NOTE
from: Presidency
to: Law Enforcement Working Party
Subject: Draft Council conclusions adopting the 2011-2013 work programme on further measures designed to maximise safety and security in connection with football matches with an international dimension
1. In recent years, high priority has been given to international governmental and police cooperation in respect of maximising safety and security in connection with football matches
with an international dimension.
2. A number of key measures are already in place, designed to maximise the impact of that cooperation.1 Although football-related problems may never be completely eliminated, these measures, for example, played a major part in helping to make the 2006 World Cup in Germany and the 2008 European Championship in Austria and Switzerland highly successful in terms of minimising the risk of significant violence and public disorder connected with the tournaments. (pdf at register.consilium.europa.eu)
