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08/04/2009 - OPEN CALL FOR TENDER MARKT/2009/04/E: STUDY ON INTERNAL MARKET BARRIERS TO SPORT FUNDING

Action 37 in the Pierre de Coubertin Action Plan annexed to the White Paper on Sport states that "As a contribution to the reflection on the financing of sport, the Commission will carry out an independent study on the financing of grassroots sport and sport for all in the Member States from both public and private sources, and on the impact of ongoing changes in that area".

The European Commission has launched an invitation to tender for this study, which will look into public and private sources of sport funding and into financial streams within particular sports. It will also address possible cross-border obstacles that could affect the financing of sport.
 

To summarise, this study will analyse a wide range of internal market policies that have direct impact on the way sport is financed across the EU. Particular attention will be paid to how internal market policy and in particular the free movement of services when applied to, for example, cross-border sponsorship, media or gambling services might dominate, undermine or crowd out financing to sport, and in particular to grass-roots sports, i.e. those sports disciplines that rely most heavily upon public support. The study will look across the whole spectrum of sources of funding, including direct and indirect financial flows between professional and grass-roots sport through the solidarity mechanisms. It will then analyse the different national regulatory aspects that could give rise to internal market barriers.

This invitation to tender was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 14 March 2009.

Deadline for the receipt of tenders: 30 April 2009.

To obtain further information about this call for tender please visit the website of the European Commission Sport Unit

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