<p class="reg-lead">The General Statutes of the International Basketball Federation, edition of 16 May 2025.</p>
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<tr><td>In force</td><td><b>16 May 2025</b></td></tr>
<tr><td>Structure</td><td>33 pages — the constitutive instrument of the world federation</td></tr>
<tr><td>Status</td><td><strong>Current edition</strong> — supersedes the edition of 5 May 2017</td></tr>
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<h2>What the Statutes determine</h2>
<p>The General Statutes stand at the head of the FIBA regulations, and the six Books of Internal Regulations are drafted within their framework. Their subject matter is the composition and purpose of the federation, the membership of national federations and their rights and obligations, the suspension and expulsion of members, and the structure of the organs: the Congress and the President, the Central Board, the Executive Committee and the Treasurer, the Secretariat, the Zones, the Regional Offices and the Commissions.</p>
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<h2>Structure of this edition<span class="reg-tag">Changes from the edition of 5 May 2017</span></h2>
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<li><b class="t">Specialised Commissions</b>Articles 21 to 27 define seven commissions: Technical, Competitions, <strong>Legal</strong>, Three-on-Three, Players, Finance and Medical.</li>
<li><b class="t">Zones</b>Articles 17 and 18 determine the FIBA Zones and their organisation — the same structure regulated in detail by Book Five of the Internal Regulations. FIBA Asia falls under this structure.</li>
<li><b class="t">Clubs and leagues</b>Article 12 clarifies the position of clubs, other bodies and leagues within the structure of the federation.</li>
<li><b class="t">Recognised organisations</b>Chapter Four enumerates the officially recognised organisations, including the <strong>International Wheelchair Basketball Federation</strong> and the <strong>International Basketball Federation for the Deaf</strong>.</li>
<li><b class="t">Suspension and expulsion</b>Article 10 regulates the conditions for the suspension and expulsion of members, and Article 11 the dissolution of a member national federation.</li>
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<h2>Who this document matters to</h2>
<p>For national federations, Articles 8 and 9 (rights and obligations of members) and Article 10 (suspension and expulsion) determine the relationship with the world federation. A comparative version of these Statutes showing the differences from the edition of 3 June 2021 is also available on this site.</p>
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