Luxembourg, 26/01/2005 (Agence Europe) - The EU Court of First Instance had made it known that it decided on Wednesday in the “Piau Case” that the FIFA regulations on the occupation of football players' agents are not contrary to Community competition law. The European Commission, it said, did not commit a manifest error of assessment by rejecting a complaint from Laurent Piau, who contested the FIFA regulations of 1994, it says in a communication.
The Court decided that the Commission...