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Amendments to FIFA Disciplinary Code and their consequences

07.11.2011

The XII Annual International Specialized Exhibition of football industry “Football Market” was held in Moscow on November 2-4, 2011. The event included a series of seminars and conferences with the participation of the leading world and Russian specialists. Mikhail Prokopets, Senior Lawyer at the Law Firm "YUST", represented the Firm. Together with Volker Hesse, a Swiss lawyer, General Director of the VIVA Sports Law - Consulting company, he told the event’s participants of the amendments to the Disciplinary Code of FIFA and their consequences for sports clubs and federations.

The report was themed around the changes made to the provisions of Article 64 of the FIFA Disciplinary Code. In particular, these no longer permit to enforce the decisions of the Court of Sports Arbitration (CAS) in Lausanne, acting as the first instance court, with the use of FIFA disciplinary mechanisms.

Mikhail Prokopets and Volker Hesse, together with the seminar’s participants, also discussed:

  • The reasons, for which FIFA decided to make amendments, and
  • The possibilities to execute the decisions of CAS acting as the first instance court, which arose after the introduction of amendments.

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