1. Sport
What role for Europe?
EU law,
sports policy development and
future funding opportunities
Jacob Kornbeck
Policy Officer – Sport Unit
DG Education and Culture
European Commission
SRA European Sport Summit 2013
London 20 June 2013

2. Sport
What can Europe do?
• EU law
• Infrequent, but may be binding (transfers, data protection…)
• Commission as guardian of the Treaties, recourse to ECJ
• Sport policy development
• More frequent, but not binding (HEPA, anti-doping, good
governance, EBP, sustainable financing…)
• Commission a knowledge broker, Council setting important
• EU sport policy funding
• Increasingly frequent
• Preparatory Actions 2009-13
• Sport funding stream 2014-20
• EP + Council give budget, Commission executes

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Diversity…

4. Sport statistics…
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5. Sport
The story behind…

6. Sport
Article 165 TFUE
• The Union shall contribute to the promotion of European
sporting issues, while taking account of the specific nature
of sport, its structures based on voluntary activity and its
social and educational function.
• Union action shall be aimed at (…) developing the European
dimension in sport, by promoting fairness and openness in
sporting competitions and cooperation between bodies
responsible for sports, and by protecting the physical and
moral integrity of sportsmen and sportswomen, especially
the youngest sportsmen and sportswomen.

7. Sport
Sport policy of the EU
Formulated in:
• White Paper on Sport (Commission), July 2007
• Communication on Developing the European
Dimension in Sport (Commission), January 2011
• EU Work Plan for Sport (EU Council), May 2011
• Various reports and resolutions from the
European Parliament

8. Sport
Main topics covered by these documents
• Fight against doping (XG)
• Education and training and qualifications in sport (XG)
• Fight against violence and intolerance
• Health-enhancing physical activity (XG)
• Social inclusion in and through sport
• Evidence-based policy-making in sport (XG)
• Sustainable financing of sport (XG)
• Good governance in sport (i.a. free movement, sport
agents, match-fixing) (XG)

9. Sport
EU Programmes
• EU Programmes exist in order to help implement EU policies
• Sport is partly mainstreamed in existing
policies/programmes: regional, social, health, education,
youth
• But some parts of EU sport policy cannot be supported
through existing programmes because of specificity of
sport, stakeholders in sport, sport as a relatively "unknown"
sector
• Hence: Preparatory actions in sport and the proposal for a
Sport Chapter of Erasmus for All

10. Sport
Preparatory Actions Sport 2009-2012:
2009
- Promoting health-enhancing physical activity
- Promoting education and training in sport (dual careers)
- Promoting European fundamental values by encouraging sport for
persons with disabilities
- Promoting gender equality in sport
2010
- Fight against doping
- Promoting social inclusion in and through sport
- Promoting volunteering supporting systems in sport

11. Sport
Preparatory Actions Sport 2009-2012:
2011
- Prevention of and fight against violence and intolerance
- Promoting innovative approaches to strengthen the organisation
of sport in Europe (good governance)
2012
- Fight against match fixing
- Promotion of physical activity supporting active ageing
- Awareness-raising about effective ways of promoting sport at
municipal level
- Trans-frontier joint grassroots sport competitions in
neighbouring regions

12. Sport
Partnership in sport Preparatory Actions
2013 – Call for Proposals
• Mobility arrangements in sport
• Strengthening of good governance and dual careers in sport through support for
the mobility of volunteers, coaches, managers and staff of non-profit sport
organisations.
• Injury prevention and safety and security arrangements
• Protecting athletes, especially the youngest, from health and safety hazards by
improving training and competition conditions.
• Traditional games
• Promoting traditional European sports and games

13. Sport
Eligible organisations:
To be eligible, the applicant:
• must be a public body or a not-for-profit organisation;
• have a legal status;
• have their registered head office in one of the Member
States of the European Union.
Natural persons are not eligible.

14. Sport
Eligible costs
Eligible costs are costs actually incurred by the beneficiary, which
meet the following criteria:
- they are incurred during the duration of the action/project as specified in
the grant agreement,
- they are connected with the subject of the agreement and they are
indicated in the estimated overall budget of the action/project
- they are necessary for the implementation of the action/project
- they are identifiable and verifiable,
- they comply with the requirements of applicable tax and social legislation;
- they are reasonable, justified, and comply with the requirements of sound
financial management, in particular regarding economy and efficiency

15. Sport
Award criteria:
- Quality of the proposed activities [0 – 20]
• The compliance with the objectives of the call for proposals;
• The thoroughness of the methodology;
• The overall coherence of the activity programme;
• The quality and innovative character of the proposed outputs
- Size of private third-party funding for the proposed activities
[0 – 10]
- Strength and relevance of the network [0 – 5]
- Dissemination and exploitation strategy [0 - 5]
- Long-lasting impact (sustainability) [0 - 5]
- European added value [0 - 5]

16. Sport
Conferences and Studies 2013
Conferences:
• Gender equality and sport including coaching (2013)
• European sport week (2014)
• EU Sport forum
• Studies:
• A future sport monitoring function in the EU
• The economic and legal aspects of transfers of players
• Study on the assessment of the consequences of UEFA's Home Grown
Players
• Study on sports organisers' rights
• Feasibility study on possible future mobility measures in sport

17. Sport
Conferences and Studies 2013
Conferences:
• Gender equality and sport including coaching (2013)
• European sport week (2014)
• EU Sport forum
• Studies:
• A future sport monitoring function in the EU
• The economic and legal aspects of transfers of players
• Study on the assessment of the consequences of UEFA's Home Grown
Players
• Study on sports organisers' rights
• Feasibility study on possible future mobility measures in sport

18. Sport
Multi annual Financial Framework (MFF)
Education, Youth and Sport (2014-2020)
• Multi-annual financial framework of the EU is negotiated every 7
years
• Framework for the adoption of annual EU budgets
• Proposed new EU programme for education, training, youth and
sport: 'Erasmus for All'
• Currently under negotiation between the Council of the EU (27
Member States) and the European Parliament, which will together
take the final decision
• Negotiations on the basis of
- Overall Commission proposal from June 2011
- Commission proposals for individual programmes and funds

19. Sport
What next?

20. Sport
Erasmus for All: Sport chapter
Article 12: Activities
The objectives of cooperation in Sport shall be pursued through the
following transnational activities:
- support to transnational collaborative projects;
- support to non-commercial European sport events involving several
European countries;
- support the strengthening of the evidence base for policy making;
- support to capacity building of sport organisations;
- dialogue with relevant European stakeholders.
Council proposes to delete (b) and (d).

21. Sport
Budget for the Sport Chapter
• Based on the results of the evaluation of the Preparatory
Actions, the Commission proposes an average annual
budget of around € 34 million for sport.
• Total proposed amount over 7 years: € 238 million
• Reasonable budget that will allow us to concentrate on
those actions that have a clear EU added value and address
problems and issues that cannot be dealt with effectively at
national level.

22. Sport
Expected changes with Sport chapter
• Topics mentioned in the objectives will get permanent
attention for 7 years
• More budget
• Possibility of multi annual projects
• Annual priorities for certain topics, target groups, strategies
• Inclusion of EU candidate MS and EFTA states as partners of
projects
• Workplan to be discussed with Council and Parliament
• EACEA agency will be in charge for projects

23. Sport
Status quo with the Sport chapter
• System of Call for Proposals and Tenders published in Official
Journal and on website Commission
• Trans-nationality of projects and at least organisations from at
least 5 MS involved.
• Max 80% of eligible costs and promotion of private partnership
• Beneficiary from EU Member State
• EU sport forum, studies and conferences organised by COM
• Sport mainstreamed in other EU programmes, if it fits in their
objectives

24. Sport
New Communication on sport (end 2013)
• Evaluating preparatory actions
• Proposal for priorities new EU Work Plan for Sport (Council
policy actions)
New EU Work Plan for Sport (2014 – 20XX)
• New expert groups
• Follow up initiatives on health, doping, education and
training in sport and qualifications, good governance, etc.
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Future actions on policy level

25. Sport
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Our roadmap…

26. Sport
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Thank you for your
attention !
More information:
http://ec.europa.eu/sport/index_en.html
http://ec.europa.eu/sport/preparatory_actions/
FAQ on the website, regularly updated
For queries related to the call:
EAC-SPORT-PREPARATORY-ACTION@EC.EUROPA.EU
Today's speaker: jacob.kornbeck@ec.europa.eu