Sportpolicy of the European Union
A distinction needs to be made between two forms of sports policy adopted by the European Union: on the one hand, there is the indirect sports policy and there is sports policy in the wider sense of the term. This includes all measures and regulations which although initiated with more general goals in mind are unrelated to sport but end up having an impact on the field of sport because of their higher importance, if and when sport falls within the European Union’s remit in any of its diverse manifestations, for instance, as an economic factor, a media object, an employer or an integral part of education. [more]