After a spectacular celebration of the Centenary of the Fédération Cynologique Internationale,
those of us who sit on the General Committee of the FCI set ourselves the task of
carrying on with our work for another hundred years of services dedicated to dog
lovers all over the world in an atmosphere of companionship and with a team working
on targets which have been set with the aim of getting straight to grips with the
challenges of the future.
One of the great challenges we face, in all Sections of the FCI, Europe, the Americas
and the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific, the Middle East and Africa, relates to
laws which set out to restrict dog ownership and declare many of our current breeds
to be dangerous. I am aware that all of the Sections of the FCI are engaged in legal
battles either to prevent these laws being passed or to repeal those which are already
in force.
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