Rules

United World Wrestling

Extract from the UWW Constitution

TITLE VI – AUXILIARY BODIES

CHAPTER I – CONTINENTAL COUNCILS

Article 18 – Definition

Affiliated Members and Associated Members of a same continent are grouped in a Continental Council, the role and abilities of which are set forth in internal regulations issued by the Bureau and adopted by the Congress.
The Continental Councils shall promote and develop wrestling on their continent and shall ensure that the Articles of Association and the regulations issued by the Federation are respected.
The Continental Councils are auxiliary bodies of the Federation and are not entitled to become members of the Federation. They do not have any legislative power in areas governed by the Federation, including with respect to wrestling technical and regulation. The Continental Councils shall not be allowed to take any decision with respect to a National Federation.

International wrestling rules (Version 2016)

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According to Chapter VI (Chapter I, Art. 18 and 19) of UWW Constitution the national wrestling federations of each continent are united in Continental Council. The role and competence of the Continental Councils are set by UWW Congress. The Councils are UWW’s basic support organs, called upon to promote wrestling in the respective Continent, to guarantee the observance of the Statutes and Rules of the International Federation and to fulfill the directives of its leading administrative bodies (Congress, Bureau, President and General Secretary).

As a support organ of FILA, CELA was created at the General Assembly in Oulu, Finland in 1978. Its first president was Hermann Schwindling who kept that position until his death in 1995. In 2015, CELA changed its name into “United World Wrestling-Europe” (the “UWW-Eu”).

48 European national federations are members of UWW-Eu.

The General Assembly, held the first year after the Olympic Games, elects its President and members of the executive committee of UWW-Eu. UWW-Eu is governed by an Executive Committee (consisting of 7 persons).

The head office of UWW-Europe and its president is: Bulgaria, 1040 Sofia, 75 “Vassil Levski” blvd., tel: +(359.2) 930-05-19, tel/fax +(359.2) 988-27-16, e-mail: office@uww-eu.org