Traduction de «International sportive des travailleurs » (Français → Anglais) :

4. Considers that, in view of the unique characteristics of sport, the Commission should consider, after consulting the various interests concerned and Parliament, the adoption of interpretative guidelines designed to clarify the whole question of the relationship between Community law and "sporting rules" that do not fall within the remit of that law and the area to which that law applies, in particular the demarcation between those aspects of the organisation of sport which are subject to that law and those rules which are not, having regard also to the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, and bearing in mind that sporting r ...[+++]ules concerning questions of purely sporting interest and having as such nothing to do with economic activity do not fall within the scope of the Treaty; considers that this demarcation should take account of the distinction between professional and amateur sports; points out that such rules, which relate to the particular nature and context of sporting events, are inherent in the organisation and proper conduct of sporting competition and cannot be regarded as constituting a restriction on the Community rules on free movement of workers and freedom to provide services, provided that the restrictive effects on competition are proportionate to the legitimate genuine sporting interest pursued;

Mr. Ken Luckhardt (National Representative, International Department, Canadian Auto Workers Union): As we ask for your support for the continuing study of Colombia in this committee, I'd like to remind the members of the committee why the first committee was set up in the first place.

Mr. Ken Luckhardt (National Representative, International Department, Canadian Auto Workers Union)

I. considers, however, that the jurisdiction of the ordinary court is valid when disputes centred on disciplinary sanctions imposed by sports tribunals on clubs affiliated to the sporting federations and based on a failure to observe purely technical rules of a sporting nature to a large extent give rise to real and appreciable censure or loss of status of the affiliate. Not only measures to withdraw a sports club’s affiliation to a federation, but also measures to exclude it from a given championship, are outside the conceptual area and the ontological and substantial scope of sporting autonomy, for the simple but decisive reason that ...[+++]these are sanctioning measures which, in that they remove powers and, therefore, subjective legal positions covered by the general judicial sphere of the sports club, preventing them from developing and attaining of the social objective laid down in their constitution, necessarily and incontestably fall within the scope of national law and not solely within that of internal sporting rules,

3. Calls on the International Olympic Committee and sports associations, including FIFA, UEFA, the German Football Association and others, as well as sportsmen and -women themselves, to support the 'Red card' campaign and roundly condemn trafficking in human beings and forced prostitution;

Surely the member would admit that we should not prejudge the inquiry and that there were some students or even non-students who were members of groups such as the International Socialist Workers Party and other radical organizations who were clearly there to disrupt the summit, posing a security threat and tearing down a security wall separating them from heads of states.