"National Sports" reveals the features of the draft laws "Sports" and "Regulating the General Sports Authority".

Prohibition of combining professional sports with public jobs.. and canceling the formation of the board of directors of the General Sports Authority

"National Education" finishes discussing two federal bills on "sports" and "organizing the General Sports Authority".

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The head and members of the Education, Culture, Youth, Sports and Media Affairs Committee of the Federal National Council revealed to "Emirates Today" the general features of the two draft sports laws and the organization of the General Sports Authority, which will be referred to the presidency of the Council tomorrow, Tuesday, as they confirmed that the draft sports law introduced articles The most important of which is the prohibition of the professional player from combining the practice of “professional” sports activity, and any official job with any public authority, and granting all “non-professional” athletes the right to obtain sabbaticals while representing the state, within the national teams in any forums or tournaments. .

They reported that the draft sports law imposed administrative and financial penalties for violators of its provisions, which may amount to two million dirhams, to confront any attempts to manipulate, defraud, or prejudice integrity or sports justice, while referring any manipulations or criminal suspicions to the relevant judicial authorities, while they revealed that the draft sports law The Federal Law regarding the organization of the General Sports Authority abolished the formation of a board of directors for the General Sports Authority, and granted the authority’s president broad and clear powers and authorities, in addition to replacing the name “Secretary General of the Authority” with the name “Director General of the Authority.”

In detail, the Committee on Education, Culture, Youth, Sports and Media Affairs of the Federal National Council, headed by the Chairman of the Committee, Adnan Hamad Al Hammadi, finished discussing two federal bills, the first on sports, and the second on organizing the General Sports Authority, and approved the two draft bills, in preparation for their referral to the presidency of the Council. Tomorrow, Tuesday, to discuss them in one of the first plenary sessions of the fourth and last ordinary session of the Council.

The head of the committee, Adnan Hamad Al Hammadi, told Emirates Today that the draft federal law on sports consists of 63 articles, dealing with provisions related to sports activity and exercise, sports entities and sports facilities and their management, sports professionalism and penalties, noting that the committee discussed it during a period of time. The parliamentary recess over the course of 65 working hours, during which the committee held 12 important meetings, with representatives of the government, the National Olympic Committee, the National Paralympic Committee, and all sports councils in the country, in addition to seeking the opinion of the Secretary-General of the UAE Football Association, and the committee also used the opinions of impartial experts in the framework of Its endeavor to investigate transparency and accuracy in the separation of some competencies, in the belief of the members in the importance of this law and the urgent need for speedy discussion and approval of it.

Al Hammadi said: “The draft sports law aims to develop work systems in sports entities, improve their performance towards excellence, unify and integrate the goals set, to develop the sports sector at the federal and local levels, build a distinguished sports community in partnership between the public and private sectors, and enhance sports affairs and sports sector governance. Within the framework of respecting the Olympic charters, national and international regulations and laws, and supporting sports authorities in achieving their goals in community and competitive sports, and sports excellence locally and globally.

He added: "The new draft law will grant wide powers to sports councils, as they are competent authorities, and the committee, during its study and discussion of the draft law with all concerned authorities, deliberately gave a large space to some articles related to supporting sports investment and commercial sports companies, which are investment arms for clubs and federations. sports, in line with the state’s vision for the next fifty years.”

The head of the committee said: “The committee has allocated sufficient time to discuss and clarify the definitions of the competent authorities, sports authorities and sports institutions that grant commercial or profit licenses to private sports facilities, by defining clear powers and requirements between the competencies of the General Authority for Sports, sports councils and the concerned authorities in the state, for the facilities to practice their sports activities, and granting them the necessary commercial licenses.

While the committee’s rapporteur, Shatha Saeed Al-Naqbi, confirmed that the committee, during its discussions of the draft sports law, sought to move its articles away from routine procedures, and to avoid any obstacles that might delay the promotion of sports activity and sports movement in the country, whether at the level of government or private sports entities and facilities.

Al-Naqbi clarified that the new draft law regulates the competencies and powers between the General Sports Authority on the one hand, and the sports councils on the other, especially with regard to all procedures related to granting licenses to facilities to engage in sports activities, taking into account all independent and elected national organizations whose work is regulated by a set of systems. International and Olympic regulations, charters.

Committee member Nasser Muhammad Al-Yamahi said: “The new draft law regulates all the so-called sports organization, which are entities that represent an independent and elected body and enjoy national and international systems and regulations, such as the National Olympic Committee or the Paralympic Committee, as well as regulating the affairs of sports entities, such as federations. Games, clubs and sports links, such as clubs, referees and others.”

Al-Yamahi revealed that the new draft law included a very important article, prohibiting a professional player from practicing “professional” sports activity and any official job with any public authority, because no professional player may be an employee or a full-time worker for an employer, in order to establish the concept of Professional sports in the community, and to give professional players enough time to practice sports activity as a right for clubs that represent employers for professional players.

Committee member Afra Bakheet Al-Alili revealed that the draft sports law also introduced a new article, granting all “non-professional” athletes, members and players of national teams, the right to obtain sports sabbaticals from work or study bodies while representing the state in any forums or Championships.

Committee member Sarah Falaknaz stressed that the draft law is completely devoid of any articles or clauses that allow government intervention in the work of sports organizations and bodies, whether civil federations or independent and elected sports organizations, in line with international and Olympic sports laws charters, explaining that the Committee She carefully scrutinized and discussed most of the materials until she finally reached to ensure the complete independence of the sporting bodies and organizations.

In turn, committee member Dr. Sheikha Obaid Al Tunaiji indicated that the new draft sports law provides a clear picture of how private clubs can participate in official tournaments organized by civil sports federations in any game, through clear systems, regulations, and requirements.

Committee member, Aisha Reda Al-Bairaq, confirmed that the draft law included a number of punitive articles that deter any attempts to manipulate, deceive, or prejudice integrity or sports justice, and to refer any manipulation or criminal suspicions to the relevant judicial authorities, where financial penalties ranged between 100 thousand and two million dirhams, with granting sports authorities the power to approve disciplinary and administrative penalties, according to the degrees of sports litigation.

Amendments to the General Sports Authority

The head of the Education, Culture, Youth, Sports and Media Affairs Committee of the Federal National Council, Adnan Hamad Al Hammadi, stated that the draft federal law regarding the organization of the General Sports Authority, which the committee completed its discussion and approved the final draft of, is an update of Federal Decree Law No. (7) of the year 2008, and amended by Decree-Law No. (15) of 2017, which is currently in force for the authority, to make these amendments compatible with the new draft sports law, based on the government’s endeavor to regulate the sports sector and complete the legislative system for it.

Al-Hammadi told "Emirates Today" that the new draft law regulating the authority ended with the stability of the name of the authority to remain the "General Sports Authority", with the abolition of the provisions of the decree-law currently in force regarding the organization of its work, and replacing it with the new law as soon as it is issued, noting that the new draft law It included a number of administrative amendments at the level of job titles, as well as the powers assigned to those responsible for the authority.

He revealed that the most prominent administrative amendments included in the new draft law include canceling the formation of a board of directors for the General Sports Authority, granting the president of the authority broad and clear terms of reference, in addition to replacing the name “Secretary General of the Authority” with the name “Director General of the Authority”, stressing that these amendments are consistent with With the work of the bodies in most of the laws establishing sports bodies in many countries of the world.

"Sports Sector Support Policy"

The Education, Culture, Youth, Sports and Media Affairs Committee of the Federal National Council has completed harmonizing the topic of “Policy of the General Sports Authority regarding support for the sports sector”, which it studied and submitted to the Chairman of the Council, during the last session, with the amendments contained in the two federal bills in the matter of sports. And organizing the General Sports Authority, in order to ensure that the observations and proposals of the general topic are in line with the two draft laws.

The committee re-examined the problems and recommendations that were adopted in the final report on the subject, to align them with the two draft laws, in preparation for submitting it to the Presidency of the Council tomorrow, Tuesday.

■ Full-time leave is a right for “non-professional” athletes, in case they join the national teams.

Shatha Al Naqbi:

"The committee, during its discussions of the draft sports law, sought to move its articles away from routine procedures, and to avoid any obstacles."

Adnan Al Hammadi:

"The new draft law grants broad powers to sports councils, as they are competent authorities."

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One million dirhams, the maximum fine for violators of the provisions of the Sports Law... and referral to the judiciary in criminal offenses.

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