6.1 apply without
delay the measures recommended in the appendix to Recommendation
CM/ Rec(2011)10 on the promotion of the integrity of sport against
manipulation of results, notably match-fixing, and to take due account
of the recommendations by international and European organisations, such
as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and SportAccord;
6.2 if they have not already done so, accede to the Council
of Europe’s Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport (EPAS);
6.3 if they have not already done so, ratify the Council of
Europe Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation
of the Proceeds from Crime and on the Financing of Terrorism (CETS
No. 198) and ensure that, in their respective legal systems, the
mechanisms for which this convention provides are applicable to
illegal betting and to the profits from manipulation of sports results;
6.4 ensure that training and awareness-raising programmes
for young amateur and professional sportspeople (in accordance with
the kind of programmes developed by the Union of European Football Associations
(UEFA) for the under-17 and under-19 age groups or SportAccord education
programme) are introduced, and that these effectively teach those
sportsmen and women about the risks of accepting money in return
for altering their performance;
6.5 prohibit betting on those competitions most vulnerable
to attempted corruption, namely: specific youth competitions (for
sportspeople aged under 18), amateur competitions and, for some
sports such as football, lower-division professional competitions;
6.6 establish a national betting-regulatory authority in every
country and consider setting up in each country an “integrity of
sport” monitoring centre and a “sports betting” working group, the
activity of which should be co-ordinated by the national regulatory
authority, with a view to Europe-wide networking of information;
6.7 develop, in co-operation with sports institutions, appropriate
rules and mechanisms to ensure that any disciplinary penalties imposed
by federations’ committees and any criminal law penalties for corruption
are a sufficient deterrent and are effectively applied;
6.8 promote mutual recognition of criminal, administrative,
disciplinary and sports penalties by States and sports federations;
6.9 ensure co-operation between judicial authorities and national
and international police, particularly Interpol, Europol and Eurojust,
to enhance the effectiveness of investigations into and the prosecution of
match-fixing cases;
6.10 work with national and international betting operators
to introduce effective procedures for detecting suspicious betting;
6.11 call for an extension to match-fixing of the United Nations
Conventions against Transnational Organized Crime and against Corruption,
with a view to encouraging the reforms needed to enable this problem
to be effectively combated worldwide.