Michael Farthing wrote:Oh my! Oh my! Oh my. Big Brother is failing to watch the CAA!
It's an association of people with a common interest, meeting for the betterment of that common interest. It is not different from the Association of Chief Constables. Does the panel think that the British Government, the Scottish Parliament and Little Gidding parish council should have representation on the committee of the Association of Chief Constables? If not, why not?
The CAA minutes posted by the originator of these thread indicate that the organisation wants to raise its profile and gain recognition of what it does on behalf of the ECF regarding training and regulating ECF Arbiters. Previous minutes available on their website reveal that much of what they do does get taken up by the ECF, such as the creation of the title Senior Arbiter, introduction of the ECF Arbiters exam and organising Arbiter training courses.
The CAA currently has no formal links with FIDE, although a number of their members have informal links through their work as qualified Arbiters registered with the national federations, primarily the ECF, Chess Scotland and Welsh Chess Union.
It does seem that the CAA now want to interact directly with FIDE, possibly sitting on the Arbiters and Competitions commissions, rather than working through the individual national federations.
The question is whether the CAA should be permitted to correspond directly with FIDE and effectively usurp the authority of ECF as the national body?