“CONI expresses doubts regarding the provision relating to the independent commission to verify the economic and financial balance of professional sports clubs as it could be detrimental to the principle of autonomy of the sports system, without considering that it gives rise to forms of state control over joint-stock companies of an exclusively private nature. This choice could also lead to the adoption of sanctioning measures by FIFA and UEFAwho have already expressed their doubts“. He said it Giovanni Malagòpresident CONES, in his hearing in the Culture commission of the Chamber of Sport. The number one of the Coni underlines how “the law establishes a non-agile bureaucratic structure that would overlap with the controls that must necessarily be internal to the federations, creating an overabundant third intervention plan“, continues Malagò.
Then, on the timing of the establishment of the Commission, the number one of CONES places emphasis on the assumption of urgency that “lies in the fact that at the outcome of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games the sports bodies will be called upon to renew their positions. The assumption on which the urgency is based is wrong: the mandate of this body, in fact, despite having a four-year duration, is completely independent of the four-year Olympic period and that of the federal president and the federal governing bodies“. In conclusion, Malagò underlined how “CONI hopes that the proposal formulated by the national council on May 17th will be taken into consideration but is available to find any mediation between the legislative provision and the needs advanced with our proposal“. (ANSA).
