Reports of Cases

2000 I-02549

Subject-matter

Preliminary ruling ─ Tribunal de Première Instance, Namur ─ Interpretation of Articles 59 to 66, 85 and 86 of the EC Treaty (now, after amendment, Articles 49 to 55, 81 and 82 EC) with regard to the rules of an (international) sports association which requires authorization from or selection by the national federation in order to participate international competitions ─ Amateur athlete eligible for professional or semi-professional status ─ Women's judo

Systematic classification scheme

Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

• EC Treaty (Maastricht), Article 2 : paragraphs 46, 52, 59
• EC Treaty (Maastricht), Article 59 : paragraphs 1, 48, 52, 56, 59, 60, 64, 69
• EC Treaty (Maastricht), Article 60 : paragraphs 1, 48
• EC Treaty (Maastricht), Article 60 -L1 : paragraph 55
• EC Treaty (Maastricht), Article 66 : paragraphs 1, 48
• EC Treaty (Maastricht), Article 85 : paragraph 1
• EC Treaty (Maastricht), Article 86 : paragraph 1
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -39/94 -N24 : paragraph 29
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -105/94 -N20 : paragraph 30
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -320/90 -N06 : paragraph 30
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -67/96 -N39 : paragraph 30
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -67/96 -N40 : paragraph 31
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -67/96 -N43 : paragraph 34
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -115/97 -N38 : paragraph 30
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -115/97 -N39 : paragraph 31
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -115/97 -N42 : paragraph 34
• Court of Justice - Order C -458/93 -N13 : paragraph 31
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -36/74 -N04 : paragraph 41
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -36/74 -N17 : paragraph 47
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -415/93 -N73 : paragraph 41
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -415/93 -N106 : paragraph 41
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -415/93 -N76 : paragraph 43
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -415/93 -N127 : paragraph 43
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -415/93 -N82 : paragraph 47
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -13/76 -N14 : paragraph 43
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -13/76 -N12 : paragraph 53
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -139/85 -N12 : paragraph 50
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -332/88 -N09 : paragraph 50
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -53/81 -N13 : paragraph 53
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -53/81 -N17 : paragraph 54
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -196/87 -N10 : paragraph 53
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -196/87 -N13 : paragraph 54
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -352/85 -N16 : paragraph 56
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -108/98 -N23 : paragraph 58
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -97/98 -N42 : paragraph 58

Operative part

• Interprets : EC Treaty (Maastricht), Article 59

Opinion

• EC Treaty (Maastricht), Article 48 : points 1, 17
  
• EC Treaty (Maastricht), Article 59 : points 1, 7, 8, 17, 26, 43, 61 - 88, 100
  
• EC Treaty (Maastricht), Article 60 : points 1, 7, 33, 36
  
• EC Treaty (Maastricht), Article 66 : point 7
  
• EC Treaty (Maastricht), Article 85 : points 1, 8, 99, 100, 104, 105, 110, 112
  
• EC Treaty (Maastricht), Article 86 : points 1, 8, 99, 105, 113
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -338/85 : point 13
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -338/85 -N10 : point 10
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -263/86 : point 38
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -263/86 -N17 : point 29
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -109/92 : point 38
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -109/92 -N15 : point 29
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -275/92 : points 37, 80
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -275/92 -N33 : point 30
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -352/85 -N16 : point 31
  
• Court of Justice - Opinion C -352/85 -N08 : point 58
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -267/91 : points 64, 66
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -384/93 : points 64, 80, 82
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -76/90 -N12 : points 80, 82
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -288/89 : points 80, 82
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -353/89 : point 82
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -320/90 : point 101
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -320/90 -N06 : point 101
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -41/90 -N21 : point 104
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -209/78 -N88 : point 104
  
• General Court - Judgment T -46/92 : point 104
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -22/78 -N17 : point 107
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -28/77 -N46 : point 108
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -56/65 : point 109
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -19/77 -N14 : point 109
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -250/92 -N31 : point 111
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -36/74 -N04 : point 4
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -36/74 -N08 : point 68
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -415/93 -N73 : points 20, 98
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -415/93 -N79 : point 27
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -415/93 -N103 : point 65
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -415/93 -N76 : point 68
  
• Court of Justice - Opinion C -415/93 -N256 : point 104
  
• Court of Justice - Opinion C -415/93 -N258 : point 106
  
• Court of Justice - Opinion C -415/93 -N268 : point 112
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -13/76 -N14 : point 68
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -13/76 -N12 : point 20
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -196/87 : point 37
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -196/87 -N12 : point 32
  

Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

• 21/02/1996

Date of the Opinion

• 18/05/1999

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

11/04/2000

References

Publication in the Official Journal

Applications: OJ C 133 from 04.05.1996, p.12 ; OJ C 212 from 12.07.1997, p.18

Judgment: OJ C 176 from 24.06.2000, p.2

Name of the parties

Deliège

Notes on Academic Writings

1. Thill, Marc: Les sélections nationales et les quotas nationaux en droit communautaire. Arrêt Deliège de la Cour de justice des Communautés européennes, Bulletin du Cercle François Laurent 2000 nº 3 p.33-45 (FR)
2. Luijendijk, J. ; Staples, H.: De spelregels van het gemeenschapsrecht, Nederlands tijdschrift voor Europees recht 2000 p.127-131 (NL)
3. Bisdorff, Marie-Paule: Auswahlverfahren der Sportverbände, European Law Reporter 2000 p.260-261 (DE)
4. Muñiz, P.: La jurisprudence de la Cour de justice et du Tribunal de première instance. Chronique des arrêts. Arrêt "Deliège", Revue du droit de l'Union européenne 2000 nº 2 p.441-445 (FR)
5. Thill, Marc: La signification des arrêts Deliège et Lehtonen de la Cour de justice des Communautés européennes pour le sport luxembourgeois, Flambeau - Organe officiel du Comité olympique et sportif luxembourgeois (Ed. Comité olympique et sportif luxembourgeois) 2000 nº 53 p.29-40 (FR)
6. Carlier, Jean-Yves: Evolution des rapports entre le droit et le sport: à propos des affaires Deliège, Lehtonen et Malaja, Revue de jurisprudence de Liège, Mons et Bruxelles 2000 p.1381-1394 (FR)
7. Agirreazkuenaga, Iñaki: Función social y perspectiva económica del deporte en el marco comunitario. Especial referencia a los casos Lehtonen y Deliège, Revista de Administración Pública 2000 nº 152 p.109-124 (ES)
8. Van den Bogaert, Stefaan: The Court of Justice on the Tatami, Ippon, Waza-Ari or Koka?, European Law Review 2000 p.554-563 (EN)
9. Gogos, Konstantinos E.: Elliniki Epitheorisi Evropaïkou Dikaiou 2000 p.480-485 (EL)
10. Ennöckl, Daniel: Bosman im Abseits? -. Neue Rsp des EuGH zum Berufs- und Amateursport, Ecolex p.691-695 (DE)
11. Di Salvo, Roberto: Attenuazione della rilevanza, obblighi di motivazione del giudice a quo e ruolo delle parti nella procedura di rinvio pregiudiziale. "Self-restraint" o aumentata ingerenza della Corte?, in un nascosto "revirement" giurisprudenziale, Diritto pubblico comparato ed europeo 2000 p.1185-1194 (IT)
12. Thill, Marc: La reconnaissance de la spécificité du sport en droit communautaire, Europe 2000 Juin Chron. nº 6 p.4-7 (FR)
13. Bell, Alasdair ; Turner-Kerr, Peter: The Place of Sport Within the Rules of Community Law: Clarification from the ECJ? The Deliège and Lehtonen Cases, European Competition Law Review 2002 p.256-260 (EN)
14. Muresan, Remus: Ausnahmen von den EU - Grundfreiheiten im Bereich des Sports nach der «Deliège»-Konzeption, Basler Studien zur Rechtswissenschaft. Schriftenreihe für internationales Recht (Ed. Helbing Lichtenhahn - Basel) 2010 Bd. 115 260 p. (DE)

Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Tribunal de première instance de Namur - Belgium

Subject-matter

• Freedom to provide services
  
• Competition
  
• - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices
  
• - Dominant position
  

Provisions of national law referred to

Information not available

Provisions of international law referred to

Information not available

Procedure and result

• Reference for a preliminary ruling
  

Formation of the Court

Cour plénière (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Ragnemalm

Advocate General

Cosmas

Language(s) of the Case

• French
  

Language(s) of the Opinion

• Greek