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- Title
APPOINTMENT OF TEMPORARY ADMINISTRATION IN THE HELLENIC FOOTBAL FEDERATION GREEK GOVERNMENT-FIFA INTERVENTION.
- Authors
Panagiotopoulos, Dimitrios P.; Kallimani, Zografenia
- Abstract
The aim of this study is to determine the crucial issues covering the independence of sports federations, especially the independence in the decision-making process of the bodies that govern football and the implementation of FIFA Statutes in Greek National Law. Sports federations are private law entities, which are controlled by the State, as laid down in law, on the basis of the principle that they are the unique sports authorities in every sport, thus granting them a monopoly and dominant position. On a higher level, the International Sports Federations are generally associations of a non-profitable purpose, governed by national laws. In Greece sports federations are under State supervision and protection within the specific constitutional provision of Article 16 par. 9. At this point, it is interesting to take a brief look at the regulatory framework of the Hellenic Football Federation (hereinafter: HFF) and Greek National Law by virtue of the provisions of the Greek Law 3549/2006 and the applicable Law 4326/2015, according to which the HFF manages its affairs independently and without influence from third parties and in accordance with the regulations of the World and European Football Federation and the applicable Greek Law. Last year after the financial scandals and the operational problems, FIFA decided to cancel the decision of the HFF's Arbitral Court and appoint its own temporary normalization committee to run the HFF and to organize federation elections. The Deputy Minister of Sports submitted the amendment (Article 5, Law 4431/2016) to Parliament, according to which in extraordinary and exceptional circumstances, specific bodies are appointed by the relevant international federation and replace the constitutional bodies of the federation for a limited period of time, by way of derogation from the provisions of Law 2725/1999 and the statutes of the federation. The purpose of this article is to examine if the above legal provisions are lawful within the framework of the Greek legal order.
- Subjects
GREECE; SOCCER associations; FEDERATION internationale de football association; SPORTS law; ATHLETIC associations; SPORTS
- Publication
International Sports Law Review Pandektis, 2017, Vol 12, Issue 1/2, p148
- ISSN
1109-3943
- Publication type
Article