Blog tagged as Sports Agents, Intermediaries and Sports Lawyers

The Court of Cassation rejects the appeal of the Council of the Bar Association of Paris and confirms the cancellation of the article of the internal regulations of the Paris Bar which had authorized in 2020 lawyers to exercise the activity of intermediation sports, without a sports agent license.

FIFA presented on September 10, 2021 the rules of procedure and operation of the Football Court. It brings together the existing decision-making bodies of FIFA into a single institution made up of three chambers: the dispute resolution chambers, the status of the player and the agents.

If you are a sports agent / intermediary from a country that is not a member of the European Union (EU) or a State party to the European Economic Area (EEA) Agreement, how to carry on an activity sports agent in France? [Part 2 of the article on sports agents in France]

If you are a sports agent / intermediary from a European Union (EU) member country or from a State party to the European Economic Area (EEA) Agreement, how to exercise a sports agent activity in France ? Here is a brief non-exhaustive summary of the conditions set by the Law.

Following the recommendations relating to agent commissions and the limitation of player loans adopted by the FIFA Football Actors Committee, it published on January 22, 2020 on its website a program of reforms with the aim of regulating agent regulation

On Wednesday, 25, 2019, the FIFA Players Actors 'Committee adopted new recommendations concerning agents' fees (for players and clubs) and the number of player loans, with the aim of regulating the transfer market. .

Grand Symposium: the lawyer in sport. Cabinet BERTRAND is a partner of the 4th Assises du Droit du Sport and will lead a practical workshop on the theme The status of the sports trainer.

The European Commission has published a report on the development of the economic and legal issues of transfers entitled "An update on change drivers and economic and legal implications of transfers of players" analyzing the European football market and determining eight recommendations.

The Ordinance of 22 December 2016 on the recognition of professional qualifications of regulated professions amended certain provisions of the Sports Code concerning the professions of sports educator and sports agent exercised by nationals of the European Union.

A bill aimed at preserving the ethics of sport, strengthening the regulation and transparency of professional sport and improving the competitiveness of clubs has just been tabled in the Senate on September 12, 2016 (report of April 19, 2016 by the Great Professional Sport Conference)

In France, the Law (article L.222-7 of the Sports Code) qualifies as a sports agent the one who carries out the activity, which consists in bringing together, against remuneration, several parties with a view to the exercise paid by an athlete or a trainer of a sporting activity.

The Paris Bar has amended article P. 6.2.0.3 of its Internal Regulations: the term "sports agent" is replaced by that of "sports representative lawyer"

Sports agent or sports attorney lawyer? Two activities to be differentiated by definition. Indeed, the activity of sports agent is to "put in relation", against remuneration, the interested parties (player, trainer, club, sports organizations) to the conclusion of an employment contract.