Then, finally happened, the European Commission and the UEFA formally adopted a new Cooperation arrangement (AFC) UNTIL DECEMBER 2025. This Latest installation in the political framework for cooperation Between UEFA and DIFFERENT SERVICES OF THE COMMISSION MARKS A SECOND GENERATION OF ARRANGES THRMA Held of 2020 – Held of 2020 – Held of 2020 – Held of 2020 – Held of 2020 – Held of 2020 – Held of 2020 – Held of 2020 – Held of 2021 or celebrated 2021 – celebrated from 2021 – celebrated of 2021 – celebrated of 2021 – celebrated of 2021 – celebrated of 2020 – celebrated of 2021 COVID -19 Forced import.
The euros went and went to Rome instead of ‘home’. The overlap with the tournament allowed the extended package to provide an UEFA platform to amplify the visibility of the commission’s initiatives, such as the European campaigns of vaccination campaigns and vaccination campaigns, euros. This, as was the “Football for unity” The project implemented tournament with the objective of educating the European public on the social inclusion of national third parties was an important contribution of the extended agreement. Call back part one Or this publication that takes a balance of relative success and the deficiencies of the 2014-2020 AFC, the role of UEFA consciousness located within the broadest objectives of the arrangements as a true complement to the European Union and football in the EU.
After having helped to negotiate a delayed euros and with the pandemic in remission, the common reason that maintains the extended agreement together seemed to have naturally shaking. Therefore, when April 2021, several higher clubs challenged the monopoly of the governing body of European football, announcing their intention to create a European Super League (SL), this renewed pressure on the EU-OVE association, which in turn caused a renewed sense of purpose.
It no longer does the basics for cooperation consisting of resumed objectives underlying the previous arrangements. On the other hand, the rhetoric of the new arrangement is quite clear: horses for courses, since the approach focuses exclusively on the European Sports (ESM) model and European values inherent in that model. In fact, this commitment to the OSM is mentioned no less than 6 times, compared to the 2014 and 2018 agreements where it is omitted, or at least it is not mentioned directly.
The objectives of the agreement are not surprising when considering that this opposition to the SL, on the one hand, and the greatest importance and concern for the ESM, on the other, had been brewing since it was announced. At the European institutional level, the The historical resolution of the European Parliament of the EU sports policy He requested protection and strengthening of the ESM, particularly in the face of closed and separate competitions. To not be left behind, the EU Council of Ministers approved a Resolution in key features of an ESM, which consists between the ethers of the pyramidal structure with an open promotion and descent system. In addition, the DG EAC of the Commission commissioned a Study In the ESM. Therefore, arrivals arrive at a crucial moment given the recent threats of having faced the sports sector organized in Europe.
Many learning arise from this AFC. In the first place, before the appearance of the SL, there was no esm as in accordance with the 2007 BookThe commission decreed that it was not realistic to define a unified sport model in Europe. However, by promising to promote European values and objectives, the agreement not only reiterates the opposition of both parties to the SL, but also its unified recognition of an ESM. Fair although the commission in the Audience SL He granted the existence of different ways of executing the sport and questioned the proportionality of UEFA threats to prohibit players, their actions speak stronger, since it carries their collaboration with UEFA to the next level by signing the support of the arm that the ESM is in full force the support of the ES.
Moreoover, sports government bodies, as seen in Valla and Koch and Mecca MedinaThey have insisted for a long time on the autonomy and independence of the sport of interference and have seen the commission suspected in the control and regulation of sport. Therefore, the agreement, stimulated by a progressive existential crisis presented by the SL, means a change of sea in which the SGBs such as UEFA seek more, no less intervention by the institutions and the EU governments. Althegh The agreement is not binding according to the law of the Union, it presents an important change, since there was previously a lack of appetite by the EU institutions to regulate again in the field, since it has already accepted private regulatory actors.
In doing so, the second generation of AFC has the footprint of the tutors of the commissions. It is due to the fact that in its surveillance role, which allows the Commission to supervise the application of the EU Law (art. 17, TEU), the task assigned to the EU by the treaty in the area of sport is to ‘contribute to the promotion of European dishes’ and’ develop).
Notoriously, the EU has never been shy to transmify in light of emerging pressures, challenges and complexities. Therefore, to say that the SL machinations have provided the spark that has given the second generation AFC a new lease of life, while allowing the commission to clarify the record in its competition regulator and guardian of the treaties.
Ma European Interdisciplinary Studies, College of Europe, Warsaw, Poland
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