1. 3 Beach Handball Working Group Foundation of the IHF Beach Handball Working Group in 2007: In 2007 the IHF Beach Handball Working Group was founded in order to deal with all international tasks that are related with Beach Handball. The chairman of the group is the former International Italian referee Giampiero Masi. He is supported by the two former National coaches Fernando Posada (ESP) and Alex Gehrer (GER) as well as the two former International referees George Bebetsos (GRE) and Panos Antoniou (CYP). 1

2. 3 Beach Handball Working Group Mission statement Beach Working Group: The Beach Handball Working Group is one of the IHFs permanent Working Groups and is a technical body for competitions and non-competitions-related matters concerning Beach Handball with the following specific tasks: Organization of IHFs Beach Handball events and competitions Composition of Playing Rules and technical regulations Development of coaching methods and training techniques 2

3. 3 Beach Handball Working Group Mission statement Beach Working Group: Global promotion and development of Beach Handball Development of Beach Handball curriculum, educational programs, methods and materials Preparation of promotional materials and tools Selection, training, deployment and monitoring of international referees and delegates Selection and training of Beach Handball lecturers Qualitative and quantitative match analysis Nomination of world selection teams 3

4. 3 Beach Handball Working Group Mission statement Beach Working Group: Furthermore the Beach Handball Working Group will co-operate with all the continental and national federations on the above and all Beach Handball related matters as well as instruction and support to the respective commissions or persons responsible in the continental federations. The IHF Beach Handball Working Groups strategy is designed towards the development of the Beach Handball product with an ultimate goal: the sports introduction into the Summer Olympic Games Program. 4