Sport for all - Council of Europe

There are human and universal values within sport which can contribute to the fulfilment of the Council of Europe's own ideals. This is why the Organisation, in 1976, adopted the European Sport for All Charter, which marked the beginning of consideration at European level of the problems which arise in the sphere of sport.

Revised in 1992, when it became the European Sports Charter, this text has also been supplemented by the Code of Sports Ethics . These documents contain a number of principles common to Europe as a whole in terms of sport policies and practice: accessibility of sport for all, especially children and young people; equality; solidarity; tolerance; safety; respect for ethical values and human dignity.

A new pan-European platform for co-operation on sports matters was introduced in 2006, in the form of the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport (EPAS).