Federal Council wants to criminalize self-doping in sport
Published: Wednesday, Nov 29th 2023, 15:40
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The Federal Council wants athletes who engage in doping to face criminal proceedings. The penal provisions in the Sports Promotion Act are to be amended accordingly in favor of "ethical sport", as the Federal Council announced on Wednesday.
Today, the personal use of doping substances is not prosecuted. Athletes who are guilty of doping only have to fear sanctions from the sports system, such as a ban.
The Federal Council also wants to clarify the role of the Confederation and cantons in enforcing the Convention on the Rights of the Child in the area of sport. It is also analyzing whether the ethics and governance requirements, which have been regulated at ordinance level since March 2023, should be enshrined in law.
The Federal Council instructed the Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport (DDPS) to draw up a proposal by 2025. In addition to ethical elements, this should also include elements of sports promotion.
Rising demand leads to conflict
The Federal Council wants to further develop the promotion of sport in various areas. One element is sports facilities - the need for such infrastructure is increasing.
In the area of popular sports, both the increasing sporting activity of the population and the trend towards individual sports are leading to increasing conflicts of use and a growing need for public sports and exercise areas, additional sports halls or football pitches, writes the Federal Council.
It is therefore being examined whether the federal government should support innovative facilities for popular sports with investment contributions. For example, the federal government should be able to provide additional funding for snow sports camps by contributing to three to four decentralized winter sports centers instead of one national snow sports center.
The Youth+Sport (Y+S) funding program is also concerned with a possible lowering of the age limit from 5 to 4 years. The program should also be opened up to sports providers outside of traditional sports and youth clubs.
Money for sports facilities and major events
The Federal Council also wants to clarify whether federal funding is possible not only for one-off but also for recurring major sporting events as part of the drafting of the sports funding bill.
The federal government can already support major international sporting events such as the World or European Championships. Parliament already approved this option in June 2023 for events from 2025 to 2029. The revision of the law should now examine whether recurring major events with international appeal could also be supported financially in the future, it added.
A new legal basis is also being examined, according to which the operation - not just the construction, as was previously the case - of sports facilities of national importance should also be supported in future. This would entail an expansion of the National Sports Facilities Concept (Nasak).
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