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to support sports through various mechanisms (company foundations,<br />

sponsorship, advertising).<br />

5.3 Developing sporting ethics<br />

The signatories will study the ethical assessment of sports organisations<br />

in liaison and in association with the sporting movement.<br />

Therefore the signatories promise to support all sports organisations<br />

in their effort to create sporting ethics or even a scoring scale for<br />

clubs / teams / persons concerning their public behaviour on the targets<br />

to strengthen sporting ethics. The aim could be to determine a<br />

scoring scale for sports organisations beyond sports and finance considerations.<br />

Two principles govern this approach:<br />

• As sports betting operators, it is necessary to select the events to be<br />

offered to players with a maximum of objective criteria in order to<br />

correctly perform our role as responsible operators (for example,<br />

refraining from offering bets on a third division football championship<br />

in a country reputed for cases of corruption). It is consequently<br />

appropriate to select only meetings with a genuine sporting<br />

purpose (see 3.2.1).<br />

• For the majority of sports, sporting criteria are currently the only<br />

factors included in rankings. For example, in cycling, where the<br />

sporting system is somewhat flawed due to the predominance of<br />

doping, it may be appropriate to firstly deal with image-related<br />

issues. In football, violence and racism only exceptionally lead to<br />

sporting sanctions. Image issues may therefore be given more<br />

emphasis in the rankings.<br />

Given these conditions, the EL sports betting members signing the<br />

Code of Conduct undertake to consider a system of rating sports<br />

organisations (mainly clubs), which takes into account various factors<br />

(following the example of sustainable development over recent years):<br />

financial transparency; compliance with rules; training young people;<br />

campaigning against doping; attitude towards institutions and the<br />

media;<br />

A methodology will be proposed by the signatories to the Ethics<br />

Committee, encompassing the following matters (if the proposals will<br />

generate costs, each signatory shall be free to decide whether to take<br />

part or not):<br />

• understanding the functioning of companies specialising in company<br />

ratings;<br />

• adapting their rating system to the sporting movement;<br />

• determining a series of questions which could be put to sports bodies;<br />

• testing these points in practice (for example with UEFA).<br />

5.4 Distributing the Code to sporting partners<br />

The signatories undertake to promote the values and rules of this<br />

Code to their partners (particularly sportspersons). The bodies and<br />

sporting events to which they may contribute financially (for example,<br />

the Intertoto Cup) should also comply with these values and<br />

rules.<br />

VI - MONITORING THE UNDERTAKINGS SET FORTH IN THE CODE<br />

The signatories shall set up an Ethics Committee responsible for<br />

ensuring compliance with the provisions hereof.<br />

Chaired by an independent and respected personality, it shall bring<br />

together representatives of EL sports betting members, the sporting<br />

movement and qualified personalities from civil society.<br />

The signatories shall provide it with the necessary means to operate<br />

under an approved budget and shall guarantee its independence.<br />

Signed …………… (date) in …………………………..<br />

For (operator)<br />

LOTTERY NAME AND SIGNATURE<br />

editorial board<br />

Robert Siekmann, Janwillem Soek (general editors), Simon Gardiner,<br />

Andrew Caiger, Jim Gray, Andy Gibson, Frank Hendrickx, Richard Parrish,<br />

Klaus Vieweg, Ian Blackshaw (contributing editor)<br />

advisory board<br />

Paul Anderson, Gerard Auneau, John Barnes, Roger Blanpain, Rian Cloete,<br />

Lucio Colantuoni, Pierre Collomb, Michele Colucci, Steve Cornelius, Jean-<br />

Louis Dupont, Hazel Hartley, Deborah Healey, Johnny Maeschalck, Luiz<br />

Roberto Martins Castro, Boris Kolev, Michel Marmayou, Jose Meirim, Jim<br />

Nafziger, Andreas Nemes, John O’Leary, Hayden Opie, Dimitrios<br />

Panagiotopoulos, Hinca Pandjaitan, Mikhail Prokopets, Luis Relogio, José<br />

Manuel Rey, Gary Rice, Gary Roberts, Denis Rogachev, Rochelle le Roux,<br />

Martin Schimke, Shixi Huang, Luc Silance, Gerald Simon, Paul Singh,<br />

Heiko van Staveren, Andrzej Szwarc, Christoph Vedder, Eric Vilé, Dan<br />

Visoiu, Alex Voicu, Wang Xiaoping, Stephen Weatherill<br />

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ISLJ No. <strong>2009</strong>/3-4 © by T.M.C. <strong>Asser</strong> <strong>Instituut</strong><br />

ISSN 1567-7559<br />

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