O-Map Seminar, Curitiba, Brazil, October-November 2006 Instructors: László Zentai (HUN), Flemming Hjorth Jensen (DEN) 1 IOF Structure

O-Map Seminar, Curitiba, Brazil, October-November 2006 Instructors: László Zentai (HUN), Flemming Hjorth Jensen (DEN) 2 Member of IOF Council (2006-) Former chairman of the IOF Map Commission ( ), member since László ZENTAI Full professor of Cartography (PhD, DSc) Eötvös University, Department of Cartography, Budapest, Hungary Chairman of the Commission on Education and Training, since International Cartographic Association Who are we?

O-Map Seminar, Curitiba, Brazil, October-November 2006 Instructors: László Zentai (HUN), Flemming Hjorth Jensen (DEN) 3 Member of IOF Map Commission (2004-) Orienteerer since 1976 Flemming Hjorth JENSEN Educated topographer in the National Danish Survey and Cadastre since Gone through the topics: Photogrammetric capturing, Field work, generalisation, cartographing, specification work, quality controlling and so on. Who are we?

O-Map Seminar, Curitiba, Brazil, October-November 2006 Instructors: László Zentai (HUN), Flemming Hjorth Jensen (DEN) 4 Goal of the session: to know the competence area of IOF bodies Agenda Who or what is IOF? IOF structure Council Commissions, working groups etc Secretariat

O-Map Seminar, Curitiba, Brazil, October-November 2006 Instructors: László Zentai (HUN), Flemming Hjorth Jensen (DEN) 5 Name, Role and Constitution Orienteering is a sport involving non- motorised navigation with a map Foot orienteering Ski orienteering Trail orienteering Mountain bike orienteering

O-Map Seminar, Curitiba, Brazil, October-November 2006 Instructors: László Zentai (HUN), Flemming Hjorth Jensen (DEN) 6 Name, Role and Constitution The IOF is made up of the national orienteering federations which have been admitted to membership Amongst its members, the IOF is the supreme authority on all matters relating to international orienteering The IOF is recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) The IOF is registered in Helsinki, Finland

O-Map Seminar, Curitiba, Brazil, October-November 2006 Instructors: László Zentai (HUN), Flemming Hjorth Jensen (DEN) 7 Objectives and Tasks The aim of the IOF shall be To spread orienteering and to promote its development To conform with and to respect the Olympic Charter To create and maintain a world event programme

O-Map Seminar, Curitiba, Brazil, October-November 2006 Instructors: László Zentai (HUN), Flemming Hjorth Jensen (DEN) 8 Objectives and Tasks The tasks of the IOF shall be To commission and supervise World Championships and other IOF events in recognised disciplines of orienteering To commission and supervise other IOF international competitions To draw up universal rules and guidelines for orienteering and to supervise their proper application  partly via the IOF advisors To maintain cordial relation with other international sports organisation and to represent the interests of orienteering in its dealing with these

O-Map Seminar, Curitiba, Brazil, October-November 2006 Instructors: László Zentai (HUN), Flemming Hjorth Jensen (DEN) 9 Members The IOF recognises two categories of membership Full member  45 federations (status August 2006) Associate member  22 federations (status August 2006) Rights of full members Active participation in IOF general assembly Participation in IOF events Organisation of IOF major events

O-Map Seminar, Curitiba, Brazil, October-November 2006 Instructors: László Zentai (HUN), Flemming Hjorth Jensen (DEN) 10 Members Rights of associate members Non-voting participation in IOF general assembly Participation in IOF events other than WOC and World Cup Organisation of IOF events Membership fees depend on financial strength of the country, the fee for associate members are kept low

O-Map Seminar, Curitiba, Brazil, October-November 2006 Instructors: László Zentai (HUN), Flemming Hjorth Jensen (DEN) 11 IOF Member countries

O-Map Seminar, Curitiba, Brazil, October-November 2006 Instructors: László Zentai (HUN), Flemming Hjorth Jensen (DEN) 12 IOF Structure General Assembly Supreme IOF organisation Meets bi-annually: 2000 Leibnitz (AUT), 2002 Fontainebleau (FRA), 2004 Västerås (SWE), 2006 Aarhus (DEN), 2008 Olomouc (CZE) Agenda given by IOF statutes Council Discipline committees Interdisciplinary commissions Secretariat Presidents’ conference

O-Map Seminar, Curitiba, Brazil, October-November 2006 Instructors: László Zentai (HUN), Flemming Hjorth Jensen (DEN) 13 IOF Council The IOF Council shall lead the IOF between General Assemblies Members are elected by the IOF General Assembly President, senior vice president, 2 vice presidents, total 9 members Election period 2 years Political and strategic lead of IOF All decisions must be published by the Council Committees can only propose/recommend to the Council

O-Map Seminar, Curitiba, Brazil, October-November 2006 Instructors: László Zentai (HUN), Flemming Hjorth Jensen (DEN) 14 IOF General Assembly Ordinary or Extraordinary Each IOF full member shall have the right to send three delegates to a General Assembly. Delegates shall be citizens or residents of the country represented. Associate members may send up to two representatives. Each full member represented at the General Assembly shall have one vote.

O-Map Seminar, Curitiba, Brazil, October-November 2006 Instructors: László Zentai (HUN), Flemming Hjorth Jensen (DEN) 15 Discipline Commissions Foot-O, Ski-O, Trail-O, MTB-O Members are appointed by the Council Period 2 years Commissions are responsible for the development of their discipline To commission and supervise World Championships and other IOF international competitions Schedule of events, assessment and appointment of organisers Coaching of organisers and IOF advisors

O-Map Seminar, Curitiba, Brazil, October-November 2006 Instructors: László Zentai (HUN), Flemming Hjorth Jensen (DEN) 16 Discipline Commission Foot-O, Ski-O, Trail-O, MTB-O To commission and supervise World Championships and other IOF international competitions Schedule of events, assessment and appointment of organisers Coaching of organisers and IOF advisors To draw up guidelines for organisers, advisors, applicants, etc To co-operate with Rules Commission in preparing rules Seminar, training, organisation of contacts Support development of media work

O-Map Seminar, Curitiba, Brazil, October-November 2006 Instructors: László Zentai (HUN), Flemming Hjorth Jensen (DEN) 17 Interdisciplinary Commissions Map, Rules, Environment, IT, Medical, D&P Map Commission (MC) All map related issues Rules Commission (RC) IOF competition rules, special rules Harmonisation across all disciplines Basic education of IOF event advisors Appointment of EAs

O-Map Seminar, Curitiba, Brazil, October-November 2006 Instructors: László Zentai (HUN), Flemming Hjorth Jensen (DEN) 18 Environmental Commission (EC) Support for and co-ordination among respective bodies in IOF federations IT Commission (ITC) Timing, electronic punching, web-casting projects Support in arena production project Medical (MedC) Anti-doping issues (WADA) Development and Policy (D&P) Resource for Council development and policy projects Interdisciplinary Commissions Map, Rules, Environment, IT, Medical, D&P

O-Map Seminar, Curitiba, Brazil, October-November 2006 Instructors: László Zentai (HUN), Flemming Hjorth Jensen (DEN) 19 IOF Secretariat Legal location of IOF Support for the Council and all commission IOF finances and controlling Connecting link between the IOF, its members, the Council members, commissions and outside organisations

O-Map Seminar, Curitiba, Brazil, October-November 2006 Instructors: László Zentai (HUN), Flemming Hjorth Jensen (DEN) 20 IOF Secretariat Secretary General: Barbro Rönnberg Address: Radiokatu 20, FI SLU, Finland Tel Fax Internet:

O-Map Seminar, Curitiba, Brazil, October-November 2006 Instructors: László Zentai (HUN), Flemming Hjorth Jensen (DEN) 21 IOF website

O-Map Seminar, Curitiba, Brazil, October-November 2006 Instructors: László Zentai (HUN), Flemming Hjorth Jensen (DEN) 22 Important information on the IOF website Contact information Member countries Council and commission members IOF Event list Rules and guidelines IOF Newsletters World Ranking World Cup ranking

O-Map Seminar, Curitiba, Brazil, October-November 2006 Instructors: László Zentai (HUN), Flemming Hjorth Jensen (DEN) 23 Presidents’ Conference The Presidents’ Conference meets at least every second year (practically organized during the WOCs). The Presidents’ Conference is advisory. The following shall be invited to the Presidents’ Conference: The Council The Secretary General The President of each member organisation (or his/her representative)

O-Map Seminar, Curitiba, Brazil, October-November 2006 Instructors: László Zentai (HUN), Flemming Hjorth Jensen (DEN) 24 Events World Championships (in 4 four disciplines) Normal Junior (not in trail-o and MTBO) Masters (not in trail-o) Regional championships World Cup (temporarily abandoned in trail-o and MTBO) Changes in foot-o from 2007 World Ranking Events (not in trail-o)

O-Map Seminar, Curitiba, Brazil, October-November 2006 Instructors: László Zentai (HUN), Flemming Hjorth Jensen (DEN) 25 Supporting commissions with cross-section tasks Discipline Commissions IOF organisation Map Commission Rules Commission IT Commission Environment Commission Medical Commission Event Advisers, Internet, special tasks, working groups, project teams, etc.