28 Amendments of Petra KAMMEREVERT related to 2011/2087(INI)
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas sportspeople’s fundamental rights must be safeguarded,
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas European social dialogue can play an important role and should therefore be promoted,
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. UCalls on the Member States to ensure that sport is a compulsory subject in the curriculum of schools of all kinds and underlines the importance of encouraging participation in sportssports and exercise activities in schools and universities. The emphasis should be on enjoying exercise and sport rather than achievement;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses the great socially-integrating power of sport in many areas. This includes civic commitment and the conception of democracy, the promotion of good health, urban development, social integration, the job market, employment, skills training and education;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls on the Member States to promote and support the cooperation of schools and sports clubs; in this context, the Commission should make use of its coordinating function in sport to gather examples of best practice from the Member States and make these available to all interested parties throughout Europe in a central database;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Underlines the importance of making people of all ages – children, adults and the elderly – aware of how crucial sporting activity is;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on sports organisations to pay attention to the needs of disabled sportspeoplthe Commission, the Member States and sports organisations to ensure that the framework conditions for persons with disabilities to participate in recreational, popular and elite sports are sustainably improved EU-wide;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the need to support the fight against doping, while respecting athletes’ individual freedomfundamental rights; urges the Member States to treat trafficking in illegal performance-enhancing substances in the same way as trafficking in illegal drugs and to adopt national legislation to this end;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Is in favour of formulating clear rules on the protection of minors in competitive sport; calls on the Commission to examine whether there is a need, in addition to the Directive on the protection of young people at work, for minimum European requirements regarding employment relationships in the sport sector in order better to protect young people from exploitation. In this context it must be made clear which specific protection measures for young sportspeople are compatible with the rules on the free movement of workers; the Commission should in any case support the measures taken by sports federations to protect sportspersons who are minors – taking into account the specific characteristics of each sport – and develop further vital protection measures in consultation with the federations;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Is in favour of greater harmonisation of legislation in order to achieve effective cooperation on the part of the police and the judiciary in the fight against doping and other kinds of manipulation of sports events;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Encourages Member States to take account ofuse the experience of former sportspeople when they wish to become trainers, and to establish specific career paths for high-level athletes who decide to pursue a course of higher education and provide tutors for themto benefit popular and elite sport and provide special training (also within higher education) to facilitate people becoming trainers;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes the great importance of voluntary work in sport and calls on the Commission and the Member States to accord a high status to voluntary activities in sport at all times; calls on the Member States to support clubs in the qualifying and further training of trainers and instructors; proper training of volunteers is particularly important in the field of youth work, not least from an educational standpoint;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Is in favour of the special nature of sport being recognised in the field of the internal market and competition law and therefore reiterates its call for the Commission to adopt guidelines on the application of EU law to sport in order to rectify the many legal uncertainties;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. ConsiderReaffirms that sportspeople should be entitled to the same social security rights as workers;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Is of the opinion that social dialogue in sport is an appropriate way of bringing the fundamental and workers’ rights of sportspeople into line with the specific nature of European sport;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Underlines the fundamental importance of commercial exploitation of audiovisual rights for sportsthe centralised marketing of media rights by sports federations for the financial solidarity model; therefore calls on the Commission to maintain its view of the compeatitions being carried out on a centralised, exclusive and territorial basibility of centralised marketing with EU competition law and, where possible, to enshrine this in law by means of a block exemption regulation; calls on the Member States to introduce and maintain corresponding solidarity mechanisms;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Considers that betting on sport is a form of commercial exploitation of competitions and calls on the Commission and the Member States to protect betting from unauthorised activities, in particular by recognising organisers’ intellectual property rights with regard to their competitions, guaranteeing a significant contribution from betting operators towards funding mass- participation sport and by protection the integrity of competitions;
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls for sport to benefit from the European Structural Funds; on the Commission and the Member States to support the introduction of a separate EU budget title to finance European support programmes for sport and commit themselves to a long-term EU support programme for sport; considers it essential that measures in the area of sport should also be financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the European Social Fund (ESF) and stresses that sport should benefit more from future EU support programmes;
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Reaffirms its attachment to the European model of sport, within which federations play a central role and which has clubs, players and players’ unions, and volunteers at its base;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Underlines the importance of firmly embedding professional clubs at regional and national level; therefore supports UEFA’s ‘Home-grown players’ rule and considers it to be a model for other professional leagues in Europe; calls on the Commission for legal clarification that this rule does not contravene the principle of the free movement of workers and urges dialogue with the other associations in order to convince them similarly to introduce the rule;
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Underlines that training for players at local level is needed for the sustainable development of European sporte particular responsibility of sports clubs towards young, up-and-coming elite sportspersons and stresses the importance of dual sport and career training for young professional and high-level sportspeople; therefore calls on the Commission and the Member States to draw up guidelines, in cooperation with the federations, players’ representatives and clubs, to ensure that young elite sportspersons are able to pursue proper, regular school or professional studies in addition to their sports training; calls in this context for the Europe-wide development of sports school models and the promotion of cooperation between sports clubs and local schools and training establishments in order to ensure that sportspersons will have career prospects after their sports careers have finished;
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Considers that, as a regulated professional activity, the profession of sports agent should be subject to a minimum qualification from a higher education establishment, and that sports agents’ fiscal residence should be within EU territory; calls on the Commission to draw up and implement, in cooperation with sports federations and players’ unions, a European licensing or registration system for players’ agents;
Amendment 261 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Proposes the setting up of a Europeannon-public register of sports agents, in which agents would list the players that by the competent sports federations containing rules on the protection of minors and awareness- raising at a young age; they represent, and the amount they are paidgister should include definite figures showing the amount of pay and the names of the clients;
Amendment 272 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Clearly supports measures and systems put in place by sports governing bodies in increasing transparency at all levels of the process of international transfers of players as an example of good governance and integrity in sport;
Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Urges Member States to makepunish any form of attack on the integrity of competitions a criminal offencein accordance with their national criminal law provisions;
Amendment 289 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Recognises the legitimacy of sports courts for resolving disputes in sport, as long as they respect people’s right to a fair trial; calls for the creation of a European chamber of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), to be based in Brussels or Luxembourg, to settle sports disputes within the EUfundamental rights;
Amendment 303 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States actively to promote international cooperation in the framework of WADA in the fight against doping and, with this in mind, to support the planned budget increase, as well as urging greater continuity among the EU’s three representatives;
Amendment 308 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Calls on clubs to ensure compliance with immigration laws when they recruit young people from non-member States and to ensure that they return to their country of origin under satisfactory conditions if their career does not take off;