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                    "Trace how a recognition decision, governance dispute or sanction affects specific committee activities.",
                    "Evaluate whether an Olympic development proposal fits the committee's mandate and funding conditions.",
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                                                "text": "What territory does the recognition cover, and which naming or representation qualifications apply?",
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                                                "text": "Which dated decisions changed the committee's remit or restrict how it may represent that territory?",
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                                "description": "Connects committee decisions to valid mandates and examines external involvement.",
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                                        "description": "Records who can act, whether their mandate is current and how contested or externally constrained decisions are handled.",
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                                                "text": "Which current statutes, elections and delegations authorise the body or officer responsible for the proposed action?",
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                                            {
                                                "text": "What government, court, funder or other external involvement affects this decision, and has its compatibility with applicable autonomy requirements been determined?",
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                                                "text": "For this event and sport, which body determines qualification, nominates participants, approves national selection and accepts entries?",
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                                                "text": "What evidence, approvals and deadlines must be satisfied before the committee may submit or amend an entry?",
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                                                "text": "Which accreditation, travel, accommodation, welfare and delegation leadership tasks belong to the committee for this event?",
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                                            {
                                                "text": "Which required tasks or accepted entries remain incomplete, against what deadlines and with which responsible parties?",
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                                                "text": "Which athlete support, coach development or Olympic education programmes does the committee own, fund or coordinate?",
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                                                "text": "What usable balance remains for each programme after commitments, funding restrictions and reporting conditions are accounted for?",
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                                            {
                                                "text": "Which approvals and eligibility conditions govern access to Olympic Solidarity or other relevant programme funding?",
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                                                "text": "What responsibilities does the committee hold for safeguarding and anti-doping, and which functions belong to independent or sport-specific bodies?",
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                                                "text": "How may an athlete challenge a selection decision or report misconduct, and which deadlines, appeal bodies and protective measures apply?",
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                                                "text": "What rights or approvals permit the proposed use of Olympic names, emblems or delegation branding in this territory and event context?",
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                                                "id": "activity-specific-permission-q01"
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                                            {
                                                "text": "Which operative decisions restrict the committee's representation, funding or other activities, and what evidence establishes their scope and expiry or reinstatement conditions?",
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                "How should the model represent shared legal organisations that exercise both Olympic and Paralympic functions while keeping their mandates distinct?",
                "How should committee suspension, delegation participation restrictions and exceptional athlete participation arrangements be represented as separate but related states?",
                "Which jurisdiction-specific sources establish the committee's enforceable duties, commercial rights and appeal routes where domestic law and Olympic instruments interact?"
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                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "kind-and-parents-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a National Olympic Committee is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "distinguishing-features",
                                        "name": "Distinguishing features",
                                        "description": "What separates a National Olympic Committee from the things most often confused with it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a National Olympic Committee, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a National Olympic Committee, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a National Olympic Committee is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "state-and-lifecycle",
                        "name": "State and lifecycle",
                        "description": "The states a National Olympic Committee passes through and the events that move it between them.",
                        "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "lifecycle-stages",
                                "name": "Lifecycle stages",
                                "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "stages-and-transitions",
                                        "name": "Stages and transitions",
                                        "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a National Olympic Committee between them.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a National Olympic Committee, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a National Olympic Committee, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a National Olympic Committee is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "observations-and-status",
                                "name": "Observations and current status",
                                "description": "What is observed about a National Olympic Committee, how often and by whom.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "observation-record",
                                        "name": "Observation record",
                                        "description": "How an observation of a National Olympic Committee is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "observation-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a National Olympic Committee, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "observation-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a National Olympic Committee, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "observation-record-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a National Olympic Committee is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "people-and-responsibility",
                        "name": "People, roles and responsibility",
                        "description": "Who stands in what relation to a National Olympic Committee.",
                        "rationale": "Social things are defined by the relations people hold to them, and those relations change without the thing changing.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "roles-and-parties",
                                "name": "Roles and parties",
                                "description": "The roles that exist around a National Olympic Committee and who fills them.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "role-assignments",
                                        "name": "Role assignments and their validity",
                                        "description": "Who holds which role over a National Olympic Committee, from when, and on whose authority.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "role-assignments-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a National Olympic Committee, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "role-assignments-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about a role over a National Olympic Committee, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "role-assignments-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a role over a National Olympic Committee is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "ownership-and-accountability",
                                "name": "Ownership and accountability",
                                "description": "Who answers for a National Olympic Committee and who may decide about it.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "accountability",
                                        "name": "Accountability and decision rights",
                                        "description": "Where responsibility for a National Olympic Committee sits when something goes wrong.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "accountability-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a National Olympic Committee, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "accountability-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a National Olympic Committee, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "accountability-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a National Olympic Committee is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "legal-identity",
                        "name": "Legal identity and mandate",
                        "description": "What National Olympic Committee is in law and what it exists to do.",
                        "rationale": "Legal identity survives changes of name, address, staff and premises, which is exactly why it must be recorded separately from all of them.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "registration",
                                "name": "Legal form and registration",
                                "description": "Form, register, identifiers and jurisdiction.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "registration-record",
                                        "name": "Registration and identifiers",
                                        "description": "What names this body unambiguously in law.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "registration-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What legal form does National Olympic Committee take, in which register, under which identifier?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "registration-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What survives a rename, a merger or a move of premises, and what does not?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "mandate",
                                "name": "Mandate and governing instrument",
                                "description": "The purpose it is bound to and the document that binds it.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "mandate-record",
                                        "name": "Mandate and its source",
                                        "description": "What it may do, and the instrument that says so.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "mandate-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What is the mandate of National Olympic Committee, and which founding or governing instrument grants it?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "mandate-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What lies outside the mandate, and what should an agent do when asked for it?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "governance-and-membership",
                        "name": "Governance, membership and decision rights",
                        "description": "Who decides in National Olympic Committee and who belongs to it.",
                        "rationale": "Authority inside an organisation is held by roles, not people, and an agent needs to know which role can commit it.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "decision-rights",
                                "name": "Decision rights",
                                "description": "Bodies, offices and what each may bind.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "authority-map",
                                        "name": "Who may bind the organisation",
                                        "description": "The offices that can commit it and their limits.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "authority-map-q01",
                                                "text": "Which bodies or offices of National Olympic Committee may take which decisions, and up to what limit?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "authority-map-q02",
                                                "text": "What evidence shows that a given person currently holds that office?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "membership",
                                "name": "Membership and affiliation",
                                "description": "Who counts as part of it and on what terms.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "membership-rules",
                                        "name": "Membership and its evidence",
                                        "description": "Classes of member, how membership starts and ends.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "membership-rules-q01",
                                                "text": "What kinds of membership or affiliation does National Olympic Committee have, and how does each begin and end?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "membership-rules-q02",
                                                "text": "What may a member do in its name, and what may they not?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "provenance-and-evidence",
                        "name": "Provenance, evidence and time",
                        "description": "Where every claim about a National Olympic Committee came from and when it held.",
                        "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "source-and-authority",
                                "name": "Source and authority",
                                "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "claim-provenance",
                                        "name": "Claim provenance and confidence",
                                        "description": "The authority behind each claim about a National Olympic Committee and how confident it is.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a National Olympic Committee, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a National Olympic Committee, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a National Olympic Committee is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "time-and-versions",
                                "name": "Time, versions and supersession",
                                "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "validity-and-supersession",
                                        "name": "Validity period and supersession",
                                        "description": "How an old claim about a National Olympic Committee is retired without being erased.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a National Olympic Committee, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a National Olympic Committee, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a National Olympic Committee is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 6,
                "layers": 12,
                "findings": 14,
                "questions": 38
            }
        }
    }
}