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1. Each Party shall encourage sports organisations and competition organisers to adopt and implement rules to combat the manipulation of sports competitions as well as principles of good governance, related, inter alia, to:
a) prevention of conflicts of interest, including: – prohibiting competition stakeholders from betting on sports competitions in which they are involved;
– prohibiting the misuse or dissemination of inside information;
– prohibiting competition stakeholders from betting on sports competitions in which they are involved;
– prohibiting the misuse or dissemination of inside information;
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 competitions and 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.