Social and Environmental Sustainability Committee

1. The Social and Environmental Sustainability Committee:

a) proposes UEFA's football-related social responsibility policy and activities for the following target groups: UEFA member associations, leagues, clubs, club officials, players, referees, supporters, non-governmental organisations and media;

b) proposes public relations campaigns to promote the notion of respect in European football;

c) proposes amendments to the rules governing the respect fair play assessment;

d) proposes, on UEFA's behalf, nominees for the annual FIFA fair play award;

e) deals with all matters of ethics, fair play and social responsibility relating to UEFA and football in Europe.

 2. The Social and Environmental Sustainability Committee adopts specific guidelines governing the allocation of funds to UEFA's member associations and other organisations in the context of football-related social responsibility on the basis of the following principles:

a) it allocates the social responsibility budget, as fixed annually by the UEFA Executive Committee, in the following three categories:

i. Monaco charity award,
ii. core and ad hoc social responsibility partnerships,
iii. UEFA's member associations struck by natural disasters;

b) it has full discretion to allocate amounts to each of these three categories and shift allocations between categories during the financial year, within the given budget;

c) it ensures, through close collaboration with the UEFA HatTrick Committee and the UEFA administration, that there is no overlap or competition with projects falling under the UEFA HatTrick programme;

d) it has the autonomy to decide on a case by case basis on the allocation of available funds to UEFA member associations struck by natural disasters;

e) it may, in exceptional circumstances or due to a high frequency of natural disasters within the same year, submit a well-founded additional budget request through the UEFA Finance Committee to the UEFA Executive Committee for approval.