1. Sport and Gambling: - After the Green Paper Mr Harri SYVÄSALMI Director, Sports Division

2. Actions in the EU Council of Sport Ministers
The Sports Article 165 and the new competence
Council meeting in May: the first Council Work Programme for sports
Informal ministerial meetings
Special attention to match-fixing issues:
- a brand new expert group on Good Governance issues
- aiming to develop suitable measures for EU to combat match-fixing
Council of Europe /EPAS: preparations towards an international convention on Match-fixing and integrity of Sports
The Role of the States? The Competence of EU – to be defined

3. Also the Sports Movement has the responsibility
IOC Joint Declaration, 1 March 2011; Need to protect the integrity of sports competition by combating irregular and illegal betting
June 2011 meeting groups of experts was decided to be formed to flesh out objectives :
Education
Monitoring, intelligence and analysis
Legislation and regulations
New form of cooperation between the sports movement and the governments, public authorities and betting operators
4. Similarities to antidoping cooperation

4. Case Finland: LOTTERY FUNDS DISTRIBUTION
The proceeds of the National Lottery "Veikkaus" are entered as income to the Ministry of Education
Budgetary decision-making: Finnish Parliament
Proceeds distributed via the Ministry of Education and Culture for the beneficiaries
according the law on distribution:
- to the arts (38,5 %), to sports (25 %), to research (17,5 %) and youth work (9 %).
the Lottery funds cover 98 % of all the financing granted by the Ministry of Education to the Finnish sports

5. State Sports Budget 2011 State sports budget, total 143 883 000
Lottery means by Veikkaus
2011 (€)
Municipalities
Sports facilities
Sports institutes
Sports organisations (incl. new Local Support)
Children's and Youth's Sports Programme
HEPA Programme
Top Sport Development Programme
Sports education, research and knowledge management
Antidoping activities
International co-operation
Provinces
National Sports Council
Others
Sports institutes support from regular budgetary means
State sports budget, total

6. Challenge: to develop the structures of the sport organisations to correspond the economical significance of the sport sector
-> Good Governance
-> Safeguard the integrity of sport