STANDING COMMITTEE (T-RV) EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON SPECTATOR VIOLENCE AND MISBEHAVIOUR AT SPORT EVENTS AND IN PARTICULAR AT FOOTBALL MATCHES Strasbourg, 6 September 2019 T-RV(2019)16 FINAL Report of the consultative visit to Bilbao (Spain) host city for UEFA EURO 2020 Bilbao (Spain), 10-11 February 2019 Adopted by written procedure T-RV(2019)16 FINAL Table of Contents PART 1 - National report of Spain ..................................................................................................... 4 1. Legal framework .......................................................................................................................... 5 1.1. Overview ................................................................................................................................ 5 1.2. Sports ...................................................................................................................................... 5 2. National structure ....................................................................................................................... 10 3. Review of incidents ..................................................................................................................... 13 4. Checklist ...................................................................................................................................... 15 PART 2 - Report by the visiting team ............................................................................................... 16 Section A - Executive Summary .................................................................................................... 17 Section B - Visit Background and Explanation............................................................................ 20 B.1 Structure of the report ........................................................................................................... 20 B.2 Purpose of the visit ............................................................................................................... 21 B.3 Visit itinerary ....................................................................................................................... 23 B.4 Council of Europe delegation............................................................................................... 24 B.5 Supporting documentation ................................................................................................... 24 B.6 Status of the report ................................................................................................................ 24 Section C - UEFA EURO 2020 - Safety and Security Preparations .......................................... 25 C.1 Background information ...................................................................................................... 25 C.2 Integrated approach to safety, security and service.............................................................. 25 C.3 Strategic co-ordination ......................................................................................................... 27 C.4 Legislative and regulatory framework ................................................................................. 27 C.5 Match observation ................................................................................................................ 28 UEFA EURO 2020 - Security ........................................................................................................ 30 C.6 Policing UEFA EURO 2020 ................................................................................................ 30 1. Basque Police (Ertzaintza) ................................................................................................ 30 2. Bilbao Local Police ........................................................................................................... 32 C.7 International police co-operation ......................................................................................... 35 2 T-RV(2019)16 FINAL C.8 Counter-terrorism ................................................................................................................. 36 UEFA EURO 2020 - Safety ............................................................................................................ 36 C.9 Safety inside the stadium ..................................................................................................... 36 C.10 Stadium safety management .............................................................................................. 38 C.11 Contingency and emergency planning ............................................................................... 40 1. Regional level ................................................................................................................... 40 2. Local level ........................................................................................................................ 41 C.12 Entry and searching arrangements ..................................................................................... 42 UEFA EURO 2020 - Service .......................................................................................................... 44 C.13 Supporter liaison ................................................................................................................ 44 C.14 Fan zones (organised and spontaneous) ............................................................................. 47 C.15 Community engagement .................................................................................................... 49 C.16 Racism and other types of discrimination .......................................................................... 50 C.17 Tournament Media and Communication Strategy ............................................................ 51 C.18 Inclusiveness ..................................................................................................................... 51 Section D - Concluding remarks and Draft Action Plan ............................................................. 52 D.1 Concluding remarks ............................................................................................................. 52 D.2 Draft Action Plan ................................................................................................................. 53 D.3 Follow-up of visit: tools available at the European-wide level ............................................ 62 1. Council of Europe ............................................................................................................... 62 2. UEFA ................................................................................................................................. 62 3. European Union .................................................................................................................. 62 4. European supporters’ associations ...................................................................................... 63 Appendix A – Saint-Denis Convention – Policy articles ............................................................ 64 Appendix B - Programme of the visit by the Standing Committee ............................................ 68 PART 3 - Comments by Bilbao authorities ...................................................................................... 69 1. Comments on Part 1: Spain’s national report ............................................................................... 70 2. Comments on Part 2: Report of the Council of Europe team ....................................................... 71 3 T-RV(2019)16 FINAL PART 1 National report of Spain (Prepared by the Spanish NFIP) 4 T-RV(2019)16 FINAL SPANISH NATIONAL REPORT DATE: 21-02-2019 1. Legal framework 1.1. Overview First of all, we would like to mention that Spain has signed the new Convention on an Integrated Safety, Security and Service approach at Football Matches and other Sports events, which was open for signature in Saint-Dennis (France) in July 2016. Spain has already finished the procedure of ratifying the new Convention and will deposit the instrument of ratification on 2019. The Spanish legal system has on the top the Constitution of 1978. The Kingdom of Spain is a social and democratic state of law that regards freedom, justice, equality and political pluralism as superior values. It also regards the parliamentary monarchy as the State political form, by clearly defining the distribution of powers between the executive, legislative and judicial powers, being the King the Head of the Spanish State. Spain is based on the indissoluble unity of the nation, recognizing and guaranteeing the autonomy of nationalities and regions. The legislative power (Parliament) is composed of the Congress of Deputies and the Senate. The Congress of Deputies has 350 Deputies, elected every four years by all the Spanish citizens over 18 years old, and the elected Deputies will elect the Government (executive power) of Spain. The Senate is for the representation of territories. Spain has 17 Autonomous Communities, each of them with their own Parliament and Government to deal with their own power, in order to apply the principle of subsidiarity of the EU, whereby citizen service must be given by the administration closest to the citizen. In this way, the Autonomous Communities give power to the local administration, the City Council. The Article 2 of the Constitution talks about the indissoluble unity of the Spanish nation, the common and indivisible