Policy Documents

• ENGSO Priorities for 2005 / 2006
• ENGSO statement on the EU directive proposal "Services in the internal market"
• ENGSO Declaration on Doping in Sport
• ENGSO Guidelines for Children and Youth Sport
• ENGSO Recommendation GO-NGO Relationship in Sport
• ENGSO Recommendation - Transparency and Credibility in Sports Organisations
• ENGSO Policy on EU-affairs 2004 - 2005 / Political direction
• ENGSO supports the legal base for Sport in the future European Constitution
• ENGSO Offensive 2003 - 2004

ENGSO President speeches at the important
European meetings and conferences

• EOC General Assembly, Dublin - December 2^nd-3^rd 2005
• European Sports Conference - September 22^nd 2005
• The Role of Council of Europe - today and in the future
• 10^th Conference of Ministers responsible for Sport, 14^th - 15^th October 2004
• EOC General Assembly, Dubrovnik, 4^th December 2004

Actual information from ENGSO member countries

• German Sports Confederation - Short report
• Agenda 21

Other documents

• 10th Conference of European Ministers responsible for Sport - Adopted Resolution

German Sports Confederation (DSB)

Short Report on Sport-Political Issues and Sports  Developments in Germany

1)            Sport and Society

Ø      Nationwide campaign called “Sport is Good for Germany” being implemented at all levels; meanwhile activities have started to also  include a European approach in this campaign (“Sport is Good for Europe”)

Ø      Positioning of the socio-political functions of sport  which should be more explicitly recognised  by politicians

Ø      Involvement of other policy areas, such as health and prevention (sport co-operates in the “prevention forum” and wants to actively contribute to the draft prevention act which is currently under discussion )

2)            Voluntary Commitment in Society

Ø      Development of activities aimed at involving more young people in volunteers´ services and to recruit all age groups for voluntary leadership at all levels.

Ø      The discussions whether there should be a legal act on voluntarism are not yet concluded; DSB would be in favour of some legal provision on voluntarism.

Ø      This policy area also includes DSB efforts to reach a de-bureaucratization of  procedures concerning sports clubs and their (mostly voluntary) leaders.

3)            Anti-Doping

Ø      The discussion related to the pros and cons of an anti-doping act has not yet come to an end; DSB is in favour of maintaining the principle of subsidiarity, however considering it as a positive contribution if the state authorities developed accompanying and complementing measures.

4)            Top Level Sports

Ø      All efforts at present are concentrated on the preparation of the German Olympic Team for Athens.

Ø      Thereafter German top level sport will have to undergo a structural reform.

Ø      In view of the Olympic Games 2012, it is common knowledge that the German City of Leipzig is among the bidding cities and – as all its other competitors – hopes to be selected as one of the “Candidate Cities” in May this year.

5)         Financial Situation of Sport

Ø      In Germany we are confronted with serious financial problems at national, federal states´ and local levels.  For the practice of sports the promotion by municipalities plays an important part and is specially jeopardized  at the moment. For this reason DSB and its member organisations are strongly advocating for a tax reform which gives the municipalities (and sport at local level) more planning certainty by assigning specific parts of tax revenues to municipalities for sport  purposes.

Ø      But also within the NGO structures of German sport we are facing increasing financial bottlenecks.  DSB, for example, is strongly concerned by the downfall of income from lottery revenues, which at present amount to approx. 50 % of its ordinary budget.