The transfer of Cheslin Kolbe in 2021 led the NRL to strengthen its rules on salary cap. Since 2023, part of the transfer compensation has been introduced into the calculation of the payroll of professional rugby clubs.
The law of March 8, 2024 strengthens the protection of practitioners and good repute in sport. It establishes an annual check of the integrity of educators, new obligations for federations and operators, aimed at preventing violence, particularly against minors.
The CAS reduces the suspension of Simona Halep from 4 years to 9 months for involuntary doping. The former world No. 1 proved that her positive test for Roxadustat during the 2022 US Open was due to contamination of a dietary supplement. She can return to competition immediately.
For FIFA and the CAS, a national football federation cannot terminate, on the grounds of non-achievement of a sporting objective, unilaterally and in advance the employment contract of the selector or assistant coach of the national team without payment. compensation.
For the CJEU, the rules of UEFA, FIFA and ISU on the prior approval of sports competitions are contrary to European competition law. Arbitration bodies in sports matters must be able to be subject to effective judicial control (via a preliminary question)
Me Jean-Jacques BERTRAND, lawyer in sports law, interviewed by BFM TV then by RMC Sport on the question of the ban on travel of football supporters until December 18, 2023
On the occasion of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris, more than 45 volunteers are expected in the capital during the summer of 000. This is an opportunity to recall the status of sports volunteers, their legal definition and the conditions commitment to responsibility
Interviewed by SoFoot, Maître Jean-Jacques BERTRAND discusses the dispute between Kylian Mbappé and Paris Saint-Germain. This is an opportunity to recall the sporting, legal and judicial implications on the subject of dismissals of professional football players by their clubs.
The new article 223 of the Administrative Rules of the LFP imposes that commercial disputes of an amount greater than €50.000 relating to the loans and transfers of players between French professional clubs, must be submitted to arbitration by the Chambre arbitrale du sport ( CASE).
If food supplements are not on the World Anti-Doping Agency's list of prohibited products (transposed into the Sports Code), athletes must remain vigilant because of the risk of contamination with prohibited products.
The DNCG Appeals Committee confirmed the decision taken by the Professional Clubs Control Committee which pronounced the administrative demotion of the Girondins de Bordeaux to National 1 (financial difficulties). What are the means of appeal to challenge this decision?
The law aimed at democratizing sport in France was adopted by the National Assembly on February 24, 2022. The text allows professional leagues to create a commercial company for the management and marketing of the rights to exploit the sporting events they organize
The decree of April 26, 2022 sets the conditions allowing the maximum duration of the first employment contract of a professional football player to be extended from 3 to 5 years.
The decree relating to the conditions for granting and withdrawing the delegation granted to sports federations as well as the content and terms of the delegation contract was published on February 25, 2022. It modifies the mechanism for granting, refusing and withdrawal of the delegation.
Since January 1, 2021, the International Football Association Board ("IFAB") has been offering protocols to protect the football player who has suffered a concussion without numerically disadvantage his team and is experimenting with the possibility of an additional permanent replacement.
Player loans will be subject to new regulations on July 1, 2022, which are part of the third group of reforms to the international transfer system – transfers of minors, loan contracts and squad sizes, registration periods, financial regulations .
The bill relating to the regulation and protection of access to cultural and digital works adopted by the National Assembly at the end of October 2021 includes new provisions intended to fight more effectively against the illicit retransmission of sports events.
On October 8, 2021, FIFA reminded member associations of their obligation to transpose the provisions on maternity of professional players adopted at the end of 2020. Is the FFF concerned insofar as French law already provides protective conditions for employees?
Are amateur and / or professional football clubs liable for the act of their supporters? What is the legislative and regulatory framework under which football clubs are responsible for the act of their supporters at sporting events?
