On 13th May 2006 in the "Ibis" Hotel in Constanta (Romania) took place the All Europe Taekwon-Do Federation Congress with representatives of 27 European countries (Austria, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech, England, France, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Ireland, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Romania, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Ukraine, Wales).
Congress deliberated according to the following agenda:
All participants of the Congress received many documents concerning the particular agenda items.
The AETF Congress approved the decisions in many important files for Taekwon-do in Europe. We are very happy, that many countries applied to be a host of the events on the highest level. It was approved that the XIII Junior and XXII Senior European Taekwon-do Championships will be held in Poprad, High Tatra in Slovakia on 27th-29th April 2007.
Mrs Martina Soltisova Semesiova, the president of Slovak Union of Taekwon-do ITF distributed to all participants of the Congress bookletts with the informations and general information concerning the Euros 2007.
Following applications were registered by the AETF office:
Those applications wasn't voted by the Congress, the waiting period for next applications is till January 2007. Slovenia, Hungary, Finland expressed their wish to organize the European Cup.
The Rules and Procedures of the Committee on Ethics and Discipline of the All Europe Taekwon-do Federation were approved by the Congress. This is one of the very first that kind of documents in martial arts, which regulates many potential problems. The enormous work on this document made by Master Frank Vanberghen, was highly appreciated by the Congress.
The honor guest of the Congress was Master Tom MacCallum, ITF Secretary General, Master Paul Weiler and Mr. Juan Ferrando, ITF Vicepresidents. Master MacCallum presented following items: situation of ITF in the world, registration and recognition in courts, legal status of National Asociations, ITF seminars, NA and AA file. Mr. Ferrando and master Weiler spoke about ITF Trade mark and ITF tree on the dobok. Mr. Ferrando handed to Mr. Loboda the official registration document concerning AETF Logo and property of the brand.
Next Congress will take place in Poprad, High-Tatra, Slovakia during Euros 2007.