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Application of competition law and state aid in the field of sport Abstract The doctoral thesis presents the research on the subject of the penetration of competition law into the area of sports. The thesis researches effects of three main areas of competition law on sports - cartels, the abuse of a dominant position, and state aid in particular from the perspective of Community law. Although, at first, it may seem that it is a rather narrowly defined matter and issue, which is unique, the doctoral thesis demonstrates or attempts to demonstrate that it is not the case, and, namely the application practices of the European Commission and the European Union courts suggest that it is a quite topical and important matter with effects on almost all activities of sports organisations. The objective of the thesis presented is to identify matters that have not been comprehensibly identified in the Czech academic literature yet; therefore, in this regard, present a "handbook" for this area and also, on the basis of the analysis and synthesis of legal regulations and case-law, draw general conclusions, which, however, are not (as they are presented in the thesis) too optimistic for sports stakeholders. It follows from the thesis that sports officials (starting from the International Olympic Committee or the largest... |
