epas activities match-fixing presented by stanislas frossard
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The Council of Europe
Founded in 1949An intergovernmental body, with 47 membersPeace and unity through values :
DemocracyHuman RightsRule of Law
Based on the European Convention on Human Rights 4 basic texts on sport (2 conventions and 2 key recommendations)
Manipulations of competitions(match fixing)
New threat (global, online activities)An issue of interest for the Council of Europe, because it is a challenge to :
Rule of lawPublic orderSports ethics
Stakeholders
Identification of action to be taken by :Governments
Sports Betting regulators Corruption Criminal law…
Betting operatorsSport organisations
Ongoing process
Adoption of Rec/CM(2011)10Feasibility StudyMinisterial meeting Belgrade on 15 March 2012Network of Betting Regulators (April 2012)Green light to the negotiation of a convention on 13 June 2012First meeting in October 2012Project in Autumn 2014
Why a Council of Europe instrument ?
An issue of sports ethics, but also rule of law and fight against corruptionUse CoE assets
Existing bodiesExperience in standard-setting
Open to non European statesPioneer role
Scope of a possible Convention
Manipulations : betting-related or not Based on Rec/CM(2011)10Global response
not on corruption of governance in sportnot on opening of the betting marketnot on funding of sportnot criminal convention defining a new specialised criminal offence
FunctionsGeneral legislationsPrevention
Support betting monitoringFight against illegal betting
Co-operation (Working platform)Sanctions + judicial co-operation
Address loopholes in legislationsExchange of information
Monitoring of states’ commitments
Vision (in 5 years)
World-wide mobilisationCooperation (Sport/BO/PA)Education, preventionEffective detection (betting monitoring systems + exchange of intelligence)Clear legal provisionsEffective law-enforcement (incl. cooperation with sports movement)
Money Laundering
not reportingcheating
corrupt practices, fraudulent practices, coercive practices…
Organised crime
Traceable ways of payment (14.3.d) Manipulation of sport event generating proceeds -> predicate offence for the criminal offence of Money laundering (16.1.b)Consider to Monitor customer identification in sporting bets in the framework of the prevention of money laundering (16.6)