UEFA Guidelines

There has been a lot of talk recently about Poland and Ukraine not being able to manage to comply with UEFA guidelines for the Euro 2012. Here is a list of requirements UEFA has established as part of the application process. UEFA is expecting each host country to address the following guiding principles during their preparations for the Euro. They range from organizing the tournament and providing security, to ensuring support from local and federal governments.

Finance: Each country must ensure that it has the financial support from its local and federal governments to stage the tournament.

Copyrights: Each country has the obligation to guarantee and enforce UEFA copyrights, such as broadcasting rights and rights to use the logo.

Revenues: Each country must establish regulations related to taxation of the revenues from the tournament. Each country also has to create ways to deal with work permits and taxation of technical staff involved in the organization of the tournament.

Security: Each country has to have a concept related to safety and security of the event and ensure secure border traffic. In addition, the countries have to ensure secure ticket distribution according to UEFA guidelines.

Accommodation and facilities: The countries have to have existing or planned and financially guaranteed 2-star, 3-star, 4-star and 5-star hotels within 20km of the city center, officially qualifying training facilities for the teams, accredited anti-doping control laboratories and facilities for doctors and UEFA staff.

Venues: Each country has to have either existing stadiums or financially guaranteed new stadium concepts that are in compliance with UEFA requirements: adequate floodlighting systems, stadium access systems, crowd monitoring and control systems, technical rooms, administrative rooms, press conference rooms, media working area, photographers’ working area and hospitality areas.

Experience: Each country has to present the experience of host cities in the organization of large-scale events.

Infrastructure: Each country has to provide airports and transportation infrastructure in host cities that will ensure adequate public transport between the airport, the main train and bus stations, the fan zones, the stadiums and other relevant sites.