Paper Titles & Abstracts

In the last decade the prospect of creating constitutional coverage of sport at the EU level has gained further momentum. This is expressed most clearly in the debate on the implementation of sport in the Treaty of Lisbon and the upcoming EU sport programme. Though the tools and funding at the disposal of the EU institutions remain rather limited the first debates on the EU's new competences on sport have revealed high expectations after sport has been incorporated into European primary law. Against this backdrop the contribution aims at a more in-depth look for the institutional change in sport at European level. It will pursue the question in which way the Lisbon treaty and its new supporting role in the social, educational and cultural aspects of sport have affected the structure and activities of governmental bodies and non-governmental stakeholders at the European level. Particular attention will be given from a governmental perspective to the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council and from a non-governmental perspective to established and new stakeholders such as UEFA, ECA, Forum Club Handball, EPFL, FIFPro Division Europe and the Association of European Team Sports.