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UEFA happy with licencing checks

/noticias.info/ UEFA has completed its club licencing compliance spot-checks for the 2005/06 season.

Spot-check outcome
UEFA said on Tuesday that its sports legal and club licencing unit had informed UEFA's member associations about the outcome of the spot-checks - compliance audits - introduced last season. The checks ensure that the licences required to take part in European competitions are being correctly issued by the licensors, mainly national associations, in compliance with the various licencing requirements involving sporting, personnel and administrative, legal and financial criteria.

Four licensors
As the result of a draw process, four licensors - Spain, France, Portugal and Serbia - were selected to be evaluated by compliance audits for the 2005/06 season. The spot-checks were then carried out, and documents backing up the licencing decision on 18 clubs were reviewed. UEFA said, in all cases, the compliance audits were satisfactory: "All clubs fulfilled the UEFA minimum requirements on sporting, legal, personnel and administrative criteria as well as the financial criteria." The UEFA sports legal and club licencing unit also assessed the decision-making process at licensor level and the results confirmed the process was correctly applied by the decision-making bodies of the licensors.

Important and positive results
UEFA Chief Executive Lars-Christer Olsson said: "This is not only an important and positive result for the concerned associations, but also gives other associations and UEFA a certain assurance that our efforts in closely monitoring the licensors is the right approach to improve quality in European football. The UEFA administration will continue with and intensify such compliance audits and will shortly start with those for the current 2006/07 season as also recommended by the Independent European Sport Review." notas_de_prensa_archivo