Comment: Spectacular statements at this week’s EU Sport Forum in Budapest may influence the outcome of next week’s IOC symposium on irregular betting and match-fixing. IOC Honorary member Tamás Aján and WADA Director General David Howman called for rapid action against not only match-fixing, but all forms of corruption in sport. Play the Game was present in Budapest and in the following comment, Jens Sejer Andersen, International Director asks if the IOC will bring spring to sport or let the melt-down continue.

Sports organisations are not capable of dealing with issues threatening the integrity of sport alone, WADA Director General David Howman states and calls for the establishment of a World Sports Integrity Agency.

In the wake of the corruption allegations that clouded the FIFA World Cup elections in December last year, Swiss politicians now want to put pressure on the sports federations currently enjoying tax exemptions and other fiscal advantages residing in Switzerland.

Crikey! There is so much stuff coming in about sports corruption this week it is difficult to sort it all out.

The current vote-selling scandal has put FIFA corruption on the agenda. "There is not much to be surprised about if you follow FIFA's actions on a regular basis" said Jens Sejer Andersen, International Director at Play the Game, on Monday in an interview with World Radio Switzerland.

Knowledge bank: Presentation by Jens Sejer Andersen held at the UCSIA international workshop 'Sports, A Matter of Peace?' on FIFA, the ISL scandal and the need for an anti-corruption agency in sport.

Last week, the European ministers of sport passed a unanimous resolution to ask the Council of Europe to help set up an international agency to fight corruption in sport.

In this speech to the conference 'Play Fair with Sport' held at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg on 29 September 2006, director of Play the Game Jens Sejer Andersen suggests that the international communiy founds a “Global Coalition for Good Governance in Sport" to fight the growing problem of corruption in sport. The new body should be organised along the lines of the World Anti-Doping Agency.