Activities of Petra KAMMEREVERT related to 2021/2058(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
EU sports policy: assessment and possible ways forward (debate)
Amendments (20)
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Highlights the need for increased solidarity and financial redistribution, especially between professional and grassroots sport; calls on Member States and sports federations to implement a mandatory solidarity mechanism based on a fair and binding distribution key that ensures a redistribution of revenues in favour of the amateur and grassroots level;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Believes that the ownership model, whereby the clubs' spin-off corporations must hold the majority of voting rights and the club members thus retain control over the club (50+1 rule of the German Football League), is a best practice in the EU and calls on Member States, sports federations, national associations and leagues to engage in constructive dialogue and exchange on this model;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Urges public authorities, sports federations and organisations to uphold values such as human rights, democracy and the rule of law when awarding host status for major sporting events; insists that, as a matter of principle, major sporting events should no longer be awarded to countries where these fundamental rights and values are not even remotely respected;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Recalls its call in the own-initiative report of 2 February 2017 on an integrated approach to Sport Policy for the creation of transparency registers and transparency rules for player managers' remuneration, as well as minimum qualifications and licensing requirements for player managers, and calls on the Commission to consider a legal act in EU law;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Emphasises the need for sustainable management of professional sports clubs and companies; urges the Commission, the Member States and the sports federations to implement rules that ensure the sustainable economic stability of sports clubs and to review existing regulations for their efficiency;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that sports policy and legislation support gender equality, with particular attention to media coverage, remuneration gaps, award disparities and harassmentgender based violence such as harassment and sexual assault, media coverage, wage disparities and premium pay disparities;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Calls on the Commission to examine, in particular, the possibility of proposing legislative acts in this area with a view to significantly improving the remuneration of women in sport, reducing the financial differentials between the gender and increasing the visibility of women's sport, particularly in media;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)
Paragraph 23 b (new)
23b. Calls on national sports federations to equalise premium payments for female and male athletes, following the example of the Football Association of Ireland (FAI);
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 c (new)
Paragraph 23 c (new)
23c. Calls on international, European and national sports organisations and stakeholder representative organisations to take action to overcome the under- representation of women in leadership positions and on boards;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 d (new)
Paragraph 23 d (new)
23d. Calls on the Member States to adopt special support measures to enable children from socially disadvantaged families to have access to sports that involve particularly high costs; notes with concern that many children in particular are excluded from participating in winter sports due to the high cost of purchasing equipment and the expensive fees for using the largely privately owned infrastructure;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Calls on the Commission to recognise the importance and support the social inclusion of refugees, ethnic minorities and the LGBTQI+ community in sport; underlines that the visibility of the LGTBQI+ collective in sport remains a task to be developed, given the significant social weight that elite sport has in society and the positive social impact that can be achieved through increased publicity;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Condemns the racist and discriminatory incidents at major international sporting events, but also in grassroots sport, and urges the Commission, the Member States and the federations to develop measures to prevent such incidents and to adopt effective penalties and measures to support the victims of racist violence;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Stresses that sport for people with disabilities not only faces a lack of media attention, but also a lack of funding and inadequate infrastructure for athletes; calls on Member States to pay particular attention to these shortcomings and to take measures to remove all barriers to access to sports opportunities for people with disabilities;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Calls on theUrges Member States and public authorities to develop sports infrastructure and to comprehensively increase the amount of physical education and extracurricular physical activities in schools; Underlines the need to include a daily sports lesson in the curricula of compulsory schools in all Member States;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)
Paragraph 31 a (new)
31a. Reiterates that young European athletes often face the challenge of reconciling their sporting careers with their training or professional activities; underlines the importance of dual training or higher education for young European athletes, particularly in terms of long-term social and professional security; Reiterates its call on the Commission, Member States, sports federations and clubs to promote dual training through vocational education and training and higher education for young European athletes, in particular for aspiring professional athletes, in all Member States and in all sports at an early stage and in the long term, to intensify European exchanges on best practices, and calls on the Commission to consider activating the new Erasmus+ programme for the cross-border mobility of athletes in dual training;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)
Paragraph 32 a (new)
32a. Notes that traditional sports must be protected and particularly promoted as part of the European cultural heritage and regional identity;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Stresses the need to further increase funding for sport, especially in grassroots sport, women’s sport, para-sport and the field of education;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36 a (new)
Paragraph 36 a (new)
36a. Urges the EU institutions to considerably increase the percentage of budget dedicated to grassroots sport under the Erasmus+ Programme in the new financial perspective;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36 b (new)
Paragraph 36 b (new)
36b. Urges the EU institutions to considerably increase the percentage of budget dedicated to grassroots sport under the Erasmus+ Programme in the new financial perspective;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43 a (new)
Paragraph 43 a (new)
43a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to take into account safety measures to prevent sexual assault when planning, building and maintaining sports infrastructures;