EPAS activities

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EPAS activities Match-fixing Presented by
Stanislas Frossard
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The Council of Europe

• Founded in 1949
• An intergovernmental body, with 47 members
• Peace and unity through values
• Democracy
• Human Rights
• Rule of Law
• Based on the European Convention on Human Rights
• 4 basic texts on sport (2 conventions and 2 key
  recommendations)

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Manipulations of competitions(match fixing)

• New threat (global, online activities)
• An issue of interest for the Council of Europe,
  because it is a challenge to
• Rule of law
• Public order
• Sports ethics

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Stakeholders

• Identification of action to be taken by
• Governments
• Sports
• Betting regulators
• Corruption
• Criminal law
• Betting operators
• Sport organisations

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Ongoing process

• Adoption of Rec/CM(2011)10
• Feasibility Study
• Ministerial meeting Belgrade on 15 March 2012
• Network of Betting Regulators (April 2012)
• Green light to the negotiation of a convention on
  13 June 2012
• First meeting in October 2012
• Project in Autumn 2014

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Why a Council of Europe instrument ?

• An issue of sports ethics, but also rule of law
  and fight against corruption
• Use CoE assets
• Existing bodies
• Experience in standard-setting
• Open to non European states
• Pioneer role

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Scope of a possible Convention

• Manipulations betting-related or not
• Based on Rec/CM(2011)10
• Global response
• not on corruption of governance in sport
• not on opening of the betting market
• not on funding of sport
• not criminal convention defining a new
  specialised criminal offence

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Functions

• General legislations
• Prevention
• Support betting monitoring
• Fight against illegal betting
• Co-operation (Working platform)
• Sanctions judicial co-operation
• Address loopholes in legislations
• Exchange of information
• Monitoring of states commitments

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Delegations
Sport
Betting regulators
Law enforcement
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Meetings
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Schedule
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Vision (in 5 years)

• World-wide mobilisation
• Cooperation (Sport/BO/PA)
• Education, prevention
• Effective detection (betting monitoring systems
  exchange of intelligence)
• Clear legal provisions
• Effective law-enforcement (incl. cooperation with
  sports movement)

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Money Laundering
Criminal
Organised crime
corrupt practices, fraudulent practices, coercive
practices
Disciplinary
not reporting cheating
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Criminal investigations
Betting monitoring
Money laundering prevention
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• Traceable ways of payment (14.3.d)
• Manipulation of sport event generating proceeds
  -gt predicate offence for the criminal offence of
  Money laundering (16.1.b)
• Consider to Monitor customer identification in
  sporting bets in the framework of the prevention
  of money laundering (16.6)

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