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13/11/2007 - EP: non-legislative resolution
The European Parliament adopted by 590 votes in favour to 56 against
with 21 abstentions a resolution based on the own-initiative report
drafted by Pál SCHMITT (EPP-ED, HU) reaffirming the EU’s legitimate
interest in sport, in particular its social and cultural aspects, as
well as the educational and social values that sport transmitted
such as self-discipline, challenging personal limitations,
solidarity, healthy competition, respect for opponents, social
inclusion, opposition to any form of discrimination, team spirit,
tolerance, and fair play. Members stressed that, in our
multicultural society, sport can and should be an integral part of
formal and informal education. Studies had shown that regular
physical activity improves mental and physical wellbeing, while
having beneficial effect on learning abilities. They also stressed
the significance of implementing the Amsterdam and Nice
declarations, especially the specific characteristics of sport in
Europe and its social function account of which should be taken when
implementing common policies.
Accordingly, Parliament called on Member States to ensure that
greater stress was placed on health development in school and
preschool teaching programmes by encouraging specific forms of
physical activity suitable for the latter age group and raising
awareness within clubs and associations in order to ensure that
children start physical activity at the earliest possible age and
hence to guarantee PE status in accordance with the profile of the
institution and the corresponding level of study.
Parliament pointed out that sport and physical activity could make
an important contribution to combating negative health trends such
as a sedentary life-style and obesity, and stressed the important
role of sport for public health, especially in the fight against
obesity that currently affected 21 million children in the EU. It
urged Member States to carry out information campaigns aimed at
children from a very early age and their parents on the need to
adopt a healthy lifestyle, and engage in regular physical activity
and on the health risks linked to an unhealthy diet. Parliament
proposed that the work of the group of experts involved in the 'EU
Platform on Diet, Physical Activity and Health' set up by the
Commission be reinforced through the participation of PE educators
and sport experts. Parliament welcomed the Commission White Paper on
sport, and hoped that the issue of school physical education will
form part of the 'Pierre de Coubertin' Action Plan. It recommended a
series of measures to encourage physical activity.
Member States were called upon to:
* make PE compulsory in primary and secondary schools, and to accept the
principle that the timetable should guarantee at least 3 PE lessons per
week;
* promote body awareness and healthy development through a higher degree of
integration between sport and academic subjects;
* modernise and improve their physical education policies, principally to
ensure that a balance is struck between physical and intellectual activities
in schools;
* invest in quality sports facilities and take appropriate measures to make
sports premises and sports curricula at schools accessible to all students,
with proper regard being paid to the needs of disabled students;
* ensure the teaching of PE at all levels, including primary school, by
specialised PE instructors;
* in the spirit of the Bologna process, to step up convergence between
training programmes for PE teachers at each school level;
* in cooperation with physical education colleges, to provide high-quality,
all-round education, equipping athletes with all the necessary skills to
enter the employment market or pursue their studies in higher education
institutions and beyond;
* provide physical education teachers with training in the issue of gender
by including this aspect in their curriculum. Members called for an end to
the downgrading of the status of physical education as a subject and of the
status of PE teachers;
* encourage the option of having either sports coeducation or single sex
classes from secondary level onwards in order to encourage girls to try out
sports traditionally practiced by men;
* carry out a study of quantitative and qualitative participation of girls
and boys in sport within and outside schools and to provide the necessary
resources to further expand the sports on offer and thereby increase the
participation of girls in sports;
* ensure equality of opportunity by taking steps to put an end to any
discrimination which might arise on the grounds of gender, religion or
ethnic origin;
* promote cooperation, and improve the exchange of information and exchanges
of best practice examples, between schools and out-of-school sports
associations, local authorities, voluntary and civil society organisations
which run sporting activities;
* actively support forms of physical activity which can be carried out by
families, and to improve the dialogue between parents, PE teachers and
sports associations;
* ensure that sports facilities are designed for easy access by disabled
spectators and/or participants;
* pay particular attention to situations in which children’s talent is
exploited with a view to success in sports competitions.
Parliament welcomed the inclusion of a direct and unambiguous reference to
the social, cultural and economic value of sport, which forms the basis of the
legal framework for future Community action, in the text of the Treaty on the
Functioning of the European Union, as set out in the draft Treaty of Lisbon. It
proposed that the EU Public Health Programme pay more attention to raising
awareness of the prominent role played by education, physical education and
sport in the area of public health. The report welcomed the Commission's White
Paper on 'A Strategy for Europe on Nutrition, Overweight and Obesity related
health issues', which identified prevention, primarily by means of the promotion
of exercise and an increase in the numbers of participants in sport, as a
priority. (Please see INI/2006/2231). It also welcomed the achievements of the
European Year of Education through Sport (EYES 2004), which stressed the role of
sport in education and drew attention to the wide-ranging social role of sport.
Parliament welcomed the decision of the International Olympic Committee to hold
the Youth Olympic Games as of 2010, and felt that sports education and training,
with a particular emphasis being placed on Olympic ideals, was an effective
instrument for the social inclusion of disadvantaged groups and multicultural
dialogue, and for the promotion of voluntary work. Sports education played an
active part in counteracting discrimination, intolerance, racism, xenophobia and
violence.
The Commission was called upon to undertake a series of measures, while taking
full account of the subsidiarity principle:
* draw on the experiences of the “sports-minded schools” programme
initiated by the Luxembourg Presidency and to devise, in cooperation with
the Member States, a uniform set of criteria for the award of this label, as
well as the conditions for a European sports prize to be awarded to
acknowledge new initiatives;
* identify best practices in the fight against sexual harassment and abuse
in sport;
* initiate multi-disciplinary research in the field of sport and PE, and to
disseminate best practice. Basic principles should be defined for the
pan-European survey on physical education policies and practices which the
Council of Europe has defined as a priority;
* devise clear guidelines on rules for state support, setting out what type
of state support is regarded as acceptable and necessary in the interest of
successfully fulfilling the social, cultural, health protection and
educational functions of sport;
* identify areas where EU action could provide added value with regard to
action already taken by sports organisations and Member States authorities.
The report considered that the open method of coordination was an
appropriate way to achieve better cooperation at European level in the
specific area of physical education policy and sport for all;
* EU structural funds should be used for the creation and development of
school and other sports facilities in disadvantaged areas;
* building on the experiences of EYES 2004, in the framework of the Lifelong
Learning, Youth and Europe for Citizens programmes, to devise new
initiatives aimed at heightening the profile of the role played by sport and
PE not only in education and culture point of view but also in terms of
social integration and health protection;
* promote the European mobility of PE teachers and trainers, as part of the
Lifelong Learning Programme.
Parliament applauded the work of volunteers in all sporting organisations and
recognised that most of these organisations could not exist without volunteers.
It recommended that 'credits' or some form of reward for voluntary service be
put in place at European level in order to promote and give greater recognition
to this work.
Lastly, and on the issue of doping, Parliament stressed that the use of
performance-enhancing chemical substances was contrary to the values of sport as
a social, cultural and educational activity. It called on Member States to
ensure that PE teachers inform pupils about the physical and psychological
dangers inherent in the use of doping substances.
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