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October, 2013 - PLMJ International Legal Network
With the publication of Law no.74/2013 of 6 September a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) was created in Portugal. The law will come into force 90 days after the setting up of the CAS, which will be based at the Portuguese Olympic Committee (POC). In an official communication dated 13 September the POC has already announced that it will respond positively to the mandate conferred on it to set up the CAS. Despite the publication of the legislation there is still a request for successive checking of the constitutionality of two provisions (in relation to appeals from arbitral decisions) made by the President of the Republic. However, it is hoped that the Constitutional Court will make a decision before the CAS is set up and/ or before the law now published comes into force.
The legislation defines the CAS as a jurisdictional entity that is independent from the public administration sports bodies and the bodies that make up the sports system, and it has both administrative and financial autonomy. It has specific power to administer justice in relation to disputes arising from the sports legal system or related to the practice of sports.
It exercises its jurisdiction throughout Portugal and has power, in the context of necessary arbitration, to hear disputes
