Municipal Sports Council

WHAT IS IT?

The Barcelona Municipal Sports Council is a forum where the various players and stakeholders from Barcelona’s sports sector meet and participate.
Barcelona's Municipal Sports Council is a sectoral consultative and participatory body pertaining to Barcelona City Council.
It is also an instrument for furthering the promotion of sport and physical activity in the city.

WHY?

The existence of the Municipal Sports Council is justified by the following aspects:

•   Because of sport's vital importance for life in the city.
•   Because thousands of Barcelona residents do sport every day in clubs, associations, facilities or simply in the city's streets and squares.
•   Because of the explicit wish of sports stakeholders to participate in the sport taking place in the Catalan capital.
•   In order to make the requests, problems and needs that affect various sports stakeholders in the city more visible, and to respond to them.

FUNCTIONS

•   To advise the municipal government on matters concerning sport and physical activities.
•   To participate in the design, evaluation and monitoring of sports plans, programmes and actions.
•   To participate in bringing Barcelona's Strategic Sports Plan up to date.
•   To participate in the definition of the Municipal Sports Facilities Map (MIEM in Catalan).
•   To acquire knowledge of municipal normative and regulatory projects that affect matters concerning sports policies and the physical activities practised by city residents.
•   To acquire knowledge of the municipal budget for sport.
•   To collaborate on the policy for fostering the practice of sport and the promotion of sport in the city.
•   To encourage the participation of organisations, bodies and individuals in doing sport in the city, proposing that they evaluate the most suitable means for using the city's existing sports facilities.
•   To provide support for the sports councils or participatory bodies that deal with sport in the city's districts.
•   To validate the proposals of the working groups whose creation is approved by the Municipal Sports Council, in accordance with what this regulation determines.
•   To hold extended informative sessions, aimed at groups concerned with specific subjects, in order to provide information about these matters and to hear opinions.
•   All functions that are complementary to the above and those commissioned by the Chair of the Barcelona Municipal Sports Council.
•   To remit an annual report to the City Council and to its corresponding Plenary Committee.

STRUCTURE

Barcelona's Municipal Sports Council is made up of the following bodies and participation forums:
The Full Council: the Municipal Sports Council's highest representational body. It meets at least twice a year. It is made up of representatives from the city’s various sports stakeholders.
The Chair: presides over the Municipal Sports Council.
The deputy chairs: the Council has two deputy chairs: the First Deputy Chair, proposed by the sports clubs, associations and organisations that are members of the Full Council, and the second proposed by the Chair of the Municipal Sports Council.
The Standing Committee: gives continuity to the Full Council and is the body in charge of producing proposed rulings and reports on matters that are the responsibility of the Full Council, for its approval, as well as those it may delegate. It normally meets at least once every three months. It is made up of a small number of Full Council members, representing the various individuals, political representatives, institutions, clubs, organisations, associations, federations, professional associations and municipal specialists that comprise the Council.
The Secretary: exercised by a municipal specialist designated by the Chair from among the municipal technical staff working in the area of sport. Their function is to attend the sessions, where they have a voice but not a vote, with the following aims:

-   To advise all Council members on all subjects relating to the Council's goals and responsibilities and to provide them with technical support.
-   To coordinate the mechanisms that ensure communication, coordination and relations with other municipal dependencies.
-   To call the sessions, by order of the Chair.
-   To take minutes of the sessions and issue certificates for the agreements adopted with the approval of the Chair.
-   To safeguard and archive the minutes.
-   To carry out the necessary communication actions.
-   To comply with all other functions inherent in the post.
-   To ensure the proper functioning of the working groups or committees.

Working groups: given the Council's diversity of functions and fields of action, and in order to achieve better performance, temporary working groups may be formed concerning various subjects that need to be studied or evaluated, and to present the results of their studies and reports to the Standing Committee, which will then inform the Full Municipal Sports Council. When they are created, each working group or committee establishes its own composition (with members of the Full Council or external people), as well as its purposes. Each working group also establishes its session regime and its operational system, according to the goals it must achieve.
Composition pending renewal

Chairperson

Two deputy chairpersons

One councillor from each of the political groups represented on the City Council

President of the Institut Barcelona

The sector sports councils of the districts that are established

Barcelona School Sports Council (CEEB)

Sports Federation Union of Catalonia (UFEC)

Up to five Catalan sports federations

One entity working to promote sport for people with functional diversity

Up to 30 clubs, associations and sports organisations

Two organisations, federations or companies managing public sports facilities in Barcelona

Two organisations, companies, federations managing commercial private sports facilities in Barcelona

One club or sports organisation that owns sports facilities located in Barcelona

Federation of Parents' Associations of Free Schools of Catalonia (FAPEL)

Christian Association of Parents' Associations of Catalonia (CCAPAC)

Association of Parents of Secondary School Students of Barcelona (FAPAES)

Federated Associations of Families of Pupils of Catalonia (aFFaC)

Up to four educational centres or universities offering university degrees in sport and physical activity

Up to 15 people who are experts or with recognised standing in the field of sport and physical activity

The 10 district sports councillors

Barcelona Advisory Council for the Elderly (CAGG)

Barcelona Women's Council

Municipal Immigration Council

Municipal Council of Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals, Bisexuals and Intersex

Youth Council

Tourism and City Council

Barcelona Public Health Agency (ASPB)

Official Association of Physical Exercise and Sports Professionals of Catalonia (COPLEFC)

Official Association of Doctors of Barcelona

Official Association of Architects of Catalonia

Official Association of Journalists of Catalonia

Official Bar Association of Barcelona

Official Association of Economists of Barcelona

Up to three sports clubs and organisations with a great sport relevance for the city in terms of their history, size or contribution to the cohesion or presence of the city

Secretary of the Council