Play Fair Code

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Association for the maintenance of integrity in sport
legal form Association
( ZVR : 141462079)
founding April 13, 2012
Seat Vienna 3 , Seidlgasse 22/11
Employees 3 (2019)
Members 16 full and extraordinary members (March 2019)
Website www.playfaircode.at

The Austrian Association for the Protection of Integrity in Sport (VWIS) appears to the outside world under the Play Fair Code . The association's goal is to achieve sports competitions without match manipulation and betting fraud through prevention and awareness-raising.

founding

The Play Fair Code was founded in 2012 on the initiative of the Ministry of Sports (BMOEDS) , the Austrian Football Association and the Austrian Football League . The association is constituted as a non-profit organization.

tasks

The main task of the association is to carry out prevention training for athletes, referees, club and association officials. Since its inception, the Play Fair Code has reached around 15,000 (as of 2018) people in various sports disciplines (soccer, handball, skiing, ice hockey, basketball and tennis) with its training courses. In 2018, all clubs in Austria's two top football leagues and, for the first time, all clubs in Austria's two top basketball leagues received training. On behalf of UEFA, the Play Fair Code trains European youth national football teams on an ongoing basis within the framework of qualifying tournaments taking place in Austria.

The association maintains an ombudsman who can be reached around the clock by phone or email for the anonymous reporting of perceptions or for advice to affected persons.

According to its statutes, the Play Fair Code aims to prevent manipulation in sport, to create broad social awareness of integrity and fair sport, to create a sense of responsibility among all actors in the entire professional and amateur sport sector, to promote and implement information, and to educate , Training and advice on sport with integrity in public and in business, representation of issues relating to sport with integrity in cooperation with national and international sports organizations, sports associations, sports betting providers, other sports platforms and other specialist organizations, the preparation of studies and reports on the issue of integrity Sport and cooperation with authorities and public administration.

structure

Ordinary members

The full members are those who fully participate in the association's work of the Play Fair Code:

Associate members

Other members and partners in the Play Fair Code network are:

Betting provider

Board of Directors and Advisory Board

The Play Fair Code is run by a voluntary board chaired by Günter Kaltenbrunner . A voluntary advisory board chaired by Dietmar Hoscher has been appointed to consult on technical issues .

Other focal points

In addition to the tasks mentioned, the Play Fair Code also pursues other topics:

National platform

On June 2, 2016, the Council of Europe Convention on the Manipulation of Sports Competitions was signed by the then Federal Minister for Sport, Hans Peter Doskozil , as part of the international EPAS conference in Vienna , after the Council of Europe Convention on the Manipulation of Sports Competitions In January 2016 Austria decided to sign the Convention in the Council of Ministers. The aim of the convention on the manipulation of sports competitions is to prevent, detect and sanction betting fraud in sports and to further develop awareness-raising measures and training courses for athletes.

With the signing of the convention, the foundation for the establishment and design of a “national platform” in Austria was created. This is intended to promote national cooperation between the sports associations and the responsible authorities. The investigative and judicial authorities are also to be networked more closely and international coordination in the fight against match-fixing is to be further improved.

International expertise

The Play Fair Code is or was present on an international level in several areas:

  • As a member of the EU Expert Group Match-Fixing nominated by the Ministry of Sport .
  • As a cooperation partner of various Erasmus + funded EU projects (among others): "European Rookie Cup", "Fix the Fixing", "Anti Match-Fixing Top Training" and "Against Match Fixing".
  • As an expert partner in the IOC expert group "Match manipulation", at INTERPOL lectures or workshops and at UEFA or IIHF tournaments etc.

Awards

The Play Fair Code was awarded the European Fair Play Diploma 2014 by the European Fair Play Movement in Riga in 2014 for its activities.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Annual Report 2018 on the Play Fair Code website, accessed January 25, 2019
  2. ^ Association statutes on the Play Fair Code website, accessed on January 25, 2019
  3. ↑ Austrian Sports Betting Association (OSWV)
  4. ↑ Minister of Sport Doskozil signs convention against betting fraud
  5. ↑ 2014 European Fair Play Diploma (Organization) , accessed January 25, 2019