launch a study on hosting major sport events in multiple EU countries and regions, taking into account possible administrative and legislative obstacles at national and EU level and the expected impacts of such events.

These networks also seek to strengthen the administrative capacity of sport organisations and to increase the competitive level of sport in Europe.

In Joined Cases C-316/07, C-358/07 to C-360/07, C-409/07 and C-410/07, the Verwaltungsgerichte (Administrative Courts) of Giessen and Stuttgart have to resolve disputes between, on the one hand, intermediaries for sporting bets and, on the other, the German authorities, which have prohibited those intermediaries from offering in the Länder of Hessen and Baden-Württemberg sporting bets organised by the Austrian undertakings Happybet Sportwetten and Web.coin, the Maltese undertaking Tipico, the British company Happy Bet and the Digibet ...[+++]company established in Gibraltar.

Sport within such a structure generally entails that, for practical, organisational or administrative reasons, the individual does not himself organise the services which are essential to participation in the sport, but that the club organises and puts those services in place, as, for example, the provision of a pitch or referee. Thus, if the exemption were interpreted as meaning that it requires that the services be supplied to natural persons taking part in sport in a sports club, the result would be that a large number of supplies of services would be automatically and ine ...[+++]vitably excluded from the benefit of that exemption.

The Governments of the Member States and the European Commission were represented as follows: Belgium: Mr Luc CARBONEZ Deputy Permanent Representative Denmark: Mr Ole VIG JENSEN Minister for Education Germany: Mr Willi HAUSMANN State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Women and Youth Greece: Ms Eleni STEPHANOU State Secretary for Education and Religious Affairs Spain: Mr Javier VALERO State Secretary, Ministry of Social Affairs France: Mrs Michèle ALLIOT-MARIE Minister for Youth and Sport Ireland: Mr John F. COGAN Deputy Permanent Representative Italy: Mr Roberto ROSSI Deputy Permanent Representative Luxembourg: Mr Alex BODRY Minister for Yo ...[+++]uth Austria: Ms Sonja MOSER Minister for Youth and the Family Netherlands: Mr Lambert J. HANRATH Deputy Permanent Representative Portugal: Ms Maria de Céu BAPTISTA RAMOS State Secretary for Youth Finland: Mr Jan STORE Deputy Permanent Representative Sweden: Mrs Marita ULVSKOG Minister for Public Administration United Kingdom: Mr David BOSTOCK Deputy Permanent Representative Commission: Ms Edith CRESSON Member COOPERATION IN THE FIELD OF YOUTH INFORMATION AND STUDIES CONCERNING YOUTH The Council approved the following Resolution, which will be formally adopted at a future meeting after linguistic finalization in Finnish and Swedish: "1.

The financial resources available for this purpose, within the limit stipulated, will meet the following requirements as evaluated by the Administrator of the town of Mostar: (i) aid for the building sector, rehabilitation of badly damaged housing and demolition of irreparably damaged constructions; (ii) utilities (energy, water and sewage system, postal and telecommunications services, rubbish collection); (iii) support for the economic sector; (iv) transport (infrastructure and equipment); (v) health and social services; (vi) e ...[+++]ducation, culture and sport; (vii) strengthening the municipal administration (including unified police); (viii) reinsertion of displaced persons; (ix) operating expenditure and ordinary expenses of the administration.