Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-09-07-Speech-4-043"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-09-07"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Sport2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000907.1.4-043"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-09-07-Speech-4-0442
lpv:speaker	lp:Marjo Matikainen-kallström2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2000-04-03--2002-03-07)3 substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the European Economic Area Joint Parliamentary Committee (EEA) (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Temporary committee on the Echelon interception system (2000-07-06--2001-09-05)3 unknown; Kansallinen Kokoomus (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the powerful role of sport in economic, social, and cultural terms and in terms of health cannot be denied. It is incomprehensible why sport lacks a legal base in the European Union. The European Parliament must frankly force the Commission and the Council to look at themselves in the mirror. The status of sport must have a watertight definition produced for it at the next intergovernmental conference so that sports organisations can participate in decision-making on sport themselves. As huge sums of money are involved in major sports, common rules and regulations should be drawn up to take account of the system’s basic pillars, sportsmen and the organisers of sporting events. The interests of team-game players must be safeguarded, all the while honouring the principle of the free movement of labour, not forgetting financial reward for the so-called trainer associations. We have to find a balance in the question of televising the most important sports events, one between the economic power of the organisers on the one hand, and the so-called public service principle on the other. When we talk about drugs we have to make a clear distinction, as we do when it comes to any other discussion on sport, between keep-fit exercise and major sporting events. The ethical problems associated with the latter are known to all. Too little attention has been paid to the spread of the use of drugs among ordinary people who do sports, proof of which lies, for example, in the trade in banned substances which is rife in gyms generally. The problem can be considered on a par with the narcotics problem, especially the use of synthetic drugs, so, simply out of concern for public health, the EU must do its bit to beat the problem."@en1

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