Back KCOOS returns from summer with its 2nd Regional Seminar

EU – CoE Joint Project on Sport Manipulations: ‘Keep Crime Out Of Sport’ Regional Seminar 2 – 27-28 September 2016, Zagreb
Six countries to exchange experience and learn methods at the 2-day seminar
KCOOS returns from summer with its 2nd Regional Seminar

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EU – CoE Joint Project on Sport Manipulations:  ‘Keep Crime Out Of Sport’ Regional Seminar 2 – 27-28 September 2016, Zagreb

The Council of Europe and EU (DG HOME AFFAIRS) Joint Project ‘KEEP CRIME OUT OF SPORT (KCOOS)’ continues with its second phase with the second Regional Seminar on 27-28 September in Zagreb, Croatia in collaboration with the Croatian Ministry for Science, Education and Sport. It brings together representatives from law enforcement and justice, ministries, betting operators, betting regulatory authorities and the sport movement from Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Germany, Hungary and Ukraine. This seminar comes after the recent international conference on the Manipulation of Sports Competitions held in Strasbourg (France) at the Council of Europe Headquarters on 20-21 September 2016.

Project KCOOS is the operational aspect of the 2014 Convention on the Manipulation of Sports Competitions adopted by the Council of Europe, which is currently open to signatures and ratifications worldwide. The first phase kicked off with questionnaires from various relevant stakeholders from 47 EU and Council of Europe Member States. This has provided the project with sound input for the seminars, which will focus on establishing and running national platforms, exchanging of information and building trust between various stakeholders nationally and internationally.

Now the 2-day seminar, the second out of 5 scheduled to take place this year within the project, will include a number of working sessions for the participants as a first step towards finding solutions to long-standing challenges. The regional seminar will welcome speakers and moderators from Europol, GLMS, Interpol, IOC and Sportradar.

This seminar will work off the back of the results from the first regional seminar as well as last week’s conference and will feed into the next three regional seminars which will take place around Europe in Autumn 2016, the next one being in Copenhagen on 4-5 October in collaboration with Anti-Doping Denmark (with Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden). The work will culminate in the publication of a practical how-to guide on implementing measures to fight manipulation of sports competitions.

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