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It was one of the reasons that the NVOW In May of 1987, the general meeting of
started the “werkdagen”* in those days. the UICL was held in Vac/Hungary and
The UICL did not act in an adequate it was there that the president Günther
manner and in hindsight it was the Schulze determined that the Union was
beginning of the end of this unique a club without power. It was a chaotic
organization. In 1985, the general meeting meeting of which, in our clubmagazine
of the UICL decided to found a breeding “Oriëntatie” from June/July 1987, an
committee and nominate an important extended report was published. The
sighthound lover and organizer as UICL racing committee was against
secretary-general, Jean-Jacques Charles addressing the atypical Afghan Hounds
from Switzerland. At that time there were problems and they were able to push
2 sighthound clubs from the Netherlands through their will! A next meeting in
1988 did not bring a solution either (see
that were still member of the UICL, the Oiëntatie August 1988) and it was
Dutch Greyhound Club and the NVOW. already told that the UICL was almost
gone. The entire board resigned and an
Willem Buitenkamp, being NVOW interim board was installed who thought
chairman, became the Dutch it necessary to have a completely new
representative in the breeding committee. structure of the organization.
Immediately in 1986, we undertook action
by approaching the UICL board to address On a meeting in Baden-Baden, the
the atypical Afghan hounds problem, which NVOW handed in a proposal for a new
was so urgently needed. We proposed for structure with the motto: no longer an
example a type- or conformation judging, improved racing club, but a club striving
before one could apply for a racing towards a renewed connection with the
certificate. We firmly suggested that the FCI. The Dutch Greyhound Club, being a
UICL would ask their member countries to racing club, told us that they did not
do the same for their national races, want to make a proposal, but their
something that in fact took place in chairman, Frans Gerritsen, was at the
Germany. We made a similar proposal to meeting also and supported the
the Dutch Kennel Club, which after a lot of proposal.
discussion was accepted but was not
implemented in day to day practice; the
NVOW had not a single jurisdiction on the
race tracks.
