Gravina’s words on the sports decree and the establishment of the Commission for the control of club accounts
“Yesterday a very severe email arrived from UEFA and FIFA. He invites us to put pressure on the government authority to reverse this provision which violates sports autonomy”. Gabriele Gravina, president of the FIGC, said this in the Culture Commission, speaking about the sports decree and the establishment of the Commission for the control of the accounts of professional clubs wanted by the Government.
“The Commission is not agile and is governmental, furthermore we do not see the urgency requirements of the law because Covisoc does not follow the four-year Olympic period and registrations for the next championships have already been made. It is a rule that violates the principles of the autonomy of sport and the market economy“, Gravina then recalled, speaking again about the Commission. “There is a gap in the decree – he continued -. Covisoc has two tasks. The first is to check that the professional clubs have the right economic-financial requirements for the purposes of registering for the championships. While the second, of which we found no trace in the legislative decree, is the continuous control during the payment season of emoluments and contributions. Our checks, however, are bimonthly. This is a fundamental control and for this reason 494 penalty points were awarded to the companies. Our rules are more stringent than those of the sports decree“.
Gravina then reiterated how Covisoc has in its period of life “Worked brilliantly” and remembered how she was born in 1987. “Since that day there have been 193 exclusions, only two cases have been accepted by the TAR and the Council of State“. Finally, speaking about costs, he concluded: “Covisoc costs the FIGC 400 thousand euros in total, compared to 3.5 million euros for the Commission, of which 1.9 million goes to the FIGC and 1.6 million to the clubs“. To those who spoke about the indebtedness of various football clubs, he specified that the debt is “an institution foreseen in the market economy“, therefore “I believe that the indebtedness of some entities is also partly due to the application and compliance with legal principles“.
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