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Study of the pattern according to which sport is subjected to the rules of EC law is unusually interesting. The matter is of profound practical importance for sports lawyers, but it is also intriguing to the specialist in EC trade law and in competition/antitrust law. Sport is not immunised from the supervision of EC law and neither is it simply another industry that must abide by the requirements of the EC legal order. Sport is a special case, but acute difficulty perennially afflicts attempts to trace how ‘special’ sport really is and how that special status is properly reflected in the shaping of the relevant rules of EC law.
First published in B. Hawk, ed, International Antitrust Law and Policy: Annual Proceedings of the Fordham Corporate Law Institute for 1999 (Yonkers, NY, Juris Publishing 2000), Ch 8, p. 113 et seq.
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Notes
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Union Royale Belge des Sociétés de football association, Royal Club Liègeois et UEFA v. Bosman, Case C-415/93, [1995] ECR 14921 (CJ).
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IP/99/133.
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See, e.g., Notice on market definition, OJ C 372, 6(1997).
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Walrave and Koch, Case 36/74, [1974] ECR 1405 (CJ).
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Gesetz gegen Wettbewerbsbeschraenkungen, s31, as amended with effect from 1 January 1999.
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Currently available via www.courtservice.gov.uk/highhome.htm.
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EC Treaty, Art. 81(2).
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Amsterdam Treaty, Declaration on Sport.
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See Weatherill 1995, Ch. 2.
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See Weatherill and Beaumont 1999.
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Automec, Case T-24/90, [1992] ECR II 2223 (CFI).
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See Hawk 2000, Ch. 7.
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Union Royale Belge des Sociétés de football association, Royal Club Liègeois et UEFA v. Bosman, Case C-415/93, [1995] ECR I 4921, at 106 (CJ).
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Id., 107.
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Id., 110.
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Id., 114.
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See Weatherill 1996A, 885.
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This is clear from Bosman; see especially A-G Lenz.
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See Weatherill 1996B, 1028–1031.
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Although this may alter; see the recent proposals for release of exclusivity in favour of a greater degree of national-level application discussed in Session III of this conference. See Hawk 2000, Ch. 10–17.
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See supra, Sect. 6.5.
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See Hawk 2000, Ch. 7.
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Weatherill, S. (2014). Sports Under EC Competition Law and US Antitrust Law. In: European Sports Law. ASSER International Sports Law Series. T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-6704-939-9_6
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