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I first worked on this matter in the summer of 1999, when I was European Commissioner for Sport. Since that time, the Commission’s entire policy has taken the specific characteristics of sport into consideration. Furthermore, only in December 1999, a Commission statement on the social dimension of sport was submitted to the Heads of State and Government at the Helsinki Summit. And nothing has changed since then. We have done more about the specific characteristics of sport than merely make a statement we have put words into practice. We should, nonetheless, be well aware that any future Treaty will include an article on the specific characteristics of sport.
However, ladies and gentlemen, this will not mean an end of the right to competition, free movement, or any of the fundamental rights enshrined in the Treaty, because people in the sporting world are not above the Treaty. So, I hope this is perfectly clear. It would be very useful for me, as Commissioner for Sport, to have the specific characteristics of sport included, because I could at last! create a programme specific to sport, which I alone am currently unable to do. I always have to consider aspects such as education, health and culture as well; in other words, all the other components that are included in the Treaty. We have, then, always respected the specific characteristics of sport. To make an exception for sport, which is what some people would like to see, and which would mean that the rules of the Treaty do not apply to sport, is something to which I am firmly opposed."@en1
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