The Analysis of the Contracts of the Professional Athletes Based on the Hungarian Classification System
The Analysis of the Contracts of the Professional Athletes Based on the Hungarian Classification System

Summary/Abstract: The contracts of the professional athletes pose several issues including the classification of their legal status. Regarding the constantly changing business aspects, the traditional civil law and labour law paradigms are bent by the unique nature of the professional sports activity, therefore it is important to establish a guideline that helps to determine the relevant regulations relating to these professional sports contracts consisting of different special aspects. As per the Hungarian legislation and practise the contractual relationships are assessed by primary and secondary criteria laid down by the Directive 7001/2005 (MK 170) FMM-PM on the criteria for classifying contracts of performing work. However, the directive cannot always offer the necessary guideline to classify professional sporting contracts. Therefore, this study aims to point out the inadequate or obsolete aspects of the primary criteria that causes the directive to fail in terms of classification.

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