1. Minutes of Annual General Meeting and Working Meeting 2025
As attachment you will get the following documents (only to be sent to NMAs):
· Minutes of the IISHF Working Meeting (WM) 2025
· Minutes of the IISHF Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2025
Please take note that according to article 11.17 IISHF Constitution any objections to the minutes must be sent in writing to the IISHF within two weeks of receipt.
2. Reports and Presentations from the Meeting
As attachment you will get the following reports and presentations which you have not received with previous IISHF Communication Letters. These are from the IISHF Rules Committee with their presentation at the Working Meeting on 22.02.2025 at the IISHF AGM 2025 in London about report and rules of the game 2024/2025 and in addition, the IISHF Communication Results Report 2025 also presented at the Working Meeting on 21.02.2025 at the IISHF AGM 2025 in London:
· IISHF Rules Committee Report and Rules of the Game 2024/2025
· IISHF Communication Results Report 2024
3. New IISHF Documents 2025
As attachment you will get the official version of the following revised IISHF documents:
· IISHF Constitution 2025
· IISHF Constitution 2025 with color-coded modifications
· IISHF Regulations 2025
· IISHF Regulations 2025 with color-coded modifications
· IISHF Official Rule Book 2025 (version 2025.02.23)
4. Members of IISHF Rules Committee 2025
The Rules Committee develops and proposes changes to the IISHF Rule Book, publishes interpretations of rules and approves equipment and modifications thereof.
It comprises 1 delegate from each IISHF member country appointed by the National Member Association. The Chairman and Vice Chairman are elected for 2 years by the Council of Members at the Annual General Meeting. Please review article 16 of the IISHF Constitution for further information.
The current members of the IISHF Rules Committee as presented at the AGM 2025 on 22/23.02.2025 are as follows:
Thomas Loicht |
Austria |
Member |
Claes Fréder |
Denmark |
Member + Vice Chairman |
Will Osborne |
Great Britain |
Member |
Stefan Gehrig |
Germany |
Member + Chairman |
Arvind Dhillon |
India |
Member ** |
Majid Tahseen |
Pakistan |
Member |
Igor Kolesov |
Russia |
Member ** |
Marco Eicher |
Switzerland |
Member |
Vladyslav Melnychuk |
Ukraine |
Member ** |
** (due to suspension of his/her domestic NMA currently with no right to vote in the Rules Committee).
Stefan Gehrig (Germany) as Chairman and Claes Fréder (Denmark) as Vice-Chairman were both elected in 2025 for the 2-year period 2025-2027.
The listing of members is also available on https://iishf.com/iishf/committees/
5. New IISHF Regulations Committee
The newly founded IISHF Regulations Committee (as approved on the AGM 2025 in London) shall consist as a composition of Delegates of all National Member Associations (NMAs) and shall have the power to propose any changes to the IISHF Regulations and to vote on proposals to the IISHF Regulations of National Member Associations to the IISHF Regulations Committee.
The Regulations Committee shall be led by the chairman Ingo Goerke (Germany) and the vice chairman Marco Eicher (Switzerland) - both were elected in 2025 for the 2-year period 2025-2027. All further details and information can be seen under the new point 17 of IISHF Constitution 2025.
We hereby kindly request all NMAs (except Germany and Switzerland) to report one Delegate of any NMA until 15.04.2025 to the IISHF Presidium (office@iishf.com) to become member of the Regulations Committee.