According to the federal Ministry local clubs need no permission but the regional ministries are autonomous in this regard. There will be an obedience program established, under the guidance of the agility program, trials evaluated by agility judges. Membership campaigns do not show a significant increase in members. Breed warden Hans Ruedenauer informed that the documentation of trials would be improved to allow better gathering of evidence when manipulation of trials was suspected. This issue reports on the work of the different committees.
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Parts of the publication have not been translated. Wherever dates are used I am using the German format. The hyperlinks for certain terms were added by myself.