In the exercise of the powers conferred by Article 10.2.b) of Law 10/1990 of 15 October of the Sport, the Commission of the Council of the High Sports Council, in its session of 3 March 2011, has adopted definitely the modification of the Statutes of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, authorizing their registration in the Register of Sports Associations.

In compliance with the provisions of article 31.7 of the Law of Sport and article 12.3 of Royal Decree 1835/1991 of 20 December, on Spanish sports federations and the Register of Sports Associations, this Secretariat Status agrees:

Have the publication of the amendment of the Statutes of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, contained in the Annex to this Resolution.

Madrid, May 10, 2011. -President of the Superior Council of Sports, Albert Soler Sicilia.

ANNEX

Statutes of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation

TITLE I

General provisions

CHAPTER I

Legal Regime

Article1.

The Royal Spanish Golf Federation is a non-profit, private associative entity with legal personality and its own and independent heritage of its associates.

Enjoys full capacity to act for the fulfillment of its purposes and is composed of sports federations of regional autonomy, clubs, associations that meet the requirements referred to in article 17 of the present Statutes, athletes, coaches, judges, referees and other interested groups that promote, practice or contribute to the development of the sport of Golf within the Spanish territory.

The Royal Spanish Golf Federation is responsible for the development of the golf course and the specialty of Pitch & Putt.

In addition to its own powers, it exercises administrative functions of an administrative nature, acting in this case, as a contributing agent of the Public Administration.

Article 2. º

The Royal Spanish Golf Federation shall be governed by the provisions of Law 10/1990 of 15 October of the Sport, and provisions that develop it, by the present Statutes and its Rules of Procedure.

Item 3.

The address of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation is located in Madrid, on Arroyo del Monte, 5, 28035, which can be modified by the General Assembly, on a proposal from the Board of Directors.

CHAPTER II

Functions

Article 4. º

1. The Royal Spanish Golf Federation, in addition to its own activities of government, administration, management, organization and regulation of the sport of Golf, exercises under the coordination and tutelage of the Superior Council of Sports, the following public functions of an administrative nature.

a) Qualify and organize, where appropriate, official activities and competitions at the state level.

b) Act in coordination with the regional federations for the general promotion of the sport of Golf throughout the national territory.

c) Design, develop and implement, in collaboration, in their case, with the regional federations, the plans of preparation of the high level athletes, as well as participate in the elaboration of the annual lists of the same.

d) Collaborate with the State Administration and the Autonomous Communities in the training of sports technicians and in the prevention, control and repression of the use of prohibited substances and pharmacological groups and methods regulatory in sport.

e) Organize, and report to the Superior Council of Sports for the mandatory authorization, official competitions of an international character to be held in Spanish territory.

f) Exercise the disciplinary authority of sport, in the terms laid down in the Law of Sport and its specific development provisions, these Statutes and their internal regulations.

g) Exercise the control of the grants to the Associations and Sports Entities under the conditions set by the High Council of Sports.

h) Run the resolutions of the Spanish Sports Discipline Committee, if any.

2. The Royal Spanish Golf Federation is the only entity with the competence to organise, request or commit the official competitions of an international character that are held in both Spanish and non-Spanish territory, without prejudice to the Mandatory authorization of the Superior Council of Sports. For these purposes it will be the competition of the Royal Federation to choose the sportsmen and women who need to integrate the national teams.

3. The acts performed by the Royal Spanish Golf Federation in the exercise of public functions of an administrative nature, are subject to appeal to the Superior Council of Sports, whose resolutions deplete the administrative route.

Article 5.

Official competitions at the state level are all those which are open to all federated sportsmen when they are individual or to all the national clubs when they are by teams and where they are not included. discrimination of any kind with the exception of those arising from technical conditions of a sporting nature.

The participating amateur athletes must be in possession of the corresponding license in force and with handicap that will enable them for such participation. Professional sportspersons must also be in possession of the relevant licence in force.

CHAPTER III

International Representation

Article 6.

The Royal Spanish Golf Federation will hold the representation of Spain in international official sports activities and competitions, held outside and within the Spanish territory. To this effect it will be the competition of this Royal Federation the choice of the sportsmen and women who have to integrate the national teams.

CHAPTER IV

Integration and representativeness of the Autonomous Federations

Item 7.

1. The Royal Spanish Golf Federation is structured in autonomous federations whose territorial scope necessarily coincides with that of the Autonomous Communities that make up the Spanish State.

2. Where in an Autonomous Community there is no autonomous federation or has not been integrated into the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, the latter may establish in that Community, in coordination with the Spanish Golf Federation, a Unit or Territorial delegation, respecting in any case the autonomous organization of the State.

3. For the participation of their members in official or international sports activities or competitions, the Autonomous Federations must be integrated into the Royal Spanish Golf Federation.

Article 8. º

1. For their integration into the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, the autonomous federations will have to adopt the corresponding agreement through their respective Assemblies. Once the agreement has been adopted, the President of the corresponding regional federation will notify the President of the Spanish Golf Federation with an accreditative certification of the integration agreement and with it the federation autonomica will be automatically integrated into the Royal Spanish Golf Federation.

2. The Autonomous Golf Federations shall retain their legal personality, their own and differentiated assets, their budget and their particular legal status.

3. The presidents of the regional federations will be part of the General Assembly of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, showing the representation of those. In any case, only one representative will exist for each autonomic federation.

4. The sports disciplinary regime, in the case of official state competitions, will in any case be provided for in the Statutes and Regulations of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, regardless of the sports disciplinary regime. content of the provisions in force in the respective autonomous areas.

5. The regional sports federations, integrated in the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, will be represented in the respective Autonomous Communities.

There may be no Territorial Delegation of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation in the territorial territorial scope when the sports federation of regional autonomy is integrated into that.

CHAPTER V

Licenses

Article 9. º

Clubs and other associations, athletes, coaches and judges will be integrated at their own request in the Royal Spanish Golf Federation through the autonomous federation that corresponds to the situation. the geographical location and its legal domicile, in accordance with the laws in force and will undertake to comply with the Statutes and Regulations of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, and to submit to the authority of the respective federative bodies, in the the competence of each.

Article 10. º

1. The integration into the Royal Spanish Golf Federation will be produced by the granting by this of the corresponding federal license, which will be valid for the entire national territory.

2. The granting of temporary licenses to foreign athletes corresponds to the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, through the Autonomous Federations.

Item 11.

1. In order for the Spanish Golf Federation to grant the federal license to the Clubs and other Associations, they must undertake to require the presentation of the license in force in Spain to any person, regardless of nationality, who You want to use the facilities that are dependent on those for sports practice.

Likewise, they must undertake to demand the degree awarded by the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, as well as the federal license in force, to those who provide the teaching at their facilities.

The Autonomic Federations may grant certification, provided that they obtain the required approval of the competent regional body; in this case, the RFEG will issue the corresponding professional license, valid for all the national territory.

2. Clubs and other holders of sports facilities that organise tests, whatever their territorial scope, with open registration to their partners, subscribers or any other type of participants, both domestic and foreign, will have to have facilities at play that have nine or more holes and are valued, for the purposes of the competitions, by the Royal Spanish Golf Federation.

Article 12. º

1. The special character of the sport of golf requires any player who wants to compete, validation of the personal handicap that will be permanently updated in the database of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation.

2. The control and management service of the handicap for the federated sportsmen will be in charge of the RFEG, who will be able to make public the exact handicap of the game in each moment, also under its control and administration, the results and classifications of the sports tests and the fiche of the play of the lederates, for the purpose of ensuring the purity of the competitions.

3. The Royal Spanish Golf Federation will require an annual fee, which is not lucrative, for the provision of all the services in charge of the handicap, and it will be dedicated to related public utility functions. with the Golf.

Item 13.

State-level coaches and coaches who want to carry out their duties in sports facilities dependent on clubs and other associations affiliated with the Spanish Golf Federation will have to be integrated into the latter.

Article 14. º

The Royal Spanish Golf Federation will issue the requested licenses within 15 days after the application has entered, having verified compliance with the requirements set out in this section for its issue and previous payment of the annual fee for the year of issue of the licence.

Item 15.

1. The autonomous federations integrated in the Royal Spanish Golf Federation will be able to issue Licenses, provided that the minimum conditions of economic and formal character provided for in these Statutes are respected or that, at the moment it establishes the Royal Spanish Golf Federation and communicate to this your expedition.

2. The licences issued by the federations of the Autonomous Golf of Golf, will take effect from the moment when the federation of regional autonomy pays to the Royal Spanish Federation of Golf the corresponding economic quota that will be equal to the fixed for licences issued by the Royal Spanish Golf Federation.

3. Licences issued by the federations of an autonomous area which, as provided for in the preceding paragraphs, enable participation in official state-wide sports activities or competitions, shall record the data at least in the official Spanish language of the State.

These licenses will reflect three economic concepts:

(a) Mandatory insurance as referred to in Article 59.2 of the Law of Sport.

b) Cuota corresponding to the Royal Spanish Golf Federation.

c) Cuota for the autonomic sports federation.

The quotas for the Royal Spanish Golf Federation will be fixed on a provisional basis and annually by the Commission Delegate of the same, at the last meeting held within the year before the one they intend to apply, and subject to the approval of the first General Assembly to be held.

TITLE II

Government, representation, administration and control organs

CHAPTER I

General Organic Structure

Item 16.

1. They are the governing bodies and representation of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, the General Assembly and the President.

2. They are complementary organs of government and representation, the Board of Directors, the Secretary General and the Manager, assisting the President. Within the General Assembly, a Commission Delegated to the General Assembly shall be constituted.

3. The President, as well as the General Assembly and its Delegate Committee are elected bodies. The Board of Directors, the Secretary General of the Federation and the Manager are freely appointed and revoked by the President.

Item 17.

1. They will have the consideration of electors and eligible for the governing bodies and representation of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation:

(a) Older sportsmen to be eligible and not less than 16 years to be eligible, who are licensed in force, with handicap, approved by the Royal Spanish Golf Federation at the time of the call of the elections, and have had it throughout the previous year as well as having participated equally during the previous season in competitions or activities of official character and state scope.

b) Sports clubs registered with the Royal Spanish Golf Federation with a non-rustic field approved and at stake, of at least nine holes, at the time of the elections.

In order to qualify as a club, for the purposes of the preceding paragraph, it is also necessary that each and every one of the following circumstances be present: (i) that in its Statutes it is not for profit, (ii) that the elections for the President are held under the principle of one vote per partner, (iii) that are recognized as sports clubs by registration in the Register of the corresponding Autonomous Community, and (iv) that they are owners, or that in any form have the use, in a stable and permanent way of the land occupied by the field of golf of at least 9 approved holes.

c) Sports associations, which do not have the consideration of clubs, group, at the time of the elections, at least 350 associated with the license in force.

d) Senior coaches of age who have a Master's or Assistant Master's or Monitor's license in force at the time of the election and have had it throughout the previous year.

e) The judges-senior referees who have a licence in force and the title of national or international referee-have had at least during the previous year during which they will have to participate in some competition official character and state scope.

Sportsmen, sports clubs, sports associations, coaches, coaches, and judges will be integrated into the Assembly subject to the limits laid down in applicable law at any time.

2. The electoral constituency for clubs and athletes will be autonomous. For associations, technical-coaches and judges-referees, the constituency will be the state.

The development of electoral processes will be regulated, and will be adjusted in any case to the provisions of the Ministerial Order ECI/3567/2007 of 4 December 2007, regulating electoral processes in the Federal Republic of Spanish Sports for the realization of the electoral processes of the Organ of Government and representation in the Spanish Sports Federations.

CHAPTER II

The General Assembly

Article 18. º

1. The General Assembly is the Superior Organ of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation in which the Clubs and other Sports Associations, sportsmen, coaches and judges, as well as other collectives, will be represented. promote, practice or contribute to the development of the sport of Golf within the Spanish territory and be legally susceptible to representation in the General Assembly.

2. The General Assembly shall consist of a maximum of members who shall not exceed the limits of the legislation in force at any time and the exact number of which shall be fixed at each electoral period.

The members of the General Assembly shall be elected every four years, coinciding with the years of the Summer Olympic Games, by free and secret suffrage, equal and direct between and by the components of each integrate the Royal Spanish Golf Federation into the proportion that at each moment lay down the legal provisions and which will be reflected in the corresponding Electoral Regulations.

Article 19. º

1. The General Assembly may be convened in plenary or in a delegated Commission.

2. It is for the General Assembly, in plenary session:

a) The approval of the annual budget and its liquidation.

b) Approval of the sports calendar.

c) Approval and modification of the Statutes.

(d) The election and the end of the President.

Item 20.

1. The General Assembly shall meet, in plenary session, on an ordinary basis, once a year for the approval of the budget for the current year, the settlement of the budget for the preceding year and the adoption of the timetable. sports.

2. All other meetings held by the General Assembly in plenary session shall be of an extraordinary nature and shall be convened by the President, on his own initiative or at the request of the Commission Delegated by agreement adopted by majority or request of a number of members of the Assembly representing at least 20 per 100 of the total members of the General Assembly.

3. Meetings of the General Assembly, both ordinary and extraordinary, shall be convened at least 20 days before the date of its conclusion by means of written communication to all its members and in which it shall express itself with all clarity of the Order of the Day, as well as place, date and time of celebration of both the first and second convocation among which you must mediate at least one hour.

4. In order for the meetings of the General Assembly to be validly constituted, the majority of its members shall be required to attend the first convocation. On the second call, the session shall be validly constituted provided that the number of members present represents at least 20% of the members of the Assembly.

5. Agreements shall be adopted by a majority of the members present at each meeting.

CHAPTER III

The Delegate Commission

Article 21. º

The Delegation of the General Assembly is the body of ordinary control and monitoring of the federal management. It shall be chosen by the General Assembly and shall also be renewed.

Item 22.

Members of the Delegate Committee, who will necessarily be members of the General Assembly, shall be elected every four years by vote, with the possibility of replacing the vacancies annually.

Article 23. º

The Delegation of the General Assembly consists of 15 members plus the President, elected as follows:

a) Five members will be elected by the presidents of the regional federations. This representation shall be designated by and among the Presidents of the same.

b) Five members shall be chosen by the Sports Clubs, designated by and among the same clubs, without the corresponding members of the same Autonomous Community having more than 50% of the representation.

c) Three members will be chosen by the athletes.

d) A member will be appointed by the coaches-coaches.

e) A member will be designated by the judges.

Item 24.

1. It is the responsibility of the Delegation of the General Assembly, on a proposal from the President of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation or two thirds of the members of the Delegation:

a) The modification of the sports calendar.

b) Modifying budgets.

c) The approval and modification of the internal regulations of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation.

The modifications referred to in this article may not exceed the limits and criteria that the General Assembly itself establishes in a plenary session.

2. It also corresponds to the Commission Delegated:

a) The elaboration of a report prior to the approval of the budgets.

b) The monitoring of the sports and economic management of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, by drawing up an annual report to the General Assembly on the memory of activities and the settlement of the budget.

Item 25.

1. The Commission shall meet at least once every four months on a proposal from the President. His term of office shall be with that of the General Assembly.

2. The meetings of the Commission Delegated shall be convened by the President by telegram or fax addressed to all its members at least five days in advance of the date on which they are to be held in which the Order of the Day is expressed. the meeting as well as place, date and time it will take place.

3. The meetings of the Delegate Commission shall be validly constituted provided that half of its members are present.

4. Agreements shall be adopted by a majority of the members present at each meeting.

CHAPTER IV

The President

Item 26.

The President of the Spanish Golf Federation is the executive body of the Spanish Golf Federation. It holds its legal representation, convenes and presides over the organs of government, representation and control and executes the agreements of the same. You can name and remove Board members as well as hire and fire people who provide services at the Royal Spanish Golf Federation.

Item 27.

The President of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation will also be the General Assembly, the Delegate Commission and the Board of Directors, with a vote of quality in the event of a tie in the adoption of the agreements of the General Assembly. plenary and the Delegate Committee.

Item 28.

1. The President will be elected every four years, coinciding with the summer Olympic Games, by free, direct, equal and secret suffrage, by the members of the General Assembly. The candidates, who may not be members of the General Assembly, shall be presented, at least, by 15% of the members of the Assembly and their choice will be produced by a double-lap system, in the event that no one is elected. candidate reach the absolute majority of the votes cast.

2. In the event that the Presidency becomes vacant before the end of the four-year period referred to, the General Assembly shall elect a new election to cover that vacancy for the time remaining until the end of the relevant period. to the ordinary command.

Item 29.

There will be no limitation of mandates for the performance of the President's office.

Article 30. º

1. The performance of the position of President of the Spanish Golf Federation, will be the cause of incompatibility to occupy managerial positions in another Spanish Sports Federation.

2. It will also be incompatible with the exercise of managerial positions of any Club or Sports Association related to the sport of golf, except those entities of an international character in which the Royal Spanish Golf Federation is integrated.

Item 31.

The President will cease by:

1. Course of the deadline for which he was elected.

2. Death.

3. Resignation.

4. Approval of a motion of censure by the General Assembly.

5. Incur one of the causes of incompatibility referred to in the previous article.

Article 32. º

Vacancy the Presidency for any of the causes foreseen in the previous article (except the one provided for in the number 1), the First Vice President of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation will immediately proceed to bring the Board together. Directive to be convened by the General Assembly so that, within the following 30 days of the next plenary meeting it will be the sole item on the agenda, the election of the new President, in the manner provided for in Article 28 (2), and for the missing period until the following general elections.

Item 33.

The motion of censure against the President must be signed by a third of the members of the General Assembly, with written expression of the reasons that motivate it.

Article 34. º

The motion of censure will be presented to the Secretary General of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, who will give immediate knowledge to the President, who within 72 hours will convene the General Assembly, so that as Single issue will proceed to debate and vote on the motion tabled.

Item 35.

In order for the motion of censure to prosper, a favorable vote of two-thirds of the members of the General Assembly will be necessary. No other motion of censure may be proposed during the same term of office and for the same reason.

Item 36.

1. The position of President of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation may be remunerated provided that such an agreement, as well as the amount of the remuneration is approved by half plus one of the members present at the meeting of the General Assembly in which adopt the agreement. Gross remuneration, including legally established social expenditure, shall not be eligible for public subsidies received by the Federation.

2. The remuneration of the President shall end with the end of his term of office and no such remuneration may be extended beyond the duration of the term of office.

Item 37.

For the due exercise of his duties, the President of the Spanish Golf Federation is invested with the most extensive powers of representation, administration and management, corresponding to all those who are not expressly reserved in the Law or in these Statutes of the General Assembly or the Delegate Commission.

In particular the President of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation will hold the powers which, with an enunciative but not limited, are indicated below in order to be exercised in solidarity in the name and representation of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation:

1. Represent in general the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, in judgment and outside of it, before all classes of persons and entities admitted in law.

2. To negotiate, to conclude and to solemnize all kinds of transactions and contracts, and in particular to buy, sell, exchange, and, in general, to acquire, for any degree and to dispose and to tax, for consideration, all kinds of shares, participations, assets furniture and rights to them, as well as to provide and accept personal and real guarantees of all kinds and to modify and cancel the same.

3. Hire and fire all types of employees, setting their conditions, and represent as wide as possible the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, in judgment or outside of it, before all kinds of Courts, Agencies, Entities and Authorities, any geographical scope, with competence in matters of employment or social security, exercising the relevant actions and rights in defense of the interests of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation.

4. To represent in the widest possible form the Royal Spanish Golf Federation before all kinds of public bodies and authorities, be they state, autonomous, provincial, municipal or any other type, as well as before all kinds of (a) State-owned bodies, both for the purpose of concluding all kinds of acts and contracts which are directly or indirectly related to the activities of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation and for the purpose of promoting or interest in files administrative of all classes and follow them in all their procedures and instances, and, in particular and in form merely enunciative, to take part in auctions, contests and other files aimed at the hiring of works or services and to carry out the necessary acts for the award and signature of the corresponding contract, being able expressly to this effect constitute, modify and cancel bonds and deposits of all types and make payments and charges to any body, authority or administrative department and accept or challenge provisional and final awards.

5. To arrange with any financial or credit institution-including the Banco de España-all kinds of active and passive banking operations as well as the hiring of banking services, including in a purely enunciative manner (a) a current account of deposit savings, an opening of a document or non-loan, a loan, a simple and a current account, a discount, and any other financing contracts, as well as a bond and all the accessories and accessories for the full effectiveness of the above contracts, as well as to mobilize by way of right the balances of the bank accounts opened in the name of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, and to enter into the same the funds or values of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation.

6. Make exchange statements of all kinds in exchange letters, cheques, promissory notes and any other securities, intervening in them as a bookseller, accepting, intervening, endorsing or guarantor, as well as, in general, negotiating, discount, pay, collect and protest such titles.

7. Claim and collect any amounts due to the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, whatever the legal title or concept of the debt and the person, natural or legal, obligated to the payment or the return included the Administration Publish, sign invoices, give and demand receipts and letters of payment; make payments; render and demand accountability and constitute and cancel deposits of all kinds, including at the General Deposit Box and its branches.

8. Hold and grant powers as wide as possible to represent the Royal Spanish Golf Federation in all manner of Courts and Courts, including the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court and to appear and want to in all manner of proceedings, trials, causes, business and files of any kind, civil, penal, administrative, administrative, administrative, economic, administrative or labor, as plaintiff or defendant or any another concept, using the ordinary and special procedures available and by carrying out in the same way all kinds of actions that convince the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, such as attending to acts of conciliation with or without agreement, initiating questions of competition, asking for the suspension of the judgments, withdrawal of the defendant and the application of the pretentions deducted by third parties, urging judicial and embargoing sales or their removal and cancellation, by striking and recusing witnesses or officials, requesting the practice of requires the respective procedure, absolving positions in civil trials and providing statements in criminal trials, challenging and approving credits, subscribing or contesting judicial or extrajudicial agreements, accepting the award of goods and rights of any kind, furniture and buildings, interposing and following the appeals, appeals, nullity, complaint, responsibility, review, gross injustice, raised, restocal and other ordinary and extraordinary and desist from them and the procedures when they deem it appropriate, constituting bonds and deposits and withdrawing them in their time, even transiting in trials or proceedings; to commit the Royal Spanish Golf Federation to intervene as widely as possible in all the arbitral proceedings; to move out of trial and to grant general or special powers to lawyers and procurators, with replacement faculties.

9. Withdraw from all kinds of offices of the State, the Autonomous Communities, the Province, the Municipality, the Autonomous Entities and Organizations and their dependencies or services all letters, certificates, communications, offices, liquidations, packages, postal or telegraph orders, documents and securities declared or any other similar.

10. To withdraw from all the Customs of the national territory or not, any kind of goods consigned to the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, to request their soon to be dispatched, to present documents and supporting documents, even declarations of value, to exercise and to take the necessary steps to ensure the delivery of the said goods and, for all this, to subscribe and sign written, secure, receipts and, in general, how many documents are required and are accurate, useful or Suitable for the Royal Spanish Golf Federation.

11. To withdraw from the railway, shipping and transport companies in general, the genera or effects referred to the Royal Spanish Golf Federation and to formulate to the effect protests and complaints, to make leave of account and abandonment of goods, as well as Lift the corresponding minutes.

12. To sign as many public or private documents as necessary for the exercise of the above powers.

13. Obtain all kinds of concessions, patents, privileges, trademarks, distinctive signs and intellectual and industrial property rights.

14. Contract and subscribe insurance against fires, accidents at work and social insurance, as well as insurance to cover any other risks.

15. To grant all or part of the above powers and functions to other persons in a solidarity or joint manner and to revoke such proxies.

CHAPTER V

The Board Of Directors

Item 38.

The Board of Directors is the collegiate management body of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation; its members are freely appointed and revoked by the President of the Board.

Item 39.

1. The Board of Directors of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation shall be composed of a maximum of 30 members, including: the President four Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer and the vowels who, in number no more than twenty-four, are designated.

2. Members of the Board of Directors who are not members of the General Assembly shall have access to the sessions of the General Assembly and the Delegation with a voice but without a vote.

3. The President shall be replaced, in the event of absence or illness, by the First Vice-President.

Article 40. º

All the Board of Directors ' positions are honorary and those who occupy them will not receive any remuneration, except for the President.

Article 41. º

1. The Board of Directors shall meet at least three times a year, with no more than one hundred and fifty days between two consecutive meetings.

2. The Secretary-General shall, in order of the President, make the call to include the order of the day and the necessary documentation for the knowledge of its members.

Item 42.

The meetings of the Board of Directors shall be validly constituted when the majority of its members, and in the second, a third of the members, are present at the first call.

Article 43. º

1. No member of the Board of Directors may be appointed to any of the following cases:

(a) Haber has been convicted by a firm criminal sentence that bears the principal or ancillary penalty of absolute or special disablement for public office.

(b) Not possessing the nationality of any Member State of the European Union.

c) Haber been declared unable by firm court decision.

2. They will not be able to serve as a member of the Board of Directors of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation who hold managerial positions in another Spanish Sports Federation.

Article 44. º

It's the Board's competence:

1. Prepare the papers and documents that will serve as the basis for the General Assembly to perform the functions that correspond to it.

2. Set the date and order of the day of the General Assembly.

3. Call general elections to the General Assembly and to the Presidency of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation.

4. To propose to the General Assembly the change of domicile of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation in the terms provided for in Article 3 of these Statutes.

5. Collaborate with the President in the economic, administrative and sporting direction of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation and in the execution of the agreements of the other higher collegiate organs of government and representation and control of the same.

6. Receive and collect reports from the Presidents of the Technical Committees governed by Title IV of these Statutes.

Item 45.

All the members of the Board of Directors will perform their duties with the utmost diligence and will respond jointly to the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, in front of the federations of autonomy with personality legal and in front of the creditors of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation for the property or economic damage that the actions of the Board of Directors have caused by malice, abuse of faculties or gross negligence of any of them. In any event, the members of the Board who have saved their vote in the agreements causing the damage shall be exempt from liability.

Article 46. º

1. The Vice-Presidents shall, in their order, replace the President in the event of absence, vacancy, illness or any other physical or legal impossibility and shall collaborate with him provided that they are required and, in particular, in all matters to the relationship of the Federation with foreign or supranational bodies.

2. All members of the Board of Directors, apart from developing the specific functions of each office, shall cooperate equally in the management of the government which is responsible for the same and shall carry out the tasks entrusted to them by the President or the President. Board.

Item 47.

These are the Treasurer's competencies:

(a) Formulate the balance sheets that are to be regularly submitted to the Board of Directors, the Delegate Committee and, annually, the General Assembly.

b) Authenticate with your signature the annual budgets, balances, and accounts.

Article 48. º

1. The members of the Board of Directors of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation will be considered in all kinds of acts, facilities and sports events related to the sport of golf, as guests of honor, and as such will be entitled to occupy a prominent place in the events to which they attend.

2. The members of the Board of Directors of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation will have free access to the fields and facilities of all clubs and other sports associations affiliated directly or indirectly to the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, being able to practice golf in his condition as guests of honor.

3. All former presidents of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation will have the right to use the uniformity of the Spanish Golf Federation's Directing and they will be able to represent the President, if he grants such representation, in all acts precise.

CHAPTER VI

The Secretary General

Article 49. º

The President of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation may appoint a General Secretary prior to the knowledge of his Board of Directors. This charge may be paid if the holder is not a member of the Board of Directors.

Article 50. º

The Secretary-General will perform the duties of fedatary and advisor and more specifically:

a) Attends and advises all governing bodies, control and representation of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation in the legal aspects of their respective competition.

b) Exerts the role of Secretary General in the meetings of the governing bodies, control and representation of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation to attend, raises the minutes of its sessions and issues certifications of the agreements adopted. Once the minutes have been approved, he will sign them with the President's approval, and will guard the corresponding record books.

c) He is Secretary of the Sports Discipline Committee.

d) Redacta the Annual Memory of Sports Activities.

e) Prefor the Annual Memory of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation for presentation to the Delegate Commission and the General Assembly.

(f) You may represent, by delegation of the Presidency, the RFEG, in the functions entrusted to it.

CHAPTER VII

Manager

Item 51.

1. The Manager guarantees, under the superior authority of the President, the good economic and administrative march of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, carries the accounting, assists and permanently informs all the organs of government, control and representation of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, whose economic inspection is responsible, in all matters of its competence, prepares the documentation and studies in the competition issues of those and ensures the fulfillment of the decisions and agreements adopted by them.

2. In particular, they are the competencies of the Manager:

a) Ostenta by delegation of the President, the head of staff of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation.

b) Coordinates the performance of the various organs of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation.

c) Predict the resolution and dispatch of all matters within your jurisdiction.

d) Vela, with the appropriate advice of the Secretary General, for the fulfilment of all legal and sports rules, having duly informed on the content of the same to the organs of the Royal Spanish Federation of Golf.

e) Predict the meetings of the governing bodies and the technical bodies, acting in them with a voice, but without a vote.

f) Receives and issues the official correspondence of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, and carries an entry and exit record of the same.

g) Organizes, maintains and custody the archive of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation.

h) Supports documentation and informs the governing bodies and the technical bodies of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation.

i) Controls the implementation of the economic agreements and in a special way monitors the proper compliance of the assigned destinations to the official grants. He is also responsible for the supervision of the patrimony of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation.

j) Promotes under the superior authority of the President, actions aimed at the greatest dissemination and practice of Golf in Spain.

k) Entabla shares and prepares agreements with companies and individuals for obtaining aid, promotions and private grants for the benefit of the Spanish Golf.

l) Represents the Royal Spanish Golf Federation to Authorities, Bodies, Courts, and individuals, in terms and with limitations to determine the powers granted by its President and other higher bodies.

m) Attends to sports associations, golf professionals in Spain and athletes in the terms provided for each circumstance, with the appropriate advice of the Secretary General.

Item 52.

The position of Manager may be remunerated, if the holder is not a member of the Board of Directors, and shall have all legal effects upon the consideration of senior management staff.

TITLE III

Rights and basic duties of members of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation

Item 53.

1. All members of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation have the right to receive the protection of the same with respect to their legitimate sports interests, as well as to participate in their activities and in the functioning of their organs, according to the with the present Statutes and Rules of Procedure.

2. The members of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation have, in turn, the duty to abide by the agreements of their organs, without prejudice to recourse, to the competent federal authorities and, where appropriate, to the competent jurisdiction, those who consider to be contrary to law.

Item 54.

The Royal Spanish Golf Federation will not allow any form of discrimination between its members by reason of birth, race, sex, opinion or any other condition or personal or social circumstance.

TITLE IV

Of The Technical Bodies

Article 55.

Are Technical Organs of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation:

a) The Rules and Play Technical Committee-Referees.

b) The Fields and Handicap Technical Committee.

c) The Technical Committee of Male Fans.

d) The Technical Committee for Women's Fans.

e) The Youth Technical Committee.

f) The Technical Committee of Professionals.

g) The Pitch & Putt Technical Committee.

h) The Promotion Committee

i) The Advisory Committee.

j) The Sports Discipline Committee.

k) The Anti-Doping Commission.

l) All those whose creation the President, or the Board, considers appropriate.

The specific competences of each Committee will be reflected in the regulatory standards.

CHAPTER I

General rules

Article 56.

1. The rules common to the Technical Committees contained in this Chapter shall apply to all the rules listed in Article 55.

2. The Advisory Committee shall be governed by its own rules contained in Chapter III of this Title.

3. The Sports Discipline Committee shall be governed by its own rules contained in Chapter IV of this Title.

4. The Anti-Doping Commission shall be governed by its own rules contained in Chapter VI of this Title.

Item 57.

The Technical Committees shall be composed of a President, and at least two vowels. The maximum number of vowels will be fixed in each case by the President of the Spanish Golf Federation, on a proposal from the Committee president.

Article 58.

1. The Presidents of the Technical Committees shall be elected by the President of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation from among the members of their Board of Directors.

2. The remaining members of the Technical Committees will be appointed by the President of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, heard by the Board of Directors.

Article 59. º

The Technical Committees shall submit to the approval of the Board of Directors which, where appropriate, shall raise the relevant Authority, an annual activity programme together with the relevant expenditure budget.

Article 60. º

The Technical Committees shall meet at least four times a year at least four times.

Item 61.

The Technical Committees shall meet with extraordinary character, provided that they are convened by their President either on their own initiative or at the request of half plus one of their vowels.

Item 62.

The convocation of the Technical Committees, both ordinary and extraordinary, must be carried out at least 20 calendar days before the meeting. In case of urgency, it may be arranged telegraph with 48 hours.

Article 63.

The Technical Committees are considered validly constituted if they attend their meetings, half plus one of their components, at least.

CHAPTER II

From the competencies of the Technical Committees

Item 64.

Corresponds to the Rules and Play Technical Committee-Referees:

a) Propose the rules of the game and its modifications and interpret them and ensure that in all the tests they are observed, scrupulously, the rules of the game in force.

(b) Establish the levels of arbitration, convene the examinations and issue the national federal titles.

c) To technically classify the Judges or Referees, proposing the attachment to the corresponding categories.

d) Propose candidates for International Judge or Arbitration.

e) Approve administrative rules by regulating arbitration.

f) Coordinate with the autonomic federations the levels of training.

g) Designate collegiates in state-wide competitions.

Item 65.

The Field and Handicap Technical Committee corresponds to:

(a) Inspect, measure, and assess, for the sole purposes of the competitions, the fields and variations that may occur in them, declaring them fit for the conduct of sports tests.

b) Dictate and ensure compliance with the rules governing the handicap system of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, as well as manage the handicap of all the federated sportspersons affiliated to the federation through the different Autonomous Federations.

Item 66.

1. The Technical Committee of Pitch & Putt is responsible for organizing and coordinating the practice and promotion of the sport of Golf in its Specialty of Pitch & Putt.

2. It is its peculiar task to prepare, prepare and submit to the relevant bodies:

a) The regulation of all Pitch & Putt tests.

b) The selection rules for the different national teams that depend on them, and the designation of the Federative Delegates for each test.

c) The national selections that depend on them as well as their respective captains.

d) The national and international evidence schedule, to be held throughout the Spanish territory, drawn up in collaboration with the other interested Committees.

Item 67.

1. The Technical Committee of Men's Fans is responsible for organizing and coordinating the practice and promotion of the sport of Golf, developed by amateur male players.

2. It is its peculiar task to prepare, prepare and submit to the relevant bodies:

a) The Status of the Fan and any reform of it in collaboration with the Technical Committee of female fans.

b) The regulation of all male amateur testing.

c) The selection rules for the different national teams that depend on them, and the designation of the Federative Delegates for each test.

d) The national teams that are dependent on them as well as their respective captains.

e) The national and international evidence schedule, to be held throughout the Spanish territory, made in collaboration with the other interested Committees.

Item 68.

It is the role of the Technical Committee for female fans as set out in Article 67 in relation to amateur female players.

Item 69.

These are the functions of the Youth Technical Committee as listed in Article 67 in relation to both male and female cadet players.

Item 70.

1. The Technical Committee of professionals is responsible for proposing the regulations for the practice and promotion of the sport of golf executed by professional players, as well as proposing the regulation of the activity of all persons exercising paid roles, directly related to the teaching and practice of golf.

2. The functions that constitute their particular role are those listed in Article 67 in relation to professional players, as well as to convene courses, exams and to issue national federal titles.

Item 71.

It is the mission of the Promotion Committee to exercise as many functions as are necessary for the development of the sport of golf in Spain and in particular the search and achievement of means to facilitate such development.

CHAPTER III

The Advisory Committee

Item 72.

1. The Advisory Committee shall, in an advisory capacity, inform and advise the President and the Board of Directors when required to do so.

2. They shall be members of this Committee, in addition to the former Presidents of the RFEG, all those persons who have devoted much of their active life to the sport of Golf, as directors or executives, appointed, on a permanent basis by the General Assembly. on a proposal from the President of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation heard by the Board of Directors.

3. From among its members, the President of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation will appoint a President who will exercise such a position during a term of office equal to that of the Board of Directors.

CHAPTER IV

From the Sports Discipline Committee

Article73.

1. The Sports Discipline Committee of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation acts independently of the other organs of the same, in the field of national territory and in sports disciplinary matters according to the competences that attribute the present Statutes.

2. Likewise, the Sports Discipline Committee of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation will exercise disciplinary authority in the field of doping, by delegation, and in accordance with the terms, conditions and deadlines provided for in Sections 2 and 3. the third chapter of Title I of the Organic Law of 21 November 2006 on Health Protection and the Fight against Doping in Sport, and with Titles III and IV of Law 19/2007 of 11 July, against violence, racism, xenophobia and the intolerance in sport.

Item 74.

1. The Sports Discipline Committee of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation shall be composed of a number of members who shall not be less than three and no more than six, from which a President and a Vice-President shall be appointed who shall replace him in case of the President's absence.

2. Each member shall have one vote being the President's vote of character in the case of a tie.

3. The Secretary General of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation will be a member of the Sports Discipline Committee and will act as Secretary of the Sports Discipline Committee, with voice and vote.

4. The other members of the Sports Discipline Committee shall be elected by free and direct vote by the General Assembly on a proposal from the Board of Directors.

5. No member of the General Assembly shall be required to be a member of the Sports Discipline Committee.

Item 75.

The duration of the term of the members of the Sports Discipline Committee shall be four years, and shall be renewed in the first Assembly to be chosen for each Olympic period set.

CHAPTER V

From the Competition Committees

Article 76.

1. In all the clubs and sports facilities affiliated to the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, a Competition Committee, which will be composed of a minimum of four federated members, one of which will hold the Presidency. To exercise the presidency it will be necessary to hold the nationality of a Member State of the European Union.

2. At least the delegations of ladies, gentlemen, senior, professionals, children and handicaps should operate within their bosom, with the same person being able to occupy the same person up to two delegations.

3. The Committees of Competition shall be proposed to the federation of regional autonomy or corresponding Territorial Delegation, by the Boards of Directors of the Clubs or in their case, by the representatives of the sports facilities, who also may propose to them that they be replaced by others who are more appropriate. The federation of regional autonomy or territorial delegation will accept or not, the received proposals, and will inform the Real Federation of Golf of its decision.

Item 77.

They are functions of the Competition Committees:

a) Organize all tests to be held at the premises of their respective clubs.

b) Decide on any incident that occurred during the celebration of a test in application of the rules of golf.

(c) Raise reports of the actions of athletes who may constitute an infringement of the body with disciplinary competence in each case and provide all the necessary support to the body of its own office or its body.

CHAPTER VI

Anti-Doping Commission

Item 78.

1. Apart from the mandatory checks to be carried out by the Commission on Health Monitoring and Monitoring and the Doping of the High Council of Sport, in and out of competition, the Anti-Doping Commission of the RFEG, will be in charge, in the (a) a federal court, to order the conduct of additional doping controls. It is also up to them to monitor the development of how many doping controls are carried out in official state-wide competitions, and of the checks carried out outside competition, to athletes with a licence to participate in such competitions. competitions. With regard to the international competitions held in Spanish territory, the Anti-Doping Commission of the RFEG will be in charge of monitoring the development of how many doping controls are carried out during the celebration of the same, acting always by delegation of international bodies.

2. In accordance with paragraph 1, in the field of doping controls ordered by the Anti-Doping Commission, the Anti-Doping Commission shall determine the competitions in which doping control is to be carried out, as well as the number of samples to be taken in each of them. It will also determine the amount of checks to be carried out outside the competition.

3. The Anti-Doping Commission shall carry out the study of the documentation and communications referred to in Articles 45 and following of the Ministerial Order of 11 January 1996 laying down the general rules for approval and operation of laboratories, non-state, doping control in sport.

4. Their competencies will be further developed in the Federative Doping Control Regulation.

TITLE V

From the economic regime

Item 79.

The RFEG has its own and independent assets of its associates, consisting of the assets owned by it. During the first quarter of each year, the Board of Directors shall draw up and adjust the financial statements provided for in the adjustment rules of the General Accounting Plan for Federations, as well as the settlement of the budget, together with the corresponding explanatory memory. Those financial statements shall be audited and the report issued by the Auditors shall be brought to the attention of the General Assembly, after examination by the Commission Delegated.

Item 80.

The Board of Directors will prepare the draft budget for each financial year, which, after agreement of the General Assembly, will be presented to the Superior Council of Sports.

Item 81.

In the first quarter of each year, the Board of Directors will draw up the financial statements provided for in the adjustment rules of the General Accounting Plan for Federations, as well as the liquidation of the budget, together with the corresponding explanatory memory. Those financial statements shall be audited and the report issued by the Auditors shall be brought to the attention of the General Assembly, after examination by the Commission Delegated.

Item 82.

Constitute the revenues of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation:

1. Grants from the Superior Council of Sports and other organs of Public Administrations.

2. The goods or rights you receive by inheritance, legacy or donation.

3. The dues of its affiliates.

4. Financial penalties imposed on its members in accordance with the laws in force.

5. The fruits, incomes and interests of their assets.

6. The loans or loans granted to you.

7. The revenue you get in relation to the sports testing organization.

8. The aid received from companies and individuals for the promotion and development of Golf in Spain.

9. The consideration received for the provision of organisational, image, counselling and promotion services varies.

Item 83.

The Royal Spanish Golf Federation will devote all of its revenue and its heritage to the achievement of the aims of its object.

Article 84. º

The lien or disposal of movable and immovable property belonging to the Royal Spanish Golf Federation will require authorization from the General Assembly's Delegate Committee. Where the amount of the operation is equal to or greater than 10% of the budget, or EUR 300,000 it shall require approval by the Plenary General Assembly. In the case of immovable property which has been financed, in whole or in part, with public funds from the State, the authorization of the High Council of Sports for its lien or disposal shall be required.

No multi-annual expenditure may be committed, without prior authorisation of the High Council of Sport, where the committed annual expenditure exceeds 10 per 100 of the budget and exceeds the term of office of the President.

These amounts and percentages will be reviewed annually by the Superior Sports Council.

The budget administration will respond to the single cash principle, with its own revenue being dedicated, as a matter of priority, to its structural expenditure.

TITLE VI

Disciplinary regime

CHAPTER I

General rules

Article 85.

The exercise of the Sports Disciplinary Regime in the field of golf practice will be regulated; as provided for in Law 10/1990, of October 15, of the Sport; by Royal Decree 1591/1992, of 23 December, on Discipline Sports and other norms dictated in its development; by the Organic Law of November 21, of Health Protection and the fight against doping in Sport and its regulatory development; by Law 19/2007, of July 11, against violence, racism, xenophobia and intolerance in sport and its regulatory development and, as a result of the the Statutes of the RFEG, as well as its internal regulations.

Article 86. º

The sports disciplinary authority regulated in this Title extends to the infringements of the rules of play or competition and those of the general rules of sport, typified in the present Statutes and will be exercised in accordance with the general principles set out in Royal Decree 1591/1992 of 23 December 1992 on Sports Discipline.

Item 87.

1. The Royal Spanish Golf Federation exercises disciplinary authority over all persons who are part of their own organic structure: on sports clubs and their athletes, technicians and managers; judges, referees and, in general, all persons and entities that, being federated, develop, promote, practice or otherwise intervene in the sport of Golf in the State sphere.

2. Likewise, the Royal Spanish Golf Federation exercises disciplinary authority over the athlete and his or her intone in accordance with the provisions of Article 13 of the Organic Law of 21 November, of the Protection of Health and the fight against doping in sport, and in accordance with the provisions of paragraphs 1 and 3 of Article 32 of Law 19/2007 of 11 July, against violence, racism, xenophobia and intolerance in sport.

Item 88.

The disciplinary authority of the RFEG corresponds to its Disciplinary Committee.

Item 89.

The sports disciplinary authority regulated in this Title extends to violations of the rules of the game or of the tests or competitions of state or international level, that is, the actions or omissions that, during the Course of the game or competition, they violate, prevent or disturb their normal development and those of the general rules of sport.

It shall also constitute an infringement of any violation of the rules contained in these Statutes or in any other provision dictated by the RFEG.

Article 90. º

The disciplinary resolutions handed down by the Spanish Sports Discipline Committee of the Spanish Golf Federation will be available within 15 working days before the Spanish Sports Discipline Committee.

Article 91. º

1. The disciplinary decisions issued by the Spanish Sports Discipline Committee exhaust the administrative route and may be the subject of an appeal to the Administrative-Administrative Jurisdiction.

2. Decisions taken by the bodies responsible for sporting discipline in the Autonomous Communities may be subject to appeal in accordance with the provisions of the relevant autonomous rules.

CHAPTER II

Of Sports Violations

Article 92. º

Sports violations are classified as very serious, severe and mild.

Item 93.

1. These are very serious common violations:

(a) Physical assaults on judges, arbitrators, technicians, players, managers, other authorities, public or any other person directly or indirectly related to the development of the game.

(b) Protests, intimidation or collective or tumultuous joint actions that prevent the conclusion of a test or force its suspension.

c) Manifest disobedience to orders and instructions emanating from judges, arbitrators, technicians, managers and other sports authorities, with contempt for their authority.

d) Abuse of authority and usurpation of privileges.

e) The violation of secrets in matters that are known by reason of the position held in the club, group or federation.

(f) The acts of rebellion against the agreements of Federations, Pools, Clubs and other sports authorities.

g) Acts directed to not deportively predetermine the outcome of a test.

h) The distortion by a player of the results obtained in the tests by any means, including the alteration or manipulation of the result card, as well as the deliberate help of any other player for to commit such a fault.

i) The deliberate statement by an amateur player of a handicap other than his own, in order to obtain a certain different classification from the one that would have corresponded to him in any test and the deliberate help of any player or technician to commit such a fault.

j) The violation of the imposed sanction. The infringement shall be assessed in all cases where the sanctions are enforceable. The same scheme shall apply in the case of a breach of precautionary measures.

k) The lack of non-justified attendance at the national sports teams ' calls. For these purposes, the call is understood to refer to both the training and the effective celebration of the test or competition.

l) Participation in competitions organised by countries that promote racial discrimination, or those that weigh sports sanctions imposed by International Organizations, or with athletes representing the same.

m) Notary and public acts that threaten the dignity or decorum of sports, when they are a special gravity. The recidivism in serious infringements by facts of this nature shall also be considered to be very serious.

n) The inexecution of the resolutions of the Spanish Sports Discipline Committee.

(o) Those provided for in Article 14. 1 of the Organic Law of 21 November, of the Law of Protection of Health and the fight against doping in Sport.

p) Those provided for in Article 34 of Law 19/2007 of July 11, against violence, racism, xenophobia and intolerance in sport.

2. In addition to the common offences provided for in the previous paragraph, they are very serious infringements of the Presidents and other management members of both the Royal Spanish Golf Federation and the Clubs, Associations and other entities of the the sports organisation:

(a) Non-compliance with the General Assembly agreements, as well as electoral regulations and other statutory or regulatory provisions.

(b) The non-convocation, in the legal terms or conditions, in a systematic and repeated manner of the federal collegiate bodies.

(c) The incorrect use of private funds or of grants, credits, guarantees and other State aid, of their Autonomous Bodies, or otherwise granted, to the General Budget of the State.

For these purposes, the assessment of the incorrect use of public funds will be governed by the criteria that for the use of State aid and subsidies are contained in the State-specific legislation.

In terms of private funds, it will be the negligent or intentional character of the conduct.

d) The commitment of expenditure of a multiannual nature of the budget of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, without the regulatory authorization provided for in Article 29 of Royal Decree 1835/1991, of 20 December, on Federations Spanish sports, or in the regulations that at any time regulate such assumptions.

e) The organisation of official sports activities or competitions of an international nature, without the regulatory authority.

3. A very serious infringement of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation shall be deemed to be the non-unjustified grant of a licence as provided for in Article 7.1 of Royal Decree 1835/1991 of 20 December 1991 and in this Statute.

Article 94. º

Serious violations will be considered:

(a) The insults and offenses of judges, referees, technicians, players, leaders and other sports or public authorities.

b) Protests, intimidation or joint actions, collective or tumultuous that alter the normal development of the test.

(c) Failure to comply with orders and instructions adopted by the competent persons and bodies in the performance of their duties, if the fact is not of a very serious nature.

(d) The provision of words or execution of acts against the integrity or dignity of persons attached to the sporting organisation or against the public attending a test or competition.

e) Notary and public acts that attack decorum or sporting dignity.

f) The exercise of public or private activities declared incompatible with the activity or sporting function performed.

g) The non-convocation, within the legal deadlines or conditions, of the federal collegiate bodies.

(h) Failure to comply with the rules of administration, management of the budget and assets provided for in Article 36 of the Law of Sport and specified in its implementing provisions.

i) The manipulation or alteration, either personally or through person, of the sports equipment or equipment against the technical rules of each sport.

j) The imparting of golf classes without being in possession of the corresponding federative license in force that you enable for this.

k) The declare to be in possession of the federative license when intervening in a test, without being discharged as federated.

l) The voluntary deterioration of the playing field or sports facility.

m) The lack of attention to the requirements requested by a Federative Body, for no reason to justify it.

n) Do not have in the facility of the club a specific room to perform the doping control, as well as not to provide the necessary means to bring to good end the collection of samples.

or) The offences provided for in Article 14.2 of the Organic Law of 21 November 2006 on Health Protection and the Fight against Doping in Sport.

p) The infringements provided for in Article 35 of Law 19/2007 of 11 July against violence, racism, xenophobia and intolerance in sport.

q) In general, conduct contrary to sports rules, provided that it is not incurred in the rating of a very serious or minor fault.

Article 95.

These are minor violations:

(a) to submit observations to judges, arbitrators and sports authorities in the exercise of their duties, in such a way as to involve slight incorrectness.

b) Light incorrectness with the public, peers, or subordinates.

(c) To adopt a passive attitude in the performance of the orders and instructions received by the judges, referees and sports authorities in the performance of their duties.

d) Neglect in the conservation and care of social premises, sports facilities and other material means.

e) Disconsideration or any lack of rules of courtesy committed against a fellow competitor, contrary, observer, marker, judge-arbiter, members of the Committee of Competition or public, on occasion or during the course of a test.

f) In general the failure to comply with the sports rules due to negligence or excusable carelessness.

Article 96.

It is the perpetrators of the infringement that are carried out directly, those who force or directly induce another to execute it and those who cooperate and execute it effectively.

CHAPTER III

From Sanctions

Article 97. º

1. The following penalties shall be of serious common concern:

a) Inablement in perpetuity for charges in relation to the sport of golf.

b) Definitive privatization of the federal license.

c) Disengagement of the handicap in perpetuity or two to five years.

d) Temporary disablement from two to five years.

e) Prohibition of participating in competitions from two to five years.

f) Withdrawal of the two-to five-year federal license.

g) Multa from EUR 3,005.06 to EUR 9,015,18.

h) Closing the field for a period of two months to one year.

i) Suspension of economic aid by the Federation for a period of two to five years.

j) No award of official championships for a period of two to five years.

2. The penalties provided for in Article 22 of Royal Decree 1591/1992 of 23 December 1992 on Sports Discipline may be imposed by the committee on very serious infringements specific to managers.

3. The penalties provided for in Articles 15, 16, 17 and 18 of the Organic Law of 21 November 2006 on the protection of the environment may be imposed by the Commission on the very serious infringements referred to in Article 93.1 (n) of these Statutes. health and the fight against doping in sport.

4. The penalties provided for in Article 36 (a) may be imposed by the commission of the very serious infringements referred to in Article 93.1 (o) of these Statutes under the conditions laid down in points (c) and (d) of the same Article. of Law 19/2007 of July 11, against violence, racism, xenophobia and intolerance in sport.

5. The infringement provided for in Article 93 (2) of these Statutes shall be the penalties referred to in Article 24 of Royal Decree 1591/1992 of 23 December 1992.

Article 98. º

Corresponding to serious violations the following penalties:

a) Disable one month to one year.

b) Privating the federal license from one month to two years.

c) Two-year handicap from the handicap.

d) Ban on participating in competitions from one month to two years.

e) Multa from 601.01 euros to 3,005.06 euros.

f) Closing the field for a period of one week to two months.

g) Suspension of economic aid by the Federation for a period of one to two years.

h) Non-award of official championships for a period of one to two years.

i) Public assembly.

(j) Those provided for in Articles 15, 16, 17 and 18 of the Organic Law of 21 November 2006 on Health Protection and the Fight against Doping in Sport.

(k) The conditions laid down in Article 36 (b), under the conditions laid down in points (c) and (d) of the same Article of Law 19/2007 of 11 July, against violence, racism, xenophobia and intolerance in the sport.

Item 99.

Minor infractions will be sanctioned with private admonition, disablement of up to one month or federal license deprivation for the same period, or fine of up to 601.01 euros.

Item 100.

1. The fine, where appropriate, may only be imposed on sports associations, athletes, technicians or judges who receive remuneration for their work in the test where the offence has been committed and may not be superior to the liquid perceived in it.

2. Without prejudice to the foregoing, the fine penalty may be imposed simultaneously on any other sanction deemed appropriate by the disciplinary bodies.

Item 101.

1. No more than one penalty may be imposed for the same infringement except as provided for in the previous Article.

2. No one may be punished for offences which are not classified at the time of being classified or for offences which are not classified at the time when the competent body has to issue a decision.

Item 102.

If two or more faults are derived from the same event, or have been committed in the same competition, the penalty for the most serious fault shall be imposed to its maximum degree.

Item 103.

The sanctions imposed through the relevant disciplinary file will be immediately enforceable without the claims and remedies against them paralysing or suspending their execution, all without prejudice to the powers of the disciplinary bodies of the various bodies to take, at the request of a party, the precautionary measures which it considers appropriate for the assurance of the resolution which, in its day, is adopted.

CHAPTER IV

Aggravating and mitigating

Item 104.

It is a circumstance that aggravates the responsibility, the recidivism, that will exist when there is an infringement of analogous nature to which it is corrected, made by the same author within the next year counted from the compliance with the sanction.

Item 105.

They are extenuating circumstances:

a) Haber preceded, immediately to the commission of the fault, sufficient provocation.

b) Spontaneous repentance.

Article 106.

Disciplinary bodies may, in the exercise of their duties, apply the penalty to the extent they deem to be just within the limits corresponding to that infringement, taking into account the nature of the facts, the personality of the responsible and concurrency of extenuating or aggravating circumstances.

CHAPTER V

From extinction of responsibility

Item 107.

Disciplinary responsibility is extinguished:

a) By penalty compliance.

b) By prescription of the violation.

c) By prescription of penalties.

d) By death of the defendant.

e) For the loss of the federated sportsman condition. Where the loss of that condition is voluntary, this extinction event shall have a merely suspensive effect if the person who is subject to a disciplinary procedure in the process, or has been punished, shall recover within three years the the condition under which it was linked to the sport discipline, in which case the time of suspension of the sporting disciplinary liability shall not be taken into account for the purposes of the limitation of the offences or of the penalties.

f) By dissolution of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation.

CHAPTER VI

From the prescription

Article 108.

1. Minor infractions prescribe the month, the serious ones a year and the very serious ones at the age of three. The limitation period shall start from the day following the commission of the infringement.

2. The limitation period shall be interrupted by the initiation of the sanctioning procedure, but if the person or entity subject to the procedure is paralyzed for one month for reasons not attributable to the person or entity, the time limit shall be returned. corresponding, the prescription being interrupted again when the handling of the case is resumed.

Item 109.

1. The penalties imposed by the various disciplinary bodies may be imposed on a month, a year or three years on the basis of minor, serious or very serious infringements.

2. The limitation period shall begin to be counted from the day following the day on which the decision imposing the penalty or since its compliance was broken, if it had begun, is final.

CHAPTER VII

Disciplinary procedures

Section first. General provisions

Item 110.

The procedure for the sanction of disciplinary offences shall be initiated by the competent body as a result of a higher order, a reasoned complaint, or a knowledge obtained from an alleged infringement.

Item 111.

The competent body upon receipt of the order, denunciation or knowledge of an alleged infringement may:

a) Agreed to the file of the performances.

b) Start the ordinary procedure.

(c) In the case of faults of exceptional gravity, give the order in the unextended period of three working days, deciding on the initiation of the extraordinary procedure laid down in Article 37 et seq. of the Royal Decree 1591/1992, of December 23, on Sports Discipline.

Section 2. Of the ordinary procedure

Article 112.

The competent body shall notify those interested in the file of the initiation of the file as well as all the circumstances of the case.

Item 113.

In the same written notice of initiation, the competent body shall grant a period of 10 days for the parties concerned to provide the evidence they deem appropriate and to make the arguments in their defence which they consider to be appropriate. appropriate.

At the same time as the previous notification or after that period, the competent authority shall cite the issue to the purpose of exercising its right of hearing.

Item 114.

1. The competent body may order the practice of any proceedings leading to the best clarification of the facts, requesting, where appropriate, the Technical Committees, the Sports Associations and the judges, the reports it considers appropriate and (i) quoting from the number of persons deemed necessary.

2. The non-performance of the requested collaboration shall constitute an infringement in the terms set out in Chapter II of this Title.

Item 115.

Tests proposed and heard by stakeholders the competent body will dictate resolution.

CHAPTER VIII

Of the notifications

Item 116.

Any providence or resolution affecting those interested in the disciplinary procedure shall be notified to them as soon as possible, with the maximum limit of 10 days. The opening and resolution agreements adopted by the Sports Discipline Committee shall be notified to the Autonomous Federation by which the latter is established.

Item 117.

notifications shall be made by trade, letter, telegram, fax or any other means, provided that this makes it possible to ensure and to be aware of their receipt by the parties concerned, addressing their personal or social address or place expressly designated by those for the purpose of notifications.

Item 118.

The decisions, which will have to be reasoned with succinct reference to the facts and grounds of rights, shall be notified to the persons concerned with the indication of the resources which they have against them, they should be submitted and time to be brought in.

CHAPTER IX

From the formalization of resources

Article119. º

1. The writings in which the resources are to be formalized must contain:

(a) The name and name of the natural person or social name of the associative entities concerned, including in the latter case the name of their legal representative.

(b) Where appropriate, the name and surname of the representative of the person concerned, which shall be accredited by the representative.

(c) Any allegations that you deem appropriate, as well as any evidence proposals that they offer in relation to those, and the reasoning or precepts in which they create grounds for their claims; and

(d) The pretenses which may lead to such claims, reasoning and precepts.

2. The literal expression of the number 1 of this Article shall be communicated to the persons concerned together with the resolution referred to in Article 112.

TITLE VII

From the documentary regime

Item 120.

The documentary regime of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation will comprise the following Books:

1. Book Register of federations of the Autonomous Community and Delegations, which shall reflect the names of the federations, their registered office, the field of competence, organisation, name and surname of the President and of the governing bodies and representation, dates of the inauguration and cessation of the same.

2. Book of Clubs, in which the names of these and registered offices, names of the Presidents and other members of the Board of Directors, date of inauguration and termination of the said posts shall be established.

3. Book of Registration of the Sports Associations referred to in Article 17.1.c, in which the names of these, registered offices, names of the President/s and other members of the Board of Directors, date of taking of the possession and cessation of the said charges.

4. The Book Registration of Sports Facilities, property or in use of legal persons, not conceptualized as Clubs, in which it shall record the registered office of the same and the names of its Presidents if any.

5. Books of Acts, which will include the agreements adopted in the meetings that celebrate all the collegiate bodies of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, both government and representative as well as technical.

6. Books of Accounting, in which both the patrimony and the rights and obligations and the revenues and expenses of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation will be included, and the origin of those and the investment of them must be specified.

7. Book Register of sanctions imposed by the various disciplinary bodies of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation in which the offence that gave rise to the sanction, which was and the organ that imposed it, will be recorded.

TITLE VIII

From extinction

Item 121.

The Royal Spanish Golf Federation will be extinguished by the causes provided for in Article 11 of Royal Decree 1835/1991 of 20 December on Spanish sports federations.

Item 122.

Once the settlement has been produced, the net worth shall be for the purposes of sports as determined by the Superior Council of Sports.

TITLE IX

From the modification of the Statutes

Item 123.

The Statutes of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation may only be modified by agreement of the General Assembly in plenary session, upon the express inclusion in the order of the day of the modification that is intended.

Item 124.

The proposal to amend the Statutes to the General Assembly may be made:

1. For the President.

2. By the Board of Directors.

3. For 20% of the members of the General Assembly.

Item 125.

Approved the amendment of the Statutes will only be effective from the moment it is ratified by the Superior Council of Sports.

Additional disposition.

Any modification of the present Statutes proposed by the Board of Directors of the Superior Council of Sports may be incorporated to them by decision of the President of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation in which the General Assembly delegates such faculty.

Transitional disposition.

The regional federations currently integrated into the Royal Spanish Golf Federation will continue to form an integral part of the Spanish Golf Federation even if they have not adopted the integration agreement to be made Article 8 of these Statutes, until 30 June 1994, the date on which they shall cease to be integrated and shall lose all the rights which they are entitled to, unless they adopt the integration agreement before the end of the year. communicate to the Royal Spanish Golf Federation.

Repeal provision.

From the time of the publication of these Statutes in the "Official Gazette of the State", the previous Statutes of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation are hereby repealed.

Final disposition.

The validity and effectiveness of these Statutes and any amendments thereto will be conditional upon approval by the Board of Directors of the Superior Council of Sports and will enter into force the day after their adoption. approval. Once they are approved, they will be published in the "Official State Gazette" and will be entered in the corresponding Sports Associations Register.