MADRID, 27 One. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The National Court has dismissed the appeal filed by Real Madrid against the inadmissibility of the arbitration presented before the Higher Sports Council (CSD), in which the white club urged to annul the approval of the Regulations for the television broadcast of LaLiga .
In a statement, LaLiga reports that this ruling is of “special importance” because it confirms the agreements adopted by the LaLiga Audiovisual Rights Management Control Body.
In this sense, the club association recalled that article 8 of the 1990 Sports Law grants the CSD the power to “administrate arbitration and appoint arbitrators” in the event that discrepancies arise in the marketing and exploitation of the audiovisual rights of official professional football competitions.
Likewise, that said article was introduced by the Royal Decree Law of April 30, 2015 on urgent measures for the commercialization of the exploitation rights of audiovisual content of professional football competitions, in which the context of public intervention is recalled for a specific moment such as the attribution of competence to the CSD in “arbitration administration”, including the power to “reject” arbitration that cannot be the competence of the arbitrators.
And that article 9 of this Royal Decree of 2015 uses the term “may”, which empowers the CSD to reject the request for arbitration made by sports entities if it understands that it is inadmissible.
Also that the Royal Decree of January 2018, by which certain development regulations of the Royal Decree of April 2015 are issued, defines the scope of arbitration in that the criteria for the distribution of income and obligations among the participants in LaLiga “are framed within the arbitration function” of the Council.
“If what Real Madrid CF intends is to submit the LaLiga Television Retransmission Regulations to arbitration, which was already challenged in Ordinary Procedure 25/2021 of the Central Contentious-Administrative Court number 4 of Madrid, this does not fit being a rule approved by the CSD itself”, clarified the body chaired by Javier Tebas.