SPORT 1913 - 2013

nally consulted IOC President Rogge and SportAccord President Verbruggen with a view to gaining their support in this delicate matter. Both Presidents understood well and signalled the willingness to negotiate and ex- pressed their support. In the following meetings a compromise was found. The special circumstances of the CSIT – dealing with workers and pure ama- teurs on the one hand and the limited finan- cial equipment of the CSIT on the other hand – resulted in a special CSIT Anti-Doping Poli- cy that both supported all efforts for a clean worldwide sport and respected the needs of the CSIT. The CSIT Congress in Rio de Janeiro, Bra- zil held in October 2011 passed basic legisla- tion; the CSIT Anti-Doping Policy grounded on a structural acceptance of being WADA Code compliant with the liberty to select some kinds of competitive sports withmedal awards and only a few persons to be tested. From that date, all the CSIT member unions agreed to inform all participants in CSIT champion- ships and CSIT World Sports Games about the actual Prohibited List, the Anti-Doping List of prohibited substances and to show this duty of information and acceptance by signed agreement with each single participant. Ther- apeutic Use Exemptions were offered to those athletes that prove the need for special medi- cation. A new chapter in the Workers Sport Movement had begun. The need to install an Anti-Doping Commission as well as legal and medical advisers, a jury and other structures

cooperation in matters of sports, tolerance and fair-play (EFPM – CSIT 2010). The support of the aims and goals of both organisations was agreed. An important matter for the CSIT was the close cooperation with an institution that could help to sensitise its own members to the importance of the ethical and cultural values of sports. The CSIT started to help to promote the strengthening of fair play, toler- ance, peace and understanding through and in sports. Most of the member unions of the EFPM come from the Olympic Movement, being the National Olympic Committees. Exceptions are few, only from Denmark, where the Danish Soccer Federation represents the NOC; from Austria, where ASKÖ, the Austrian Workers and Amateurs in Sports Association repre- sents the NOC and since 2011 from Finland, where TUL took the responsibility as the Finn- ish Workers Sport Federation. Negotiations between the EFPM and the SATUS might fi- nally lead to another official national repre- sentation of a worker sport organisation, in this case from Switzerland. In the preparation of the 3 rd CSIT World Sports Games the EFPM took a role as an or- ganiser and provider of ethical content for several seminars and workshops to be held during the Games in Varna in June 2013. A close link to the Young Leaders Working Group of CSIT would allow the implementation of ethical values in sports in the education of the future leadership of CSIT (Young leaders working group report 2011).

within the CSIT resulted in rewriting and adapting the general regulations and the stat- utes that were finally approved at the 2011 Congress. This determination to eradicate un- healthy and unethical practices has been part of a worldwide effort to protect the integrity of sport and to permit athletes to compete fairly in an atmosphere free of cheats. The CSIT Congress was proud to play a role in this global fight. Support Fair Play with the EFPM The European Fair-Play Movement (EFPM) is a non-governmental association joined by the national Fair Play organisations of the major- ity of European countries. Its main aim is the promotion of the ethical values of sports in the broadest sense, in sport activities and in daily life at a European level. Founded in 1994, the years of EFPM have signified a period of growth and recognition – growth in the num- ber of national Fair Play organisations affili- ated to EFPM (14 in 1994, 29 in 2000 and 40 in 2012); growth in the number of organisations and institutions with which the EFPM estab- lished permanent contacts or in some cases specific “joint ventures”, and growth in the number of events to which the EFPM is invit- ed to play an active role. During the 16 th EFPMCongress in Prague, held in October 2010 EFPM President Carlos Gonsalves from Portugal and the Austrian CSIT President Harald Bauer signed a joint venture declaration to officially declare their

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