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“When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Basic Universal Principles of Good Governance of the Olympic and Sports Movement (International Olympic Committee, Seminar on Autonomy of Olympic and Sport Movement, 11–12 February 2008).

  2. 2.

    “Maradona at Dundee!!”, BBC, 10 January 2001, retrieved 31 October 2018.

  3. 3.

    Also referred to as international sports associations, international sports federations or international sports organisations.

  4. 4.

    For more information on this context, see Siekmann and Soek (2012).

  5. 5.

    Exner (2013), pp. 1031.

  6. 6.

    European Sports Charter (1992, revised 2001), Article 3. See also Olympic Charter (2017), Fundamental Principles of Olympism, Principle 5.

  7. 7.

    Anderson et al. (2018), p. 488 for the development of the “European dimension“ in sport and the concomitant legal issues including, competition law, state aid and free movement of persons.

  8. 8.

    The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) shall include the Court of Justice (ECJ) and the General Court (EGC), formerly called the Court of First Instance (CFI). See the Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2015/2422 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2015 amending Protocol No 3 on the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union.

  9. 9.

    Case C-415/93, Union royale belge des sociétés de football association and Others v. Bosman and Others, [1995] EU:C:1995:463.

  10. 10.

    On the meaning, significance and consequences of the Bosman ruling, see, inter alia, Van den Bogaert (2015), pp. 175–176. See also Van den Bogaert (2018) for a great reflection on the role of nationality at the intersection of EU law and sport.

  11. 11.

    Case C-519/04 P, Meca-Medina and Majcen v. Commission, [2006] EU:C:2006:492.

  12. 12.

    Certain provisions of the FIFA Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players provide an exception when they apply only to the EU and the European Economic Area (EEA)—Articles 19.2.b and Article 6 of Annex 4. On the other hand, a vast majority of international sporting governing bodies’ regulations do not include such an exception and apply to all member federations all around the world.

  13. 13.

    Van den Bogaert (2015), pp. 175–176.

  14. 14.

    See primarily Exner (2013), pp. 1029–1044.

  15. 15.

    Dubey (2004).‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

  16. 16.

    Van den Bogaert (2005, 2018), pp. 360–381.

  17. 17.

    Hafner (2012).

  18. 18.

    Oswald (2004, pp. 200; 2009 , pp. 58)‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬.

  19. 19.

    Parrish (2013).

  20. 20.

    Weatherill (2014).

  21. 21.

    I am aware of the fact that, especially regarding competition law, this book contains many elements and conclusions which concern sporting governing bodies as undertakings or their associations. However, I primarily focus on athletes as individuals and deal with EU citizenship, free movement of persons, competition law and fundamental rights primarily from the point of view of athletes as citizens, workers, providers of services or self-employed persons and undertakings performing their freedom of establishment and undertakings engaging in free competition. Since this book concerns athletes’ rights stemming from EU citizenship, free movement of persons, competition as well as fundamental rights, I further refer to these undoubtedly specific categories of EU law generally also as to athletes’ rights under EU law or the rights that athletes derive from EU law.

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Exner, J. (2019). Introduction. In: Sporting Nationality in the Context of European Union Law. SpringerBriefs in Law. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10807-6_1

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