Michele Colucci (ed.): The FIFA Regulations on Working with Intermediaries
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Michele Colucci (ed.): The FIFA Regulations on Working with Intermediaries Sports Law and Policy Centre, Issue I-2015, ISSN 2039-0416, 548 p., Euro 100 Durante Rapacciuolo1
Ó T.M.C. Asser Instituut 2016
The FIFA Regulations on Working with Intermediaries has got the first global review of its application since its adoption on April 1st 2015. The book is a collective work of international specialists, whose contributions have been edited by Professor Michele Colucci. FIFA’s adoption of the Regulations on Working with Intermediaries proved a landmark change in its approach to govern this sensitive category of professionals. This extraordinary reform has had a huge and lasting impact on the consolidated national rules dealing with agents/ intermediaries. The context was too challenging to ignore. Therefore, we thank the Sports Law and Policy Centre (http://www. sportslawandpolicycentre.com), which, under the leadership of Professor Michele Colucci, has published the first timely, global, nearly exhaustive review of both the new FIFA Regulations and their national implementations by the most influential football associations in Europe, Americas, Middle East and Asia. The 2001 and 2008 FIFA Players’ Agents Regulations provided the national associations with uniform, complete, binding rules to govern the agents’ occupation. FIFA wanted to offer a permanent and detailed discipline of the agents’ profession, covering the access to the profession, the selection to get a license as well as the administrative obligations indispensable to exercise legally the professional activities. During the first 15 years of this century those Regulations on players’ agents betrayed the ambition of retaining a big role for FIFA by enacting an expansive, intrusive, & Durante Rapacciuolo [email protected] 1
global legislative policy in a financial and commercial domain, away from the more traditional football pitch sport rules. Global measures were enacted to govern a global phenomenon in view of providing clearer and more uniform rules in a rather anarchical, international area, which could become source of opaque practices and limited means for ensuring transparency. Fourteen years after the introduction of the FIFA Players’ Agents Regulations and the 2008 amendment, FIFA decided to dramatically change its policy. From an expansive policy and a frontline responsibility in these matters, it withdrew to a quiet, cautious legislative safe zone with a limited workload and reduced responsibility. We have received no information about the reasons of this remarkable turnaround; though the change reveals much about FIFA’s will to downgrade its involvement and responsibility in a huge and complex matter, where it has found it hard to monitor its own rules and the national implementations. That is maybe why FIFA decided to revise the legislative approach and step back, leaving the national associations with a bigger responsibility to edict detailed national rules to govern the intermediaries’ activities. This is wh
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