Sport activity contract regulation

Lietuvos teisės aktuose ir teisės doktrinoje nėra aiškiai apibrėžta, kokiai teisės šakai reguliuoti priskirti remiantis sportinės veiklos sutartimi atsirandančius santykius, todėl straipsnyje lyginamuoju aspektu analizuojama kai kurių užsienio valstybių praktika šioje srityje. Straipsnyje remiantis teisės aktais, teismų praktika ir teisės doktrina analizuojamas sportinės veiklos sutarties pobūdis, t. y. kokios teisės šakos teisės normos reguliuoja šia sutartimi tarp profesionalaus sportininko ir sporto klubo atsirandančius teisinius santykius.Sport - is one of the most important spheres of the legal regulation and the increasing development social life. While developing sport relationships of relations in the field of sport led to a completely became more complex, accordingly their legal new isolated group of public relations. In practice, regulation became more difficult. Complexity of is widely discussed question of what law branches: labour or civil law norms must be applied in the regulation of legal relations prevailing between professional athletes and sport organizations? Athlete's and sport organization's between relations arise from the result of sport activity contract. The conception of sport activity contract and main conditions in Lithuania are laid down in the Law of Physical Education and Sports of the Republic of Lithuania. In labour and civil codes, sport activity contract, it's features and conditions are not consolidated, so the question - what law norms regulates the relations arising from sport activity contract and to which contract - labour or civil - it must be assigned, arise? A clear, unified position on the sport activity contract is not found in the Lithuanian legal doctrine, because in it professional sports issues practically are not discussed. Therefore, this article analyzes legal acts norms of Italy, Germany, Sweden, France, Slovakia, Spain, Russia, South Africa, U.S.A and Ukraine regulating the relations arising under sport activity contract basis and is given a comparison other countries legal regulation. This article also reveals of some foreign countries doctrine on this issue and practice of Australian, English courts and European Court of Justice