The Spanish Constitutional Court, in its Judgement of 12 April 2018, has partially overturned the modification introduced in the Sport Act by Article 23 of Law 15/2014, dated 16 September 2014, regarding the rationalization of the public sector and other measures of administrative reform, which amended paragraph 4 of Article 32 of the Sport Act establishing a new regime regarding “single sport license”.
This Judgement concludes that the new draft of Article 32.4 of Law 10/1990 is not unconstitutional as long as it is interpreted in the sense that it is related exclusively to official competitions of state level.
Before its amendment, Article 32.4 of the Sport Act stablished that “for the participation in sport official competitions of state scope it shall be necessary to hold a sport license issued by the relevant Spanish sport federation” or...
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