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EURO-MEI (the Media, Entertainment, Arts and Sports sector of UNI europa) and EASE (the European Association of Sport Employers) took concrete steps towards European Sectoral Social Dialogue (ESSD) for the Sport sector at the occasion of the Conference on Health & Safety in the Sport Sector in the framework of the CC-project (Content and Contact: Moving forward towards European social dialogue in the sport sector).



This meeting was held in Lisbon on 1st and 2nd April 2009 and hadas its theme Health & Safety in the sport sector in its broadest sense. The T.M.C. Asser Institute (Netherlands) presented their study into this topic undertaken with EU funds from the CC_Project and the results were discussed in-depth.The conclusions of these discussions were written into a joint statement by EURO-MEI and EASE, which would be the second document negotiated and agreed by the European social partners for the sport sector after their mutual recognition in February 2008 at the Final Conference of the RBT-Project.

For more information on the RBT project, click here for the Final Communication or here for the Leaflet in 10 languages.



The next step will be the filling out of the EC questionnaire on representativesness by EURO-MEI/UNI europa and EASE to offiially establish a European Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee for the Sport sector.



For more information on the CC-project project please click here.