Fide Decision on Waiver of fee for player transfer to the CFC

[Vlad Drkulec]

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October 08, 2020 No 015-02-2020

The FIDE Management Board EXCERPT from the MEETING MINUTES

The meeting # 74 of the FIDE Management Board was convened at 12:00 UTC on Thursday,October 08, 2020.

The following is a list of participants in the October 08, 2020 MB meeting.
● Arkady Dvorkovich, FIDE President, Chairman of the Management Board.
● Igor Kogan, Deputy Chairman of the FIDE Management Board.
● Zhu Chen, FIDE Treasurer.
● Victor Bologan, FIDE Executive Director.
● Emil Sutovsky, FIDE Director General.
● Willy Iclicki, Chief Operating Officer.
● Mohd Al-Mudahka, FIDE International Director.
● Berik Balgabaev, Advisor to the FIDE President
● Vadim Tsypin, Assistant to the FIDE President, Secretary of the FIDE Management Board.
● Aleksandr Martynov, FIDE Legal Advisor.

M-03 Request to waive a transfer fee for an indigent disabled player (PHI->CAN)

DECISION MB-2020-069, taken on 2020-10-08:

" WHEREASFIDE has a Charter mandate to "encourage and support any effort aimed to improve the inclusion of disabled or differently abled persons in chess events" (Art.2.11) and to "bridge socio-economic divides among individuals and countriesregarding access to chess activities" (Art. 2.12), andWHEREASThe Management Board has examined a request from the Chess Federation ofCanada (CFC), a letter from the National Chess Federation of the Philippines, anddocuments from the FIDE Commission for the Disabled and the Qualification Commission,

NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED:
1. To waive, for humanitarian reasons, any and all fees due to FIDE for transfer ofGilbert Perez, FIDE ID 5215277, from the Philippines to Canada;
2. To inform the FIDE Council of this decision to waive transfer fees;
3. То facilitate any future transfers of disabled U-2000 players;
4. To instruct the FIDE Elista office to accomplish Mr. Perez' transfer immediately upon receipt of the proper documents from the player;
5. To recognize that Mr. Perez is eligible to play for Canada in the First FIDE Online Chess Olympiad for People with Disabilities and to instruct the Commission for the Disabled to assist the CFC in registering Mr. Perez as a disabled player under the new flag in time for the event. "

Vadim Tsypin Secretary of the FIDE Management Board

[Vlad Drkulec]

The Chess Federation of Canada

October 09, 2020

Dear President Dvorkovich and Members of the FIDE Management Board,

I would like to thank our FIDE president Arkady Dvorkovich and the management board of FIDE for this wise and kind decision. I would like also to thank the National Chess Federation of the Philippines, the FIDE Commission for the Disabled and the Qualification Commission for their role making this decision possible. Most of all, I would like to thank Vadim Tsypin for his help in bringing this to the attention of FIDE and helping Gilbert Perez to have this opportunity to play for his new country. You have done a good deed here.

I and the Chess Federation of Canada are grateful to you all and would like to thank you for the wonderful job you are all doing in these very challenging times of pandemic. I have never been prouder to be a part of the FIDE community. With very warm regards,

Vladimir Drkulec
President,
Chess Federation of Canada