SPORT & EU

 All times are Central European Time (CET)

14h00            Cheating to win / Cheating to loose: sport and gambling

• Jean-Luc Moner-Banet
  Director General Loterie Romande
•  David Folker
  General Manager – Football DataCo
•  Jean-Patrick Villeneuve
  Professor, Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration
•  Rhadames Killy
  Senior Counsel at De Gaulle Fleurance & Associes
  Former General Counsel at French Online Gaming Regulatory Authority

 

16h30             The Beijing Olympics: 4 years later

• FENG Huiling
  Vice-President and Professor, Renmin University, China
  “The social impact of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games”
• WEI Na
  Professor, School of Public Admin. and Policy, Renmin University, China
  “The volunteers legacy of Beijing 2008”
• LI Shuwang
  Professor, Sports Department, Renmin University, China
  “The impact of the Beijing Paralympics on Parasport Development in China”
• XIN Zhong
  Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Renmin University, China
  “Sport diplomacy: The impact of Beijing Olympics on the Chinese Sport TV people”

 

18h00             Cocktail

 

 - Download the paper abstracts here -

 

08h00             Registration

09h00             Welcome and introductions

09h30            Session I  – Chair: Dr Madalina Diaconou

• Marjan Olfers, Alan Littler, VMW Taxand & Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  “How can we overcome diffused sports governance when tackling match-fixing through the regulation of sports-betting?”
• Dawn Aquilina, Angelo Chetcuti, IDHEAP
  “Match-fixing and corruption: are micro-states more prone? The case of Maltese football”
• Olivier Bigler, Nicolas Zbinden, University of Neuchâtel
  “Doping under the new Swiss promotion of sport and physical activity act?”

 

10h45           Coffee break

 

11h15                        Session II – Chair: Dr Borja García

• Ben Van Rompuy, TMC ASSER Instituut
  “The introduction of salary caps in European football: an EU internal market and competition law perspective”
• Daniel Geey, Law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse
  “A legal assessment of the FInancial Fair Play rules”

 

12h15            Lunch

 

13h30             Session III – Play the Game Panel -
                            Chair: Jens Sejer Andersen

• Short presentations
• Jens Sejer Andersen, Danish Institute for Sports Studies/Play the Game
  “Aiming at a Global Index of Good Governance in Sport. Introduction to AGGIS, a EU Preparatory Action”
• Jens Alm, Danish Institute for Sports Studies/Play the Game
  “Preliminary results of empirical study into good governance aspects in international federations”
• Jean-Loup Chappelet and Michael Mrkonjic, IDHEAP
  “Basic indicators of governance in international sport (BIGIS)”
• Simona Kustec Lipicer, University of Ljubljan
  “Monitoring of good governance systems”
• Jürgen Mittag, German Sport University Cologne
  “Democratic systems and proceedings – Alternatives to one nation-one vote”

 

• Panel debate
• Hans Bruynickx, University of Leuven
• Arnout Geeraert, University of Leuven
• Michael Groll, German Sport University Cologne
• Henrik H. Brandt, Danish Institute for Sports Studies / Play the Game

 

15h00            Coffee Break

 

15h30            Session IV – Chair: An Vermeersch

• Henk Erik Meier, Münster University Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences
  “From corporatism to open networks? Policy-making in German sport”
• Mark James, Guy Osborn, Salford Law School, Westminster University
  “Legislative Creep: unpacking lex olympica”

 

16h30             End of Sessions

 

19h30             Conference Dinner: Beau Rivage Palace – Salon Romain

 

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09h00            Keynote speaker – Stanislas Frossard, Council of Europe

09h45             Session V – Chair: Jean-Loup Chappelet

• Alex Bielefed, Supporters Direct – Burson Marsteller
  “Improving football governance through supporter involvement and Financial Stability and Community Ownership”
• Sean Hamil, Birkbeck College, University of London
  “The Future of Governance of FIFA”

10h45            Coffee Break

11h15             Session VI – Chair: Simona Kustec-Lipicer

• Kevin Carpenter, law firm SJ Berwin
  “Sport Betting: A transversal challenge”
• Jack Anderson, Queen’s University, Belfast
  “Gambling, Corruption and Crime in International Sport”

12h15             Keynote speaker: Mark Pieth, Basel Institute on Governance, Chair of the FIFA Independent Governance Committee

13h00            Conclusions and lunch