Overview

After a delay of several years, the Serbian Parliament adopted a new Sports Act (Act) on 31 March 2011.

The Act introduces a completely new legal framework relating to the organisation of sports in Serbia and regulates other sports-related fields/activities (institutional framework, education in sports, medical protection, awards for sporting achievements, the fight against doping and violence in sports, sports arbitration, etc).

As one of the most important (and controversial) items, the Act enables the transformation of socially-owned or state-owned capital in sports organisations into private capital, which was practically impossible under the previous legal framework.

Schoenherr looks at the key features of the new Act.

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