The Chair, Ms Raija Mattila (Finland) opened the 22^nd meeting of the CDDS (for list of participants see Appendix 2); she stressed the important role which sport should play in the work of the Council of Europe and how sport illustrated its values in a practical way.

The CDDS:

1.1 was informed by the representative of the Office of the Clerk of the Parliamentary Assembly of the decision of that organ to instruct the Commission on Culture and Education to draw up reports on hooliganism and doping, and considered that these subjects showed how co-operation between the Assembly and the CDDS could be developed further;

2.1 adopted the Agenda (see Appendix 1 );

3.1 took note of the full report of the 21st meeting of the CDDS and of the Panel Debate on Social Cohesion and Sport (Strasbourg, 4-5 March 1998);

4.1 thanked the Bureau for its work in 1998 and approved its decisions as reported in the documents CDDS (98) 29, CDDS (98) 60 and CDDS (98) 76 rev.;

4.2 authorised the new Bureau to approve the accounts of the Sports Fund for 1998;

4.3 took note of the meeting of the Strategy Group with the Ministers’ Deputies Rapporteur Group on Education, Culture and Sport on 13 November 1998 and underlined the importance of continuing these contacts regularly;

5.1 noted those decisions of the Committee of Ministers relevant to the CDDS, as found in the documents CDDS (98) Inf. 7 final and CDDS (99) Inf. 4;

5.2 discussed the possible changes envisaged by the report of Committee of Wise Persons and noted the discussions within the Committee of Ministers’ Rapporteur Group on Education, Culture and Sport on sports questions and in particular on doping;

5.3 affirmed its conviction that sport is an important part of society, and of growing importance, that, within the Council of Europe, sports co-operation contributes to the visibility of the organisation and already includes an active participation by NGOs and that, in the light of national experiences, the nature of sports co-operation, while needing links with other sectors, required its own operational structure(s);

5.4 took note of the arrangements for the 50th Anniversary of the Council of Europe, especially those events connected with sport, such as the grand tournament of European football, "Eurofoot ’99", which will take place on 22-23 May 1999 in Strasbourg;

5.5 agreed that the 50^th anniversary presented a good opportunity for States that had not yet done so to ratify the two Council of Europe sports conventions;

5.6 noted the follow-up to the Second Summit and its implications for the CDDS, particularly in the area of sport and social cohesion (see also 6.1.1);

5.7 observed that the grant to the Sports Fund for 1999 was 2.3m FFR, which represented an absolute minimum necessary for a co-operation programme among 47 states;

6.1 thanked the delegation of Cyprus for the successful organisation of the 15^th Informal Meeting of Sports Ministers (Nicosia, 14-15 May 1998);

6.2 adopted the following draft recommendations and agreed that all three recommendations should be submitted to the Committee of Ministers for adoption;

a. Draft Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to member States on the contribution of sport to social cohesion (as in Appendix 4 );

- expressed the wish that this draft recommendation - a follow-up to the Second Summit - be adopted at the 50^th anniversary session (104^th meeting) of the Committee of Ministers in Budapest in May 1999), asked the Committee of Ministers to authorise the publication of the Explanatory Memorandum and noted the comment of the representative of the European Commission on European Union programmes which are relevant to developing such projects;

b. Draft Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to member States on facilitating the granting of visas to sports people (as in Appendix 5 );

c. Draft Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to member States on the prohibition of free fighting contests as cage fighting (as in Appendix 6 );

- drew the attention of the Committee of Ministers to the fact that the subject of this draft recommendation was not a sporting question. The CDDS, however, at the suggestion of the 15^th Informal Meeting of Ministers, was proposing this draft recommendation in order to offer better protection for society as a whole and to protect the image of sport;

7.1 took note that at their meeting in Strasbourg on 19 January 1999 the Deputies:

- "had noted the 9^th Conference of European Ministers responsible for Sport will be held in Bratislava in Spring 2000:

- noted that the title of the Conference will be "A clean and healthy sport for the 3^rd millennium" and that the themes will be:

a. Combating doping

b. Sport as a tool to encourage social cohesion

c. Sport and its relationship to the environment" (see item 9).

7.2 noted the suggested topics for discussion within each theme proposed by the Slovak delegation, in addition to the title, as set out in the document CDDS (99) 20, and asked the Bureau to examine them more closely, while agreeing that the question of employment in sport as well as the CDDS’s work on the prevention of sexual harassment could be included under b);

7.3 decided that the dates of the Conference should be 17-18 May 2000;

7.4 discussed on the basis of the Slovak delegation's proposals, organisational questions and asked the Bureau to continue to study this aspect of the Conference;

7.5 asked the Committee of Ministers to establish whether there was consensus to invite non-member States that had ratified the Anti-Doping Convention by that time and the following organisations to attend the Conference as observers:

UNESCO, IOC, GAISF, EOC, ENGSO, the European Sports Conference. These organisations have observed past Conferences;

7.6 asked the Committee of Ministers also to invite a representative of the European Committee on Social Cohesion (CDCS) and one from the proposed International Anti-Doping Agency if it exists by that time, to attend the Conference as observers;

7.7 authorised the Bureau to carry out the necessary preparations for the Conference, in liaison with the Slovak authorities and with any additional delegations who expressed their wish to participate in this work;

8.1 noted the successful co-operation with the European Union in 1998 and in particular its preparations for the European Conference on Sport (May 1999) and also the co-ordination of the position of the Community and the Council of Europe on doping questions;

8.2 expressed interest in the preparations for both the next European Sports Conference (Malta, 29 Sept-1 Oct 1999.) and the MINEPS Conference to be organised by UNESCO (Uruguay, December 1999);

8.3 welcomed the active participation of the Chair of the CDDS at the Conference of Women and Sport (Namibia, May 1998);

8.4 heard a report on the pilot phase of the COMPASS project and noted that its completion would be marked by a meeting (Rome in May/June 1999);

1. took note of the national reports on the implementation of the European Sports Charter and Code of Sport Ethics;
2. approved the new procedure for collecting data for the reports on the European Sports Charter, agreed upon by the Bureau, which asks countries to supply more precise information, in a limited field. This year information was requested on Article 10 on sport and sustainable development;
3. held a policy debate on Sport and the Environment, with the participation of a panel headed by Mr Peter Glass and consisting of one of the reviewers, Dr Anu Oittinen, together with Dr Hans Jägemann and Mr Pal Schmitt, President of the IOC Commission on Sport and the Environment;

9.4 suggested that a draft political paper on sport and the environment be prepared for consideration at the 9^th Ministerial Conference in Bratislava and that the Bureau invite other organisations involved in this area to assist with the preparation;

10.1 heard reports of their activities from the Chairs of the Standing Committee of the European Convention on Spectator Violence (CDDS (99) 17) and the Monitoring Group of the Anti-Doping Convention;

10.2 noted that the 1998 European Prize for Sports facilities, organised by CONI, had been awarded to 7 projects;

10.3 took note of the findings in the report of the Extraordinary meeting of the Monitoring Group of the Anti-Doping Convention, held on 5 November 1998 (T-DO (98) 41) and discussed preparations for the meeting convened for 25 March and questions of principle and strategy in connection with the proposed independent international anti-doping agency and stressed the need for Europe to speak with one voice on this topic;

10.4 considered there was a need to consider a strengthening of the Convention which took into account the past work of the Monitoring Group, to give a more effective instrument and to consider providing it with operational means;

11.1 adopted the Annual Report of the Activities of the CDDS for 1998 as found in CDDS (99) 6 Final;

11.2 took note of the successful visits to Norway (Anti-Doping Convention) and Switzerland (European Sports Charter) under the aegis of the Commitments project and noted that the second group of countries to be visited in 1999 would be Portugal (Spectator Violence Convention) Italy (Anti-Doping Convention) and the United Kingdom (European Sports Charter);

11.3 congratulated Portugal on the organisation of the 2^nd Round Table on Sport, Tolerance and Fair Play (Lisbon, 14-15 November 1998) which had shown that progress had been achieved in this area since Amsterdam 1996 and noted that 25 countries had now named national ambassadors for sport, tolerance and fair play;

11.4 thanked Lithuania which had agreed to become an auto-financing country within the SPRINT programme from 2000;

11.5 considered that the Action Plan on Rehabilitation through Sport in Bosnia and Herzegovina had realised its objectives in 1998 with the 3^rd training Seminar for instructors in disabled sport, (Cazin, April 1998) and the summer camp for children and young people at Neum. (July 1998). This Camp had successfully brought together children from all parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina. A team had recently visited Bosnia and Herzegovina to gather information on the projects and to see where future donor countries might best give help. Plans for a 3^rd Camp in July 1999 were also discussed. In the autumn a meeting will be held to mark the completion and assess the success of the first phase of the Action Plan which has foreseen direct involvement by the CDDS. Bosnia and Herzegovina will be eligible for help under the SPRINT programme;

11.6 agreed to set up a working group on sport and social cohesion, the composition of which would be decided by the Bureau at its first meeting;

11.7 decided that the information priorities with regard to the Clearing House for1999 should be:

- social cohesion and sport;

- sport and the environment;

- fences inside football stadiums;

- doping issues;

- the rights of children and sport;

- regional co-operation (regional co-operation especially regional games, within Europe);

11.8 noted with interest the Annual report of the Governing Board of the Clearing House, particularly the progress made towards the setting up a website, the implementation of the first stage of its new strategy plan and the successful meeting of SIOs held in October. In connection with this meeting the CDDS thanked Hungary for the invitation to hold the meeting in Budapest.

11.9 asked the Bureau to carry out - preferably by outside experts - an evaluation of the Clearing House activities, financed by the CDDS, and to report back to the next meeting of the CDDS;

11.10 adopted the 1999 programme of activities to be financed by the Sports Fund, together with the budgetary implications, as shown in Appendix 3 ;

1. elected
Mr Viktor Khotochkin to the Chair of the CDDS for a year from March 1999 until March 2000;
2. elected
Mrs Karin Grossmann to be Vice-Chair for one year from March 1999 until March 2000;
3. elected
Mr Kreshnik Tartari, (Albania), Mr René Hamaite (Belgium), Mr Reynir Karlsson, (Iceland), Mr Efim Josanu, (Moldova) Mr José Manuel Chabert (Portugal) Mr John Scott, (United Kingdom) to serve as members of the Bureau for two years (March 1999-2001);
4. appointed
Mr Costas Papacostas (Cyprus), Mr Peter Glass (Germany), Mrs Velga Mizovska (Latvia), Mr Georges Lanners (Luxembourg) Mr José-Luis Hernandez (Spain), Mr Valery Zhuljaiev (Ukraine) in their personal capacity as members of the Governing Board of the Clearing House until March 2001;

13.1 decided to hold its 23^rd meeting on 1-3 March 2000 and unanimously requested the Committee of Ministers to authorise a 3 day meeting, the need for which was now pressing;

14.1 approved the dates of the meetings to be financed by the Sports Fund and held within the framework of the programme for 1999 ( Appendix 7 );

14.2 authorised the Bureau to organise those meetings, which although part of the 1999 programme, have not yet been timetabled;

Appendix 1

Draft Agenda

Appendix 2

List of Participants

Mr Emir MEDANHODZIC, Sports Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 71000 SARAJEVO

BULGARIA

Mr Efim JOSANU, National Olympic Committee, CHISINAU 2004, Republica Moldova

MONITORING GROUP OF THE ANTI-DOPING CONVENTION

Dr Alain GARNIER (Chair), Ministère de la Jeunesse et des Sports, F - 75739 PARIS Cedex 15

STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON SPECTATOR VIOLENCE AND MISBEHAVIOUR AT SPORTS EVENTS AND IN PARTICULAR AT FOOTBALL MATCHES 

Mr Juan Ramon BEORLEGUI IBARS (Chair), Consejo Superior de Deportes, ESP - MADRID 28040

M. João ARY, Secretary to the Committee on Culture and Education, Council of Europe.

Mr Carlo MEINTZ, Conseiller de la Commune de Walferdange, L- 7201 WALFERDANGE

Other Participants

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Invited Experts for the Environment Debate

Dr Anu OITINEN, University of Jyväskylä, 40351 JYVÄSKYLÄ, FINLAND

Mr Pal SCHMITT, Vice-President of the International Olympic Committee, H- 1118 BUDAPEST

Apologised

Japan / Japon

Secretariat

Mr Raymond WEBER, Director of Education, Culture and Sport
Mr. George WALKER, Head of the Sports Division Tel. : 03.88.41.26.37
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Mrs Diane MURRAY, Administrator Tel. : 03.88.41.30.27
Mr Mesut ÖZYAVUZ, Administrator Tel. : 03.88.41.26.30
Ms Odile LAUGEL, Principal Administrative Assistant Tel. : 03.88.41.22.51
Miss Suzanne LITTLE, Secretary Tel. : 03.88.41.33.07
Mlle Dominique HUBER, Secretary Tel. : 03.88.41.35.42
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Sports Division, Directorate of Education, Culture and Sport, F- 67075 STRASBOURG CEDEX.
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Appendix 3

BUDGETARY IMPLICATIONS

INCOME FOR 1999

I. CONTRIBUTION TO THE SPORTS FUND ACCORDING TO THOSE OF THE ORDINARY BUDGET ON 1 JANUARY 1999.

MEMBER STATES (40) Albania Andorra Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Moldova Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russian Federation San Marino Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland "The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom TOTAL

% CONTRIBUTION 0,12 0,04 2,11 2,46 0,28 0,25 0,12 0,63 1,56 0,12 1,13 12,80 12,80 1,20 0,60 0,12 0,63 12,80 0,12 0,07 0,13 0,15 0,12 0,12 3,63 1,34 1,85 1,07 0,79 12,80 0,02 0,26 0,19 5,61 2,18 2,66   0,12 2,74 1,46 12,8   100.00

AMOUNT (FRF) 2 760 920 48 530 56 580 6 440 5 750 2 760 14 490 35 880 2 760 25 990 294 400 294 400 27 600 13 800 2 760 14 490 294 400 2 760 1 610 2 990 3 450 2 760 2 760 83 490 30 820 42 550 24 610 18 170 294 400 460 5 980 4 370 129 030 50 140 61 180     2 760 63 020 33 580 294 400   2 300 000

II. CONTRIBUTIONS FROM OTHER STATES PARTY TO THE EUROPEAN CULTURAL CONVENTION

ARMENIA	2 760 FF
AZERBAIJAN	4 140 FF
BELARUS	7 130 FF
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA	3 220 FF
GEORGIA	2 990 FF
MONACO	920 FF
HOLY SEE	1 000 FF
TOTAL	22 160 FF

II. VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIOINS    (These resources are not necessarily tied to expenditure in the current year.)

ACTIVITY III. 23

Compliance with Commitments

ACTIVITY III.24

Sport and Social Cohesion

ACTIVITY III.25

The Role of Sport in Creating a Democratic and Tolerant Society

ACTIVITY III.26

Spectator behaviour and safety

(This activity is the implementation of the European Convention on Spectator Violence

and Misbehaviour at Sports Events and in particular at Football Matches (ETS 120). ² )

2   As at 1 January 1999, 29 States are parties to the Convention: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, "The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia", Turkey, United Kingdom. The following 5 States have signed the Convention: Albania, Estonia, Ireland, Lithuania and Malta.

ACTIVITY III.27

Implementation of the Anti-Doping Convention (ETS 135)³

4  As at 1 January 1999, 35 States are Parties to the Convention: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, "The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia", Turkey, United Kingdom, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada. The following 6 States have signed the Convention: Albania, Belgium, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Malta, and Ukraine

(The Sports Reform, Innovation and Training Programme)

4 As at 1^st January 1999, 8 countries had withdrawn from the financial benefits of the Sprint Programme: Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia. The remaining countries are Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russian Federation, Ukraine

Sharing Sports Information in Europe

HEAD B: Management And Co-ordination Activities