The Culture and Education Committee approved a draft resolution in which suggests to initiate strict, even penal, measures, against doping, match-fixing and violence in sports stadia. The text on the European dimension of sport stresses the urgent need to protect the integrity of all sports matches, and says that doping, match-fixing, illegal betting, money laundering in connection with professional sport and violence in stadia should be made criminal offences.

The draft resolution approved by the Culture and Education Committed suggests that the EU should initiate strict, even penal, measures, against doping, match-fixing and violence in sports stadia. Combating violence in sport is already one priority for the EU as shows the grants awarded by the Commission to twelve trans-national projects. MEPs also propose an EU data base listing people banned from stadia in order to help Member States to share information exchange on hooligans, and to enforce these bans for international matches played on their territory. The Commission already has a specific website for sport in the EU.

According to MEPs, the profession of sports agents should be also regulated and subject to minimum qualifications granted by a higher education establishment. In the interests of transparency, their fiscal residence should be within EU territory which also proposes setting up a European register of players for whom agents work and the remuneration received. MEPs also call for more transparency in international transfers of players, and urge clubs to abide by immigration laws when recruiting young players from third countries.

In addition, the text approved by the Culture Committee stresses the need to draw up measures to facilitate athletes' access to specific higher studies and suggest that their practical experience be taken into account if they apply to become trainers. According to MEPs, this could avoid sometimes disastrous precarity at the end of their careers.