Vote results for the Competition Rules (August 2017)
Number of valid votes: 10
Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Sweden, UK.
Number of invalid (late) votes: 1
Japan
Number of countries not voting: 25
Austria, Brazil, Belgium, Czech Rep, , Cyprus, Croatia, Denmark Greece, Israel, Serbia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Mexico, Korea, Latvia, Spain China, New Zealand, Malaysia, Bulgaria, Germany, UK, UAE, Ukraine, USA, Venezuela.
Vote: Freediving Rules for Competitions and Records (August 2017)
YES votes |
NO votes |
2 |
8 |
Result: with 2 YES votes and 8 NO votes, the proposed rules document is NOT approved.
Vote counters: Olivia Motus- Jaquier and Alexandru Ursu-Vlagea
Based on the Assembly discussions we conclude this reselt is not necessarily due to the content of the proposed rules, but mainly to the form of the vote request; more precisely to the fact that:
1) Assembly received the full document instead of receiving only the proposed changes;
2) Assembly did not have the option to vote each change (affecting the competition) separately.
We also noted that a period of more than 1 year between the collaborative work on the rules and the proposed vote is too long and we'll target a shorter cycle.
We'll come back with a revised proposal to address the above points