The Handball Federation of the United Arab Emirates have held a nationwide refreshing course for referees, delegates and coaches in Dubai. This four-day course was led and conducted by Manfred Prause (Germany), Chairman of the IHF Playing Rules and Referees Commission (PRC). The main issue was the explanation of the new PRC publications, done in a presentation, worked out by Manfred Prause and Dawud Tawakoli (Iran), PRC member and President of the Asian Referees Commission. The main task in this respect was the handling of offensive fouls by referees, explained with examples of the Asian Championships, which had been played in Jeddah (KSA) in February. Part of this presentation was an additional video, produced by PRC member Roland Bürgi (Switzerland), which is to be handed over to all teams participating in the 2012 Olympic Games in London as preparation material. Aside the course in Dubai included a presentation of the “Dartfish” software to evaluate and analyse referee performances during tournaments.