Anderson, Jack; Parrish, Richard; García, Borja --- "Introduction to the Research Handbook on EU Sports Law and Policy" [2018] ELECD 534; in Anderson, Jack; Parrish, Richard; García, Borja (eds), "Research Handbook on EU Sports Law and Policy" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018) 3

Book Title: Research Handbook on EU Sports Law and Policy

Editor(s): Anderson, Jack; Parrish, Richard; García, Borja

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781784719494

Section Title: Introduction to the Research Handbook on EU Sports Law and Policy

Author(s): Anderson, Jack; Parrish, Richard; García, Borja

Number of pages: 3

Extract:

Introduction to the Research Handbook on EU Sports Law and Policy Jack Anderson, Richard Parrish and Borja García
The aim of this Handbook is to take a thematic approach to EU sports law and one that broadly reflects the themes used by the EU Commission in the field of sports law and policy and, namely sport's role in society, the economic dimension to sport and the organisation of sport. Individual chapters address sub-themes of the above areas as put into context by two leading chapters on the origins and sources of EU sports law and policy. The EU's interest in sport appears threefold in nature. First, it approaches sport as a discrete, vibrant industry or economic activity that not only contributes to growth and jobs in the EU but also prompts issue of compliance with the fundamentals of EU law. As this project was being developed in 2014, the Commission sponsored the first meeting of European Sport Industries on 21 January in Brussels. In advance of that meeting, the Commission released figures highlighting sport's importance to the EU economy noting that: sport is an important economic sector in the EU in its own right, with a share in the national economies of member states which is comparable to agriculture, forestry and fisheries combined; that the overall sports sector accounted for 2 per cent of the EU global GDP, while the total employment generated by sports activities was 7.3 million, equivalent to 3.5 per ...