Financial Fair Play Regulations

5.3.2015

Question for written answer E-003637-15
to the Commission
Rule 130
Richard Corbett (S&D)

Is the Commission aware that applying competition law in the strict economic sense to football clubs can undermine competition in the sporting sense?

Is it willing to approve schemes to equalise the resources of football clubs (such as UEFA’s Financial Fair Play Regulations) which have the effect of attenuating the concentration of wealth and sporting talent in the hands of fewer and fewer clubs?