A reference document to strengthen the integrity of sport
AFNOR publishes AFNOR SPEC S50-020, a practical guide designed to strengthen the integrity of sport and the good governance of sports organizations.
French reference document,
AFNOR Spec S50-020
is a practical guide designed to reinforce the integrity of sport and the good governance of sports organizations, and thus support the transformation already underway in the sports movement. Supported by the French Ministry of Sport, the guide was produced with contributions from some forty representatives of public authorities, the federal sports movement, national prevention associations and the private sector. It was presented on July 8, 2021 at the AFNOR offices in Paris, in the presence of the contributors and Sports Minister Roxana Maracineanu (center in photo).
A future ISO standard?
It includes methodological recommendations and is a toolbox proposing actions to be deployed on the human, organizational and economic dimensions for all players in professional and amateur sport. Sport must assert its principles: justice, ethics, integrity, respect, fair play, honesty and transparency. This reference framework sets out guidelines for reinforcing ethics and integrity in three main areas:
- ethics and integrity in sports organizations
- ethics and integrity in sports competitions
- ethics and personal integrity
Through recommendations for action and evaluation criteria, the aim of this practical guide is to offer a methodology for consolidating confidence in sport and developing its social and societal impact. Like AFNOR SPEC X30-020 on equality between women and men, its ambition is to be taken to the international level, in the form of a future voluntary ISO standard, in the dynamic of the organization of the Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games in Paris in 2024. This is one of the 170 measures in the legacy plan unveiled by the French government for the 2024 Games, which will be put into practice almost three years before they take place.
