Spanish Paralympic Committee

Spanish Paralympic Committee
National Paralympic Committee
Country  Spain
Code ESP
Created 1995
Continental
Association		 EPC
Headquarters Madrid
Website paralimpicos.es

Spanish Paralympic Committee (Comité Paralímpico Español, CPE) is a Spanish non-profit sport organisation founded in 1995, that oversees five national disability sport federations. The organisation has a Secretary General and a President. Since 2005, they have been supported by Plan ADO. In 2000, the CPE was involved in a cheating scandal at the 2000 Summer Paralympics.

History

The CPE was created in 1995 in response to the success of Spanish competitors at the 1992 Summer Paralympics. Organización Nacional de Ciegos Españoles (ONCE) assisted in setting up the CPE.[1] In 1998, the Spanish government changed the laws, which impacted the status of the CPE to recognise it as equal to that of the Spanish Olympic Committee. At the same time, the organisation was received legal status, "declaración de utilidad pública", as being useful to the general public.[2][3]

Governance and funding

The organisation is a non-profit,[4] and is set up and taxed in the same manner as the Spanish Olympic Committee.[5][6] Income by the CPE are not subject 40% tax levied by the national government on admission fees for organisations except in the cases of sporting events.[7][8]

The CPE includes the five Spanish disability sport federations, which represent over 13,000 sportspeople, to host and govern disability sport on the local level around the country. They are the Federación Española de Deportes para Ciegos (FEDC), Federación Española de Deportes de Personas con Discapacidad Física (FEDDF), Federación Española de Deportes para Discapacitados Intelectuales (FEDDI), Federación Española de Deportes para Sordos (FEDS) and Federación Española de Deportes de Paralíticos Cerebrales (FEDPC).[2]

Since 2005, as a result of Plan ADO, the CPE received additional institutional and financial support from companies and businesses in sponsoring athletes, events, federations and teams.[9] Between 2005 and 2008, including in Plan ADO brought in an additional 17.5 million Euros to support preparations for the Spanish Paralympic team delegations at the 2006 Winter Paralympics, 2008 Summer Paralympics and 2010 Winter Paralympics. The funds directly benefited 390 competitors and 135 technical support personnel like coaches.[10] The CPE manages the allocation of the Plan ADO funding to athletes and others.[11][12]

CPE Secretary General Miguel Segarra accompanied the Madrid 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Bid Delegation to Bonn to submit the city's bid for the Games.[13]

Board members

Past members of the board include Fernando Vicente Martin, who was the Committee's Vice President in the late 1990s.[14] The President was in 2008 and 2009 Miguel Carballeda.[15][16][17] Miguel Segarra was the Committee's Secretary General in 2008 and 2009, a role he continued to hold in 2013.[13][16][18]

Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo is the Honorary President of the Spanish Paralympic Committee.[19][20] In this role she has led the Spanish delegation at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. [21]

Scandal

Following the 2000 Summer Paralympics, Fernando Vicente Martin was expelled from the board of the Committee because they found him to be the one of the biggest participants in fraudulent activities involving the Spanish delegation at the Games,[14] following an investigation initiated in November 2000 at the behest of the International Paralympic Committee.[22] The Committee also ordered members of the ID basketball team to return the gold medal they won at the 2000 Games.[23]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Juan Antonio Ledesma (July 2008). La imagen social de las personas con discapacidad : estudio en homenaje a José Julián Barriga Bravo. CERMI. p. 228. ISBN 978-84-96889-32-3. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Comité Paralímpico Español. "Comité Paralímpico Español". Juegos Paralímpicos Vancouver 2010, Dossier de Prensa (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain: Comité Paralímpico Español. p. 19.
  3. ↑ "Solicitud de declaración de utilidad pública". Ministerio del Interior. 26 March 2002. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  4. ↑ Miguel Gil del Campo (1 January 2005). Fiscalidad de Fundaciones, Asociaciones y del Mecenazgo. CISS. p. 151. ISBN 978-84-8235-481-1. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  5. ↑ Normas de organización y funciones del departamento. Ministerio de Educación. 2001. p. 183. ISBN 978-84-369-3521-9. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  6. ↑ Javier Argente Álvarez (March 2007). Impuesto sobre la renta de las personas físicas: guía. CISS. p. 133. ISBN 978-84-8235-543-6. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  7. ↑ Julio Banacloche Pérez (April 2005). Impuesto sobre sociedades 2004: (texto refundido y nuevo reglamento), guía útil. LA LEY. p. 212. ISBN 978-84-9725-565-3. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  8. ↑ Francisco Manuel Mellado Benavente; Javier Argente Álvarez; Antonio José Rodríguez Vegazo (February 2008). Código tributario : impuestos. CISS. p. 725. ISBN 978-84-8235-630-3. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  9. ↑ Domínguez, María Isabel; García, Mario; Hernández, Paz (2008). Un sueño cumplido : Juegos Paralímpicos Pekín 2008 (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain: Servimedia. p. 4. OCLC 733716902.
  10. ↑ Domínguez, María Isabel; García, Mario; Hernández, Paz (2008). Un sueño cumplido : Juegos Paralímpicos Pekín 2008 (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain: Servimedia. pp. 6–7. OCLC 733716902.
  11. ↑ Joaquín Marín Montín (December 2008). Imagen, comunicación y deporte : una aproximación teórica. Editorial Visión Libros. p. 143. ISBN 978-84-9983-450-4. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  12. ↑ Reed Business Information Spain (30 May 2006). Arte y Cemento. Reed Business Information Spain. pp. 20–. ISSN 0212-8578. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Madrid 2020 presents Candidature file to International Paralympic Committee — insidethegames.biz — Olympic, Paralympic and Commonwealth Games News". insidethegames.biz. 2013-02-01. Retrieved 16 February 2013.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Ian Brittain (5 August 2009). The Paralympic Games Explained. Routledge. p. 150. ISBN 978-0-203-88556-7. Retrieved 16 February 2013.
  15. ↑ "Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games". English.peopledaily.com.cn. 2008-09-18. Retrieved 16 February 2013.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 "Madrid 2016 Paralympic Games — Open city, sport for all". AroundTheRings. Retrieved 16 February 2013.
  17. ↑ Domínguez, María Isabel; García, Mario; Hernández, Paz (2008). Un sueño cumplido : Juegos Paralímpicos Pekín 2008 (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain: Servimedia. p. 3. OCLC 733716902.
  18. ↑ Domínguez, María Isabel; García, Mario; Hernández, Paz (2008). Un sueño cumplido : Juegos Paralímpicos Pekín 2008 (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain: Servimedia. p. 5. OCLC 733716902.
  19. ↑ "Spain's Crown Prince appointed Honorary President of Madrid 2020 - insidethegames.biz — Olympic, Paralympic and Commonwealth Games News". insidethegames.biz. Retrieved 16 February 2013.
  20. ↑ "Beijing Paralympic Update". GamesBids.com. Retrieved 16 February 2013.
  21. ↑ Domínguez, María Isabel; García, Mario; Hernández, Paz (2008). Un sueño cumplido : Juegos Paralímpicos Pekín 2008 (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain: Servimedia. p. 44. OCLC 733716902.
  22. ↑ Steve Bailey (28 February 2008). Athlete First: A History of the Paralympic Movement. John Wiley & Sons. p. 226. ISBN 978-0-470-72431-6. Retrieved 16 February 2013.
  23. ↑ The world's greatest hoaxes. Barnes & Noble. 2006. p. 303. ISBN 978-0-7607-8222-4. Retrieved 16 February 2013.