IDOC News

  • Proposals for Rule Changes of Dressage Rules 2025
    Proposals for Rule Changes of Dressage Rules 2025
    Proposed changes to the Dressage Rules together with the corresponding explanations, the comments received as well as the reasoning for accepting or not accepting each proposal.
  • FEI General Assembly Wrap-Up Report
    FEI General Assembly Wrap-Up Report
    The main decisions taken by the General Assembly are summarised in this report.
  • IDOC General Assembly 2025 & FEI Maintenance Course Program
    IDOC General Assembly 2025 & FEI Maintenance Course Program
    It is a great pleasure to invite you all to the 2025 International Dressage Officials Club General Assembly + FEI/IDOC Seminar, which will take place during the CDI 5* Frankfurt, 18 - 20 December 2025.
  • FEI Elections & Appointments process 2025
    FEI Elections & Appointments process 2025
    The process for candidatures for FEI Elections and Appointments 2025 is now officially open! There are 20 positions open to candidacies including Chairpersons for Regional Group V, Jumping, Dressage and Eventing Committees as well as open positions for Members of FEI Tribunal and for the following committees: Jumping, Dressage, Para Equestrian, Eventing, Driving and Veterinary.

President’s Blog

  • IDOC End Of Year 2022
    Dear members, ​​​​​​Dear friends, Another year has come to an end, and the feeling that we still are in a post-Covid difficult situation is still dominant. Fortunately, many countries now have the situation under control and the restrictions have been lifted; however, we know that this is not the …
  • Hans-Christian Matthiesen, the president of the IDOC, about on-line judging
    Dear Colleagues! We live in a world full of rules and sanctions due to Covid19, but everywhere we see new initiatives on the internet. Some of them who might employ us during this time or keep up the competing spirit amongst riders, trainers and officials. Nobody knows how long this will take and …
  • Frankfurt (GER) – December, 14th – 15th, 2018
    New year message from IDOC President
    Dear Friends and Colleagues, First of all: Happy New Year, I hope you all had time to enjoy the holidays. In December we were so lucky to have our General Assembly and Refresher Seminars for both judges and steward in Frankfurt, hosted by the Linsenhof/Rath family at Stud Schafhof. Thank you so …
  • The Perception of Dressage judging – Happy Easter
    So between the Sports Forum meeting in Lausanne, work near Copenhagen and a CDI in Austria near Vienna and the annual trainers meeting, IDTC in Billund back in Denmark – its time to reflect, look back and try to look into the future ! The Sports Forum meeting in Lausanne went well – in the way, …

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