The project for the General Sports Law (LGE) was approved on Tuesday night (9) by the Senate, and now awaits President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s sanction to enter into force. The legislation regulates the practice of sports in the country and consolidates the activity in a single legislative text. This is a new regulatory framework for Brazilian sport, bringing together, in more than 200 articles, devices from different laws that already dealt with sport – such as the Pelé Law; the Fan Statute; the Sports Incentive Law; and the Athlete Scholarship Law. With the inclusion in the new framework, some of these laws ended up being revoked. The text’s rapporteur, senator Leila Barros (PDT-DF), highlighted as advances of the new law, the participation of civil society in the National Sports Council; the appreciation of women, both in awards and in the direction of sports activities; the clear definition of the rights and duties of athletes and organizations; transparency in the use of public resources; and the promotion of peace, security and tolerance in the sports environment. The senator, a former volleyball player, classified the approval of the project as “a unique and historic moment for national sport”. “We are paving the future of this fundamental segment for the country in the promotion of health and education and in the construction, mainly, of national citizenship”, she said. LGE recognizes sport as an activity of high social interest and institutes a National Sport System (Sinesp) based on ten-year sports plans in the states, the Federal District and municipalities, in line with the National Sport Plan. Both Sinesp and the plan will aim to strengthen organizations that recognize sport as a human development factor, in order to contribute to democratize people’s access to sports practices. The text provides that these organizations have a management guided by the principles of financial and administrative transparency; morality; and social responsibility of its directors. It also determines equality in the amounts paid to male and female athletes or para-athletes in the awards granted in competitions they organize or participate in. Another point addressed by LGE is the payment of the Athlete Scholarship, with values ranging from R$ 370 per month, base category, to R$ 15,000 per month, podium category, for athletes ranked among the top 20 in the world in the modality. Resources The sports organizations that receive resources obtained via lotteries must manage these amounts in compliance with the general principles of public administration. To receive these transfers, entities need to be in good standing with regard to tax and labor obligations. The inspection will be the responsibility of the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU). Sports entities’ access to public resources depends on their demonstrating transparent management of economic and financial data, contracts, sponsors, image rights, intellectual property, among other aspects. The bylaws of these entities should have defining principles of democratic management and transparent management in the movement of resources. According to the approved text, the income tax deduction limit for individuals interested in collaborating with sports is 7%. As for companies, it will increase from 3% to 4%. The condition for this is that the support for the project (sports or parasports) promotes social inclusion through sport, preferably in communities in situations of social vulnerability. The project grants the sports organizations responsible for the games the right to exploit and commercialize the dissemination of images and sounds. In this way, these organizations will have the prerogative to negotiate, authorize or prohibit the capture, broadcast, transmission, retransmission or reproduction of images, by any means, of a sporting event in which they participate. Another point addressed by the LGE is the punishment of organized supporters who have discriminatory, racist, xenophobic, homophobic or transphobic conduct, preventing them from attending sporting events for a period of up to five years. Council A new National Sports Council (CNE) will be established, with the attribution of approving guidelines for the use of the National Sports Fund (Fundesporte), as well as supervising it. The council will also be responsible for evaluating the Ministry of Sport’s annual monitoring report on the implementation of the National Sports Plan. The CNE will be composed of 36 members, 18 of which will be government representatives. In it, there must be at least one representative from the Senate, one from the Chamber, one from the Ministry of Defense, three from the states and three from the municipalities. The remaining 18 representatives will be from civil society. LGE determines state governments to act in the construction, renovation and expansion of infrastructure and public sports equipment for the population, giving priority to municipalities with a low Human Development Index (HDI). The municipalities will be in charge of executing sports public policies at all levels, with priority promotion to educational sports.
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