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General information

ShipModel Sport International Federation or SMSIF is an international public sports organization which unites all disciplines of ship modeling sport and all types of ship model building.

The Federation founder countries are Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan. The SMSIF headquarters is located in Moscow Region (Russia).

SMSIF is based on the membership of national ship modeling sport federations which have ratified the SMSIF Charter and whose membership has been acknowledged by the Federation.

Official SMSIF languages: Russian, English. Should any questions arise while interpreting sports Rules and any SMSIF documents, the Russian version is legally overriding.

SMSIF objectives:

• To develop and popularize ship modeling sport, including among children and young people, in Russia and worldwide;
• To organize international events and competitions, Continental Championships and Cups, World Championships and Cups;
• To regulate ship modeling sport activities carried out by national member federations and other SMSIF-related organizations;
• To ensure compliance with SMSIF internationally recognized rules at all international ship model sport competitions and events that are held under SMSIF auspices and supervision; to facilitate setting up and organizing work of referee teams;
• To develop international relations with federations, sports clubs and sports centers of other countries;
• To enhance cooperation, friendly relations and communication between member federations and ship modelers, to make sure that their interests are respected and protected;
• To oppose political, racial, ethnic, gender, religion or any other discrimination at all levels in the sports community;
• To educate and train ship model sport referees and coaches;
• To arrange and conduct workshops, seminars and meetings in SMSIF activity areas;
• To provide SMSIF members with informational, advisory, organizational and methodological assistance related to ship modeling sport;
• To support member federations as concerns their recognition by their national Olympic committees and\or supreme sports authorities of their corresponding countries.
   

Work organization in SMSIF

SMSIF administrative body includes:

• SMSIF Conference;
• Presidium;
• President;
• Executive Director.
   

SMSIF Conference is the supreme governing body of the Federation. The SMSIF Presidium is obliged to convene the Conference at least once in every 4 years.

Only authorized representatives of SMSIF collective members and SMSIF Presidium members may participate in the Conference. Each national member federation has only one vote at the Conference.

The Conference defines priority areas of SMSIF activities, the principles underlying creating and exploiting its assets, determines and approves the SMSIF structure; decides upon the number of Presidium members and elects them; reviews and approves reports on President’s and Presidium activities as well as other SMSIF administrative units; defines the admission procedure for new SMSIF members; decides upon the annual membership fee and its payment procedure; makes decisions on other questions within its exclusive authority and considers proposals from national member federations related to ship model sport development. If necessary, it is possible to apply information communication technologies to conduct the Conference.
 

SMSIF Presidium chaired by the President is responsible for current SMSIF activities in between the Conference meetings. Presidium members are elected by the Conference for a 4-year office term; the Conference also determines the number of Presidium members. The Presidium elects the President, Executive Director and Executive Secretary from the Presidium members. Should the Conference deem it necessary, the Presidium may also include Vice-Presidents.

The Presidium functions include:

• developing and amending International SMSIF Rules regulating ship model sport competitions as well as approving SMSIF competitions regulations;
• choosing SMSIF events locations;
• preparing and approving the SMSIF International Competitions Calendar, SMSIF work and development plans;
• making agreements related to SMSIF competitions and other activities;
• convening Conference meetings, ensuring and monitoring that its decisions are complied with;
• making decisions on accepting new SMSIF members;
• approving SMSIF budget, establishing the order of using, possessing and managing SMSIF assets;
• approving organizational and staff structure of SMSIF administration;
• approving Regulations on SMSIF branches, representative offices, departments; appointing heads of branches and representative offices; making decisions on establishing regional departments;
• approving annual and financial reports;
• submitting the report on the Presidium performance results and financial activity to the Conference;
• making decisions regarding the establishment of mass media;
• establishing awards (honorary titles, medals and insignia);
• solving other issues within the Presidium competence.
   

Following the Presidium decision, SMSIF may include various commissions to perform ongoing activities:

• Technical commission;
• Refereeing commission:
• Disciplinary commission etc.
   

Sports models categories

SMSIF organizes competitions in the following categories of models:

• NS - scaled radio-controlled models;
• C - static models;
• M - speed models;
• FSR - racing models;
• S - racing radio-controlled yacht models;
• A/B - cord models.

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SMSIF membership advantages

SMSIF national member federations (if there is no such national federation in a country, then SMSIF member clubs) are exclusively entitled to organize World Championships and Cups, Continental Championships and Cups that are held under SMSIF auspices. SMSIF will fully support the organizer in selecting referees and generally arranging the above mentioned events.
 

Membership

SMSIF provides for two membership categories:

• collective members – national ship model sport federations and clubs;
• individual members.

SMSIF can accept only one national ship model sport federation per country as its collective member.

Apart from national federations, SMSIF may accept organizations (among others, sports clubs) and individuals who practically facilitate ship model sport promotion.

An SMSIF candidate member should apply for membership to the SMSIF Presidium. Candidates are accepted at the Presidium meeting and later approved at the SMSIF Conference, following the decision made by the public association or an application from the individual candidate member. Collective members participate in SMSIF activities through their authorized representatives.
 

Membership fee

The annual membership fee is decided upon by the SMSIF Conference.
 

SMSIF Authorities

Dmitriy Kalmykov, President
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Sergey Okonechnikov, Executive Secretary
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Dmitriy Spitsin, Executive Director
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