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"The Commission fully acknowledges the important role of grass-root sport within European society.
The 2007 White Paper on Sport therefore focused on the societal aspects of sport and proposed a number of actions, including the promotion of health-enhancing physical activity or sport’s educational role of social inclusion in and through sport and of volunteering in sport, which have been, or are currently being, implemented.
Similarly, the new EU competence for sport enshrined in Article 165 highlights the sector’s specific nature, its social and educational function, and its structures based on voluntary activity.
It thereby provides the framework for future EU action and gives direction for promoting sport across the EU and for developing the European dimension in sport.
The Commission intends to propose initiatives for implementing the Lisbon Treaty in the field of sport later this year. That will take account of the need to strengthen the grass-root sports sector.
The honourable Member also rightly points out that grass-root sports organisations face challenges in the current economic climate. The ongoing EU study on internal market barriers to sports funding, which was announced in the White Paper and which focuses on grass-root sports funding, addresses such challenges. The study aims to describe the key sources of financing, identify financing models in different Member States and for different sports disciplines and to analyse the EU regulatory environment and national policies that have an impact on sports funding.
Finally, the study should outline efficient business models that are also able to meet future challenges, such as the impact of the economic crisis on public sector budgets or on sponsorship, and identify means of strengthening the development of grass-root sport across the European Union.
The consultations on funding for grass-root sport referred to by the honourable Member were carried out within the framework of this study. The initial results of these consultations were presented to interested stakeholders at a conference on sustainable funding models for grass-root sport in the internal market, organised by the study contractor on 16 February in Brussels.
The outcomes of the conference will soon be published on the website of the Internal Market and Services Directorate-General."@en1
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