Call for Candidates – EFDF Arbitration tribunal

EFDF calls for 5 candidates for an EFDF Tribunal as an arbitrary body

On the EYUC in Ghent in August 2024 a situation has arisen, that requires the appointment of an arbitration tribunal. Therefore the EFDF calls for candidates to form the arbitration tribunal consisting of 5 independent representatives according to the bylaws. Parties of the arbitrary body
are EFDF itself and the Israeli Flying Disc Association. According to the bylaws members of the tribunal must not be part of the body of the association that is involved in the conflict except the members meeting.

The members of the tribunal will be appointed by the EFDF members at the next extraordinary EFDF congress on 10 September 2024.

Application process:
Every National Member Federation of EFDF is allowed to suggest interested and suitable candidates. The EFDF Tribunal will be chosen by the EFDF members meeting to decide on the mentioned case.

The National Member Federations of the EFDF are asked to send an email to secretary@efdf.org preferably before the 31 August 2024, with:

  • the proposed candidate
  • the application of the candidate (with full CV, Address and E-Mail-Address, all memberships of the candidate, and a statement that the candidate is independent with regard to the mentioned case)

Members of the EFDF Tribunal are expected to:

  • confirm their impartiality in every matter dealt with
  • Participate at the EFDF Tribunal meetings, if required,
  • React to email correspondence within 3 working days,
  • Read all correspondence on the Tribunals` mailing list.

The tasks and framework conditions regarding the EFDF Tribunal derive from §13 of the EFDF bylaws:

(1) If a conflict inside of the association occurs the EFDF Tribunal as an arbitrary body shall be appointed. It functions as an arbitration tribunal as in “Vereinsgesetz 2002” (Austria) and not as an arbitration court as in “§§577 ff ZPO (Austria).
(2) The EFDF tribunal is made of 5 independent representatives, elected by EFDF members. Members to the tribunal must not be part of the body of the association that is involved in the conflict except the members meeting.
(3) The EFDF tribunal shall arrange for a hearing of both sides to the conflict in a written, or in-person form, including online video conference, at the discretion of the tribunal and decide with simple majority in all conscience. The decision is final within the association. Further procedural
guidelines of the tribunal will be regulated in the judicial rules which are approved by congress.
(4) Such disputes brought up to the EFDF Tribunal may include, but shall not be limited to, disputes regarding eligibility for membership, conflicts between EFDF and its members, eligibility for individual participants in Sanctioned Events, rulings with regard to European records, rulings
involving antidoping violations, and rulings with regard to disciplinary issues concerning tournaments or events sanctioned by EFDF.
(5) No matter what the difference between the disputing parties, no case may be taken to a court of law and, as a condition of membership, EFDF shall require Members to renounce the right to take a dispute before a court of justice.
(6) EFDF will recognize and accept the decision of WFDF determined according to the procedures of the WFDF Conduct Policy, should the necessity of an appeal against an EFDF tribunal decision arise.