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REPORT on EU sports policy: assessment and possible ways forward
2021/11/08
Committee: CULT
Dossiers: 2021/2058(INI)
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Authors: [{'name': 'Tomasz FRANKOWSKI', 'mepid': 197513}]

Amendments (97)

Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 21 a (new)
— having regard to the European Sports Charter and Code of Sports Ethics of the Council of Europe, as revised on 16 May 2001;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas grassroots sport contributes to the development of skills among young people and promotes civic participation through volunteering;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas illegal streaming of live sport events threatens the financial stability of both professional and grassroots sports which depend on the revenues from sport broadcasting rights;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas sport is promoting social inclusion, mutual respect, intercultural dialogue, social cohesion and therefore the European integration;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 17 #
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the EU to adopt a more holistic approach to sports policy and step up efforts to mainstream it into other EU policies, such as the EU Cohesion Policy;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Highlights the important contribution of sports to transnational collaboration and solidarity;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to set up regular high-level structured cooperation with all sports stakeholders and other institutions to deliver more targeted and accountable recommendations for action on the challenges facing the sport sector, including the challenges imposed by COVID-19, the lack of financial resources, doping, hate speech, gender gap, corruption, governance and accessibility challenges, so that no one is left behind;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to present a communication on the future of sport linked to the EU’s strategic goals, including the green and the digital transition, as well as social inclusion;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission to strengthen the visibility and sport perspective across policy areas at EU level through adding sport to the title of the portfolio of the Commissioner in charge;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls also in this regard to establish the EU Sport Coordinator who would be the European Commission contact and visible reference point;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Invites sport stakeholders to actively participate in the Conference on the Future of Europe which also covers sport related issues;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Suggests the organization of regular yearly events where the Parliament may lead by example and support sports’ visibility;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Acknowledges the recent adoption of the revised European Sports Charter within the Council of Europe which highlights the common features of a framework for European sport and its organisation and invites EU institutions to strive for consistency, cooperation and solidarity at continental level, while taking initiative in the field of sport policy;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for a European sports model that recognises the need for a strong commitment to integrating the principles of solidarity, sustainability, inclusiveness for all, open competition, mobility and sporting merit, and fair play; strongly opposes breakaway competitions that undermine such principles and endanger the stability of the overall sports ecosystem;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for a European sports model that recognises the need for a strong commitment to integrating the principles of solidarity, sustainability, inclusiveness, open competition and sporting merit, sporting merit, fairness and accordingly strongly opposes breakaway competitions that undermine such principles and endanger the stability of the overall sports ecosystem;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls for the creation of a European Framework regarding coaching, with clear rules concerning the proper pedagogy towards children and youth active in sports and the European values of respect for the body and the soul of all people and gender, social and ethnic equality;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Calls for the creation of a European Observatory that will monitor the implementation of the rules established, among other matters watching over cases of sexual harassment, physical and verbal violence, in particular in the case of minors, female athletes, and persons with disabilities;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Recognises the role of federations in governing their sport and encourages closer coordination, cooperation and exchange of views with authorities and all relevant stakeholders;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Acknowledges sport clubs as the foundation of a European sports model offering everyone the possibility to engage in sport locally, especially young people, regardless of their cultural or socio- economic background;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Highlights the need for increased solidarity, more targeted funding and financial redistribution, especially between professional and grassroots sport;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Highlights the need for more targeted and increased solidarity and financial redistribution, especially between professional and grassroots sport;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Urges public authorities, sports federations and organisations to uphold values such as human rights, equality, inclusiveness, democracy and the rule of law when awarding host status for major sporting events;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on sport organisations to respect the established frequency of international sports tournaments, especially the European and World Championships while taking into account domestic competitions and the health of athletes and players;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Considers that a renewed commitment to good governance is needed in order to rebalance the social and economic elements in sport and to ensure that stakeholder representation in decision- making bodies is respected and fairly balanced;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Acknowledges the efforts made by sport organisations and federations to ensure the implementation of good governance principles in sport;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on international, European and national sports organisations and stakeholder representative organisations to implement the highest governance standards, which must be clearly defined and equally applied and harmonized throughout the EU;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Urges sports governing bodies to implement measures on diversity and inclusion, in particular to address the low numbers of women and ethnic minorities in leadership positionsespecially regarding people with disabilities and LGBTIQ+ in particular to address the low numbers of women, LGBTIQ+, people with disabilities, and ethnic minorities and all people from vulnerable groups in decision-making and leadership positions, leaving no one behind;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Calls on all sport stakeholders organisations to attain the appropriate levels of representativeness and professionalisation as a prerequisite for involvement in collective decision-making processes;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Calls for the EU institutions to promote and protect the fundamental rights of athletes, including freedom of association, collective bargaining and non- discrimination; to this goal, strongly suggest to promote and ensure athlete representation in decision-making bodies;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Calls for the EU institutions to promote the fundamental rights of athletes, including athlete representation in decision-making, freedom of association, collective bargaining and non- discrimination;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on Member States, sports governing bodies and clubs to acknowledge the status of fans in sport by involving them their representation in governance and decision-making bodies;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission to build on its existing work on social dialogue and to extend its scope to all professional sports;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Acknowledges the recent reforms in the football transfer market, which include the establishment of a clearing house, licensing system and caps on agents’ commissions;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19b. Notes that European frameworks are also necessary to improve player transfer systems and calls on relevant sports bodies and stakeholders to ensure the protection of players and strengthen labour market regulations to meet European specificities, standards and objectives;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Calls on the Commission and the MS to take specific measures against the involvement of any funders’ or other stakeholders’ interests into the results of any sports’ competition;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that sports policy and legislationLegislation, include grassroots sports and professional sports as well as adaptive and disability sports and support gender equality, with particular attention to media coverage, remuneration gaps, award disparities and harassment;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Regrets that there are incidents of violence and harassment is sports spoken only after many years later; calls on the Commission and the MS to tackle and prevent any kind of abuse, violence or harassment in sports;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)
23b. Urges the Member-States’ media not to focus their media coverage on a merely ethno-centric approach;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 c (new)
23c. Urges the Member-States’ media to cover more youth sports;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 d (new)
23d. Calls on the Commission and Member States to design policies to support visibility for all sports, especially the sports that have less popularity and funding;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 e (new)
23e. Urges Commission to design policies and take specific measures to safeguard health of athletes and sport- staff by guaranteeing the presence of a doctors and medical staff at every sports event and at every training session;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 f (new)
23f. Regrets that athletes are often faced with risking their physical and mental health and wellbeing for the sake of perfection and competition in the short- as well as in the long-term1a; Calls on the Commission and the MS to proceed to the creation of training and competition standards harmonized throughout the EU, with relevant monitoring and control mechanisms to safeguard athletes and sports-staff health, decency and wellbeing; __________________ 1a https://www.sport24.gr/epikairothta/polyc hronidis-stoys-paraolympiakoys-agones- epesa-thyma-psychologikis- vias.9348259.html
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 g (new)
23g. Regrets that recent years, it has been shown that sports have become tainted by an increasing number of cases of abuse of power, mistreatment, violence, sexual harassment and even sexual assault, while between 40% and 50% of athletes, both male and female, have experienced some form of abuse1a, while 2% to 8% have suffered sexual harassment1b; notes that previous Commission-funded programmes to investigate and identify the problem have now come to an end or remain in force in only a limited number of Member States1c; regrets that the victims, most of them young or even underage, do not immediately, if ever, register a complaint, mainly because of fears that such a move would back fire on them; urges the Commission and the MS to collaborate in order to seek to remedy this institutional shortcoming by creating a European body/mechanism for prevention, monitoring and intervention in response to inadmissible practices in sport or other suitable measures? __________________ 1a https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/ oct/20/child-sexual-abuse-at-celtic-boys- club-jim-torbett 1b https://safe4athletes.org/breaking- down-sexual-abuse-in-sport/ 1c https://www.eusa.eu/projects/voice
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 h (new)
23h. Regrets that it is not rare that power relations, lack of education, competition stress or other reasons lead the over-pressure of athletes imposed even by their trainers, surrounding persons and the overall sport community, sometimes leading athletes to quit their career1a and development1b; calls on the Commission and the MS for specific measures promoting a culture off air- training and fair-play, as well as healthy role-models, and also, the important contribution of sports to society, while unlinking the latter from the relevant awards achieved; __________________ 1a https://www.independent.co.uk/life- style/health-and-families/katelyn-ohashi- viral-gymnast-body-shaming-weight- gaina8927351.html 1b https://parade.com/907716/kneal- 2/katelyn-ohashi-body-positivity/
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Calls on the Commission to recognise the importance and support the social inclusion of refugees, ethnic minorities and the LGBTQI+ community and all vulnerable groups in sport;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
25. Urges sports bodies and public authorities to effectively tackle discrimination, violence and hate speech and to guarantee safe, inclusive sport for all athletes, spectators and staff in sport venues and online, while safeguarding that personal freedoms will not be hindered by no means;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Insists on a zero-tolerance approach in terms of hate speech, violence and hooliganism in sports;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
26. Calls on the Member States to step up efforts towards the inclusion in sports activities and programmes of persons with mental and physical disabilities, and to increase visibility in the media of competitions involving athletes with disabilities;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
26. Calls on the Member States to step up efforts towards the inclusion in sports activities and programmes of persons with disabilities, improving as well visibility and media coverage;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Recalls that the EU population faces demographic challenges such as an ageing population, and that specific attention should be paid to encouraging active ageing through physical activity;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
27. Calls for the EU institutions, the Member States and sports organisations to prioritise policies that safeguard children from any form of abuse and provide access to remedies, including legal advice and their timely protection;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Insists that young athletes originating from developing countries must benefit from a proper legal status in Europe and support with the assessment and monitoring of their contracts;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
28. Calls on the Member States and public authorities to develop sports infrastructure and to increase the amount of physical education and extracurricular physical activities in schools, including during weekends and holidays; insists that sports should be provided to children in schools for free;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
31. Highlights the role of coaches and sport staff in developing the skills of and in educating young peoplechildren and young people and stresses that the adequate training plays a key role in encouraging participation in sport and in ensuring a safe environment for all;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)
31a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to develop common standards at the European level to ensure that all coaches have the appropriate skills and training to coach children and young people;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
33. CRecognises the valuable contributions that sports volunteers bring to a society and calls on the Commission and the Member States to create a system for the recognition of qualifications gained by volunteers, including coaches working as volunteers;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
33. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to create a system for the recognition of qualifications gained by volunteers, safeguarding at the same time quality jobs and descent working and remuneration conditions;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)
33a. Calls on the Commission and MS to create public and open platforms providing guidance for physical exercise online, which can be very useful not only in case of lockdowns but also in the case of isolated people in remote areas where no sport services are provided;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
34. Insists on the need for support and funding mechanisms to get the sport sector back on track in the wake of COVID-19; , including through national support funds, the Recovery and Resilience Facility and the structural funds;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
34. Insists on the need for support mechanisms to get the sport sector back on track in the wake of COVID-19, including through national support funds, the Recovery and Resilience Facility and the structural funds;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 a (new)
34a. Highlights the need for specially dedicated funds for sports recovery, given that along with harsh hit of COVID-19 to the sports-sector, there are extra burdens for sports academies, clubs and local agents which have also to pay for the extra costs of the hygiene protocols imposed on sports-events as well as on everyday training practice;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 b (new)
34b. Highlights the necessity to support sports-tourism as one of the means to boost recovery and resilience of sports after the harsh hit of COVID-19 consequences;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
35. Stresses the need to further increase funding for sport, including grassroots sport, which has restrained resources, while it involves the majority of people participating in sport activities and, therefore, plays fundamental role for society’s physical and mental well-being;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)
35a. Urges the Commission and member states to support financially and by all means possible, local communities, local clubs and academies having in mind that amateur sport events had to be cancelled or postponed due to COVID-19 measures;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 b (new)
35b. Calls on the Commission to collect and provide evidence regarding the social and financial impact of low VAT for physical exercices services;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 c (new)
35c. Calls on MS to ensure that the VAT for physical exercise services is not high and to reduce it as much as possible, in order to facilitate the access of people to these services as well as to support the functioning of clubs and enterprises working in this field;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 d (new)
35d. Highlights that sport-related VAT rates are largely different across the EU, hindering competition and the functioning of the single market; notes that low category VAT rates for sport have been proven as rather important for the survival and competitiveness of the sector, especially after the harsh hit by COVID- 19;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 e (new)
35e. Calls on the Commission to include the sport-sectors in Annex III of the VAT Directive listing sectors of reduced VAT rates, or to the category of “special rates” of VAT according to the Articles 102-128 VAT Directive; Calls on the Commission to harmonize across the EU low-category VAT rates for all sport- relates sectors;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 f (new)
35f. Calls on MS to lower sport-related VAT rates to the lowest possible category, at least for a reasonable timeframe so that the sport-sectors may be supported against the challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 g (new)
35g. Calls on the Commission and MS to provide tax deduction and/or other motivation schemes and tools to boost investing interest in the sport-sectors by businesses as well as individuals;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 h (new)
35h. Calls on the MS to plan campaigns encouraging physical exercise since many citizens and children have lost the habit of sport activities, because of the measures imposed by the pandemic, and urges the Member-States’ media to promote the transmission of such spots;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
36. Welcomes the higher budget for sport under the new Erasmus+ programme and supports further synergies between programmes and funds, and make a better use of this tool to support recovery in sport, keeping in mind the key goal of promoting social inclusion;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
36. Welcomes the higher budget for sport under the new Erasmus+ programme and supports further synergies between programmes and funds and make a better use of this tool to support recovery in sport;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36 a (new)
36a. Highlights the importance of the preparatory actions and pilot projects in the field of sport which provide additional funding for grassroots sport and give promising results;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
38. Calls on national, regional and local authorities to recognise the key role of sport and physical activity in fields such as urban regeneration, tourism and territorial cohesion and to prioritise them in cohesion policy a, specifically on European Social Fund Plus and on European Regional and Development Fund investments and under the Recovery and Resilience Facility;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 a (new)
40a. Calls for investing in research and innovation for the development of new ways of making sports, even under hygiene protocol restrictions and other crises situations that would require social and physical distancing;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 b (new)
40b. Calls for measures to strengthen doping prevention during and afterCOVID-19 lockdowns, to support athlete’s health as well promote fair play in European sports;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 c (new)
40c. Calls on the Commission and the Member-States to support, all sports- related websites that were affected by the lockdowns, the cancellations and the postponements of all sports events, since the COVID-19 pandemic began;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 d (new)
40d. Calls for particular focus on certain sports - such as water sports, martial arts and all sports where physical contact is inevitable - and therefore are particularly affected by the COVID-19 in an absolute manner;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 e (new)
40e. Calls for all big sports clubs in the EU to set up a special fund in order to support amateur athletes and local clubs that have been hit by theCOVID-19 crisis;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41
41. Underlines the need to ensure environmental sustainability, by providing relevant additional funds, when promoting the development of sport and the organisation of sporting events;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42
42. Insists on the alignment of sport with the principles of the European Green Deal and its contribution to environmental education and behaviour change; Calls on the Commission and member states to support the sports sector with special funding and support schemes facilitating the green transition of the sector;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43
43. Calls on the Commission to establish minimum accessibility criteria, safety standards and sustainability benchmarks, for sports infrastructure, harmonized throughout the EU, supporting inclusion, as well as mobility of athletes and sport-related workers;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44
44. Highlights the importance of innovation and cross-sectoral cooperation in sport, especially of developing digital tools to increase participation in physical activity, especially targeting young people, with the aim of establishing sport as a healthy habit;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44 a (new)
44a. Highlights the need for sports to not be excluded by the European digital transition; notes that on the other hand digital applications of sports so far bear challenges, especially for the youth, such as losing motivation for real physical activity as well as hindering real socialization; therefore, calls on the Commission and the Member States to design innovation schemes supporting the development of hybrid sports activities, combining the virtual and the digital world, while improving both physical and social engagement;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45
45. Calls on the Commission and the European Institute for Technology to create a Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) in the field of sport to boost innovation and resilience, as well as monitoring, transnational collaboration, mobility and solidarity;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45 a (new)
45a. Calls on the Commission and members states to support communication and dissemination of important and unknown aspects of sport such as the positive effects on the economy and society of sports and sport-related sectors and activities such as sport-tourism;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46
46. Calls for the EU institutions to launch a debate on the future of e-sport and to present a study on its social and economic impactand possibilities of e-sport and to collect data in order to present a study on its social and economic impact; highlights that e-sports should not be considered as replacing actual sports by any means;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46 a (new)
46a. Notes that funding of sports should not be depended from the awards achieved; highlights that it is mainly the long-term and hard process towards the awards’ pursuance that mostly needs support and funding; Calls on the Commission and the MS to unlink financing of sports from their relevant awards-wins;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46 a (new)
46a. Calls on the Commission to effectively tackle the growing problem of illegal streaming of live sport events without delay;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46 b (new)
46b. Regrets that there are not currently institutionally established mechanisms for the voices of athletes to be heard, leading to them raising up for their needs and claims, sometimes threating their health and safety, only after they achieve high awards and/or acquire public recognition and celebrity, if ever; calls on the Commission and the MS for the establishment of mechanisms to ensure athletes’ active involvement to decision-making as well as to monitoring and control mechanisms safeguarding their health and safety;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46 c (new)
46c. Regrets that there are incidents where athletes’ demands are not seriously taken under consideration even on international sport events and/or even when they set arguments about rules hindering gender equality while promoting sexism1a; Calls on the Commission and the MS to take measures to ensure athletes expression, development and contribution to the evolution of the rules governing their sport; __________________ 1a https://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/nor wegian-women-s-beach-handball-team- fined-not-playing-bikinis-n1274453
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46 d (new)
46d. Regrets that there are incidents where the financing of female athletes is withdrawn in case of pregnancy or because of other reasons linked to their gender1a; calls on the Commission and MS to tackle any discrimination and promote gender equality; __________________ 1a https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/opin ion/allyson-felix-pregnancy-nike.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/12/opin ion/nike-maternity-leave.html
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46 e (new)
46e. Calls on the MS and the Commission to dedicate a percentage of the RRF funding to exclusively support the sport-sectors;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46 f (new)
46f. Calls on MS to dedicate to the sport-sectors 1,5 % of their RRF support; Calls on the Commission to encourage MS to dedicate to the sport-sectors 1,5% of their RRF support;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46 g (new)
46g. Notes that professional athletes’ have to spent many hours a day for training, while following an overall disciplined way of life in the long-term leaving no-time for other professions, occupations, education or preparation for another career development; yet, there are MS where professional athletes, although called professionals, do not have access to social protection mechanisms, pension rights and overall labour protection, as they are not considered at all as workers; calls on MS and the Commission to take specific measures in order to ensure equal social and labour protection for athletes as for all European citizens;
2021/09/14
Committee: CULT