9 Amendments of Marie-Christine VERGIAT related to 2012/2322(INI)
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Takes the view that physical activity and sport are essential to the development and health of human beings at every stage in their lives, contributing to their social, physical and mental development and thereby playing a key role in personal empowerment, and should accordingly be considered a right;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Takes the view that a growing number of sports are being run solely for profit, along market lines, and that clubs are increasingly being forced to compete on this basis; points out that this is resulting in profound changes in the world of sport, with sports agents becoming little more than brokers, professional sportspersons’ pay soaring to dizzying heights and online betting rapidly increasing, is conducive to match fixing and corruption and is seriously undermining the ethical foundations of sport;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Points out that, in accordance with the Court of Justice judgment of 8 September 2009 and with the subsidiarity principle, Member States are entitled not only to regulate gambling but also to maintain or establish state monopolies on online gambling, or even to impose a general ban on such activities in order to protect the public, in particular minors;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Takes the view that Member State regulation, in particular in the form of state monopolies, helps to keep gambling operations within controlled channels and thus to guard against the risk of fraud or crime in the context of such operations;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Regrets that sport only receives a low financial return on commercial betting activities although it constitutes the main activity area for online gambling; recommends, therefore, the setting of a common minimum percentage of gambling revenues to be redistributed to non-profit sports federations, that have to ensure the sustainable financing fordevelopment of grassroots sport, including by setting up suitable public funding arrangements;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Takes the view that the Member States have a key responsibility for making sure that the sporting ethos is preserved and, to that end, should take appropriate steps to combat corruption, including by introducing stringent rules on the financial supervision of clubs;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for more cooperation at European level, under the coordination of the Commission,onsiders that betting on sport is a form of commercial exploitation of competitions and calls on the Commission and the Member States to protect the integrity of competitions by punishing unauthorised activities and, in particular, recognising organisers’ intellectual property rights with regard to their competitions; calls for more cooperation between Member States to identify and prohibit online gambling operators engaged in illegal activities such as match- fixing or betting on competitions involving minors;
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Notes that the Council of Europe is planning to draw up a convention on measures to combat match fixing which is expected to be adopted in the second half of 2014, and calls for the European Union and its Member States to support this process fully;
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for a general ban to prevent sportspersons and organisers of sporting events from placing bets on their own matches or events; takes the view that imposing a ceiling on sportspeople’s earnings would promote good governance and ethics in sport and help to combat corruption;