Activities of Marie-Christine VERGIAT related to 2011/2087(INI)
Plenary speeches (6)
Explanations of vote
Explanations of vote
Explanations of vote
Explanations of vote
Explanations of vote
European dimension in sport (debate)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the European dimension in sport PDF (346 KB) DOC (291 KB)
Amendments (18)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 15
Citation 15
– having regard to the case-law of the EU Court of Justice and the Tribunal – and in particular the judgment of the Court of 8 September 2009 in Case C-42/07, reference for a preliminary ruling, Article 49 EC, restrictions on the freedom to provide services, offer of games of chance via the internet – and the Commission’s decisions on sports matters,
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas the Court of Justice in its judgment of 8 September 2009 stated that gambling is an area in which ‘moral, religious and cultural differences’ may exist between Member States, implying that the fact of an online gambling operator offering a service in one country is not a sufficient ground for permitting it to operate in another Member State in the absence of EU-wide harmonisation – given not only that states are entitled to regulate gambling but also that the adoption of general bans for purposes of protecting the public is acceptable and does not create any distortion of competition, and given that the authorisation of gambling on a monopoly basis is proportionate to the aim of combating crime and ‘has the advantage of confining the operation of gambling within controlled channels and of preventing the risk of fraud or crime in the context of such operation’,
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas acts of violence, and specifically the sexual violence to which women are subject in certain sports disciplines, deserve particularly forceful condemnation, as they are incompatible with sports ethics,
Amendment 34 #
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; whereas, however, that should not obscure the fact that volunteers play an irreplaceable role both in running clubs and at major events,
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas the specific nature of sport arises from the sum of sport’s individual and essential aspects which make it different from all other sectors of activity, including economic activityies, and must be considered on a case-by-base basis,
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Emphasises that physical activity and sport are essential to the education and health of human beings at every stage of their lives, contributing to their social, physical and mental development; considers, therefore, that physical education and the practice of physical activity and sport should, to a large extent, be part of the public-service remit so as to offer equality of access to everyone from the earliest years onwards;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls on the Member States to invest more in the development of sports infrastructure and the practice of sport; considers it necessary, therefore, to implement strategic plans for building both neighbourhood facilities and national-scale infrastructure, with careful linkage between the two, while making available sufficient public funding to develop both amateur and high-level sport and to ensure that not only the wealthy are able to use sports facilities;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Calls on the Member States to foster a pro-active policy for affording women equal access to all sports disciplines and giving women’s and men’s sports results equal prominence;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on sports organisations to pay attention to the needs of disabled sportspeopleensure that all sportspeople are guaranteed equal treatment, taking particular care to ensure that those who suffer most from discrimination, notably people with disabilities, have equal access to sport and sports facilities;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. StressUrges the need to supportMember States and sports organisations to commit themselves resolutely to the fight against doping, while respecting athletes’ individual freedom; 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 144 #
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 and to set up a European database of those who have beenensure that individual rights and freedoms are respected – in particular, guaranteeing the protection of personal data in any tools introduced for the enforcement of stadium banneds;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Considers that sportspeople should be entitled to the same social security rights as workers; opposes any form of tax exemption or reduction in the social security contributions levied on the earnings of professional sportspeople; urges the Member States to safeguard the freedom of sportspeople and their agents in the face of sports clubs’ interests, by prohibiting the latter from having agents act on their behalf;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Underlines the fundamental importance of commercial exploitation of audiovisual rights for sports competitions being carried out on a centralised, exclusive and territorial basis; highlights the need for television broadcasts of female and male sports events to be treated on an equal footing;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the Member States to take effective action to fight corruption and promote ethics in sport; regards it as essential, therefore, that each country introduce strict rules on the financial supervision of sports clubs;
Amendment 203 #
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 fromthe integrity of competitions by punishing 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; stresses, therefore, that sports betting should be a state monopoly, as emphasised in the CJEC judgment of 8 September 2009;
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Takes the view that imposing a ceiling on sportspeople’s earnings would promote good governance and ethics in sport as well as helping to fight corruption;
Amendment 300 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to include on the agenda for cooperation with non-member States problems such as international player transfers, exploitation of underage players, piracy and illegal betting; also stresses the need to step up international cooperation with regard to the promotion of sport in developing countries;
Amendment 306 #
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 theythe EU institutions and the Member States to promote the free movement of athletes around the world and the elimination of all forms of global trafficking in young athletes; calls for young athletes to be able to return to their country of origin under satisfactory conditions, if they so wish, in particular if their career does not take off;