2 1.E N G S O G e n e r a l A s s e m b l y EU Seminar 7 June 2013, Belgrade Ewa Markowicz Chair of the EPAS Governing Board.

2 1.E N G S O G e n e r a l A s s e m b l y

EU Seminar7 June 2013, Belgrade

Ewa MarkowiczChair of the EPAS Governing Board

What is EPAS?

body set up within the Council of Europe to promote the development of sport

established in 2007

Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport

”enlarged” – open for non CoE countries

”partial” – voluntary

First pan-european sport platform with 2 pillars:

Governments

Governing Board

NGOs

Consultative Commitee

35 Member States

Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, Switzerland and “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”.

28 Consultative Commitee Members

European Athlete Student Network (EAS) European Elite Athletes Association (EU Athletes) European Fair Play Movement (EFPM) European Gay & Lesbian Sport Federation (EGLSF) European Handcycling Federation European Judo Union (EJU) European Non-Governmental Sports Organisation (ENGSO) European Olympic Committees (EOC) European Paralympic Committee (EPC) European Physical Education Association (EUPEA) European Rugby Association (FIRA-AER) European Women and Sport (EWS) Federation of International Amateur Sambo (FIAS) Homeless World Cup Foundation

International Basketball Federation Europe – FIBA-Europe

International Council of Sports Science and Physical Education (ICSSPE)

International Sport and Culture Association (ISCA)

International Sports Federations (SportAccord) International University Sports Federation (FISU) Peace and Sport

Sport & Citizenship Think Tank Sports Rights Owners Coalition (SROC) Tennis Europe

The Association for International Sport for All (TAFISA Europe) Union of European Football Associations (UEFA)

FARE Network Play the Game Panathlon International

Ministerial Conferences

12. Conference (Belgrade, Serbia, 15 March 2012)

13. Conference (Magglingen, Switzerland, 17-19 September 2014)

Standard-setting and monitoring

draft convention on match-fixing

draft recommendation on gender mainstreaming in sport

Recommendation CM/Rec(2012)10

on the protection of child and young athletes from dangers associated with migration

consultative visits

Promotion of diversity and fight against discrimination

2012 – fight against homophobia in sport

11-12.10.2012 Conference „United against homophobia in sport”, Utrecht

2013 – children and youth

7-8.10. 2013 Political conference in Budapest

2014 – sport in prisons

…….. 2014 Political conference in……

2015 - ??

Follow-up activities

Collection "Sport policy and practice”

Collection of "Good practice handbooks"

http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/epas/Publications/publications_collection_handbook_en.asp

Other acivities

More information on the website of the Enlarged Partial Agreement on

Sport (EPAS):

http://www.coe.int/EPAS

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