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The legal organization of international sport, and in particular its relationship to Swiss law, is again disputed by Brussels. Three weeks after the decision of the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights, which judged that the appeal of the athlete Caster Semenya had not been treated fairly by the Federal Court (TF), the Court of Justice of the Union (CJEU) denied to the sentences rendered by the Sports Arbitral Tribunal (TAS) to be final and clothed in the author authority.
According to the CJEU, clubs and players must have the right to obtain “effective jurisdictional control” of the arbitral sentences rendered by the CAS and the courts of the EU member states must be able to make an in -depth control of the compatibility of these sentences with the basic rules of Union law. In general, all arbitration awards must be potentially revisable by national courts on the basis of EU law, says the CJEU.
