9 Amendments of Armando FRANÇA related to 2007/2261(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to implement an ‘intelligence-led policy’ of cross-border police cooperation in the field of sport, including the exchange of information and intelligence between security services, while ensuring respect for freedom, fundamental rights and data protection rules;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Points out that sport (and, in particular, certain forms of sport which have already been professionalised) have become or are becoming a global business forming part of a global market and the globalisation process;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1b (new)
Paragraph 1b (new)
1b. Points out that that globalisation is altering relations between those involved in sport and bringing new situations into being, and that the Member States adopt different approaches to the new challenges, for which reason there is a need for sound, consistent political and legislative solutions which are consonant with the EU’s basic principles and values and with all that is set out in the EU Treaties;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Draws particular attention to the valuable experience gained through the NFIP (National Football Information Points, responsible for coordinating and facilitating cross-border police information exchange, including risk assessments and data on high-risk supporters) and the handbook for international police cooperation, which can play a key role in this ‘intelligence-led policy’; and calls on the Commission and the Member States to cooperate more extensively and further develop and update this approach where necessary;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take all relevant measures to prevent major sport events encouraging the trafficking in and abuse of human beings, for example related to forced prostitution and any other practice which infringes fundamental rights;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Underlines the need for a serious monitoring of the enforcement of legislation on racism, xenophobia and any other kind of violence and discrimination within the framework of sport events;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Welcomes the development of club licensing systems at national and European level and believes that such systems should also include provisions related to the prevention of racism, xenophobia and violence and, the protection of minors and respect for fundamental rights;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Underlines the need to consider whether Europol, Eurojustabsolute need to enhance police and judicial cooperation between Member States and the European Judicial Network (EJN) could play a more central role in the prosecution ofpolice institutions with a view to combating more effectively the different types of crimesoffence committed during major sport events or in the area of sport (such as the supply and use of doping, human trafficking etc).