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FESI to set up integrity code of conduct for sporting goods industry

10/11/2016
European sporting goods manufacturers’ representative body FESI has said it is taking the question of sporting integrity very seriously. At its 2016 general assembly in Rome on November 17 and 18, the organisation intends to open a new workstream on sporting integrity and make it a top priority in the new three-year plan for FESI that emerges from that event.

Speaking to sportstextiles.com ahead of the general assembly, FESI secretary general, Alberto Bichi, said scandals that have emerged in recent years over the behaviour of a number of sports governing bodies have had an impact on the sporting goods industry, not least because FESI members feature among the sponsors of some of the organisations involved and want to be sure the money they invest is well spent.

“We are tackling this,” Mr Bichi said. He pointed out that work FESI partner organisation the International Centre for Sports and Security (ICSS) has already done in establishing the Sporting Integrity Global Alliance will feed into FESI’s new workstream. “It will allow us to establish a behavioural standard, a code of conduct,” Mr Bichi added.

ICSS secured the support of 70 industry members in establishing the new alliance at a meeting in Madrid in October 2016.


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