Resolution on the draft Code for sustainability in sport: A partnership between sport and the environment (5/2000)

The European Ministers responsible for Sport, meeting in Bratislava for their 9^th Conference from 30-31 May 2000

Convinced of the need for a partnership between sport and the environment which takes into account the existing international and national programmes directed towards sustainability in sport, together with those examples of good practice described in the Clearing House publication “Environment and Sport. Awareness raising, education, training”.

Mindful that a clean and healthy environment is essential for those taking part in recreational or competitive sport and that many sports organisations and participants contribute actively to environmental protection,

Aware that the responsibility for sustainable development lies with all those active in sport and that the sports policy sector, the sports practice sector and the scientific sector, together with individual sportsmen and sportswomen, must be involved if progress is to be made in this field,

I Resolve:

to give their full support to the Code for Sustainability in Sport: A partnership between sport and the environment, reproduced in the Appendix ⁱ

II Invite the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe:

to adopt the “Code for Sustainability in sport: A partnership between sport and the environment” (see Appendix) as a Recommendation to Governments,

to ask the Committee for the Development of Sport (CDDS) to give appropriate follow-up to this Code, by setting up a working group.

III Resolve:

to distribute the Code, once adopted, in their own language, among national sports and environmental organisations and promote its dissemination to all the appropriate target groups,

to encourage the authorities responsible for sport and the environment to work together to encourage regional, national and international sports organisations and federations to develop campaigns, literature and educational materials in this area.