Now independent after a wrenching civil war in Yugoslavia, Slovenia and Croatia gained provisional recognition from the International Olympic Committee last month.

In July 1996, the IOC decided to grant the WCBS a provisional recognition for two years.

The competition was arranged unofficially between 1973 and 1981, although it received provisional recognition on the 31.

It received provisional recognition in 1946 and was finally granted official state recognition in 1950, at which point membership stood at 36,000.

In 1995, it was granted the provisional recognition of the IOC.

Indeed, for the first time ever, ballroom dancing has received provisional recognition from the International Olympic Committee.

Having gained provisional recognition that year, the church was one of the fourteen faiths to gain state recognition in the 1948 Law on Cults.

The ICF have now given provisional recognition to the canoe federations of Slovenia and Croatia as independent organizations.

Theo Rush the Community won provisional recognition from the Archdiocese in 1993.

In September 2011, the Society was revived, being granted provisional recognition by the Trinity College Central Societies Committee.