3 Amendments of Karsten Friedrich HOPPENSTEDT related to 2007/2261(INI)
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that the Commission understands the importance of public support for grassroots sport and sport for all and, therefore, calls on the Commission to develop clear guidelines on the application of EC competition and internal market law (such as state aid rules), indicating what kind of public funding can be supported in order to fulfil the social, cultural and educational role played by sport; notes also that the protection and promotion of sport have constitutional status in some Member States, whence the requirement to guarantee the operational viability of sport;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Points out that the link between sport and health is an important consideration, so that cooperation between sports organisations or associations and health funds and doctors has become an increasingly common practice which represents an enormous added value for health care services and, at the same time, a financial saving;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Opposes setting up an additional agency at EU level in theRejects the idea of setting up an EU sports agency, because the individual responsibility of the huge number of different forms of an EU sports agency and regards the existing decision-making and dispute settlement bodies as sufficientorganisations at EU level must not be eroded;