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b compliance by sports organisations and their affiliated members with all their contractual or other obligations;

c the requirement for competition stakeholders to report immediately any suspicious activity, incident, incentive

or approach which could be considered an infringement of the rules against the manipulation of sports competitions.

2. Each Party shall encourage sports organisations to adopt and implement the appropriate measures in order

to ensure:

a enhanced and effective monitoring of the course of sports competitions exposed to the risks of manipulation;

b arrangements to report without delay instances of suspicious activity linked to the manipulation of sports

competitions to the relevant public authorities or national platform;

c effective mechanisms to facilitate the disclosure of any information concerning potential or actual cases of

manipulation of sports competitions, including adequate protection for whistle blowers;

d awareness among competition stakeholders including young athletes of the risk of manipulation of sports

competitionsand the efforts to combat it, through education, training and the dissemination of information;

e the appointment of relevant officials for a sports competition, in particular judges and referees, at the latest

possible stage.

3. Each Party shall encourage its sports organisations, and through them the international sports organisations

to apply specific, effective, proportionate and dissuasive disciplinary sanctions and measures to infringements of

their internal rules against the manipulation of sports competitions, in particular those referred to in paragraph 1 of

this article, as well as to ensure mutual recognition and enforcement of sanctions imposed by other sports

organisations, notably in other countries.

4. Disciplinary liability established by sports organisations shall not exclude any criminal, civil or administrative

liability.

Article 8 – Measures regarding the financing of sports organisations

1 Each Party shall adopt such legislative or other measures as may be necessary to ensure appropriate

transparency regarding the funding of sports organisations that are financially supported by the Party.

2 Each Party shall consider the possibility of helping sports organisations to combat the manipulation of sports

competitions, including by funding appropriate mechanisms.

3 Each Party shall where necessary consider withholding financial support or inviting sports organisations to

withhold financial support from competition stakeholders sanctioned for manipulatingsports competitions, for the

duration of the sanction.

4 Where appropriate, each Party shall take steps to withhold some or all financial or other sport-related support

from any sports organisations that do not effectively apply regulations for combating manipulation of sports

competitions.

Article 9 – Measures regarding the betting regulatory authority or other responsible authority or

authorities

1 Each Party shall identify one or more responsible authorities, which in the Party’s legal order are entrusted

with the implementation of sports betting regulation and with the application of relevant measures to combat the

manipulation of sports competitions in relation to sports betting,including, where appropriate:

a the exchange of information, in a timely manner, with other relevant authorities or a national platform for

illegal, irregular or suspicious sports betting as well as infringements of the regulations referred to or established in

accordance with this Convention;

b the limitation of the supply of sports betting, following consultation with the national sports organisations and

sports betting operators, particularly excluding sports competitions:

– which are designed for those under the age of 18; or

– where the organisational conditions and/or stakes in sporting terms are inadequate;