EUROPEAN FORMAT OF JUDGING   
 

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• For judging in the European format , for judge it is need: a work place free from visitors and exhibitors with fluorescent lighting, a table and two chairs, disinfection, napkins, judge’s reports


• only steward, a student judges and the owner bringing their cats can be on the European judging .


• Judging must be in accordance with international rules - open and anonymous. The judge must known only the number of the cat, its breed, color, date of birth, show class, and sex. Each judge has to give a reason for his judgement on the judge’s report.


• Judging must be openning , every judge must say about his opinion for exhibitors .


• The judge describes the cat, for example its qualities and faults compared to its breed standard and includes the classification and title, (checking the correctness of the title class defines Secretariat)


• The judge describes all cats in competitive class . (all cats in one title class and sex have a competition for the hightest mark).


• The judgement of cats on cat-shows of the AFC is performed according to the official standard and the rules of the AFC.


• > The judge must not describe an aggressive cat.


• Nobody can say on the cat-show that the judge is wrong.


• Every judge can describe not more than 60 cats per day. An increase of this number by 10% is permitted, if the judge and the organizing club agree upon it.
• Non more than 1 title can be close on one cat-show.

 

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RULES OF THE SET OF TITLES IN EUROPEAN FORMAT

 

 

 

TITLE CLASS	TITLE	*
Open class	CO Candidate for Companion	3 titles CO from three different judges
Companion	SCO Candidate for Silver Companion	3 titles SCO in two different districts from three different judges
Silver Companion	GCO Candidate for Golden Companion	3 titles GCO in two different districts from three different judges
Golden Companion	PCO Candidate for Platinum Companion	3 titles PCO in three different districts from three different judges
Platinum Companion	HСО Candidate for Honorable Companion	3 titles HСО in three different districts from three different judges

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