The above mentioned countries agree to establish a Central European Competition for 2005 with the intention:

1. to improve the quality of our best / national teams by creating international challenges
2. to support the contacts between players of our countries on a wider scale
3. to increase the importance of certain tournaments by rising the number of participating teams from other countries
4. to deepen the understanding of the development and the needs of the Pétanque federations in the neighbouring countries
5. to have fun together
6. to support the development of juniors through becoming familiar with international challenges
7. to make Pétanque more popular and more attractive for sponsors

1. the number of tournaments for the CC is limited by the number of participating countries (2005: 6 tournaments)
2. the CC creates at the end a ranking for the countries and not for singular teams
3. for CC only teams consisting of players with actual licences from the same country will be considered
4. there is no limit by numbers for the teams who start for one country at a tournament
5. at the end of each CC- tournament only the four best teams (maximum) of a country receive points for CC
6. for CC the 16 best places of tournament count:

Place	Points
1	25
2	20
3	15
4	10
5	7
6	5
7	3
8	2
9–16	1

7. there is no special regulation for junior teams who participate except that the best homogeneous junior teams of a tournament receives an special award from the organizing country
8. for the final country ranking of CC all points - collected by each country at the 6 tournaments - will be added

EXAMPLE

RANKING CENTROPE CUP

1. the tournaments of CC can be triplettes or doublettes or triplettes mixte
2. each tournament will last only one day
3. all CC- tournaments are open also for participants from Non-CC-countries and there is no overall limitation for the number of teams
4. all tournaments will be on Saturdays (for travelling reasons)
5. the tournaments may have different modes
6. each participating team should have the possibility to play at least 5 matches
7. therefore all tournaments will have an obligatory time limit (except final rounds): for fairness & practical reasons 40 minutes + 2 draws are recommended
8. two members of the jury have to be nominated by other countries than the organizing one
9. the results of each CC-tournament are communicated to all federations by email within one week

1. each participating team and country carries its own costs (for food, accommodation, travelling,..)
2. the organizing country provides a maximum of information (location, transport, accommodation, security, parking, ….)
3. it is recommended that one team from each country is released from tournament fee
4. the CC -winning country will receive a challenge trophy and there will be small additional prizes for the places 1- 3
5. the financial contribution of each federation is 100 €
6. each federation is responsible for promotion and organization in its country
7. the actual results and standings of CC are published on the websites of the federations

For 2005 the dates for the 6 tournaments are specified: