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UEFA ORGANISATION: Committee work invaluable

In this article, which appears in the latest edition of the official publication uefadirect, UEFA President Michel Platini explains the importance of UEFA's various committees within the European body's activities.

/noticias.info/ During the last week in February, the House of European Football in Nyon saw a steady stream of UEFA committee meetings. For the most part, this was the first time that any new committees had convened since they were formed and embedded in the UEFA Statutes at the extraordinary Congress in Zurich last year.

Valuable resource
These consultative committees are an exceptionally valuable resource for the Executive Committee. Football nowadays affects so many incredibly vast domains that meetings of UEFA's executive body would be both endless and tiresome if the committees were not there to study matters relating to their areas of specialisation and to facilitate the executive's decision-making process by means of pertinent recommendations.

Strategy and direction
The work of the committees is all the more effective now that they are presided over by members of the Executive Committee who are fully abreast of the strategy and direction chosen by UEFA and are therefore in no danger of straying into futile discussions or losing focus.

Transparency and information
At the Congress in Zagreb, for the first time, the chairmen of the committees that had already held meetings presented their committees' areas of activity and tasks to the national association delegates. My wish was not only to pay homage to their work and underline the importance of these organs, but also to ensure that UEFA's activities were presented transparently and that information was communicated by the most direct means possible.

Sharing the benefits
It was also a deliberate choice to include all the presidents and general secretaries of UEFA's member associations in one or another of our committees, alongside other experts. After all, it is also the responsibility of those who manage football at national level to help stimulate the smooth running of international football and share the benefits of their experience. notas_de_prensa_archivo