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EU: FOOTBALL: Council of the European Union: Evaluation report concerning security in connection with football matches with an international dimension

01 May 2010

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Evaluation report on the degree of implementation of Council Decision 2007/412/JHA amending Decision 2002/348/JHA concerning security in connection with football matches with an international dimension (pdf). Across the EU National Football Information Points (NFIP) have accessed to, and exchange, personal data on football supporters who pose a "risk". For example, the UK is one of 11 EU states which has a "database on risk supporters". This may sound simple but there are major differences about who is a "risk" (excluding those who have been convicted of a violent offence) - in some EU states football exclusion orders from local grounds are civil offences in others criminal offences. In the UK there are Football Banning Orders (FBOs), stopping travel to matches in another country, those convicted of violent offences and those coming under "anti-social behaviour".

See: Football Handbook (pdf): Defines: "A person, known or not, who can be regarded as posing a possible risk to public order or anti social behaviour, whether planned or spontaneous, at or in connection with a football event" Point 4.7 ask for information on fans' "Reactions to decisions of the referee" and 6.8 asks for information on fans' "political way of thinking."

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