Representatives from over 30 countries spanning 4 continents gathered in Strasbourg and online for the first in-person meetings of the Group of Copenhagen (5-6 April) and the Follow-Up Committee of the Macolin Convention (6-7 April).
In these important meetings, delegates achieved an agreement on the structure of the Group of Copenhagen’s Action Plan, while advancing the Macolin Convention’s work on data protection through the findings of a survey on applicable model legal provisions.
Furthermore, the Committee progressed on the development of a monitoring method applicable to the Convention’s legal framework. To this effect, delegates were presented with the Draft Guidelines on the Monitoring of the Saint-Denis Convention, as an example of a solid methodology to follow.
In the words of the Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Mr Bjørn Berge, who opened the T-MC Committee meeting and paid tribute to both structures’ instrumental role in supporting the Convention: “Nothing erodes trust more than cheating. Competitors and spectators alike have a right to expect that sports will be run fairly, in accordance with rules, and producing a genuine result. Your work is crucial to putting in place measures that will spread faith in sports – in Europe and around the world.”
Transcription of the Deputy Secretary General’s full intervention.
List of decisions: 2nd meeting Advisory Group to the Follow-Up Committee, 5-6 April 2022.- List of decisions: 4th meeting of the Follow-Up Committee, 6-7 April 2022.
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