Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31141/zrpfs.2017.54.124.373
The Autonomy of a National Olympic Committee and the Relation with Different Legals Subjects and Athletes
Tone Jagodic
; Olympic Committee of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Zlatko Mateša
; Zagreb School of Economics and Management, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The autonomy of sports organizations is the basic principle which gives sport the possibility to develop in a specific way. Sports law represents the collection of specific legal rules which help sport organizations to manage the relationship among the subjects involved in sport. On the other hand it is necessary to use common legal rules and there are sometimes problems which legal rules should be respected. The principle of the autonomy of the NOC-s represents one of the backbones of the Olympic Movement and therefore it is interesting to find out where the autonomy also represents a special kind of independence and where the autonomy is limited by other subjects.There are some questions which are connected with the autonomy of a sport organization, such as
• Are sport organizations really independent?
• Are we aware of the political influence – the pressure by the government and other institutions?
• Where is the backbone of the subordination of a governing body towards a sport organization?
• What kind of a relationship amongst sports and governing bodies does exist; is the partnership a reality or an illusion?
After analyzing different situations in the organization of modern sport, we feel that our conclusion is more than evident. A constructive and inclusive dialogue between the government authorities and the sports organizations concerned is needed in order to establish a consistent sports policy and legislative framework which are compatible with both, the general principles of the law in the country and, the principles of the Olympic Movement and the rules of the international sports organizations.
Keywords
autonomy; specifity of sport; Olympic Movement; dialogue; EU Law
Hrčak ID:
180656
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Publication date:
25.4.2017.
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