Funds, measures and decision -making structures for the organization of a series of major sporting events, from the Milan -Cortine Winter Olympic Games to the American Cup, from the ATP Finals to the Mediterranean Games to the European UEFA 2032 football championship. With an important role – and highly contested by the opposition – for the participatory company Sport and Health. But also the extension to all (and no longer only to minors) of the compulsory helmets on the snow and rules to combat the phenomenon of illegal sports betting, the so -called Match Fixing. And more resources for a series of scholarships for students for sporting merits (a maximum of 5 thousand euros should arrive this year). These are some of the measures of the sport decree definitively approved in the Chamber.
The provision has greatly discussed the arm wrestling behind the scenes between government and hill on a series of rules introduced during conversion and put in the sight as not urgent or dysomogeneous with respect to the provision. In the end, in the second reading at Palazzo Madama, the executive was forced to overdo three measures: two concerning the commission for the control of the accounts of the professional sports clubs of football and basketball and one, the most discussed, concerning the management, by sport and health, of major events with state contributions over 5 million. Rules that the government promises, however, to re -re -enter a subsequent bill. The text focuses, in particular, on a series of expenditure authorizations for different needs required by the big events in question. Article 1 on Milan-Cortina regulates “the assignment and use of the frequencies to be used for the transmission of the Olympic and Paralympic winter games” and provides for an authorization of spending of over one billion in two years for the supervisory and control of radioi-electric frequencies.
The allocation of 30 million euros arrives to ensure public safety and rescue measures during the course of tenders and an authorization of expenditure in favor of the Municipality of Milan for the functionality of the Arena Pala Italia S. Giulià. And again: as regards the American Cup of Naples 2027, the organization and all the activities functional to the realization of the event with a allocation of 7.5 million are entrusted to Sport and Health. The five representatives of the host country in the event technical management committee are expressed by the Government (3), 1 by the Sport and Health Company and 1 by the Municipality of Naples. Controversy for the no to the opposition amendments that asked for the presence of a representative of the Campania Region in the Committee. Article 8 allocates to the new organizing committee of the 20th edition of the Mediterranean Games of Taranto 2026 a share of up to 25 million euros of the excess of the tax revenue intended for the financing of the national sports movement. This committee will also use Sport and Health Society of the Company. The provision also defines the ATP 2026-2030 Committee for: a representative appointed by the political authority competent in the field of sport; a representative appointed by the mayor of the host city; a representative appointed by the president of the host region; a representative of the Italian Tennis and Padel Federation; A representative of Sport and Health Spa. An extraordinary commissioner for stadiums arrives in view of Euro 2032. Rules also for equality: in the governance of events, the presence of both genres must be respected and guaranteed “.