Company: SLMT
Filing Date: 2025-05-15
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001213900-25-044434
Chunk: 73

Company: Brera Holdings PLC
Filing Date: 2025-05-15
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
Chunk 73
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; and (6) Union of European Football Associations – UEFA. Each confederation must comply with and enforce compliance with the Statutes, regulations and decisions of FIFA, must organize its own interclub and international competitions in compliance with the international match calendar, must ensure that international leagues or any other such groups of clubs or leagues shall not be formed without its consent and the approval of FIFA, must set up the bodies necessary to fulfil the duties incumbent upon it and must procure the funds necessary to fulfil its duties.

FIFA requires each member association to manage its affairs independently and without undue influence from third parties. Clubs, leagues or any other groups affiliated with a member association must be subordinate to and recognized by that member association. The member association’s statutes must define the scope of authority and the rights and duties of these groups. The statutes and regulations of these groups must be approved by the member association. Particularly relevant is the provision for which every member association must ensure that its affiliated clubs can take all decisions on any matters regarding membership independently of any external body. This obligation applies regardless of an affiliated club’s corporate structure. In any case, the member association must ensure that neither a natural nor a legal person (including holding companies and subsidiaries) exercises control in any manner whatsoever (in particular through a majority shareholding, a majority of voting rights, a majority of seats on the board of directors or any other form of economic dependence or control, etc.) over more than one club whenever the integrity of any match or competition could be jeopardized.

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The UEFA, as stated above, governs all European football, including Italian football, which is in turn governed by the Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio – FIGC. FIGC is the governing body of football in Italy, which carries out its functions in harmony with the resolutions and guidelines of FIFA and UEFA, in full technical, organizational and management autonomy. The rules dictated by FIGC are called NOIF (Norme Organizzative Interne della FIGC) and govern all aspects of Italian football: the registration of athletes, technicians, match officials, managers and other subjects of the federal system. Additionally, referees are part of FIGC and are divided into categories provided for by the internal regulations of the Italian Referees Association, or AIA, which independently regulates their membership and activity. All Italian football clubs are committed to exclusively using the sports justice system and cannot turn to the Ordinary Judicial Authority for the resolution of any disputes.

European association football associations have detailed rules governing and restricting the ownership, merger,