Activities of Marco SCURRIA related to 2011/2087(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
European dimension in sport (debate)
Amendments (40)
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas sport is a key factor for health in modern society and is an essential part of a high-quality education, and it contributes to senior citizens’ personal fulfilment,
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas promoting physical activity and sport makes for significant savings in terms of public expenditure on health,
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas high-level sport is a showcase for certain core sporting values and conveys those values to society generally, encouraging participation in sport,
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas it is essential to prepare such athletes for their career change by enabling them to receive general education or vocational training alongside their sports training,
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas sporting activities require specific and appropriate facilities, equipment and apparatus and whereas schools too should have suitable facilities to promote physical education;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas sport plays an important part in the European economy, as it directly or indirectly employs 15 million people, i.e. 5.4% of the working population, and represents an annual added value of approximately € 407 billion, or 3.65% of Europe’s GDP, and an economically flourishing sports sector thus contributes to achieving the aims of the Europe 2020 strategy,
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas the violation of sports organisations’ intellectual property rights and the upsurge in digital piracy, especially the unlicensed live transmission of sports events, puts the economy of the entire sports sector at risk,
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the European model of sport is based on a federation for each sports discipline, and mechanisms for sports and financial solidarity, such as the principle of promotion and relegation and open competitions involving both clubs and national teams, are organised on an autonomous, democratic and territorial basis and in a pyramid structure,
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas 35 million amateurs assist the development of mass-participation sport, as do clubs and charitable sports associations and the dissemination of sporting ideals,
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
N. whereas professional sport is vulnerable to financial instability, and it is the responsibility of the relevant federations to encourage clubs to adopt a culture of planning and sensible investment,
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Underlines the importance of encouraging participation in sports activities in schools and universities, which must have sports facilities with suitable equipment;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recalls that gender discrimination should not occur in sport, and calls for application of the Olympic Charter to be extended to all sporting events, particularly European ones;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Emphasises that the composition of sports organisations’ decision-making bodies must reflect that of their AGMs as well as the gender balance among their licensed players, thus affording men and women equal access to administrative roles;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on sports organisations to pay attention to theand the Member States to promote the practice of sport among people with disabilities, notably by making available to them, free of charge, sports facilities tailored to their needs ofas disabled sportspeople;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Recommends that the Commission encourage the practice of sport among senior citizens as it helps to promote social interaction and high rates of good health;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the need to support the fight against doping, while respecting athletes’ individual freedom, with particular attention to the youngest athletes; 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 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Encourages Member States to take account of the experience of former sportspeople when they wish to become trainers, and to establish specific career paths designed for high-level athletes who decide to pursue a course of higher education and provide tutors for them;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Takes a positive view of the Member States’, in consultation with the European sports federations, drawing up minimum safety standards for stadiums and taking all appropriate measures to ensure that players and supporters are as safe as possible;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on Member States to refuse access to stadiums to supporters who have displayed violent or discriminatory behaviour, to cooperate closely to ensure that stadium bans remain in force for international matches in Member States other than that in which they were imposed and to set up a European database of those who have been banned;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Reiterates the importance of volunteers in sport and stresses the need to provide volunteers with proper training; is in favour of creating a legal and tax framework that is suitable for the activities of sports associations; is also in favour of sponsorship in sport;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to explore the feasibility of a tax framework geared to the brief and fluctuating careers of the lowest-paid sportspeople; considers that sportspeople should be entitled to the same social security rights as workers;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to recognise the property rights of the organisers of sports competitions with regard to the events they organise;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to protect intellectual property rights in respect of sports content, with due regard for the public’s right to information;
Amendment 207 #
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 211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Reiterates its request that the Commission draw up guidelines on state aid, indicating what type of public support is legitimate with a view to achieving the social, cultural and educational goals of sport;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take practical action to promote exchanges of good practice and foster closer cooperation with regard to technical aspects and sports-related research;
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 c (new)
Paragraph 10 c (new)
10c. Urges the Commission and the Member States to provide the Union with a specific budget programme in the field of sport, as is now possible under Article 165 TFEU;
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls in particular for the creation of a specific budget heading in the future programme of the Structural Funds for the establishment, development and adjustment of sports facilities and schools;
Amendment 247 #
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 sport and that it is essential to ensure that top-level sport is not promoted at the expense of the development of the youngest players;
Amendment 260 #
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, in the interests of transparency;
Amendment 264 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Proposes the setting up by sports federations of a European register of sports agents, in which agents would list the players that they represent, and the amount they are paidso as to limit the risk of conflicts of interest, and the amount they are paid, which must come from the players themselves; takes the view that the payment of agents’ fees should be subject to the sportsperson actually playing for the club in question for the specified number of years;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Welcomes the study carried out at the Commission’s request on the economic and legal impact of player transfers; also takes the view that the action taken by sports federations to make international transfers more transparent should be supported;
Amendment 273 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Welcomes the efforts of sports federations to ban the ownership of more than one sports club engaged in the same competition; takes the view that betting operators should be prohibited from holding a controlling stake in a body which organises or participates in competitions, and that bodies which organise or participate in competitions should be prohibited from holding a controlling stake in an operator offering bets on the events they organise or in which they participate;
Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Urges Member States to make any form of attack on the integrity of competitions – in particular where such an attack is betting-related, meaning that it involves the intentional and fraudulent manipulation of the result of a competition or of one of its phases of play in order to gain an advantage not based solely on normal sporting practice or the associated uncertainty – a criminal offence;
Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Maintains that it is essential to develop instruments designed to foster cooperation between public authorities and sports authorities in relation to cases of sports fraud, and that cooperation with Europol and Eurojust could be envisaged;
Amendment 295 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Calls on the Commission to submit, by 2012, a proposal aimed at gaining a better understanding of the specific needs of the sports sector and taking practical action to address them, with full regard to the provisions of Article 165 TFEU;
Amendment 301 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to acknowledge the importance of sport as a means of promoting peace, economic growth, intercultural dialogue, public health, integration and the emancipation of women;
Amendment 318 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 – indent 3
Paragraph 25 – indent 3
– to draw up a European mapcharter of local, traditional sports and support its dissemination, for example by organising a festival of traditional sports;
Amendment 333 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. ProposeSuggests that the European flag should be flown at major sports events held on EU territory, and suggests that it should beo sports federations that they consider the idea of having it displayed on the clothing of athletes from Member States;
Amendment 335 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Proposes that the European flag should be flown at major sports events held on EU territory and elsewhere and suggests that it should be displayed on the clothing of athletes from Member States;