Chief of State : Mr Aníbal António Cavaco Silva Head of Government : Prime Minister Mr José Sócrates Minister responsible for sports: Minister Mr Pedro Silva Pereira Secretary of State for Youth and Sport: Mr Laurentino Dias Chairman of agency responsible for sports – Sport Institute of Portugal: Mr Luís Bettencourt Sardinha Chairman of the National Olympic Committee : Mr José Vicente Moura Chairman of the National Sports Confederation : Mr Carlos Paula Cardoso
Land surface : 92 072 km²
Population : 10,4 millions
Capital : Lisbon
Language : portuguese
Currency : euro
Budget of State (2009): 33.015.329.340,18 € Budget of the ministry responsible for sports:
91 864 011€ Principal financing source for sport: State National sports federations : 60 (2009)
National and international political priorities in the sports sector (2009)
GENERALIZATION OF PRACTICE OF SPORT
School Sport
proximitysports infrastructure decentralizedsports infrastructure Programs promoting physical activity and sport
MODERNIZATION AND FUNDING OF ASSOCIATIVE SPORTS MOVEMENT
The modernization and funding of Sports Federations
Support for clubs
The fight against doping
The fight against violence in sport
The National Charter for Sports infrastructure
HIGH PERFORMANCE AND INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION OF PORTUGUESE SPORT
The Network of Centres of High Performance
Support for high-performance athletes
Support Olympic Committee and Paralympic Committee of Portugal
Support International Sports Events
International Protocols of Bilateral Cooperation
The CPLP Games and the Lusophone Games
SUSTAINABILITY AND ORGANIZATION OF THE SPORTS SYSTEM
The financing of the sports system
Fiscal policy for Portuguese sport
The funding for Sport
The National Council of Sports
Organisation of sport in the country (2009) Sport structures in Portugal National Government approach to sport Portugal has a long tradition in Sports and Association Movement, which goes back to the end of the nineteenth century. The level of active engagement in sports activities led to a development of regulations and structures, to ensure a greater degree of organization of Sport throughout the country.
Sport in Portugal is under the responsibility of the Secretary of State for Youth and Sport, which is part of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, who is accountable for sport at a governmental level and serves as the political and decision-making body. For operational purposes, it is assisted by the Sport Institute of Portugal (Instituto do Desporto de Portugal – IDP) which is the entity reliable for coordinating and developing government involvement for sport support, in administrative and financial terms, under the supervision of the member of the Government who is in charge of sport.
Among the main tasks of theSport Institute of Portugal are the coordination and evaluation of:
Direct back-up services for sports associations and practical participation in sport, sports infrastructures and sports medicine;
Non-academic training for sports managers, studies and research, documentation and information, external relations and sports cooperation;
Running all the country's sports grounds and premises and for the high-performance centre.
In addition, Sport at school comes within the remit of the Ministry of Education and sport in the armed services within that of the Ministry of Defence.
Regional level There are five regional delegations of the Sport Institute of Portugal. The tasks of these delegations are to ensure an integrated Sport Activities dissemination and developing public awareness for healthy sports community at Regional Level.
The Delegations also provide support and assistance to other regional public and private entities in projects related to sport.
Regional and Local authorities (towns and municipalities, and in some cases also the "freguesias", which are subdivisions of municipalities) have a variety of structures for sports activities at a community level. The authorities provide financial assistance and organisational back-up for sports clubs, and frequently for sporting events too.
Portugal has two Autonomous Regions, Azores and Madeira. This Autonomous Regions possesses its own regional governments. By this prerogative, Azores and Madeira have their own official sports bodies, the Azores Regional Directorate for Physical Education and Sport (DREFD) and the Sports Institute of the Madeira Autonomous Region (IDRAM), which operate independently and come under the regional secretariats for education in the autonomous regional governments.
Legislation The Public Administration involvement in Sports is fixed through the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic, and ruled out by The Physical Activity and Sport Act (Lei de Bases da Actividade Física e do Desporto, 2006)
The Physical Activity and Sport Act (Lei de Bases da Actividade Física e do Desporto) was drafted in 2006, replacing the previous Act of 2004.This new Act defines the Sport System and aims for the Physical Activity regulations, by shaping the core for several legislative measures in key areas, such as:
· high-level competition (criteria to qualify for high-level competition status, grants),
· training arrangements for coaches and sportsmen and women,
· sports insurance,
· doping (regulations governing anti-doping checks),
· collective organisations (legal arrangements applying to sports associations, official recognition for bodies in the public interest, programme contracts)
· organisers (status of volunteer sports organiser),
· violence (arrangements for police supervision of sporting events, security measures at sports grounds and premises;
· practitioners (contract system for professional sportsmen and women),
· corruption (making it a crime to act in such a way as to jeopardise truth and fairness in sport)
Anti-doping Authority of Portugal In order to improve fight against doping in Portugal, the Basic Act on Sport System has created a new authority figure: Anti-doping Authority of Portugal (Autoridade Antidopagem de Portugal).
This key Agency will be the forefront to ensure compliance with national laws in the fight against doping in sports, by employing an integrated approach of public information and educational awareness.
National Sports Council The National Sports Council (Conselho Nacional do Desporto) serves as a consultative and advisory body on specific Sports issues, i.e. arbitration, conflict resolution between Sports Federations and Professional Leagues.
Non-governmental structures National Sports Federations The non-governmental levels in the organisational structure for sport are the clubs, regional associations and national federations.
The National Sports Federations are independent entities and converse directly to the governmental structure. At present, there are 79 sports federations, 64 of which are regarded as being of public interest.
A distinction is drawn between single-sport federations and federations representing a range of sports (university sport, sport for the disabled, sport in the armed services and leisure sport). Approximately some 10 000 clubs belong to these federations.
Most of the federations have regional and/or district associations. These associations are responsible for developing sport and setting up regional and local programmes under direct supervision of the federations concerned, often in coordination with the central and regional structures.
Olympic Movement The Portuguese Olympic Committee (Comité Olímpico de Portugal - COP) was established in 1909. It comprises the Olympic Sports Federations as well other Sports Federations.
The Olympic Committee lays down guidelines for the practice and preparation for Olympic events. It includes a General Assembly of the Federations (Assembleia Geral das Federações).
Sports Confederation of Portugal Since 1993, the Portuguese sports association movements are coordinated with the Sports Confederation of Portugal (Confederação do Desporto de Portugal).
The purpose of the Sports Confederation of Portugal is to act as an umbrella organization that seeks to support and foster the affiliated Federations. It currently has 69 members
The Sports Foundation In 1995 a private Foundation with public-interest status was formed, with the State as one of the founders, together with INDESP (Actual IDP), the Olympic Committee, the Sports Confederation and RTP (Portuguese Radio and Television). The purpose of the Foundation is to promote and develop sport.
Professional Sport In Portugal there are three Professional Sports Leagues, for Basketball, Football and Handball.
National bodies with responsibility for sport Secretaria de Estado da Juventude e do Desporto Avenida Brasília - Algés (Praia)
1400 Lisboa – Portugal
Tel 351.21.303 60 00
Fax 351.21.301 80 90
http://www.sejd.gov.pt/
Instituto do Desporto de Portugal (IDP) Av. Infante Santo, 76-4º
1200 Lisboa – Portugal
Tel 351.21.395 32 71
Fax 351.21.60 26 04
www.idesporto.pt
Autoridade Antidopagem de Portugal Laboratório de Análises e Dopagem
Av. Prof. Egas Moniz, Estádio Universitário
1600 Lisboa – Portugal
Tel 351.1.795 40 00
Fax 351.1.79 77 529
www.idesporto.pt
Ministério da Educação - Sport at school Avenida 5 de Outubro, 107
1069-018 Lisboa
Tel.: 217 811 800
www.min-edu.pt
Comité Olímpico de Portugal Travessa da Memória, 36 - 1300-403 Lisboa
Telefone: 351 21 361 72 60
Fax: 351 21 363 69 67
www.comiteolimpicoportugal.pt
Confederação do Desporto de Portugal Rua Eduardo Augusto Pedroso, 11-A
1495-047 Algés
Telefone: 00351 214113975/6/7
Fax : 00351 214113980
http://www.cdp.pt
Sports director :
Mr. Luís Bettencourt Sardinha, Phd
President of the Sport Institute of Portugal
EPAS contact: Name : José Eduardo Fanha Vieira
Title : Vice-President – Sport Institute of Portugal
Address: Av. Infante Santo, 76, 1399-032 - Lisboa
Portugal
Tel. : (+351) 21 0034 700
Fax : (+351) 21 396 98 73 E-mail : dicri@idesporto.pt jevieira@idesporto.pt
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