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Facts
The Union of Norwegian
Basketball referees (NBU) is a coalition of Norwegian basketball
referees, founded in 1975. From the start NBU has played an
important part in looking after and maintaining the educational and
economic interests of Norwegian Basketball referees. This is mainly
done through contact with the Norwegian Basketball Federation (NBBF) and it's sub-committees.
Who can join?
Anybody
who is authorized as a referee by the Norwegian
Basketball
Federation is eligible to join NBU. The
Board can also accept as members anyone with a similar authorization
from other national federations.
Historically
most of NBU's members have been referees assigned to games in
Norway's national divisions (Elite referees). Currently NBU have a
total of 46 members, which is the highest number of members
ever in the union's history. The annual membership fee is NOK
200,-.
The
founder of NBU, former leader of the Referee Committee and now
honorary FIBA-referee, Stein Evju, was nominated as the first
honorary member of NBU on the Annual Meeting on august 28th
1992. In the autumn of 1999, Robert Persson
was also appointed honorary member. In 2000, the
veteran Knut Myhre got the same appointment. More about this and other
distinctions on the page "Utmerkelser"
(in Norwegian).
Activities
NBU
is administered by it's elected Board
whose activities are decided by the NBU Annual Meeting. The
Annual Meeting is held in connection with the annual referee clinic.
On behalf of it's members, the Board represents NBU in a pre-season meeting with the Tournament Committee of NBBF. The agenda of
this meeting includes evaluation of, and discussions about, the
terms and regulations currently applicable for Elite referees.
Current and former activities performed by NBU includes:
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Administration
and purchase of equipment for Elite referees |
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Investigation
of educational and legal matters applicable for referees
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Preparation
and accomplishment of the Annual Meeting |
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Annual
meeting with the Tournament Committee about the economical terms
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Seeking
to establish financial partners and sponsors |
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Communication
and contact with the members and committees under NBBF
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Preparation
and distribution of the NBU Info Magazine |
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Establishing
Internet web site 1999 |
NBU
in the future
Being the
referee's partner and supporting player in a broad sense is the
definition of NBU's primary intention, now and in the future.
Therefore, priority is given to activities concerning referees and
matters highlighted by NBU's members. The future will hopefully
bring us a sponsorship deal used to establish a NBU-fund. The NBU-fund's
intention is to provide economical support for activities related to
all aspects of being a referee.
Finally,
NBU would like to express its goodwill and excitement towards the
work that was done to establish the
Norwegian semipro/pro basketball league in year 2000.
The league involve many of NBU's members, obligating NBU to give its
proper attention to the further work being made
towards developing
the BLNO in the years to come.
Please
don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions!
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Founded 1975
Address:
c/o Lars Ryde
Nilsåsvn. 36
N-3132
Husøysund
Norway
Account:
0530.33.11396
Members:
45
Membership fee:
Kr. 200,-
HONORARY
MEMBERS:
Stein Evju
August 1992
Robert Persson
September 1999
Knut Myhre
September 2001
Annual
Reports in Norwegian
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