VENICE - The European Mahjong Association (EMA) has determined the quota per country for the OEMC 2011 in Italy. 160 players can participate. The Italians will take most of the seats (24 out of 160), followed by the French and the Dutch (20). China and Japan both have a right on 12 places.

There are four sections:

• EMA Countries (which take the better part of the seats, i.e. 124),
• Non EMA Countries (in which the also UK, which in the meantime has applied for a EMA membership; 2 seats),
• Non European Countries (26 seats; the delegations of China and 'Chinese Taipei', a.k.a. Taiwan, are merged together, just as Hong Kong and Macau), and finaly
• 'Rankings' (8 seats).

The quotas