Written by / Counselor Osama Al-Saidi
Let us live with the corridors of the subject of this article away from the subject of sports arbitration and the state of legislative vacuum that resulted from the unconstitutionality of the text of Article 69 of the Sports Law, and let us present in this article an important question that needs an answer, which is why the guiding regulations of the Egyptian Olympic Committee did not include subsidies among its resources Which government do you receive through the Ministry of Youth and Sports, unlike other government subsidies? Where the guiding regulations of the Olympic Committee were reviewed, especially the fifth chapter of that regulation, which talks about the financial resources of the Egyptian Olympic Committee in Article 46 of the regulations exclusively, “What are the resources of the Olympic Committee composed of ….” The surprise was that the guiding regulations of the Egyptian Olympic Committee did not include that Among its resources are the government subsidies that come to it through the Ministry of Youth and Sports. This is in contrast to other government subsidies, knowing that the decision of the Minister of Youth and Sports No. 761 of 2017 regarding the financial regulations of the Olympic Committee has included in its sixth article that among the resources of the Olympic Committee are government subsidies that are received Through the Ministry of Youth and Sports and other government subsidies, and Article (36) of the Sports Law included in its third paragraph indicating that the state is working to provide financial funds sufficient to cover the activities of the Olympic Committee and sports federations.
The question remains as to why the guiding regulations of the Olympic Committee are free of government subsidies, and it needs an answer from the authors of that regulation, with the need to emphasize that the funds of the Olympic Committee are in the judgment of public money in accordance with the provision of Article (119) of the Penal Code and that the employees of the Olympic Committee as well as the Board of Directors of the Committee They are considered public officials according to Article (119 bis) of the Penal Code, and what applies to the Olympic Committee in this regard applies to all sports bodies subject to Sports Law No. 71 of 2017.
In the same context, our reservations remain regarding Sports Law No. 71 of 2017 and many of its provisions that are far from legislative logic, and this is what many of the regulations implementing the law are stigmatized with.
In the end, “it must be emphasized that the correct understanding of the law is what leads the legal mentality to link the legal rule with reality by means of logical inferences to finally reach the desired goal of the principle of legality, which is that legal texts and administrative decisions are in conformity with the provisions of the constitution.”
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