Translation of "sports centre " (English → French) :

Doping is a growing problem in recreational sport, competitive amateur sport, fitness centres and even beyond the sporting sphere.

The Commission’s White Paper on Sport of 11 July 2007 which called on all actors with a responsibility for public health to take the health risk aspects of doping into account, and the Commission’s Communication of 18 January 2011 on Developing the European Dimension in Sport , which stated that doping remains an important threat to sport and that use of doping substances by amateur athletes poses serious public health hazards and calls for preventive action, including in fitness centres,

EU Member States recognise that doping in recreational sport and recreational sport environments such as fitness centres is a problem across the EU which affects young people in particular and poses a threat to the health of individual doping users and to people in the doping users’ immediate environment.

(Return tabled) Question No. 250 Mr. Thomas Mulcair: With respect to newly implemented tax credits: (a) what was the anticipated cost of the public transit tax credit measure prior to its implementation and how many Canadian transit users, by urban centre, were expected to file for this credit; (b) since its inception, on an annual basis, what has been the cost of implementing the public transit tax credit and how many Canadian transit users, by urban centre, have filed for this credit; (c) what would be the costs of extending the public transit tax credit to users who pay for their transit on a basis other than with a monthly travel p ...[+++]ass (i.e. on a daily or weekly basis, or by buying blocks of transit chits); (d) by what margin was transit ridership expected to increase with the implementation of this tax credit, by urban area and on an annual basis; (e) since the inception of this credit, how much has ridership increased or decreased, by urban area and on an annual basis; (f) what was the anticipated cost of the tax credit to promote physical fitness among children prior to its implementation; (g) how many Canadian families, by urban centre, were expected to file for this credit; (h) since its inception, on an annual basis, what has been the cost of implementing this tax credit; (i) how many Canadian families, by urban centre, have filed for this credit; (j) under existing regulations what length of time must a sports program be in operation for a family to be eligible for the tax credit; (k) what would be the costs of extending this credit to families who enroll children in sports programs whose duration is for two weeks or longer; and (l) since its implementation, what are the sports, by category that have most and least been utilized under this tax credit?

Following the informal meeting of sports ministers and the joint sport and education troika in the Hague on 1-2 December, the players involved in the European Year of Education through Sport 2004 are meeting today and tomorrow for a closing ceremony at the Papendal Sports Centre in the Netherlands.

47% of those interviewed say they do not practise their sport in a club, a fitness centre, a sports centre or at school or university. Less than a quarter (23%) of the persons interviewed having stated that they practise an activity do so in a club, with the Netherlands emerging (with 43%) as the country in which clubs take in most sportsmen and sportswomen.