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European Union Law on Tourism and Sports

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Anno accademico 2013/2014

Corso di studi
Management dell'informazione e della comunicazione aziendale (D.M. 270/04)
Anno
2° anno 3° anno
Periodo didattico
Primo semestre
Tipologia
Servizi didattici integrativi
SSD dell'attività didattica
IUS/14 - diritto dell'unione europea
Modalità di erogazione
Tradizionale
Lingua di insegnamento
Inglese
Modalità di frequenza
Facoltativa
Tipologia d'esame
Orale
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A course about leisure. Might sound good. But then, the word “law” bothers you
a little… boring? Relax, it’s leisure! We won’t take it all that seriously… What this
course intends to discuss is: is the European Union concerned about free time at all?
Is there anything like a leisure policy in the European Union? Or is it all about market,
competition, the euro…?

When the European Economic Community was founded by France, Germany, Italy
and the Benelux States in 1957, the final objective the founding States decided to
pursue was “the improvement of the living conditions of the people of the Member
States”. That meant, at the time, building a common market, getting rid of obstacles
to trade, defending fair competition – strictly economic goals. But throughout
the years, the Member States, which were becoming more and more, started thinking that improving the people’s living conditions also means protecting them
as consumers, ensuring them a clean(er) environment, offering them cultural and
training opportunities… The people’s well-being is not just about economic aspects.

In today’s enlarged European Union, the “social” aspects of living conditions are the
frontier theme – especially as to services. So what about services concerning leisure –
especially in the areas of sports and tourism? These areas are essential to life nowadays, and academics are indeed concentrating on them. Many leading Universities in the United States and all over the world offer courses in Tourism and Sports Management, and the University of Turin, a city that has become familiar to the public worldwide thanks to the Winter Olympics 2006 – and the connected tourism promotion – has followed this example.

But there’s more to tourism and sports than management, marketing, advertising
– even in the view of us Italians, who tend to connect tourism and sports to fun,
sunshine, seaside, mountains and music! There are rules. There need to be rules. It’s
fine to think of tourists crowding attractive places in complete freedom, of sports
people training, running, having a great time just as they wish; however, in order
to ensure them and the community the utmost enjoyment of these activities, there
must be rules to shape them, just as any good game needs good rules to make it fun.

We will be looking at the rules which organize leisure activities in Europe. Mind you,
not written rules, nothing like the good old boring Civil Code or Treaty… in fact,
coming back to our initial questions: formally, no, there’s not yet a structured leisure
policy in the European Union, but the recent Lisbon Treaty has set the cornerstones
for European tourism and sports policies; furthermore, there are entire sets of rules
worked out by the Court of Justice in cases decided over the last decades. The
European Union is indeed concerned about free time, just because it is becoming
such an important ingredient in people’s lives, and leisure activities are enhanced
and regulated in the European Union.

Therefore, this course is going to be a “peculiar” law course. It will be about finding
out which general EU policies have an impact on tourism and sports; which relation
there is between the rules of National Federations (football, skiing, etc.) and State and
EU rules; what happens if something goes wrong – the package holiday is different
from what was promised, there is an accident during a sports competition, a sports
event doesn’t turn out as well as expected…

We will look at judgments by the European Court of Justice and national courts,
we will discuss strategies and remedies, we will think together whether it sounds
reasonable for the European Union to enact structured leisure policies soon… You do not need to be a lawyer, or even to have studied some law, in order to join the course.

All you need is curiosity for how things work behind the scene, for what is required in order to make tourism and sports real fun, and especially, as we say in Turin since the 2006 Winter Olympics, PASSION for good, healthy, formative leisure activities!

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