vamos, to involve more countries into commissions' work

Decision:

B. Schmeilzl (chairman), L. Sundin named

the third member is to be chosen between L. Smallegange (NED) and A. Vamos (HUN)

6.3 Legal Commission

nineteen nominations received

J. Esselman proposed (supported by M. Miller): J. Esselman, X. Mateu, R. Hoffmann, P. Strom, A. Fanara, J.

Meraunt, F. Bunta

A. Ratner proposed to add J. Mika, due to many events in Czechia

O. Vavra proposed to add K Karin, good experienced with tournaments organisation

Decision:

J. Esselman (chairman), X. Mateu (secretary), R. Hoffmann, P. Strom, A. Fanara, J. Meraunt named

selection of the 7

the last member is to be chosen among these three candidates next meeting

Umpire's Sub-Commission

M. Screti (chaiman) and E. van den Berk named

the third open spot was discussed, will be named next meeting

Scorers workgroup

G. Reiter (Chairman), L. Stijger, P. Navarro named

th member: Karin 5 votes, Mika 2 votes, Bunta 0 votes, no majority

7. Financial report

R. Laforce presented Financial Results of Tournaments and Development Program

Financial Results of Tournament

tournament by tournament overview of incomes and outcomes

tentative result is +84168EUR, but many payments is still missing

all financial operations are asked to be done in EU standard (BIC)

Development Program

11 countries owe together 7.215EUR in favour of CEB, will be solved next time

10 countries have together 6161EUR credit in CEB

8. Communication with member federations

already discussed within Development Program (meeting, addresses)

9. Next meeting + CEB Congress 2006

next meeting planned on November 12

Development Commission will meet on November 13

th, in Rome; arrivals on Oct/11th

R. Fraccari explained details and invited all to Rome

CEB Congress will be held on March 4

th, in Stockholm, with previous activities

10. New business

M. Miller in favour of all the member federations asked A. Notari to investigate result of IOC election of

baseball participation in Olympic Games 2012

A. Ratner joined this demand, proposed to send a letter to USOC President asking for support in Olympic

program case

Recorded by:

Petr Ditrich, Secretary General Prague, September 22

Approved by:

Martin Miller, President October 3

nd, 2005rd, 2005

CEB DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE

Report of the meeting of September 17, 2005 in Rotterdam

Present: Martin Miller, Attila Borbely, Eric-Pierre Dufour, Ake Halvarson, Sam Pelter,

Osvaldo Vavra, Gerard Vaandrager, Rene Laforce (guest), Petr Ditrich (guest).

Report of the meeting of June 2 2005 (Lausanne).

The report is agreed without changes.

Cooperation.

a) Martin Miller and Gerard Vaandrager have approached MLBI to cooperate with CEB

in the field of development. On June 14 2005 they had a meeting with Jason Holowaty

of MLBI in Antwerp. The report of this meeting has been distributed. Jason Holowaty

will attend the future meetings of the DC as a guest.

Gerard Vaandrager mentions as a personal remark the questionable position of MLB(I)

with respect to the development of baseball in Europe. On the one hand very

cooperative, but on the other hand no cooperation from MLB for releasing players to

play for their national team. The World Cup Baseball 2005 was the example. Almost

no MLB-players in the national teams and a very mediocre Team USA. Making the

World Cup 2005 quality wise a mediocre event. "What does MLB really wants with

development?"

b) Martin Miller reports about his visit to MLB in New York and his talks with Little

League. MLB wants to focus on improving the level of the game and not to grassroots

development. Little League wants to cooperate with CEB. Further talks will follow

shortly (Martin Miller and Gerard Vaandrager will meet Little League).

c) Gerard Vaandrager reports about his meeting with Humberto Rodriguez (Head of

Sports in Cuba) about his plan to involve Cubans in the CEB development plans for

Eastern European countries. Humberto Rodriguez is receptive for this plan. Within a

few months Gerard Vaandrager will continue his discussion with him. The DC agrees

with this idea.

Questionnaire.

- About 50% of the countries responded so far. All the account managers will continue

their efforts to collect the missing responses.

- The DC agrees to propose to the CEB Exexecutive Committee to make a (new) list of

at least 3 contact persons per member federation in order to try to improve the

communication with all the 37 member federations. Petr Ditrich will do the follow up.

Production of Manuals.

- Scorers. Jan Esselman reports that all the necessary documentation is already available

via IBAF or will be available within short notice. Delivery date: December 2005.

- Umpires. According to Jan Esselman the documentation (via IBAF) will be available

on short notice. Delivery date: December 2005.

- Trainers/coaches. Aldo Vavra is working on this manual. Delivery date: December

2005.

- Construction of fields. Martin Miller is working on this manual (together with the

German Federation). Delivery date: December 2005.

- Modified rules. Sam Pelter asked the federations for input, without receiving any

reaction. It is decided that Sam will continue to write the manual with the knowledge

he has. Delivery date: December 2005.

- Baseball Promoters. Gerard Vaandrager is working on this manual (together with the

Dutch Federation). A first draft is ready. Delivery date: December 2005.

- Info maps per country. Martin Miller already has the rough outline of the new CEB

website with information per country. Delivery date: November 2005.

- School programmes. Gerard Vaandrager asked input from Italy, Czech Republic and

Germany. Only Czech Republic responded. He will continue. Delivery date:

December 2005.

Development Level Scheme.

- Gerard Vaandrager and Martin Miller designed the first draft for a scheme of

development levels per CEB Member Federation.

- Sam Pelter suggests to include equipment criteria (local production, import

regulations).

- Extra criterion: the existence of own education programmes and possible national laws

for the education of sports instructors.

- The draft is supported.

- During the meeting all the member federations are classified in the 3 levels (this

scaling will be included in the CEB Membership Data and Development Scheme).

Regional Meetings.

- Martin Miller proposes to organise before the end of 2005 5 meetings with a group of

7/8 member federations (according to the division of countries per Board Member) in

order to start and/or improve the communication with all the member federations.

- Under the restriction that these meetings have to be organised in the most

economic/effective way the DC agrees with this proposal. Each meeting will be

chaired by Martin Miller or Gerard Vaandrager together with the relevant Board

Member.

- Action to be taken by the 5 Board Members (date, place, contact with federations,

budget proposal). Decision: November 12 in Rome. Martin miller will contact MLBI

about financial support from their side (travel coasts will have to be paid fully for the

federations).

Marketing.

- Martin Miller proposes some ideas about the CEB house style.

NEXT MEETING: November 13, 2005 in Rome (in the morning).

1

CONFEDERATION

EUROPEENNE

DE BASEBALL

EUROPEAN

BASEBALL

CONFEDERATION

Technical Commission

To the EXECUTIVE MEMBERS of C.E.B.

Dear Sirs,

Herewith we ask you to decide on following proposals and changes of the competition rules:

1) Organizers must arrange an Internet connection in the field available for T.C. for

transmitting the results of the competition to the CEB Website.

In connection with the improvement of the CEB organisation and the new Website it is

important to supply fast and adequate information of the CEB competitions results on the

Website.

2) Delete the CEB licence system and improve the FTR(final team roster) so that passport

numbers and signatures of the players are included on the form.

This will make the administration for CEB and Participants much easier.

The need and purpose of the PTR (preliminary team roster) is questioned.

The Technical Commission proposes to delete the PTR-form and the rules in

connection with this form.

3) Maximum number of delegation members on the roster to be increased from 5 to 7.

The functions are Managers, Coaches, Trainer, Doctor and Physiotherapist and clarify only the

dugout access. Teams are free as before on formation of their team-management.

4) Foreigner rule for club competitions must be changed back again so that for each

participant the same rule applies. Maximum of 3 foreign players per team and no

limitation for the line up.

CEB should have again an own ruling on this subject, which is equal for all participants. It is

unwanted that national rules applying within CEB competitions anymore. In the CEB club

competitions a lot of unfairness happened the last three years.

5) For B-pool club competition re-install the rule that the local transport charges are on

account of the Organiser.

In B-pool club competitions the teams arrive in majority with own busses or cars. Because of

that CEB decided to withdraw above ruling. For the few teams arriving by plane it is a

problem to arrange the local transport and many times much more expensive than a local

Organiser can do. The distance for local transport between hotel and main-field is to be set on

maximum 30 km. Local transport means also the pick-up from the nearest International

airport(with direct international flights to the main European cities).

6) Juveniles Championship.

This championship is now a regional European competition. The TC asks the Board to decide

in which way CEB can improve this competition. Also to investigate a co-operation with Little

League

7) Cadets - To play this Championship and B-pool every year instead of each 2 years.

For youth playing level development it is needed that this age category plays every year.

Many Federations and Coaches are asking for this change.

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8) Juniors - To play this Championship and B-pool every year instead of each 2 years

For youth playing level development it is needed that this age category plays every year.

Many Federations and Coaches are asking for this change. At the same time to reduce the

number of teams in the A-pool from 10 to 8 teams. This will increase the quality of the games.

9) CEB Supercup.

Cancel this competition from the CEB program.

This cup is only played if the both European Cup winners are coincidental from the same

country and therefore this competition is not serious.

10) Registration.

To be incorporated into article 8f that also coaches should wear and register their shirt

numbers.

11) Closing date for candidatures.

To rhyme with article 25c the closing date for Organisers of B-pool competitions in article 2b

should be November 1

st instead of December 31st.

12) English language.

CEB Technical Delegates, Technical Commissioners and International Umpires must be able

to talk and understand the English language.

13) CEB competition for age group ' 21 and under'.

Organise a new CEB Championship for national teams. A new competition for the age group

21 and under, with maximum of three players of 23 and under. Pitchers must be 21 and under.

For the first year it will be an open subscription and the format will be based upon the number

of subscriptions.

14) Non-approved bats.

As many competitions will be played with wooden bats, the procedure and rules concerning

non-approved bats must be included in article 14b.

15) European Championship

Up to now the qualification for the Baseball World Cup is played two years before and even

our next championship is played before the previous BWC. This qualification sequence must

be changed and improved. All proposed changes are in line to change the European

Championship to the year before the IBAF Baseball World Cup. In this way the qualification

is one year before the IBAF competition. To achieve this sequence the European

Championship is played in 2008 instead of 2009. The B-pool is played in 2007 instead of

2008.

2006 B

2007 A and B BWC

2008 A Olympic Games

2009 B BWC

2010 A

2011 B BWC

2012 A

2013 B BWC

European Championship A-pool

To continue to play the present format with 12 teams has many disadvantages. The

competition is taking too many days and is therefore too expensive for participants and

organisers. The difference in quality between the teams forces games of less interest for

participants and organisers.

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The proposed change is to reduce the number of participants to 8(eight) teams. In this way the

competition will attract more exposure because the level of the games will rise. The period of

stay is shorter and the costs are less for participants and organisers. It is more attractive for

organisers to organise short competitions with less local transport and less costs for

board/lodging of the officials.

2007 played with 12 teams 1st team qualifies for Olympic Games 2008

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6 teams qualify for European Championship

2008 played with 8 teams 4 teams qualify for IBAF BWC 2009

6 teams qualify for European Champ. 2010

2009 No European Championship A-pool

2010 played with 8 team 4 teams qualify for IBAF BWC 2011

6 teams qualify for European Champ. 2012

nd and 3rd teams qualify for Olympic Qualifier

European Championship B-pool.

It is to be expected that the number of subscriptions will be about 20 National teams. For the

2004 competition total 18 teams subscribed. To play the present format with 20 teams has

same disadvantages as the A-pool. It will be more difficult to find organisers for the B-pool

who have more than 1(one) regular field available with at least one field equipped with an

artificial light installation. The competitions with about 10 participants are taking too many

days and are therefore too expensive for participants and organisers. The difference in quality

between the teams forces even more games of less interest for participants and organisers.

Because of this it is hard to attract broadcasting and sponsors.

The T.C. recommend splitting up the B-pool in 4 or 5 groups with about 4 participants each.

The format can be various. Depending of the number of subscriptions and the formation of the

groups the competition can be played in a round robin, double round robin or home and away

games. The winners of these groups play a 2

2(two) available spots in the European Championship A-pool the next year. This will satisfy

more countries to watch their National team playing in their own country and will help to

develop regular fields in B-pool countries. To organise shorter competitions will reduce the

costs for all parties involved.

nd competition at the end of the season for the

16) European Club-competitions.

In 2005 total 25 teams from 15 countries on A-pool level participated and 33 teams from 20

countries on B-pool level. Total 27 countries were represented on club team level.

The present system with A and B-pools is satisfying for the B-pool. A proposal to improve the

rule on local transport charges for the B-pool is presented to the Executive.

The problem is the A-pool competition. The club teams from countries like the Netherlands

and Italy loosing interest because the costs of participation is too expensive comparing with

the number and level of the games.

To find solutions to increase the quality of the games in the A-pool there are many

possibilities. Reducing participants or increase qualifying competitions. For the moment the

Technical Commission proposes not to change anything in the formats for 2006. All Executive

and T.C. members are asked to give their ideas to improve the CEB club competitions.

Jan Esselman

Chairman Technical Commission Haarlem, 3rd September 2005