EU – CoE Joint Project on Sport Manipulations: ‘Keep Crime Out Of Sport’ Regional Seminar 2 – 27-28 September 2016 - Zagreb, Croatia
The Council of Europe and EU (DG HOME AFFAIRS) Joint Project ‘KEEP CRIME OUT OF SPORT (KCOOS)’ continues with its second phase with its secondRegional Seminar in Zagreb on 27-28 September 2016. 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.
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. The second seminar will have more input following the first regional seminar that took place on 20-21 June in The Hague and following the strategic International Conference on the Manipulation of Sports Competitions, organised by the Council of Europe in Strasbourg on 20-21 September 2016.
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 40 participants as a first step towards finding solutions to long-standing challenges. The regional seminar will welcome speakers and moderators from Europol, Interpol, GLMS, IOC and Sportradar.
The outcomes of this seminar will feed into the next three regional seminars which will take place around Europe as well as the upcoming Council of Europe Conference on the Manipulation of Sports Competitions (Autumn 2016). The work will culminate in the publication of a practical how-to guide on implementing measures to fight sports manipulations.