EU, Sport, Law and Policy: Regulation, Re-regulation and Representation

by Edited by Simon Gardiner , Richard Parrish , Robert C. R. Siekmann

• ISBN13: 9789067042925
• ISBN10: 9067042927
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-05-11
• Publisher: T.M.C. Asser Press

Summary

This volume of essays by established authorities and the best of the new generation of sports law and policy academics explores new territory, and its scope and tone reflect the maturity of the subject. New theoretical insights are revealed which accompany in particular two further sections dealing first with governance and regulatory issues (also freedom of movement and competition law issues) and second with questions of representation. The issue of the representation of stakeholders within sports governance is arguably the most significant development since 2000. In this regard, the focus is on social dialogue between clubs and players' representative organisations in the European professional football sector. Specific contributions on anti-doping, football hooliganism and sports betting in an EU context are included, making this a useful guide for governmental and sports officials, legal practitioners and academics.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Emergence, dynamics and impact of European sport policy - perspectives from political science

A comparison of the European and North American models of sports organization

Sport governance and EU legal order: present and future

The influence of EU Law on sports governance

The white paper on sport as an exercise in 'better regulation'

The new governance of football: what role for the EU?

Some reflections on age discrimination, referees' retirement ages and European sports (law)

Extra time: are the new FIFA transfer rules doomed?

The Webster case: justified panic as there was after Bosman?

The prize for freedom of movement: the Webster case

Models for the promotion of home grown players for the protection of national representative teams

Home grown players rule

The Kolpak case: Bosman times 10? Football fears the arrival of Bosman, Bosmanovic and Osman

The Laurent Piau case of the ECJ on the status of players' agents

Regulating sports services in community law

The recognition of the specificity of sport in the European Commission's Article 81 EC Case Law Related to Sports Media Rights

State aid to professional football clubs: legitimate support of a public cause?

Regulation of professional football in the EU: the European social dialogue as a basis for the creation of legal certainty

Promoting the social dialogue in professional football in the new EU member states v Robert Siekmann: agenda for a social dialogue in European professional football

The representation of football in the European Union: UEFA versus G-14

Study into the possible participation of EPFL and G-14 in a social dialogue in the European professional football sector

The European Union and doping in sport

Anti-doping in and beyond the European Commission's white paper on sport

EU sports regulations and football supporters

Legal aspects of combating transnational football hooliganism in Europe

The legality and effectiveness of using football banning orders in the fight against racism and violence at sports events

ECJ jurisprudence and recent developments in EU sport betting

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