KAZAN – On May 17th, the Kazan Federal University became a host of the round table ‘Legal Groundwork for 27th World University Summer Games’, bringing together representatives of the Kazan 2013 Executive Directorate, Public Chamber of Tatarstan, famous coaches and athletes, teachers and law students.
The round table was initiated in order to form a complete picture on legal groundwork of the 27th Universiade in Kazan, says Olga Pavlova, Doctor of Pedagogy, Merited Master of Sports, member of the Community Council of Tatarstan’s Minister of the Interior.
The round table featured reports delivered by Chairman of the Civil and Business Law Department Mikhail Chelyshev and associate professor of the same Department Vladimir Vaskevich.
The speakers presented a detailed analysis of national and international legislation regulating legal groundwork for the 27th Universiade in Kazan, defined problems existing in this field at the moment. «At present there are nearly 50 regulatory legal acts adopted and put into operation in Russia within performance of international obligations in the preparations and delivery of the 2013 Summer Universiade. It’s one of indisputable evidences of cooperation between international and national laws», Vladimir Vaskevich stated.
Mikhail Chelyshev gave an overview of a whole system of legal measures that are used in management of large-scale sporting events. «This system, that has a complex nature, comprises basic interrelated private-law and public-law instruments, including personable and proprietory instruments, various contractual instruments and special legal measures for obtaining finance», he summed up.
The speakers paid special attention to the problem of determining a volunteer’s legal status, legal mechanisms for solving disputes emerging in the preparations and delivery of the Games. The report elaborated by Elmira Nigmatullina, associate professor of the Ecological, Labor and Civil Law Department, presented problems connected with Kazan 2013 venues final land allocation.
After discussing the reports, the sitters agreed to launch a law contest for the best student project defining legal status of Kazan 2013 volunteers, to develop legal guidelines for participating teams that explain the mechanism for protecting athletes’ rights, to create a joint working group of KFU Law Department and Kazan 2013 Executive Directorate representatives for elaborating guidelines for improving legal regulation of the preparations and delivery of the 2013 Summer Universiade, etc.
The reports made at the round table will be published in a collection of scientific papers.
(Source: Media Department of Kazan 2013 Executive Directorate)
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