THE CONCEPT OF THE SUPREMACY OF THE FIFA STATUTES
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This paper explores a term of the FIFA Statutes best described as the highest form of law FIFA can have. It considers the concept of the supremacy of the FIFA Statutes through the lens of the autonomy of FIFA and its self - regulation of the footballing world. It also argues that the enforcement of FIFA Statutes is based on association and membership. It does not require non - association members to comply with the FIFA Statute and all relevant FIFA’s rules and regulations. FIFA in principle provides a global approach to enforcement which encourages the FIFA Confederations and the FIFA - affiliated associations to carry out important regulatory or disciplinary sanctioning functions through enforcing FIFA's hierarchical structure controls and restrictions on non-integral actions conducted by the FIFA members. Therefore, FIFA as a supreme football governing body of global association football worldwide has inherent rule-making powers within its autonomous self-regulatory competence, all rules and regulations are exercised under FIFA regulatory bodies. FIFA also we have a supreme body of fundamental principles of the FIFA called the FIFA Statutes that sets down the way FIFA take regulatory or disciplinary sanctioning actions against a member association for breaches relating to that integrity in global football as a member association of FIFA.
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