Mar 06 - Electrical Device Use Now Legally Forbidden 

Jan 06  - VDH mandates Increase in Pedigree Processing Fee

Sep 04 - Nero vom Nöbachtal SV Breeding Ban  

Feb 01 - HD-ZW reference basis change July 2000 - REMINDER - synopsized by Bobbie Impellizzeri

Oct 00 -  Further Clarification of New Terminology Requirement, German Ordinances Re-define Dog Sport -
                                                                                    Courtesy of DVG Training Director, Les Flores.

Aug 00 -  2000 German Siegerschau Top Placing Results

July 00 - New German Ordinance Defines 'Schutzhund' Training - Courtesy of SV Richter Henning Setzer

April 00  -  SV Ruling on Switched Pedigree Issue (see also May 99, below) - SV Zuchtbuchamt

Aug 99 -  99 German Siegerschau Top Placing Results - Courtesy of SV Richter Henning Setzer

Aug 99 -  Clarification on WUSV requirement that GSDCA "adjust the Standard." - Herr C. Lux

May 99 - SV notifies owners and AKC of invalid SV/USA registration -  Official SV breeding ban affecting progeny owners

Feb 99 - SV Breed Warden Responsibilities -  translated by SV judge Fred Lanting

Feb 99  - DNA Testing requirement enforced as of 1 January 1999 -  Official SV notice

Dec. 98 - 1998 SV Siegerschau Critiques of American-owned dogs shown in Nürnberg - from the SV Zeitung

Nov 98 -  SV Election results& 1999 SV Siegerschau judging assignments -Provided by SV judge Henning Setzer

Sept 98 - New HD-ZW program - Herr Dr. Beuing explains strategy against Hip Dysplasia -transl. by SV judge Fred Lanting

July 98 - New SV directive to SV-authorized hip-x-raying vets -  "Breed Value Procedure for HD," translated by SV judge Fred Lanting.  More detailed information than earlier 1988 SV instructions (compare with Form #1 cited in "SV Forms in Use" below).

July 98 - Introducing the Breed Value Assessment - by Herr Doktor Reiner Beuing, from the SV Zeitung pg. 446, July 98.  Translated by Fred Lanting, ed. by Bobbie Impellizzeri

July 98 - Naming puppies on registration, allowed frequency of pregnancy, litter limitation, DNA testing, puppy vaccination,
                                                                                                                                               protection work rating requirement at BSZ.

May-June 98 -  Increase in Stud Service Cert. fee - update on scheduled BSZ Kennel Group judging and day, donation "thank you."

April 98 - New Animal protection laws - (shock collars), litter limitation, DNA testing, SchH Trial frequency in "foreign" countries.

April 98 - Elbow dysplasia study - electronic data use, new Breed Survey regulations, changes to BSZ  requirements.

SV Forms in Use - SV directives to hip-x-raying vets, official SV HD evaluation and rating form, FCI comparison chart.