NEW WUKF RULES Dear friends, WUKF competitions, organized on 5 continents, brought to us all lot of experience. The referee seminars that WUKF offered before every major event and the regional ones, the problems appeared and the solutions recommended by the Referee Commission, imposed to the WUKF Executive Board the review of the competition rules. This was made by the Referee Commission helped by the Chief Referees that worked for more than a half a year and under the supervision of the WUKF President and General Secretary finally we have now a new layout of the rules. There are not many changes; the corrections were made especially for the paragraphs where confusions could be made or the graphic explanations were poor. We replaced the draws by photos, now the gestures of the referees are easier to be seen, some additional explanations were inserted and we tried to avoid the redundancy of some paragraphs in the old rules. We added the new categories for veterans that were voted by the presidents at the Congress at Lignano. Now we have only one document with an Index (Table of Content) that is guiding you to the desired page, paragraph, etc. There is one important modification that was made regarding the Kata competition, you can see at page no.34 , ART 5, regarding the number of competitors for the rounds. After we experienced several systems we decided for a second round with 12 competitors and a final with 6 competitors, this being the optimum solution between time and efficiency of the referee activity at Kata competition (please see ART 5, page 34). These rules will be valid starting with the European Championship from Gyor. Of course before the competition we shall organize the referee seminar where all the possible confused situations will be clarified. The Executive Committee wants to thanks to all, Chief Referees, trainers and to all that spent their time for helping us to improve our activity, for trying to follow the WUKF target: ?? to do the best Karate and the best Referees from whole world?