Conseil de l'Europe CM 2022

PROVISIONAL The reform of football governance 1 Report Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media Rapporteur: Mr Michael CONNARTY, United Kingdom, Socialist Group Draft resolution 1. The Parliamentary Assembly recognises the educational and social value of sport. It considers good governance of sports organisations essential in order to promote the values of our democratic societies, and attaches the highest importance to the responsibility which sports organisations bear – and must fully assume – for furthering and safeguarding human rights and the rule of law. All sports organisations must give proper consideration to ensuring effective protection of fundamental rights enshrined in the international binding instruments and, in Europe, in the European Convention on Human Rights. 2. The Assembly welcomes that sport is an important economic activity and that the major sports organisations are able to support the development of sport in every part of the world. It is nevertheless anxious that secrecy in the decisionmaking processes of certain sports organisations and flaws in their mechanisms for preventing and sanctioning breaches of sports ethics may foster corruption and financial misappropriations. The scandals which tarnish the image of sport confirm that this risk is quite real. 3.