With a Foreword by Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for Education
and Culture The European Union and Sport: Legal and Policy
Documents is the first volume in the T.M.C. Asser Institute series
of collections of documents on international sports law containing
material on the intergovernmental (interstate) element of
international sports law. Previous volumes have dealt with the
Statutes and Constitutions of universal sports organizations, their
Doping as well as their Arbitral and Disciplinary Rules. The legal
and policy texts in the present book are arranged in thematical,
alphabetical order and are chronologically subordered per theme.
They cover the period since the Walrave judgement in 1974 when the
European Court of Justice established that sport is subject to
Community law to the extent that it constitutes an economic
activity. The book in fact gives a detailed insight into what could
be called the 'EU Sport Acquis' for the present and future
(candidate) Member States. This acquis has been developed over the
years in numerous decisions and policy documents by, in particular,
the Council, Commission, European Parliament and Court of Justice.
The contents of this book are divided into three parts totalling
twenty chapters and covering all themes which the EC/EU has dealt
with so far. The General part contains general policy documents
such as, for example, the European Model of Sport and the so-called
Helsinki Report on Sport. Specific Subjects concern Boycott,
Broadcasting (in particular the Television without Frontiers
Directive), Community Aid and Sport Funding (for example, the
Eurathlon Programme), Competition (central selling of tv rights
regarding the UEFA Champions League, the German Bundesliga, the
English Premier League, etc., Formula One, World Cup ticketing
arrangements, players' agents), Customs, Diplomas (Heylens),
Discrimination (Walrave, Dona, Kolpak, and including Women in
sport), Doping (Community Support Plan and Pilot Project for
Campaigns to Combat Doping in Sport), Education / Youth (European
Year of Education through Sport 2004, and documents concerning
child protection in sport and trafficking in young footballers),
the freedom of establishment to provide services (Deliege) and of
movement of workers (Bosman, Lehtonen), the Olympic Games, State
Aid, Tax, Tobacco Advertising, Trade Marks (Arsenal/Reed),
Vandalism and Violence (football hooliganism) and Miscellanea
(Fishing, Horses, Hunting, etc.). The European Union and Sport:
Legal and Policy Documents provides an invaluable source of
reference for governmental and sports officials, legal
practitioners and the academic world. With the increasing public
interest in the legal aspects of sports, this collection of
documents is a timely and welcome contribution to enhancing the
accessibility of basic texts on international sports law and
policy.
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