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In September 2004, the European Fair Play Movement
(EFPM) celebrated in Vienna its 10th anniversary at its 10th Fair Play
Congress and Annual General Assembly.
The origins of the movement date back to 1989,
when the “Stichting Fair Play Club of the Netherlands” took
the initiative by inviting Fair Play delegates from Belgium (Flanders),
Denmark, Germany, Luxembourg and Switzerland to exchange views on national
Fair Play campaigns. At its subsequent gathering, hosted one year later
by the Luxembourg National Olympic Committee (COSL), Raoul Mollet, the
former President of the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of Belgium
and IOC member, recognized the need to institute an European Fair Play
Organization. Following meetings were held in Germany (1991), Denmark
(1992) and the Netherlands (1993) with an extended Fair Play agenda
and witnessed a growing interest from other countries. At the 1993 meeting,
fourteen European countries agreed to establish the EFPM, which was
consequently inaugurated at the Founding Assembly on May 27th-28th,
1994 at the FIFA House in Zurich.
Following on from its foundation, the EFPM continuously
elaborated its statutes and developed its organizational structure such
that today 37 national Fair Play Organizations, all linked to their
respective NOC’s, are affiliated to the EFPM.
The achievements of the EFPM are listed below:
The intentions of the EFPM are to go beyond these
more common tasks and to take a visionary perspective, including the
conception of new ways to increase the awareness of Fair Play in European
countries.
Building on a statement made by Jacques Rogge,
the President of the IOC, during an inspiring conference in St. Moritz
(CH) on February 12th, 2004, that his organization is a fervent advocate
of the Fair Play concept in the sense that it refutes doping, hooliganism
and corruption as the main impediments to public faith in sports, the
EFPM has herewith a supplementary important support for its activities
which should bring a precious contribution to more Fair Play in sports
and other activities.
The next important event of the EFPM will be the
11th EFPM Fair Play Congress which will be organized by NOC of Lithuania
and will take place in Vilnius from Thursday, September 22nd to Friday,
September 23rd, 2005, the 11th General Assembly of the EFPM being held
on Saturday, September 24th, 2005. Georges Diderich
Secretary General European Fair Play Movement Av. Tomás Ribeiro 43, 5°E 2795-187 Linda-a-Velha Portugal Email: georges_diderich@hotmail.com http://www.icsspe.org/portal/bulletin-january2005.htm
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