Promotion of good governance in sport - Recommendation CM/Rec(2018)12 and explanatory memorandum (2019)

Corruption, doping, manipulation of sports competitions: how to preserve the ethics of sport?

Deficiencies in the governance of sports organisations are hindering their capacity to prevent and respond to threats to the integrity of sport, such as corruption, doping and manipulation of sports competitions, and are creating an uncertain, unsafe and unfair working environment for athletes and other participants in sport. Good governance in sport is needed to preserve sports ethics and to ensure that sport organisations live up to their responsibilities.

The Recommendation CM/Rec(2018)12 concerns those aspects of the activities of governments and national umbrella sports organisations which can improve the governance of sports organisations and limit opportunities for corruption in sport.