SPORT AS A SPECIFFIC BRANCH IN THE REGULATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

Šport, kot ga poznamo danes na področju Evropske unije (odslej tudi: EU), je zelo obširno področje. Za nemoten razvoj športa je nujno, da so posamezna pravila v športu podvržena normiranju le organom znotraj samih športnih institucij. Ta avtonomna pravila obsegajo povsem športna pravila ali pravila igre, pravila o organizaciji in delovanju posameznih športnih institucij ter pravila, ki se nanašajo samo na amaterski šport. Šport kot gospodarska dejavnost pa zapade pod pravila EU, zato morajo biti pravila, ki urejajo ta del športa, nujno usklajena s pravili višjega ranga, to je s pravili prava EU, predvsem tistimi, ki urejajo notranji trg in konkurenčno pravo. Takšno delitev priznavajo in zahtevajo vse institucije EU. Ko torej šport preseže okvire amaterizma in ko preide v sfero gospodarske ali ekonomske dejavnosti, nanj neizogibno učinkujejo pravila notranjega trga ter pravila konkurenčnega prava EU. Čeprav se športni funkcionarji trudijo in močno lobirajo, da bi celotno področje športa izvzeli iz okvira učinkovanja pravil prava EU, jim to kot kaže ne bo uspelo, saj je povezava med športom, gospodarstvom pretesna. Zaradi tega je neizbežno, da je področje normiranja športa razdeljeno med samo športna pravila in pravila, ki morajo biti usklajena s pravili prava EU in sodno prakso. Ta pravila veljajo tudi za vse druge gospodarske panoge. A tudi v pravilih, s katerimi mora biti področje športa usklajeno, najdemo določene izjeme, ki so zaradi njegove družbene vloge priznane samo športu. Iz tega razloga trdimo, da je šport specifična dejavnost v pravnem sistemu EU.Sport nowadays in the European Union (from hereinafter: EU) is a very broad area. Sport is set by different rules on different levels. It\u27s in the nature of sport, and also very important for the development of the sport, that some rules are subject to scaling only to authorities within the sports organisations. This type of rules include pure sporting rules, rules on the organisation and functioning of the sports institutions and rules covering the amateur sport. On the other hand, when sport is performed as an economic activity, it needs to be coherent with the EU legal regulation, especially with the rules covering the internal market and with rules covering the competition law. Even though the policy makers in the sports institutions are lobbying very hard for the exemption of the whole area of sport from the EU legal regulation, it should be impossible that rules concerning sport as a economic activity could be left apart from the EU legal regulation, even though there are still some excemtions, which are recognized by the institutions of the EU, mainly because of the social importance of the sports. For this reason and for the importance of the sport for the society as a whole, sport is a speciffic activity, divided by rules that are only in the nature of sports, and are therefore in competence of sports organisations, and general rules, applicable to all other economic activities, which is also recognized by all the institutions of the EU