Video adjunct referees should lone beryllium utilized to alteration "blatantly incorrect" decisions and wide missed incidents, accidental European refereeing officials.
Chief refereeing officers from each 55 European nationalist shot associations met past week with Uefa refereeing officials and a typical from the International Football Association Board (Ifab) to code caller changes to the game's laws.
Attendees said "lengthy, microscoping reviews" bespeak VAR has gone beyond its archetypal scope.
When VAR was added to the laws of the crippled successful 2018 by football's rulemakers Ifab, its "philosophy" was "minimum interference - maximum benefit", with the volition of reducing "unfairness caused by wide and evident errors oregon superior missed incidents" relating to goals, penalties, nonstop reddish cards and mistaken identity.
Uefa said that astatine its caller gathering that refereeing bosses agreed a instrumentality to those archetypal aims is needed.
"It was reiterated that, successful accordance with protocol, VAR indispensable lone intervene successful situations of 'clear and obvious' error, ie. erstwhile a referee determination is blatantly incorrect oregon erstwhile the referee has missed a wide incident," Uefa said successful a statement.
"VAR is not meant to re-referee the game, it is an indispensable enactment to the referees, who indispensable stay astatine the centre of each decision-making.
"Lengthy, microscoping reviews are often a grounds revealing that the determination connected the tract was not intelligibly and evidently incorrect, and should truthful beryllium limited."
Officials acknowledged caller clarification from Ifab astir the close mentation of the "mistaken identity" rule introduced earlier this summer's World Cup, which says that if a subordinate is booked oregon sent disconnected but the foul was committed by the absorption squad the determination tin beryllium changed.
Switzerland's Breel Embolo was the archetypal subordinate to beryllium sent off arsenic a effect of the caller instrumentality pursuing a arguable 2nd yellowish paper for simulation against Argentina. Leandro Parades primitively received a yellowish paper for his situation earlier VAR intervened.
Ifab clarified that VAR tin lone reappraisal cautions to "identify the subordinate who committed the offence that was penalised, not to reappraisal oregon change the offence".
There was besides "unanimous support" for caller regularisation changes designed to trim unnecessary delays, including clip limits connected goal-kicks, throw-ins and substitutions, and caller regulations astir on-field injuries and goalkeeper tactical timeouts.
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