Abstract
Using two small-scale case studies, concerning fairness and openness, the paper shows how the Lisbon reforms offer the possibility of driving EU sports law according to new guiding principles of interpretation. In judging whether change is helpful, much rests on one’s perception of whether EU law was truly inattentive of sport’s special character in the first place.
Previously published in: The International Sports Law Journal (ISLJ) 2010/3–4, pp. 11 and 14–17, paper presented during the LexSportiva Conference at Pelita Harapan Universitas (UPH), on 22 September 2010 in Jakarta, Indonesia, organised in collaboration with the Indonesia Lex Sportiva Instituta and with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia, the National Olympic Committee, the T.M.C. Asser Instituut and the Indonesian football league.
Somerville College and Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
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Notes
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Cases C-51/96 & C-191/97 Deliege v Ligue de Judo [2000] ECR I-2549 paras 41−42; Case C-176/96 Lehtonen et al. v FRSB [2000] ECR I-2681 paras. 32−33.
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CONV 375/1/02, http://register.consilium.europa.eu/pdf/en/02/cv00/cv00375-re01.en02.pdf, last accessed 29 July 2010.
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Garcia and Weatherill (2011).
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Dec 291/2003/EC [2003] OJ L43/1.
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COM (2007) 391. Full documentation is available via http://ec.europa.eu/sport/white-paper/index_en.htm, last accessed 29 July 2010.
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Case 36/74 [1974] ECR 1405.
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Case C-415/93 [1995] ECR I-4921.
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Para. 106.
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Case C-519/04 P [2006] ECR I-6991.
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COMP 37.806 ENIC/UEFA, IP/02/942, 27 June 2002.
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Weatherill 2006.
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Decision 2003/778 Champions League [2003] O.J. L291/25.
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COM (2007) 391. Full documentation is available via http://ec.europa.eu/sport/white-paper/index_en.htm, last accessed 20 July 2010.
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Also available via http://ec.europa.eu/sport/white-paper/index_en.htm.
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Staff Working Document supra note 16, pp. 69, 78.
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Supra note 9.
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See, e.g., Subiotto 2010.
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Hill 2009.
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Supra note 6.
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Supra note 12.
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Supra note 12, para. 165.
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For vigorous scepticism see Moorhouse 2007.
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Supra note 16, p. 45.
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WQ P-4798/08. The contract was awarded to TMC Asser Instituut in 2010, Contract Notice 2010/S 31-043484.
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Simonian 2010.
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Case C-325/08 judgment of 16 March 2010 para. 40.
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See in particular B. García’s pathbreaking article, García 2007.
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Weatherill, S. (2012). Fairness, Openness and the Specific Nature of Sport: Does the Lisbon Treaty Change EU Sports Law?. In: Siekmann, R., Soek, J. (eds) Lex Sportiva: What is Sports Law?. ASSER International Sports Law Series. T.M.C. Asser Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-6704-829-3_16
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