Sport policies of the European Union

Activities compromised for instance financial support for transnational, national, regional or local initiatives to promote education through sport.

[2] Archived 6 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine Under the Lisbon Treaty, the EU role in sports is limited, because Article 165(4) states that the EU objectives in sports are restricted to measures "excluding any harmonisation of the laws and regulations of the Member States".

[1] As such, the EU can not adopt legislation or any other legally binding measures, instead it acts through guidelines, recommendations, and funding, in order to support its sport-related objectives.

In particular, the common market of the European Union creates the right for any EU citizen to move and work freely in another member state.

The landmark Bosman ruling confirmed that this right, when applied to professional athletes, forbids nationality quotas in sports leagues that affect EU citizens.