IOC and Fifa welcome Lisbon Treaty 01/12/2009 |
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The International Olympic Committee and Fifa have hailed the benefits the Lisbon Treaty will bring to sport.
The treaty, which comes into effect today (December 1), will provide a legal basis for sport – something for which the IOC says it has been pushing for the last 15 years.
IOC president Jacques Rogge said: “We have come a long way. I thank the member states for their strong commitment to sport over the last years. The impact of sport in the EU is huge, as is the influence of EU policies on sport. It really is time to move from a case-by-case approach to an environment where the specific characteristics of sport can be taken into account properly.”
Articles 6 and 165 of the treaty stress the significance of sport in Europe, recognise its “specific nature” and define the promotion of sport as a community objective.
Fifa president Sepp Blatter added: “Recognition of the specificity of sport is about protecting its universality, the foremost characteristic of its specific nature, in a world which is increasingly divided, and about maintaining its structures, which guarantee balance at the heart of every sport – for example between amateur football and professional football, between club football and international football, and in terms of protecting the national identity of clubs
“It is also about the educational and social role of sport, and about safeguarding fair play and the openness of competitions in the face of challenges which are increasingly threatening the uncertainty of sporting results.”
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