Using national reports as a reference, the author sums up and analyses national sport legislation and policy in nineteen member states of the Council of Europe and outlines the general trends in Europe.
The book touches upon such questions as physical education, sport for all, spectator violence, doping, dispute settlement, media and sport financing. Conclusions of the study reveal the existence of two main sports legislation models in Europe: the interventionist model in the south and in the east and the noninterventionist model in the north and in the west of Europe.
This reference book in the field of sports legislation is primarily aimed at sport and law professionals but also at all those interested in the place sport occupies in the legislation in different European countries.